Organic/CBS Seminar – Tyler Dabritz

About the event

Speaker: Tyler Dabritz

Group: Dr. Mark Lange

Title: Metabolic Profiling of Early Land Plants using GC and LC-MS

Abstract: Some early land plants include liverworts, hornworts, mosses, ferns, horsetails, and lycophytes. The former three have been divided into the bryophytes, lacking vascular systems, and the later three into the Pteridophytes, having vascular systems, with all producing by means of sporic meiosis. Metabolic profiling yields a snapshot of the biochemical pathways within an organism and reveals invaluable information for disease diagnosis, drug development, nutrition, and environmental monitoring. Together, liquid and gas chromatography paired with mass spectrometry provide a means to classify a wide range of small organic molecules, from polar to nonpolar. Tissue extracts from members of these groups will be profiled using GC-MS and HPLC-DAD-QTOF to better understand their chemical diversity. This presentation will highlight method development for analysis of early land plants using the above mentioned techniques and classification of their metabolites.