William K. Russell, PhDAssociate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UTMB Mass Spectrometry Director, University of Texas Medical Branch – Galveston, Texas, USA

William Russell is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston. He is the Director of the University of Texas System Proteomics Network and Director of the UTMB Mass Spectrometry Facility (www.utmb.edu/msf), and has been working in the mass spectrometry field since 1999. Prior to joining UTMB, he was the co-Director of the Laboratory for Biological Mass Spectrometry at Texas A&M University from 2002 to 2015.  In that capacity, he aided in the design, fabrication, and use of prototype mass spectrometers for the analysis of a variety of compounds ranging from inorganic clusters to intact protein complexes. He also has extensive expertise in biophysical measurements using circular dichroism, electron paramagnetic resonance, Mössbauer spectroscopy, and ultracentrifugation. Over the years, he has been active in method development for the analysis of proteomes, metabolomes, native and denatured analysis of proteins and protein complexes, neuropeptides, noncanonical amino acids, and ion mobility for the study of small molecules, peptides, proteins, and protein–ligand interactions. For over 20 years He has designed, implemented, and performed data analysis involving Thermo Orbitrap Mass Spectrometers (LCQ, LTQ, Fusion, and EMR) for the analysis of biomolecules such as proteins, peptides, native protein complexes, protein–protein interactions, nucleic acid–protein interactions, lipids, and metabolites. He has worked with Drs. Bukreyev, Garcia-Blanco, and Rajsbaum since arriving at UTMB in 2016. As evidence of their collaboration, they are co-authors on several published papers (PMID: 32687500, 35544276, 31462558)

Phone: (409) 772-3579
Email: wirussel@utmb.edu
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