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Facundo M. Fernández is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a total of 116 publications, as well as Medicine, contributing 69 publications. Their work addresses several subfields including Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy, Physiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's main research topics include Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography, Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism, Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting, and Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies.

Frequent coauthors with whom they have collaborated include David A. Gaul, Maléne E. Lindholm, Samuel G. Moore, Joshua Adkins, and James Sanford. Their research has been published repeatedly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Analytical Chemistry, Metabolites, and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC): Mapping the Dynamic Responses to Exercise, 2020, Cell
  • Temporal dynamics of the multi-omic response to endurance exercise training, 2024, Nature
  • COVID-19 and risks to the supply and quality of tests, drugs, and vaccines, 2020, The Lancet Global Health
  • Advances in mass spectrometry imaging for spatial cancer metabolomics, 2022, Mass Spectrometry Reviews
  • Uncovering PFAS and Other Xenobiotics in the Dark Metabolome Using Ion Mobility Spectrometry, Mass Defect Analysis, and Machine Learning, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology

In addition to journal articles, Facundo M. Fernández has contributed to book publishing. One such publication is titled La salud hecha un Chiquero: informe del impacto de la cría industrial de cerdos en la salud, published in 2020 by the National University of Rosario.

Best Publications

  • Ambient Sampling/Ionization Mass Spectrometry: Applications and Current Trends

    Glenn A. Harris;Asiri S. Galhena;Facundo M. Fernández

  • Mass Spectrometry: Recent Advances in Direct Open Air Surface Sampling/Ionization

    María Eugenia Monge;Glenn A. Harris;Prabha Dwivedi;Facundo M. Fernández

  • Ester‐Mediated Amide Bond Formation Driven by Wet–Dry Cycles: A Possible Path to Polypeptides on the Prebiotic Earth

    Jay G. Forsythe;Sheng Sheng Yu;Irena Mamajanov;Martha A. Grover

  • Triboelectric nanogenerators for sensitive nano-coulomb molecular mass spectrometry.

    Anyin Li;Yunlong Zi;Hengyu Guo;Zhong Lin Wang;Zhong Lin Wang

  • Characterization of Solid Counterfeit Drug Samples by Desorption Electrospray Ionization and Direct-analysis-in-real-time Coupled to Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometry

    Facundo M. Fernández;Robert B. Cody;Michael D. Green;Christina Y. Hampton

  • Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC): Mapping the Dynamic Responses to Exercise.

    James A. Sanford;Christopher D. Nogiec;Malene E. Lindholm;Joshua N. Adkins

  • Recent developments in ambient ionization techniques for analytical mass spectrometry

    Glenn A. Harris;Leonard Nyadong;Facundo M. Fernandez

  • Desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry reveals surface-mediated antifungal chemical defense of a tropical seaweed

    Amy L. Lane;Leonard Nyadong;Asiri S. Galhena;Tonya L. Shearer

  • Reactive desorption electrospray ionization linear ion trap mass spectrometry of latest-generation counterfeit antimalarials via noncovalent complex formation.

    Leonard Nyadong;Michael D. Green;Victor R. De Jesus;Paul N. Newton

  • Optimization of a direct analysis in real time/time-of-flight mass spectrometry method for rapid serum metabolomic fingerprinting.

    Manshui Zhou;John F. McDonald;Facundo M. Fernández

  • Simulations and experimental investigation of atmospheric transport in an ambient metastable-induced chemical ionization source.

    Glenn A. Harris;Facundo M. Fernández

  • Ovarian cancer detection from metabolomic liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry data by support vector machines.

    Wei Guan;Manshui Zhou;Christina Young Hampton;Benedict B. Benigno

  • Metabolomics and proteomics reveal impacts of chemically mediated competition on marine plankton

    Kelsey L. Poulson-Ellestad;Christina M. Jones;Jessie Roy;Mark R. Viant

  • Simultaneous Time-Dependent Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Metabolomics, and Proteomics Reveal Cancer Cell Death Mechanisms Associated with Gold Nanorod Photothermal Therapy.

    Moustafa R. K. Ali;Yue Wu;Tiegang Han;Xiaoling Zang

  • Assessment of hand-held Raman instrumentation for in situ screening for potentially counterfeit artesunate antimalarial tablets by FT-Raman spectroscopy and direct ionization mass spectrometry

    Camilla Ricci;Leonard Nyadong;Felicia Yang;Facundo M. Fernandez

  • Ester Formation and Hydrolysis during Wet–Dry Cycles: Generation of Far-from-Equilibrium Polymers in a Model Prebiotic Reaction

    Irena Mamajanov;Patrick J. MacDonald;Jingya Ying;Daniel M. Duncanson

  • A Plausible Simultaneous Synthesis of Amino Acids and Simple Peptides on the Primordial Earth

    Eric T. Parker;Manshui Zhou;Aaron S. Burton;Daniel P. Glavin

  • Small Molecule Ambient Mass Spectrometry Imaging by Infrared Laser Ablation Metastable-Induced Chemical Ionization

    Asiri S. Galhena;Glenn A. Harris;Leonard Nyadong;Kermit K. Murray

  • Combining Two-Dimensional Diffusion-Ordered Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Imaging Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry, and Direct Analysis in Real-Time Mass Spectrometry for the Integral Investigation of Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals

    Leonard Nyadong;Glenn A. Harris;Stéphane Balayssac;Asiri S. Galhena

  • Combined Fourier-transform infrared imaging and desorption electrospray-ionization linear ion-trap mass spectrometry for analysis of counterfeit antimalarial tablets

    Camilla Ricci;Leonard Nyadong;Facundo M. Fernandez;Paul N. Newton

  • Ambient generation of fatty acid methyl ester ions from bacterial whole cells by direct analysis in real time (DART) mass spectrometry

    Carrie Y. Pierce;Carrie Y. Pierce;John R. Barr;Robert B. Cody;Robert F. Massung

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul N. Newton
Paul N. Newton University of Oxford
Nicholas J. White
Nicholas J. White Mahidol University
Zhong Lin Wang
Zhong Lin Wang Georgia Institute of Technology
John F. McDonald
John F. McDonald Georgia Institute of Technology
Nicholas V. Hud
Nicholas V. Hud Georgia Institute of Technology
Richard N. Zare
Richard N. Zare Stanford University
May D. Wang
May D. Wang Georgia Institute of Technology
Nicholas P. J. Day
Nicholas P. J. Day University of Oxford
Julia Kubanek
Julia Kubanek Georgia Institute of Technology
Jeffrey L. Bada
Jeffrey L. Bada University of California, San Diego

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