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  • 2006 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Lingjun Li is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant presence in chemistry as well. The primary focus of their work lies heavily in molecular biology and related subfields.

Their contributions extend prominently into several subfields, including:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Spectroscopy
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Cancer Research
  • Cell Biology

Lingjun Li's research covers a broad range of topics, most notably in:

  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
  • Ubiquitin and Proteasome Pathways

Their publication record includes research articles in well-established scientific venues. Frequent publication venues for Lingjun Li are:

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
  • Journal of Proteome Research
  • Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some recent papers featuring Lingjun Li's co-authored work include:

  • Th17 cells and inflammation in neurological disorders: Possible mechanisms of action, 2022, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Peptidomics, 2023, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Neuropeptides in gut-brain axis and their influence on host immunity and stress, 2020, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
  • Lysine l-lactylation is the dominant lactylation isomer induced by glycolysis, 2024, Nature Chemical Biology
  • Recent Advances in Analytical Approaches for Glycan and Glycopeptide Quantitation, 2020, Molecular & Cellular Proteomics

Throughout their career, Lingjun Li has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • M Ma
  • Hua Zhang
  • Junfeng Huang
  • Lauren Fields
  • Xudong Shi

In 2006, Lingjun Li was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Mass Spectrometry Imaging: A Review of Emerging Advancements and Future Insights.

    Amanda Rae Buchberger;Kellen DeLaney;Jillian Johnson;Lingjun Li

  • Exploiting the Reversibility of Natural Product Glycosyltransferase-Catalyzed Reactions

    Changsheng Zhang;Byron R. Griffith;Qiang Fu;Christoph Albermann

  • Single-cell MALDI: a new tool for direct peptide profiling

    Lingjun Li;Rebecca W. Garden;Jonathan V. Sweedler

  • PKM2 methylation by CARM1 activates aerobic glycolysis to promote tumorigenesis.

    Fabao Liu;Fengfei Ma;Yuyuan Wang;Ling Hao

  • Extracellular matrix scaffold and hydrogel derived from decellularized and delipidized human pancreas

    Sara Dutton Sackett;Daniel M Tremmel;Fengfei Ma;Austin K Feeney

  • High-Throughput Proteomics Using High-Efficiency Multiple-Capillary Liquid Chromatography with On-Line High-Performance ESI FTICR Mass Spectrometry

    Yufeng Shen;Nikola Tolic;Rui Zhao;Ljiljana Pasa-Tolic

  • N, N-Dimethyl Leucines as Novel Isobaric Tandem Mass Tags for Quantitative Proteomics and Peptidomics

    Feng Xiang;Hui Ye;Ruibing Chen;Qiang Fu

  • Electron-Transfer/Higher-Energy Collision Dissociation (EThcD)-Enabled Intact Glycopeptide/Glycoproteome Characterization

    Qing Yu;Bowen Wang;Zhengwei Chen;Go Urabe

  • Identification of Double Bond Position Isomers in Unsaturated Lipids by m-CPBA Epoxidation and Mass Spectrometry Fragmentation.

    Yu Feng;Bingming Chen;Qinying Yu;Lingjun Li

  • Quantitative proteomics reveals that long non-coding RNA MALAT1 interacts with DBC1 to regulate p53 acetylation.

    Ruibing Chen;Yun Liu;Hao Zhuang;Hao Zhuang;Baicai Yang

  • Optimization and Comparison of Multiple MALDI Matrix Application Methods for Small Molecule Mass Spectrometric Imaging

    Erin Gemperline;Stephanie Rawson;Lingjun Li

  • Generation of serotonin neurons from human pluripotent stem cells

    Jianfeng Lu;Xuefei Zhong;Huisheng Liu;Ling Hao

  • High-Resolution Enabled 12-Plex DiLeu Isobaric Tags for Quantitative Proteomics

    Dustin C. Frost;Tyler Greer;Lingjun Li

  • Mass spectrometric investigation of the neuropeptide complement and release in the pericardial organs of the crab, Cancer borealis

    Lingjun Li;Lingjun Li;Lingjun Li;Wayne P. Kelley;Cyrus P. Billimoria;Andrew E. Christie

  • Mass spectrometry imaging for drugs and metabolites.

    Tyler Greer;Robert Sturm;Lingjun Li

  • Peptides in the Brain: Mass Spectrometry–Based Measurement Approaches and Challenges

    Lingjun Li;Jonathan V. Sweedler

  • MALDI mass spectrometry‐assisted molecular imaging of metabolites during nitrogen fixation in the Medicago truncatula–Sinorhizobium meliloti symbiosis

    Hui Ye;Erin Gemperline;Muthusubramanian Venkateshwaran;Ruibing Chen

  • Hormone complement of the Cancer productus sinus gland and pericardial organ: an anatomical and mass spectrometric investigation.

    Qiang Fu;Kimberly K. Kutz;Joshua J. Schmidt;Yun-Wei A. Hsu

  • Insulin Prohormone Processing, Distribution, and Relation to Metabolism in Aplysia californica

    Philip D. Floyd;Lingjun Li;Stanislav S. Rubakhin;Jonathan V. Sweedler

  • Comparison of Two-Dimensional Fractionation Techniques for Shotgun Proteomics

    James A. Dowell;Dustin C. Frost;Jiang Zhang;Lingjun Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan V. Sweedler
Jonathan V. Sweedler University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andrew E. Christie
Andrew E. Christie University of Hawaii at Manoa
Klaudiusz R. Weiss
Klaudiusz R. Weiss Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Eve Marder
Eve Marder Brandeis University
Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg University of Gothenburg
Jian Jing
Jian Jing Nanjing University
Chrysanthy Ikonomidou
Chrysanthy Ikonomidou University of Wisconsin–Madison
Guanhua Zhang
Guanhua Zhang Hunan University
Ozioma C. Okonkwo
Ozioma C. Okonkwo University of Wisconsin–Madison
Zhong Cao
Zhong Cao Changsha University of Science and Technology

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