Norm Dovichi obtained his B.Sc. degree in chemistry and mathematics from Northern Illinois University, and his Ph.D. in physical/analytical chemistry from the University of Utah for the thesis titled "Thermal Lens Calorimetry" under the direction of Joel Harris. He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory with Dick Keller, working in what would become the National Flow Cytometry Resource. Norm started his academic career at the University of Wyoming in 1982. In 1986, his group moved to the University of Alberta, where the temperature is currently C. He moved his group again in December 2000 to the University of Washington as the Endowed Professor of Analytical Chemistry. Finally, in 2010, Prof. Dovichi became the Grace Rupley Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. After graduating his final (and favorite) PhD student, Norm became an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry in May 2020. He has graduated 69 PhD students, published over 300 papers, holds 7 US patents and has given over 350 invited talks.
Prof. Dovichi's research interests include ultra-sensitive chemical analysis and bioanalytical chemistry. This work has been recognized with a number of awards and honors. Several of note include the AES Lifetime Achievement Award (2018), Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science (2013), Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow (2012), American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (2012), Ralph N. Adams Award (2007), the Spectrochemical Analysis Award (2003) and the Chemical Instrumentation Award (1996) from the Analytical Division of the American Chemical Society among many others. Additionally, Prof. Dovichi has been recognized with an honorary professorship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences - Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (2002). He was the only chemist named as an Unsung Hero of the human genome project by Science in their 2001 February 16 issue.
Dr. Zhang's research interest is to improve the identification performance of capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) in mass spectrometry based proteomics analysis. CZE outperforms RPLC when dealing with less than hundreds of nanogram amounts of samples, and it has great potential in ultrasensitive and high throughput proteomics analysis. However, CZE has as a high concentration detection limit and low sample loading capacity. A solid phase extraction method based on strong cation exchange (SCX) monolith was developed for online sample preconcentration prior to CZE analysis to overcome these disadvantages. Moreover, the SCX monolith can be used as a microreactor for online sample preparation to minimize the sample lost and to improve the efficiency which has great potential for single cell proteomics analysis.
Research scientist
dr. bonnie jaskowski huge
Dr. Huge works in CE-based bio-analytical instrument development. her primary research focus is the separation and identification of microbiomes, bacteria and bacteriophages. As a graduate student in the Dovichi laboratory, Huge was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship in 2014.