Lab Members - Rachel Loo
Dr. Rachel R. Ogorzalek Loo is a Researcher in the Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is a member of UCLA/DOE Laboratory for Genomics and Proteomics and an Associate Member of the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute.
Her research interests include the development of bioanalytical
mass spectrometry methods for the structural characterization of
proteins and their application for proteomics. She is also interested
in the development of the Virtual 2D Gel
method, a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) MS-based
surface scanning method in which proteins are desorbed directly from
polyacrylamide gels for identifying and characterizing protein
isoforms and for measuring protein expression profiles from complex
biological samples.
She is an author of over 60 scientific publications. She has been on the Editorial Board of Analytical Chemistry, and currently she serves as an Associate Editor for Biomacromolecular Mass Spectrometry. She has been a member of various working committees for the Association of Biomedical Resource Facilities (ABRF). Before joining UCLA, she was Director of Mass Spectrometry for the University of Michigan Protein and Carbohydrate Structure Facility, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), and later moved to Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical (currently Pfizer Global Research, Ann Arbor, MI) as a Research Associate.
She received her BS degree in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI), and her Ph.D. degree in physicial chemistry from Cornell University (Prof. Paul Houston). She carried out post-doctoral research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA (Dr. Richard D. Smith).