Taylor Perkins

Taylor joined the Loo lab in January 2019. A native of San Diego, California, Taylor returned to his birth state to begin graduate school at UCLA. After growing up in Pensacola, FL, he obtained his Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from the University of Alabama. Under the direction of Dr. Carolyn Cassady, Taylor studied the fundamental ion chemistry of various biomolecules using MALDI and ESI mass spectrometry. Taylor's primary interest is improving high-resolution top-down mass spectrometry techniques to study protein-ligand and protein-protein interactions. Outside of the lab, Taylor enjoys running, hiking, surfing and playing the piano.