People

Nick Dupuis

Tel: 805-893-2673

E-mail: ndupuis@chem.ucsb.edu

I am currently involved with two projects in the Bowers group. The first is the construction and characterization of a new high-resolution ion mobility mass spectrometer. The instrument gives us a 5-10 fold improvement in ion mobility resolution over previous instruments and it is now starting to produce some new and interesting results. My second project is studying the structure and early aggregation states of Amylin, a small fibril forming peptide implicated in the pathology of Type II Diabetes. I am particularly interested in identifying key oligomeric species in the early stages of the amyloid fibril formation pathway as well as structural features of the Amylin monomer.