Authors
Yingchan Guo is a researcher in the Prentice Research Group at the University of Florida. Guo completed her B.S. in Chemistry at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China in 2020. Her research there involved the study of immobilized double enzyme based DNA nanotechnology and fuctionalized magnetic spheres. During the summer of 2019, she conducted research modeling Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) infection looking into the innate immune response and a viral antagonism strategy. She joined the Prentice lab in the fall of 2021.
Wenbo Jia is with the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Henan University of Technology, in Zhengzhou, China.
Lingyan Shi is currently a tenured Associate Professor in the Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering at UC San Diego. She arrived at UC San Diego in 2019, following her postdoctoral training in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University. Her laboratory focuses on developing and applying super resolution multimodal nanoscopy for studying metabolic changes in aging and diseases. She was Spectroscopy’s 2025 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy award recipient.
Giulio Colnaghi has been working at Milestone since 2003. He is a chemist and started his career at Milestone as an application specialist, focusing on new method development and addressing specific needs in sample preparation. Later, he transitioned to Area Manager for most countries in Latin America and the eastern part of Europe, and then for the U.S. Since 2018, he has held the position of Marketing Manager at Milestone headquarters in Bergamo, Italy. During his career at Milestone, Giulio has worked with hundreds of laboratories and chemists to help them in overcoming daily challenges in elemental analysis by optimizing their workflow and methods. Today, Giulio aims to support worldwide laboratories to enhance their efficiency using state-of-the-art technologies.
Anika Retzmann is a postdoctoral researcher in the Atom Mass Lab at the University of Calgary. She is an analytical chemist and isotope science researcher specializing in elemental and stable metal isotopic analyses, with applications spanning environmental science, archaeometry, biomedicine, and the life sciences. Her work focuses on advancing analytical methodology to better understand the roles and signatures of essential elements in biological and environmental systems.
Steven Bell is a professor of physical chemistry at Queen's University Belfast. His research focuses on spectroscopy, especially Raman spectroscopy, and the development of nano- and microstructured materials, with both areas intersecting in the creation of new SERS substrates.