Member-at-Large Publications

Duties of the Member at Large for Publications

Chairs the Publications Committee.
Coordinates the ASMS Conference Proceedings.
Serves as ASMS Board Liaison to JASMS editors and publisher.
Monitors the performance of the JASMS publisher in matters of style, functionality, and financial records.
Chairs the ad hoc committee to select the Hites Award for outstanding research paper in JASMS.

Nadja B. Cech
University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Evan R. Williams
University of California, Berkeley

B.S. in Chemistry (Southern Oregon University in 1997); Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry (University of New Mexico in 2001 under the direction of Dr. Chris Enke). Dr. Cech has been a member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina Greensboro since 2001, and is currently an Associate Professor there in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Dr. Cech has published a number of fundamental studies on the factors that govern selectivity in electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. Most recently, she coauthored a book chapter in Richard Cole's "Electrospray and MALDI Mass Spectrometry" on that topic. In addition, Dr. Cech is engaged in research that involves that application of mass spectrometric techniques to study synergistic interactions in multi-component mixtures. She is currently funded by the NIH on a project aimed at identifying combinations of compounds from plants that can be used to treat drug resistant bacterial infections.

Dr. Cech served as the Regional Meeting Liaison for the Analytical Division of the ACS from 2007-2010, and has been a member of the ASMS Publications Committee since 2008.

B.S. in Chemistry (University of Virginia in 1984); Ph.D. (1990, Cornell University with Professor Fred W. McLafferty); NSF Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Richard N. Zare at Stanford University (1989-91). Dr. Williams continued his career at the University of California at Berkeley as an Assistant (1992), Associate (1997) and full Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics (2001 to present). He also serves as the Associate Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Analytical Biotechnology and the Faculty Director of the Mass Spectrometry Facility for the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences and the College of Chemistry.

His group is developing and applying novel instrumental and computational techniques in mass spectrometry, separations, and spectroscopy for probing the structures and functions of biomolecules and noncovalent macromolecular complexes. Recent results with ions in nanodrops are leading to new insights into how ions affect protein structure and how water stabilizes ionic interactions. He has published over 160 papers (including 30 in JASMS; h-index = 45) and has given over 160 invited lectures. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Analytical and Physical Chemistry, including a graduate course on mass spectrometry and an undergraduate course on instrumental methods of analysis.

Evan Williams has attended every annual ASMS conference since 1985, served as a session chair at many meetings, and he and his students have given numerous oral and poster presentations. He has attended and presented at many of the ASMS Asilomar and Sanibel conferences and served on the ASMS Education Committee (1996-98). He has been on the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry (1997-present; Guest Editor 2002, 2006, 2010) and the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (2001-07) and is the Vice Chair for the Gordon Conference on Gaseous Ions: Structures, Energetics & Reactions (2011). He has been on the program committees of many meetings, including ASMS, and is a member of ACS and an active participant at ACS meetings.