Sharon J. Pitteri

Education:

          Carleton College, Northfield, MN 1997-2001

          B.A. in Chemistry

          Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 2001-2005

          Ph.D. student in analytical chemistry, emphasizing gas phase ion/ion chemistry and mass spectrometry,   

          under the direction of Prof. Scott A. McLuckey

Employment:

         Purdue University, Department of Chemistry

         Fall 2001, Teaching Assistant 

         Chemistry 115: general chemistry for engineering majors

         Purdue University, Department of Chemistry

         Spring 2002 - Present, Research Assistant 

Research Experience:

        University of Washington, Department of Chemistry, Summer 1999

        Spent the summer studying thermodynamic and reactivity properties of inorganic compounds under the 

        direction of Prof. James Mayer

        Georgia Institute of Technology, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Summer 2000

        Spent the summer using chemical ionization mass spectrometry to study atmospheric chemistry under the 

        direction of Prof. Greg Huey

Honors and Awards:

         - ACS Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry

         - Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

         - Jonathan and Ruthanna Amy Student Travel Award

Publications:

S.J. Pitteri, P.A. Chrisman, E.R. Badman, S.A. McLuckey, Int. J. Mass Spectrom., 253 (2006) 147-155.
"Charge-State Dependent Dissociation of a Trypsin/Inhibitor Complex via Ion Trap Collisional Activation."

P.B. O'Connor, J.J. Cournoyer, S.J. Pitteri, P.A. Chrisman S.A. McLuckey, J.Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 17 (2006) 15-19.
"Differentiation of Aspartic and Iso-Aspartic Acid Residues in Peptides using Electron Transfer Dissociation."

P.A. Chrisman, S.J. Pitteri, S.A. McLuckey, Anal. Chem.,  78 (2006) 310 - 316.
"Parallel Ion Parking of Protein Mixtures."

H.P. Gunawardena, M. He, P.A. Chrisman, S.J. Pitteri, J.M. Hogan, B.D.M. Hodges,  S.A. McLuckey, J.Am. Chem. Soc., 127 (2005) 12627-12639.
"Electron Transfer versus Proton Transfer in Gas-Phase Ion-Ion Reactions of Polyprotonated Peptides."

S.J. Pitteri, P.A. Chrisman, S.A. McLuckey, Anal. Chem., 77 (2005) 5662-5669.
"Electron Transfer Ion/Ion Reactions of Doubly Protonated Peptides: The Effect of Elevated Bath Gas Temperature."

P.A. Chrisman, S.J. Pitteri, J.M. Hogan, S.A. McLuckey, J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 16 (2005) 1020-1030.
"SO₂^-. Electron Transfer Ion/Ion Reactions with Disulfide Linked Polypeptide Ions."

P.A. Chrisman, S.J. Pitteri, S.A. McLuckey, Anal. Chem., 77 (2005) 3411-3414.
"Parallel Ion Parking: Improving Conversion of Parents to First-Generation Products in Electron Transfer Dissociation."

J.M. Hogan, S.J. Pitteri, P.A. Chrisman, S.A. McLuckey, J. Proteome Res., 4 (2005) 628-632.
"Complementary Structural Information from a Tryptic N-Linked Glycopeptide via Electron Transfer Ion/Ion Reactions and Collision-Induced Dissociation."

S.J. Pitteri, P.A. Chrisman, J.M. Hogan, S.A. McLuckey, Anal. Chem., 77 (2005) 1831-1839.
"Electron Transfer Ion/Ion Reactions in a Three-Dimensional Quadrupole Ion Trap:  Reactions of Doubly and Triply Protonated Peptides with SO₂^-.."

S.J. Pitteri, S.A. McLuckey, Mass Spectrom. Rev., 24 (2005) 931-958.
"Recent Developments in the Ion/Ion Chemistry of High-Mass Multiply Charged Ions."

K.A. Newton, S.J. Pitteri, M. Laskowski Jr., S.A. McLuckey, J. Proteome Res., 3 (2004) 1033-1041.
"Effects of Single Amino Acid Substitution on the Collision-Induced Dissociation of Intact Protein Ions:  Turkey Ovomucoid Third Domain."

J.M. Hogan, S.J. Pitteri, S.A. McLuckey, Anal. Chem., 75 (2003) 6509-6516.
"Phosphorylation Site Identification via Ion Trap Tandem Mass Spectrometry of Whole Protein and Peptide Ions: Bovine a-Crystallin A Chain."    

S.J. Pitteri, G.E. Reid, S.A. McLuckey, J. Proteome Res., 3 (2004) 46-54.
"Affecting Proton Mobility in Activated Whole Protein Ions via Lysine Guanidination."

D.L. Slusher, S.J. Pitteri, B.J. Haman, D.J. Tanner, L.G. Huey, Geophys. Res. Lett. 28, (2001) 3875-3875

"A Chemical Ionization Technique for Measurement of Pernitric Acid in the Upper Troposphere and the Polar Boundary Layer."

B.K. Bennett, S.J. Pitteri, L. Pilobello, S. Lovell, W. Kaminsky, J.M. Mayer, J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Transactions (2001) 3489-3497

"Osmium(IV) Complexes TpOs(X)Cl2 and their Os(III) Counterparts: Oxidizing Compounds with an Unusual Resistance to Ligand Substitution."