Gregory B. Hurst
Staff Research Scientist

B.S., Chemistry, University of Tennessee — Knoxville, 1984
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Wisconsin — Madison, 1990
Research Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1990 - present
Adjunct Assistant Professor, ORNL-UT Genome Science and Technology Graduate School, 2001 - present

My research interests center on the development and application of mass spectrometric methods for analysis of biopolymers, including:

High-throughput analysis of protein complexes (Center for Molecular and Cellular Systems, funded by DOE’s Genomics: GTL program)
     Complexes isolated from Rhodopseudomonas palustris
        by affinity or biochemical methods
     Mass spectrometry of chemically cross-linked proteins
        and protein complexes

Analysis of nucleic acids
     PCR products
     Sequencing

Understanding MALDI
     The “plume”
     Sample preparation