Team Members

Danielle Swaney is an Assistant Professor at UCSF.  She did her PhD under Joshua Coon at the University of Wisconsin, where she focused on technology development.  She then went on to do a postdoc under the mentorship of Judit Villen at then University of Washington, where she focused on developing and applying mass spectrometry methods to understand cross talk between post-translational modification.

She has expertise in a wide variety of MS techniques, with a focus on global profiling of post-translational modifications and protein-protein interaction (PPI) analysis.

Ruth Hüttenhain is an Assistant Professor at UCSF. She did her PhD in the lab of Ruedi Aebersold at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where she developed high-throughput and large scale targeted mass spectrometric approaches and applied them to the verification of plasma-based cancer biomarkers. During her postdoc under Nevan Krogan at UCSF, Dr. Hüttenhain extended her expertise in quantitative mass spectrometry to study dynamics of protein interaction networks. She pioneered a novel approach based on proximity labeling and quantitative mass spectrometry that simultaneously captures the precise temporal remodeling and spatial organization of protein networks.

Ruth's expertise is focused on quantitative MS techniques including Selected Reaction Monitoring (SRM) and Data-Independent Acquisition (DIA)  applied to protein-protein interactions (PPI) and their dynamics as well as large-scale studies using quantitative MS.

Robyn Kaake is a Postdoc at The Gladstone Institutes.  She did her PhD under Dr. Lan Huang at the University California, Irvine (UCI), where she utilized cross-linking and quantitative AP-MS techniques to study the ubiquitin-proteasome system.  During her postdoc under Nevan Krogan, her primary focus is on cross-linking mass spectrometry (XL-MS) methods development and applications. 

Robyn's expertise focuses on utilizing AP-MS and XL-MS strategies for mapping protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks and characterizing PPI interfaces for integrative structural modeling. 

Erica Stevenson is a Research Technologist at The Gladstone Institutes. After receiving her Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering from ESCOM, a Grande Ecole in France, she pursued a Master's at the University of Chicago. Erica has worked in the labs of notable researchers such as Dr. Stephen Kent, Dr. Chuan He, and Dr. Milan Mrksich. She uses her expertise in protein chemistry and mass spectrometry to support the Krogan Lab's mass spectrometry core.