Proteins are essential players in most biological processes and unraveling their behavior (or misbehavior) is important for understanding the molecular basis of life and of a variety of diseases. My research group is interested in protein chemistry with a particular focus on the development of new methods to gather insight into protein misfolding and aggregation, protein interactions with metals, and protein chemistry within a cell. We have two primary areas of investigation: (1) mass spectrometry-based methods to study protein amyloid formation and (2) nanomaterials as novel extraction/concentration/detection methods for protein analyses in complex mixtures.