Katja
Dettmer
Post-Doctoral
Researcher
Tel:
(530) 752-5109
Fax:
(530) 752-1537
email:
Education
Ph.D. at the University
of Leipzig
Post-doctoral Research, University of California at Davis, funded
by a scholarship of the German Research Foundation
Research
•Expertise in the environmental trace analysis of organic
compounds using chromatographic and mass spectrometric techniques.
• Determine potential for the comprehensive characterization
of metabolites -metabolomics- in bio-fluids as a tool for diagnosing
disease including autism.
• Address fundamental questions regarding environmental factors
in autism and the search for tools to assist in the diagnosis of
autism.
• Development of analytical methods based on LC/MS and GC/MS
as tools for metabolomics.
• Quantitative profiling of urinary tryptophan metabolites
by on-line solid-phase extraction – liquid chromatography
– tandem mass spectrometry for the assessment of metabolic
dysfunctions associated with autism.
• Developing a sensitive technique for the analysis of vitamin
D metabolites as a tool in obesity research
• General analytical laboratory support and student mentor.
Selected
Publications
Dettmer, K.; Teichmann,
A.; Engewald, W., Simultaneous analysis of volatile organic hydrocarbons
and halocarbons in ambient air samples by use of adsorptive enrichment
/ thermal desorption and gas chromatographic dual column technique,
submitted December 2003 to Journal Separation Science
Dettmer, K.;
Engewald, W., Ambient air analysis of volatile organic compounds
using adsorptive enrichment, Chromatographia (2003) in press
Drechsel, D.;
Dettmer, K.; Engewald, W., Studies of Thermally assisted Hydrolysis
and Methylation - GC-MS of fatty acids and triglycerides using different
reagents and injection systems, Chromatographia (2003) in press
Bothe, F.; Dettmer,
K.; Engewald, W., Determination of Perfume Oil in Household Products
by Headspace Solid-Phase Microextraction and Fast Capillary Gas
Chromatography, Chromatographia (2003) in press
Dettmer, K.;
Engewald, W., Adsorbent materials commonly used in air analysis
for adsorptive enrichment and thermal desorption of volatile organic
compounds, Anal Bioanal Chem (2002) 373 :490–500
Drechsel, D.;
Dettmer, K.; Engewald, W.; Bittner, Th.; Efer, J.: "GC Analysis
of trichloroacetic acid in water samples by Large-Volume-Injection
and thermal dexarboxylation in aprogrammed temperature vaporizer";
Chromatographia 54 (2001) 151-154
Dettmer, K.;
Bittner, Th.; Engewald, W.: "Adsorptive enrichment and thermal
desorption of low boiling oxygenated compounds, Possibilities and
limitations"; Chromatographia 53 (2001) 322-325
K. Dettmer, Th.
Knobloch, W. Engewald: "Stability of reactive low boiling hydrocarbons
on carbon based adsorbents typically used for adsorptive enrichment
and thermal desorption"; Fresenius J. Anal. Chem. 366 (2000)
70-78
K. Dettmer, U.
Felix, W. Engewald, M. Mohnke: "Application of a Unique Selective
PLOT Capillary Column for the Analysis of Oxygenated Compounds in
Ambient Air"; Chromatographia Supplement 51 (2000) 221-227
