Gustavus Chemistry Department alumnus Eli Larson (’18) defended his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Wisconsin, Madison a few weeks ago, where he worked with Professor Ying Ge. The title of his talk was: “New Front-End Separation Approaches for Top-Down Proteomics”. Since his successful defense, Dr. Larson has moved to Merck Laboratories in New Jersey where he is beginning an Analytical Scientist position. During his time at Gustavus, Eli contributed to several research projects in the Stoll Laboratory, one of which yielded a publication in the Journal of Chromatography, A (DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2017.07.041), and also completed an internship at Genentech in the Bay Area. Congratulations Dr. Larson!