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Melissa Meaney Phillips
3907 Joliet Street
Silver Spring, MD 20906
Phone: (517) 214-6967
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EDUCATION
Postdoctoral Research Chemist January 2008 – January 2010
Organic Chemical Metrology Group, Analytical Chemistry Division, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Project: Determination of Marker Compounds in Vaccinium Berries
Advisor: Dr. Lane C. Sander
PhD in Chemistry (Analytical) December 2007
Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Project: Analytical Applications of Fluorescence Quenching
Advisor: Dr. Victoria L. McGuffin
MS in Forensic Chemistry October2007
School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Project: Quantitation of Nitrated Explosives by Fluorescence Quenching following Thin-Layer
Chromatography
Advisors: Dr. Victoria L. McGuffin, Dr. Jay A. Siegel, Dr. Ruth J.H. Waddell
BS in Lyman Briggs School – Chemistry, cum laude May 2002
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Program Coordinator, Food& Nutrition 2013 – present
Organic Chemical Metrology Group, Chemical Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Responsible for development of food Standard Reference Materials (SRMs), including identification and
acquisition of materials, coordination of analytical measurements, and documentation of results
Responsible for oversight of food and nutrition-related research projects
Research Chemist 2008 – present
Organic Chemical Measurement Science Group, Chemical Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Evaluated various approaches for integration of data from two-dimensional liquid chromatography (LCxLC)
for purposes of comparing quantitative data.
Certified concentrations forwater-soluble vitamins in food and dietary supplement SRMs (e.g.,infant formula,
baby food, whole milk powder, whole egg powder, soy flour, and fortified breakfast cereal) using various
extraction techniques and analytical methods such asliquid chromatography with isotope-dilution mass
spectrometric detection (LC-ID-MS and LC-ID-MS/MS).
Developed a method for high-precision determination and certified concentrations of choline and carnitine in
food-matrix SRMs using microwave digestion and LC-ID-MS.
Developed methods for high accuracy and high precision determination of ammonium and phosphate in a
fertilizer SRM by ion chromatography with conductivity detection (IC-CD).
Developed methods and certified concentrations ofrelevant active and marker compounds in botanicaldietary
supplement and natural product SRMs (e.g. Vaccinium berries, soy, St. John’s wort) using various
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