2016 OMB Summer Meeting

Melissa Meaney Phillips

3907 Joliet Street

Silver Spring, MD 20906

Phone: (517) 214-6967

Email:

melmphillips@gmail.com

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

October 2007

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 for water-soluble vitamins in food and dietary supplement SRMs (e.g., infant

formula, baby food, whole milk powder, whole egg powder, soy flour, fortified breakfast cereal, soy milk,

pet food, protein drink mix) using various extraction techniques and analytical methods such as liquid

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 of relevant active and marker compounds in botanical dietary

supplement and natural product SRMs (e.g.

Vaccinium

berries, soy, St. John’s wort) using various

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