Team Scientific Service Group
Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry

email: Miloslav.Sanda(at)mpi-bn.mpg.de
telephone extension: 1760

Miloslav has a BSc in Clinical and Toxicological Analysis and a MSc in Analytical Chemistry from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, Czech Republic. He worked full time as a Mass Spectrometry Specialist at the Czech Agricultural and Food Inspection Authority (CAFIA).

In 2004, he started working at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He established and led the proteomics subgroup of the mass spectrometry team. In 2011, he moved to the USA for a post-doctoral position at Georgetown University. His primary focus was on utilizing mass spectrometry analyses to tackle glycosylation changes related to liver and prostate cancer. In a few years, he was raised in academic ranks to an associate professor and Director of the analytical branch of Clinical and Translational Glycoscience Research Center at Georgetown University.

In early January of 2022, Miloslav joined the Bioanalytical mass spectrometry team as a team leader. His current focus is on single-cell proteomic applications, structural resolution of isobaric glycopeptide compounds, glycosylation changes in disease progression, and the influence of the glycan structure on proteolytic cleavage. Also, he is interested in expounding the PTM analysis in the limited amount of material using DDA and DIA approaches.

email: Diana.Campos(at)mpi-bn.mpg.de
telephone extension: 1767

Diana Campos (DC) has a BSc in Biochemistry, a MSc in Molecular Oncology from the University of Porto, Portugal. During her MSc, she started to develop research interests in glycoproteomics and cancer.

She was awarded an international PhD fellowship to conduct her research in Copenhagen Center for Glycomics (University of Copenhagen) in collaboration with University of Porto. Diana benefited from her two collaborative institutions and supervisors, Prof. Henrik Clausen and Prof. Celso A. Reis, leading scientists on glycosylation and cancer research fields.  She obtained a Ph.D. degree in Biomedicine in 2015. In the same year she was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Radoslav Goldman’s team at Lombardi Cancer Centre, Georgetown University, USA, where she worked on novel analytical methods for biomarker discovery.

In 2016, Diana joined the Glycobiology in Cancer group at I3S, University of Porto, where she participated in several projects as a Researcher aiming to identify new cancer therapies based on glycan-specific drugs and antibodies.

Diana joined our group as a Postdoc in February 2022 where she is involved in service support and in establishing new projects. She will pursue her interest in glycosylation changes and disease progression. In addition, she will focus on implementing new methods for single cell proteomics.

email: alica.klaus@mpi-bn.mpg.de
telephone extension: 1767

Alica received her Bachelor's degree (Bachelor of Science; B.Sc.) in Bioengineering/Biopharmaceutical Engineering from the University of Applied Science Mittelhessen in Gießen. Following that, she worked one year in the lab of Prof. Dr. Trinad Chakraborty in the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Biomedizinisches Forschungszentrum Giessen on the pathophysiology and immunology of listeriosis using G. mellonella and T. castaneum as a model organism.

In 2014 she joint the Institute of Insect Biotechnology of Prof. Dr. Andreas Vilcinskas within the Fraunhofer Project Group Bioresources where she was involved in the functional characterization of microRNAs in vertebrates and LC/MS based screening for bioactive substances from insects and bacteria. Alica joint our group in 2019 and is involved in providing technical support to ongoing projects and instrument maintenance.