I am a graduate student at the Chemistry Department of the George Washington University (GWU), Washington DC. My graduate advisor is Professor Akos Vertes.

Before enrolling in GWU, I graduated from Moravian College , Bethlehem , PA with double major in Chemistry and Economics.

March 2008

Biophotonics featured a report on metabolite analysis by AP IR-MALDI - Deeper Into The Plant Kingdom .

Y. Li, B. Shrestha and A. Vertes, “Atmospheric Pressure Infrared MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry for Plant Metabolomics,” Anal. Chem., 2008, 80, 407-420.

Y. Li, B. Shrestha and A. Vertes, "Atmospheric Pressure Molecular Imaging by Infrared MALDI Mass Spectrometry," Anal. Chem.,2007, 79, 523-532.

Shrestha, B.; Li, Y.; Vertes, A. Rapid Analysis of Pharmaceuticals and their Metabolites with Atmospheric Pressure Infrared MALDI Mass Spectrometry., Proceedings of the 54th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Indianapolis, IN, June 3-June 7, 2007;DVD-ROM.

Li, Y.; Shrestha, B.; Vertes, A. Atmospheric Pressure Infrared MALDI Mass Spectrometry: Imaging and In Vivo Studies of Metabolites in Plants., Proceedings of the 54th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Indianapolis, IN, June 3-June 7, 2007;DVD-ROM.

Shrestha, B.; Li, Y.; Vertes, A. Direct analysis of drugs and their metabolites by infrared atmospheric pressure matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry., FACSS 2006 Conference, Orlando FL, September 24 - 28, 2006

Li, Y.; Shrestha, B.; Vertes, A. Imaging at Atmospheric Pressure by MALDI Mass Spectrometry. Proceedings of the 54th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Seattle, WA, May 28-June 1, 2006;DVD-ROM.|Poster|

Nazarian, J.; Shrestha, B.;  Hathout, Y.; Vertes, A. ; Hoffman, E. Proteomic Analyses of Torpedo Californica Electroplaque as a Model for The Neuromuscular Junction. Proceedings of the 54th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Seattle, WA, May 28-June 1, 2006;DVD-ROM.