He received a Ph. D. in Brazil, at the State University of Campinas, working with mass spectrometry and bacterial proteomics. During his graduation, Dr. Smolka was supported by a fellowship from the Sao Paulo state funding agency, FAPESP. He received further training in quantitative mass spectrometry with Dr. Ruedi Aebersold, at the Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle), working as an international visiting fellow. Dr. Smolka then moved to San Diego, CA, where he did his postdoctoral research at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, working with DNA damage checkpoint kinases and phosphoproteomics in the laboratory of Dr. Huilin Zhou. He joined Cornell in 2008 and heads the Laboratory of Proteomics and Cell Signaling.Links: Smolka Lab Web SiteResearch Focus: