Jane Thomas-Oates

Jane E. Thomas-Oates (born 16 May 1960) is a British chemist who is an emeritus professor at the University of York. Her research has considered the development of mass spectrometry for biological applications including proteomics, metabolomics, and glycomics.

Early life and education Thomas-Oates' parents were both teachers. Her father was a physical chemist before teaching science and her mother was a botanist. She has said that she can remember being excited by mass spectrometry during her chemistry lessons. In Dundee, she studied the structures of glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchors, and in Utrecht she developed the first mass spectrometry technique to determine glycan attachment to glycoproteins.

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