Alec Valenta, Ph.D.

Global Market Development Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Alec Valenta is a Global Market Development Manager in the Chromatography & Mass Spectrometry division at Thermo Fisher Scientific. He holds a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Michigan, where he focused on bioanalysis of small-molecule neurotransmitters, metabolites, and neuropeptides using LC-MS.

Publications

Wells, S. S., Bain, I. J., Valenta, A. C., Lenhart, A. E., Steyer, D. J., & Kennedy, R. T. (2024). Microdialysis coupled with droplet microfluidics and mass spectrometry for determination of neurotransmitters in vivo with high temporal resolution. Analyst, 149(8), 2328–2337.
Zheng, R., Matzinger, M., Mayer, R. L., Valenta, A., Sun, X., & Mechtler, K. (2023). A High-Sensitivity Low-Nanoflow LC-MS Configuration for High-Throughput Sample-Limited Proteomics. Analytical Chemistry, 95(51), 18673–18678.
Valenta, A.C., D'Amico, C.I., Dugan, C.E., Grinias, J.P., Kennedy, R.T. (2021). A microfluidic chip for on-line derivatization and application to in vivo neurochemical monitoring. Analyst, 146, 825-834.
Bodner, O., Radzishevsky, I., Foltyn, V. N., Touitou, A., Valenta, A. C., Rangel, I. F., Panizzutti, R., Kennedy, R. T., Billard, J. M., & Wolosker, H. (2020). D-Serine signaling and NMDAR-mediated synaptic plasticity are regulated by system A-type of glutamine/D-serine dual transporters. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(34), 6489–6502.
Faraji, A. H., Jaquins-Gerstl, A. S., Valenta, A. C., Ou, Y., & Weber, S. G. (2020). Electrokinetic Convection-Enhanced Delivery of Solutes to the Brain. ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 11, 14, 2085–2093.
Flak, J. N., Goforth, P. B., Dell’Orco, J., Sabatini, P. V., Li, C., Bozadjieva, N., Sorensen, M., Valenta, A., Rupp, A., Affinati, A. H., Cras-Méneur, C., Ansari, A., Sacksner, J., Kodur, N., Sandoval, D. A., Kennedy, R. T., Olson, D. P., & Myers, M. G., Jr. (2020). Ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus neuronal subset regulates blood glucose independently of insulin.. The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 130(6), 2943–2952.
Kawa, A. B., Valenta, A. C., Kennedy, R. T., & Robinson, T. E. (2019). Incentive and dopamine sensitization produced by intermittent but not long access cocaine self-administration.. European Journal of Neuroscience, 50(4), 2663–2682.
Faraji, A. H., Jaquins-Gerstl, A. S., Valenta, A. C., & Weber, S. G. (2019). Electrokinetic infusions into hydrogels and brain tissue: Control of direction and magnitude of solute delivery. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 311, 76–82.
Kaplan, E., Zubedat, S., Radzishevsky, I., Valenta, A. C., Rechnitz, O., Sason, H., Sajrawi, C., Bodner, O., Konno, K., Esaki, K., Derdikman, D., Yoshikawa, T., Watanabe, M., Kennedy, R. T., Billard, J. M., Avital, A., & Wolosker, H. (2018). ASCT1 (Slc1a4) transporter is a physiologic regulator of brain d-serine and neurodevelopment. PNAS, 115(38), 9628–9633.
Ngernsutivorakul, T., Steyer, D. J., Valenta, A. C., & Kennedy, R. T. (2018). In vivo chemical monitoring at high spatiotemporal resolution using microfabricated sampling probes and droplet-based microfluidics coupled to mass spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry, 90(18), 10943–10950.
Weber, S., Faraji, A. H., Guy, Y., Jaquins-Gerstl, A., & Valenta, A. C. (2018). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Electroosmotic convection-enhanced delivery system. , (U.S. Patent No. 9,872,982).