Stoll Laboratory alumnus Eli Larson (’18) defended his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Wisconsin, Madison a few weeks ago, where he worked with Professor Ying Ge. The title of his talk was: “New Front-End Separation Approaches for Top-Down Proteomics”. Since his successful defense, Dr. Larson has moved to Merck Laboratories in New Jersey where he is beginning an Analytical Scientist position. I clearly remember Eli’s early days in the Stoll Group, which were exciting times working with early prototypes of what has become known as Active Solvent Modulation (ASM). During his time with us, Eli contributed to many projects, one of which yielded a publication in the Journal of Chromatography, A (DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2017.07.041). Congratulations Dr. Larson!