Dr. Carlito B. Lebrilla is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine in the School of Medicine. He received his BS degree from the University of California, Irvine and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and a NSF-NATO Fellow at the Technical University in Berlin. He returned to the UC Irvine as a President’s Fellow and has been at UC Davis. He has served as Chair of the Chemistry Department. His research is in Analytical Chemistry focused on mass spectrometry with applications to clinical glycomics and biofunctional food. He has co-founded several start-ups in the areas of bioactive foods and disease biomarkers. He has published nearly 500 peer-reviewed papers and has been selected as a Fellow of the AAAS. He has been awarded the Field and Franklin Medal for outstanding contributions to mass spectrometry, MCP Lectureship in Glycobiology, UCD Outstanding Researcher Award and UCD Innovator Award. He is also Co-chief Editor of Mass Spectrometry Reviews and has been on the editorial board of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, Glycobiology, Mass Spectrometry Reviews, Journal of American Society for Mass Spectrometry, European Mass Spectrometry, and International Journal of Mass Spectrometry. He is the VP of Programs and the President-Elect for the American Society of Mass Spectrometry.