Heather Bean
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Phone: 480-727-3395
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LSE 315 School of Life Sciences 427 E Tyler Mall Tempe, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 4501Campus: Tempe
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Heather Bean is a bioanalytical chemist working to characterize the metabolomes of human, animal, plant, and environmental microbial consortia with two main purposes: 1) understanding how volatile and semi-volatile metabolites mediate microbe-microbe and host-microbe interactions, and 2) development of novel biomarkers and diagnostics, with an emphasis on breath tests. As a Postdoctoral Fellow for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Bean pioneered the use of two-dimensional gas chromatography – time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC×GC-TOFMS) for the identification of volatile biomarkers for bacterial lung infection detection and characterization. At ASU, she and her research team are applying this analytical technique to identify the volatile metabolites found in many different types of samples, including human specimens (breath, sputum, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, feces), animal infection models, soils, cell cultures, and genetically modified microbial strains.
The Bean research group is also working to advance the application of GC×GC-TOFMS to untargeted metabolomics, pushing the boundaries of existing data analysis tools and pipelines and developing new ones, as needed, to transform large metabolomics data sets into useful information for monitoring health and diagnosing disease.
- PhD Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology 2008
- BS Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology 1999
The Bean Lab at Arizona State University specializes in the untargeted analysis of volatile metabolites, which means that we focus on discovering the small, gaseous molecules that living organisms produce. These volatile organic compounds (VOCs) carry chemical information that can be used by organisms as signaling molecules, and that can be leveraged by us as biomarkers. We are excited about both! Please check out our research website to see how we are developing breath VOC biomarkers to diagnose infections and track human health, exploring how microbes influence each others' behaviors through VOC signaling, and developing new data analysis tools and pipelines to make untargeted volatile metabolomics easier and more rigorous.
2024
- Bilal Ali, Trenton J. Davis, Daniela F. Gutiérrez-Muñoz, Heather D. Bean. Using retention index database matching for compound identification on a non-standard gas chromatography stationary phase. Preprint
- Jason H. Ideker, Kelsey Crawford, Collin Gustafson, Anuj Parashar, Trenton J. Davis, Jenna Diefenderfer, Heather D. Bean (2024). Identifying alkali-silica reaction in cementitious materials using volatilomics, in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Alkali-Aggregate Reaction in Concrete, Sanchez, L. and Trottier, C., Eds. Springer Nature Switzerland: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. pp. 615-623. Link
- Jenna Diefenderfer, Heather D. Bean, Emily A. Higgins Keppler. (2024) New Breath Diagnostics for Fungal Disease. Current Clinical Microbiology Reports, 11, 51. Link
2023
- Carrie L. Jenkins, Heather D. Bean. (2023) Current limitations of staph infection diagnostics, and the role for VOCs in achieving culture-independent detection. Pathogens, 12, 181. Link
- Emily A. Higgins Keppler, Marley C. Caballero Van Dyke, Heather L. Mead, Douglas F. Lake, D. Mitchell Magee, Bridget M. Marker, Heather D. Bean. (2023) Volatile Metabolites in Lavage Fluid Are Correlated with Cytokine Production in a Valley Fever Murine Model. Journal of Fungi, 9, 115. Editor's Choice Article Link
2022
- Trenton J. Davis*, Tarek Firzli*, Emily A. Higgins Keppler*, Matthew Richardson, Heather D. Bean. (2022) Addressing missing data in GC×GC metabolomics: Identifying missingness type and evaluating the impact of imputation methods on experimental replication. [*co-first authors] Analytical Chemistry, 94, 10912–10920. Link (published) Link (preprint)
- Jennifer Barrila, Jiseon Yang, Karla P. Franco Meléndez, Shanshan Yang, Trenton J. Davis, Bruce J. Aronow, Heather D. Bean, Richard R. Davis, Rebecca J. Forsyth, C. Mark Ott, Sandhya Gangaraju, Bianca Y. Kang, Brian Hanratty, Seth D. Nydam, Eric A. Nauman, Wei Kong, Jason Steel, Cheryl A. Nickerson. (2022) Spaceflight analogue culture enhances the host-pathogen interaction between Salmonella and a 3-D biomimetic intestinal co-culture model. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 12, 705647. Link
2021
- Emily A. Higgins Keppler, Heather L. Mead, Bridget M. Barker, Heather D. Bean. (2021) Life cycle dominates the volatilome character of dimorphic fungus Coccidioides spp. mSphere. 6, e00040-21. Link
- (editorial) Heather D. Bean (2021). Hot Topics in Gas Chromatography: Using the three Cs of data visualization as a life raft when you’re drowning in multidimensional chromatography peaks. LCGC North America 39 (s6b), 16-18. Link
2020
- Trenton J. Davis, Ava V. Karanjia, Charity N. Bhebhe, Sarah B. West, Matthew Richardson, Heather D. Bean. (2020) Pseudomonas aeruginosa volatilome characteristics and adaptations in chronic cystic fibrosis lung infections. mSphere. 5, e00843-20. Link
- Carrie L. Jenkins, Heather D. Bean. (2020) Dependence of the staphylococcal volatile metabolome composition on microbial nutrition. Metabolites. 10, 347. Link
- Cristina E. Davis, Jane E. Hill, Matthias Frank, Mitchell M. McCartney, Michael Schivo, Heather D. Bean. Breath analysis for respiratory infections, in Breathborne Biomarkers and the Human Volatilome, C. E. Davis, J. D. Beauchamp, J. D. Pleil, Eds. Elsevier: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2020; pp. 335-347.
- Jarrett Eshima, Trenton J. Davis, Heather D. Bean, John Fricks, Barbara S. Smith. (2020) A metabolomic approach for predicting circadian changes in cortisol. Metabolites. 10, 194. Link
- Ghazal Ebadzadsahrai, Emily A. Higgins Keppler, Scott Soby, Heather D. Bean. (2020) Inhibition of fungal growth and induction of a novel volatilome in response to Chromobacterium vaccinii volatile organic compounds. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11, 1035. Link
- Heather L. Mead, Chandler C. Roe, Emily A. Higgins Keppler, Marley C. Caballero Van Dyke, Klaire L. Laux, Aubrey L., Funke, Karis J. Miller, Heather D. Bean, Jason W. Sahl, Bridget M. Barker. (2020) Defining critical genes during spherule remodeling and endospore development in the fungal pathogen Coccidioides posadasii. Frontiers in Genetics. 11, 483. Link
- Andrea Hahn, Katrine L. Whiteson, Trenton J. Davis, Joann Phan, Iman Sami, Anastassios C. Koumbourlis, Robert J. Freishtat, Keith A. Crandall, Heather D. Bean. (2020) Longitudinal associations of the cystic fibrosis airway microbiome and volatile metabolites: A case study. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 10, 174. Link
- Carrie L. Jenkins, Heather D. Bean. (2020) Influence of media on the differentiation of Staphylococcus spp. by volatile compounds. Journal of Breath Research. 14, 016007. Link
2019
- (editorial) Heather D. Bean (2019). In my view: Repeat after me… How committed are we to reproducibility in science? The Analytical Scientist 82. Link
- Jarrett Eshima, Stephanie Ong, Trenton J. Davis, Christopher Miranda, Devika Krishnamurthay, Abigael Nachtsheim, Christopher Plaiser, John Stufken, John Fricks, Heather D. Bean, Barbara S. Smith. (2019) Monitoring changes in the healthy female metabolome across the menstrual cycle using GC×GC-TOFMS. Journal of Chromatography B. 1121, 48-57. Link
2018
- Emily A. Higgins Keppler, Carrie L. Jenkins, Trenton J. Davis, Heather D. Bean (2018). Advances in the application of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography in metabolomics. Trends in Analytical Chemistry 109, 275-286. Link
- Mavra Nasir, Heather D. Bean, Christiaan A. Rees, Edith Zemanick, Jane E. Hill. (2018) Volatile molecules from bronchoalveolar lavage fluid can “rule-in” Pseudomonas aeruginosa and “rule-out” Staphylococcus aureus infection in cystic fibrosis patients. Scientific Reports. 8, 826. Link
2017
- Lawrence A. Adutwum, A. Paulina de la Mata, Heather D. Bean, Jane E. Hill, James J. Harynuk. (2017) Estimation of start and stop numbers for cluster resolution feature selection algorithm; An empirical approach using null distribution analysis of fisher ratios. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 409, 6699-6708. Link
2016
- Heather D. Bean*, Christiaan A. Rees*, Jane E. Hill. (2016) Comparative analysis of the volatile metabolomes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates. Journal of Breath Research. 10, 047102. [*co-first authors] Link
- Alex Gifford, Sven Willger, Emily Dolben, Lisa Moulton, Dana Dorman, Heather D. Bean, Jane E. Hill, Thomas Hampton, Alix Ashare, Deborah A. Hogan. (2016) The use of a multiplex transcript method for the analysis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa gene expression profiles in the cystic fibrosis lung. Infection and Immunity. 84, 2995-3006. Link
2015
- (editorial) Heather D. Bean, Joachim D. Pleil, Jane E. Hill (2015). New analytical and statistical approaches for interpreting the relationships among environmental stressors and biomarkers. Biomarkers 20, 1-4. Link
- Heather D. Bean*, Theodore R. Mellors*, Jiangjiang Zhu, Jane E. Hill. (2015) Profiling aged artisanal cheddar cheese using secondary electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (SESI-MS). Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 63, 4386-4392. [*co-first authors] Link
- Heather D. Bean, Jane E. Hill, Jean-Marie D. Dimandja. (2015) Improving the quality of biomarker candidates in untargeted metabolomics via peak table-based alignment of two dimensional gas chromatography-mass spectrometry data. Journal of Chromatography A. 1394, 111-117. Link
- Heather D. Bean*, Jaime Jiménez-Díaz*, Jiangjiang Zhu, Jane E. Hill. (2015) Breathprints of model murine bacterial lung infections are linked with immune response. European Respiratory Journal. 45, 181-190. [*co-first authors] Link Editorial Feature Article: European Respiratory Journal. 45, 21-24. Link
2014
- Heather D. Bean*, Jiangjiang Zhu*, Jackson C. Sengle, Jane E. Hill. (2014) Identifying methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) lung infections in mice via breath analysis using secondary electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (SESI-MS). Journal of Breath Research. 8, 041001. [*co-first authors] Publisher Featured Article Link
2013
- Jiangjiang Zhu, Jaime Jiménez-Díaz, Heather D. Bean, Nirav A. Dapthary, Minara I. Aliyeva, Lennart K. A. Lundblad, Jane E. Hill. (2013) Robust detection of P. aeruginosa and S. aureus acute lung infections by secondary electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (SESI-MS) breathprinting: From initial infection to clearance. Journal of Breath Research. 7, 037106. Link
- Jiangjiang Zhu, Heather D. Bean, Jaime Jiménez-Díaz, Jane E. Hill. (2013) Secondary electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (SESI-MS) breathprinting of multiple bacterial pathogens, a mouse model study. Journal of Applied Physiology. 114, 1544-1549. Link
- Jiangjiang Zhu, Heather D. Bean, Matthew J. Wargo, Laurie W. Leclair, Jane E. Hill. (2013) Detecting bacterial lung infections: In vivo evaluation of in vitro fingerprints. Journal of Breath Research. 7, 016003. Publisher Featured Article Link
2012
- Heather D. Bean, Jean-Marie D. Dimandja, Jane E. Hill. (2012) Bacterial volatile discovery using solid phase microextraction and comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography – time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography B. 901, 41-46. Link
2011
- Lakshmi N. Anumukonda, Avery Young, David G. Lynn, Ragan Buckley, Amena Warrayat, Christina L. Graves, Heather D. Bean, and Nicholas V. Hud. (2011) Adenine synthesis in a model prebiotic reaction: Connecting origins of life chemistry with biology. Journal of Chemical Education. 88, 1698-1701. Link
- Heather D. Bean, Jiangjiang Zhu, Jane E. Hill. (2011) Characterizing bacterial volatiles using secondary electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 52, http://www.jove.com/details.php?id=2664.
2010
- Jiangjiang Zhu, Heather D. Bean, Yin-Ming Kuo, Jane E. Hill (2010). Fast detection of volatile organic compounds from bacterial cultures by SESI-MS. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 48, 4426-4431. Link
- Irena Mamajanova, Aaron E. Engelhart, Heather D. Bean, Nicholas V. Hud (2010). DNA and RNA in anhydrous media: Evidence for duplex, triplex, and G-quadruplex secondary structures in a deep eutectic solvent. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 49, 6310-6314. Link
2009
- Heather D. Bean, David G. Lynn, Nicholas V. Hud (2009). Self-Assembly and the origin of the first RNA-like polymers, in Chemical Evolution II: From the Origins of Life to Modern Society, Zaikowski, L., Friedrich, J. M. and Seidel, S. R., Eds. Washington, DC, American Chemical Society. 1025: pp. 109-132. Link
- Yinghong Sheng, Heather D. Bean, Irena Mamajanov, Nicholas V. Hud, Jerzy Leszczynski (2009). Comprehensive investigation of the energetics of pyrimidine nucleoside formation under prebiotic conditions. Journal of the American Chemical Society 131, 16088-16095. Link
2007
- Heather D. Bean, Yinghong Sheng, James P. Collins, Frank A. L. Anet, Jerzy Leszczynski, Nicholas V. Hud (2007). Formation of a β-pyrimidine nucleoside by a free pyrimidine base and ribose in a plausible prebiotic reaction. Journal of the American Chemical Society 129, 9556-9557. Link
2006
- Heather D. Bean, Frank A. L. Anet, Ian R. Gould, Nicholas V. Hud (2006). Glyoxylate as a backbone linkage for a prebiotic ancestor of RNA. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 36, 39-63. Link
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BCH 392 | Intro to Research Techniques |
BCH 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BCH 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
CHM 392 | Intro to Research Techniques |
CHM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
CHM 493 | Honors Thesis |
MBB 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
CHM 392 | Intro to Research Techniques |
BCH 392 | Intro to Research Techniques |
BCH 392 | Intro to Research Techniques |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BCH 392 | Intro to Research Techniques |
BCH 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BCH 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
CHM 392 | Intro to Research Techniques |
CHM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MBB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 302 | Advanced Bacteriology Lab |
MIC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MIC 302 | Advanced Bacteriology Lab |
MIC 501 | Foundations in Microbiology |
CHM 493 | Honors Thesis |
BCH 392 | Intro to Research Techniques |
MIC 493 | Honors Thesis |
CHM 392 | Intro to Research Techniques |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
MBB 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MBB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
MBB 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 205 | Microbiology |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MBB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 302 | Advanced Bacteriology Lab |
MIC 302 | Advanced Bacteriology Lab |
MIC 401 | Research Paper |
MIC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MIC 302 | Advanced Bacteriology Lab |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
MBB 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 205 | Microbiology |
MIC 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MBB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 302 | Advanced Bacteriology Lab |
MIC 302 | Advanced Bacteriology Lab |
MIC 401 | Research Paper |
MIC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MIC 302 | Advanced Bacteriology Lab |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
MBB 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 205 | Microbiology |
MIC 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MBB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 302 | Advanced Bacteriology Lab |
MIC 302 | Advanced Bacteriology Lab |
MIC 401 | Research Paper |
MIC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MIC 302 | Advanced Bacteriology Lab |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
MBB 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 205 | Microbiology |
MIC 401 | Research Paper |
MIC 493 | Honors Thesis |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MBB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 302 | Advanced Bacteriology Lab |
MIC 302 | Advanced Bacteriology Lab |
MIC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MIC 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MBB 495 | Undergraduate Research |
MIC 302 | Advanced Bacteriology Lab |
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Admissions Committee, Ad Hoc Committee member (2015 - Present)
- Microbiome Faculty Search Committee, Committee member (2015 - Present)
- SoLS Communications Committee, Committee Member (2015 - Present)
- Journal of Breath Research, Manuscript Reviewer (2015 - 2015)
- Scientific Reports (Journal), Manuscript Reviewer (2015 - 2015)