Preliminary Program

Monday, November 3

8:30 - 9:00 am, Overview and Figures of Merit, Matt Bush (University of Washington) and Nick Riley (University of Washington)

9:10 - 9:40 am, Detecting Charges and Digitizing Signals, Evan Williams (University of California, Berkeley) 

9:50 - 10:20 am, Vacuum Systems and Pressure Differentials, Matt Bush (University of Washington)

10:30 - 10:45 am - Break

10:45 - 11:15 am, Ion Motion in the Free-Molecular Regime and Basics of Time of Flight, William Johnson (Waters Co.)

11:25 - 11:50 am, Electrodynamic Fields, Mathieu Stability Diagrams, and Ion Motion at Intermediate Pressures, Scott McLuckey (Purdue University)

12:00 - 1:00 pm, Lunch (provided by ASMS)

1:00 - 1:30 pm, Ion Guides, Drift Tubes, and Ion Funnels, Brian Clowers (Washington State University)

1:40 - 2:10 pm, Instrumentation for Targeted Quantitation, Mike MacCross (University of Washington)

2:20 - 2:35 pm, Break

2:35 - 3:15 pm, Demos (Part 1 of 2)

• Time of flight demonstration, Emmajay Sutherland (University of Washington)
• Simulation of ion stability in a quadrupole field using a rotating saddle, Haley Schramm (University of Washington)
• Deconstructed instruments to provide hands-on access to instrument parts, Katie Kothlow (University of Washington)
• Developing mass spectrometry technologies, AnneClaire Wageman (University of Washington)

3:15 - 3:45 pm, Quadrupole and Linear Ion Traps, Scott McLuckey (Purdue University)

Special Considerations for Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation. This session to be a series of short discussions related to selection of instrumentation for selected applications. Focusing on instrumentation and figures of merit, rather than outcomes of applications using those instruments.  

Tuesday, November 4

8:30 - 9:00 am, Advanced Concepts in Time-of-Flight - phase space, energy focusing, orthogonal acceleration, and multi-reflectron analyzers, William Johnson (Waters Co.)

9:10 - 9:40 am, FT-ICR, Ljiljana Paša-Tolić (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

9:50 - 10:20 am, Orbitrap, John Syka (Thermo) 

10:30 - 10:45 am, Break

10:45 - 11:15 am, Charge Detection Mass Spectrometry, Evan Williams (University of California, Berkeley) 

11:25 - 11:55 am, Panel Figures of Merit and Comparing Mass Analyzers, all speakers

11:40 - 1:00 pm, Lunch (provided by ASMS)

Hybrid Mass Analyzers

1:00 - 1:15 pm, Quadrupole Time-of-Flight, Matt Bush (University of Washington)

1:15 - 1:30pm, Ion Mobility Time-of-Flight, Brian Clowers (Washington State University)

1:30 - 1:45 pm, Hybrid Orbitrap, John Syka (Thermo) 

1:45 - 2:05 pm, Pipelining Resources on Hybrid Instruments, Mike MacCross (University of Washington)

2:05 - 2:35 pm, Discussion of Time Scales and Hybrid Instruments, Panel

• Mike MacCross (University of Washington)
• Matt Bush (University of Washington)
• Brian Clowers (Washington State University)
• John Syka (Thermo)

2:35 - 2:50 pm, Break

2:50 - 3:30 pm, Demos (Part 2 of 2), Nick Riley (University of Washington)

• Time of flight demonstration, Emmajay Sutherland (University of Washington)
• Simulation of ion stability in a quadrupole field using a rotating saddle, Haley Schramm (University of Washington)
• Deconstructed instruments to provide hands-on access to instrument parts, Katie Kothlow (University of Washington)
• Developing mass spectrometry technologies, AnneClaire Wageman (University of Washington)

Special Considerations for Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation. This session will include short discussions related to selection of instrumentation for selected applications. Instructors will be reminded to focus on instrumentation and figures of merit, rather than outcomes of applications using those instruments

3:30 - 3:50 pm, Instrumentation for Shared-Use Facilities, Dale Whittington (University of Washington)

4:00 - 4:20 pm, Instrumentation for Quantitation of Large Numbers of Analytes, Lindsay Pino (Talus Biosciences) 

4:30 - 5:00 pm, Panel Discussion on the Future of Instrumentation for MS, all instructors

Closing Remarks and Survey