Preceramic Adoption of Peanut, Squash, and Cotton in Northern Peru – agriculture, archaeology, and accelerator mass spectrometry.
Protein Synthesis Interpretive Dance
At Stanford University in 1971. Compare to Harvard in 2006.
Mass Spectrometry Videos
NIH Videocasts on Proteomics
Videocasts of mass spectrometry talks (RSS):
Targeted MS Assays for Biomarkers: Enabling a Biomarker Pipeline, Leigh Anderson, Large Scale Proteomics Corporation
Emerging Role of Mass Spectrometry in Structure Elucidation of Cellular Complexes, Michal Sharon, Cambridge University
Top Down Mass Spectrometry: 2005, N. Kelleher, University of Illinois
Finding Function with Mass Spectrometry in Cancer and Infectious Disease, R. Angeletti, Albert Einstein School of Medicine
New Mass Spectral Strategies for Proteomics and Glycomics , Catherine E. Costello, Boston University
SIMS Video
Pradeep Haldar shows off the University of Albany College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering’s SIMS instrument.
LOL Mass Spectrometry
A mashup of Lolcat and MS journal newsfeeds (via; via)
Wikipedia Hegemony
This Reason Magazine article only mentions mass spectrometry tangentially, but illustrates one of the points I tried to make in this poster: Wikipedia can’t be ignored if it’s the first Google hit in your topic area.
Dinosaurs, Chickens and Mass Spectrometry (Video)
Boris A. Mamyrin: 1919-2007
Boris A. Mamyrin, inventor of the mass reflectron, died March 5, 2007, at the age of 87 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Mass Spectrometry at FACSS 2007
Abstracts are due April 30 for FACSS 2007. There will be seven half-day oral sessions on mass spectrometry:
- Fundamentals of Electrospray Ionization
- Fundamentals of Laser Desorption Ionization
- Direct Ionization Methods for High Throughput Mass Spectrometry
- Advances in Biomolecular Imaging Mass Spectrometry
- Particle Mass Spectrometry: Techniques and Applications
- Novel Methods for Biological Mass Spectrometry
- Applications of Biological Mass Spectrometry
T-rex Protein Shows Link to Birds
MS Flash Simulation
Mass spectrometer Flash simulation at eduMedia.
Mass Spectrometry Wikiality
Along with Wikipedia’s mass spectrometry entry, which has risen to become the number one Google hit for mass spectrometry, there are a few other noteworthy Wikimedia projects: mass spectrometry photos and diagrams in Wikimedia Commons, mass spectrometry defined in Wictionary, and mass spectrometry section in a Wikibooks selection on proteomics.
Spectroscopy and Separations Podcasts
Joining the growing number of chemical analysis podcasts: SpectroscopyNow and SeparationsNow podcasts.
Yahoo Pipes Mass Spectrometry
Yahoo Pipes is a service that allows the manipulation of web content to create a remixed version of the information. Here is a mashup of mass spectrometry journal articles. Mass spectrometry journals are fed straight in and journals with mixed content (e.g. Analytical Chemisry) are filtered to pull out the mass spectrometry articles.
Proteomics Clinical Applications
Wiley has launched a new proteomics journal, Proteomics – Clinical Applications aimed at “application of proteomics to the study of human disease and translation to the clinic.” A quick browse of the first issue suggest that at least half of the articles will be in some way related to mass spectrometry. Fortunately there is RSS Feed to make it easier to stay up to date.
Moving a Large Instrument
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmVb779NP4
The KATRIN MAC-E Filter travels through Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen (via).
Analytical Chemistry Podcast
Analytical Chemistry joins the growing number of journals with a podcast (an audio introduction).
Spectroscopy Journal Impact Factors
2005 Impact Factor
1 – Mass Spectroscopy Rev. (13.27)
2 – Prog. NMR Spectroscopy (6.46)
3 – J. Anal. Atom. Spectrom. (3.64)
4 – J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectr. (3.63)
5 – J. Mass Spectrometry (3.57)
6 – Rapid Comm. Mass Spectr. (3.09)
7 – NMR in Biomedicine (2.47)
8 – J. Magnetic Resonance (2.42)
9 – Appl. Spectroso. Rev. (2.36)
10 – Spectrochim. Acta B (2.33)
Mass spectrometry is first and hits four of the top six spots (via).
LCMS Finds Cocaine on Euros
This Analyst article on LCMS for the determination of drug contamination on Irish euro banknotes by Jonathan Bones, Mirek Macka and Brett Paull at the Dublin City University National Center for Sensor Research has been getting quite a bit of press. Trace cocaine was found on all 45 bank notes tested. This is perhaps not surprising, given the ease with which the powder is spread by ATMs and counting machines. Nonetheless, the authors report a significant sensitivity improvement in the LCMS method compared to previous GCMS studies.