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Group Presentations at ASMS!

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Check out the following presentations from the group at ASMS next week:

-Oral presentation by Jonathan in Monday morning’s MOD- Imaging: Instrumentation & Method Development session (8:50am)

-Oral presentation by Boone during Monday evening’s Ion Trap Workshop

-Poster presentation by Julia during Monday’s Imaging MS: Instrumentation session (MP 351)

Poster presentation by Matthias during Thursday’s Lipids: ID and Structural Analysis session (ThP 402)

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the periodic table!

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One of my favorite elements is neon. In addition to being used in flashy advertising signs, neon played an important role in the fundamental understanding of atoms! In 1913, an English physicist named Sir J. J. Thompson directed a stream of neon plasma through electric and magnetic fields and saw that neon produced multiple lines of deflection. This observation was later identified as the first discovery of stable chemical isotopes. Thompson’s device is also considered to be the first version of an instrument we now call a mass spectrometer, which gave birth to many lines of study that resulted in multiple Nobel Prizes. Today, mass spectrometers are widely used in areas of research such as drug development, cancer diagnosis, environmental monitoring, and space exploration. My lab is currently developing imaging mass spectrometry technology to enable to visualization of biochemical processes directly in tissues. And to think, it all started over 100 years ago with a study of neon ions!

First students join the lab!

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We’ve welcomed the first graduate students into the lab: Matthias Born, Julia Bonney, Xizheng (Colin) Diao, and Jonathan Specker. Refer to the Group Members page to learn more about the founding members of the Prentice Group, and stay tuned for our first group photos!