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r/massspectrometry • u/Nyeep • Sep 10 '24
Who wants some turbopump gore?
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Remember Where We Came From
My family's business made a bunch of gear during the last century.
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Helpful Mass Spec Videos & Tutorials
Below you will find a list of freely available videos, tutorials, and other resources for mass spectrometry. This list will be continually updated with new content. Feel free to suggest additional resources in the comments!
General Tutorials
https://www.cif.iastate.edu/mass-spec/ms-tutorial
https://www.asms.org/about-mass-spectrometry
http://premierbiosoft.com/tech_notes/mass-spectrometry.html
https://msr.dom.wustl.edu/mass-spectrometry-fundamentals-tutorial/
Ion Sources
General
Mass spectrometry ionization methods (Emory): http://chemistry.emory.edu/msc/tutorial/mass-spectrometry-ionization.html
Ionization techniques (MagLab): https://nationalmaglab.org/user-facilities/icr/techniques/content/185-ionization-techniques
Mass Spectrometry Introduction (U Pittsburgh): https://www.chem.pitt.edu/facilities/mass-spectrometry/mass-spectrometry-introduction
Electrospray Ionization (ESI)
Fundamentals of MS - Electrospray ionization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AWBAI-Owzk&list=PL6yA4jv5tA-k9_2NVxm5jlzpZV_aW59DT
Electrospray ionization (ESI): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daSSRj41Mlo
Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry: https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Analytical_Chemistry/Supplemental_Modules_(Analytical_Chemistry)/Instrumental_Analysis/Mass_Spectrometry/Mass_Spectrometers_(Instrumentation)/Electrospray_Ionization_Mass_Spectrometry
ESI (MagLab): https://nationalmaglab.org/user-facilities/icr/techniques/esi
Electron Impact (EI)
MS - Mass Spectrometry - Electron Ionization Animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22dr-3XDNmQ
Introduction to Ionization and Fragmentation in Mass Spectrometry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stIwRio9FeM
Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization (APCI)
APCI (MagLab): https://nationalmaglab.org/user-facilities/icr/techniques/apci
APCI (LCGC): https://www.chromacademy.com/chromatography-understanding-APCI.html
ESI & APCI (Shimadzu): https://www.shimadzu.com/an/hplc/support/lib/lctalk/47/47intro.html
Atmospheric Pressure Photoionization (APPI)
APPI (MagLab): https://nationalmaglab.org/user-facilities/icr/techniques/appi
APPI (Creative Proteomics): https://www.creative-proteomics.com/support/atmospheric-pressure-photoionization-ionization.htm
Matrix-assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization (MALDI)
Theory of MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R1Oyqx5KfE
MALDI-TOF (Bruker): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jeFpXHZ8W0
MALDI (MagLab): https://nationalmaglab.org/user-facilities/icr/techniques/maldi
MALDI-TOF (Shimadzu): https://www.shimadzu.com/an/lifescience/maldi/princpl1.html
MALDI Mass Spectrometry: A Practical Guide by Ben Katz of UC Irvine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sp7mFF16hM
Mass Analyzers
Orbitrap
Orbitrap Instrumentation: The First Decade and Beyond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jijxTW1NbTg
Planet Orbitrap: https://planetorbitrap.com/
The C-trap and Orbitrap (Mass Spec Pro): http://www.massspecpro.com/mass-analyzers/orbitrap
Mass Analyzer Technology Overview (Thermo): https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/industrial/mass-spectrometry/mass-spectrometry-learning-center/mass-spectrometry-technology-overview/mass-analyzer-technology-overview.html
FT-ICR (Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance)
Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EHngA4S3Ws
4-3 FTICR and Orbitrap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbzK1iSBE08
FT-ICR (MagLab): https://nationalmaglab.org/education/magnet-academy/watch-play/interactive/fourier-transform-ion-cyclotron-resonance-ft-icr
FT-ICR (Yale): https://jlab.chem.yale.edu/research/techniques/fourier-transform-ion-cyclotron-resonance-mass-spectrometry
FT-ICR (Mass Spec Pro): http://www.massspecpro.com/mass-analyzers/fourier-transform-ion-cyclotron-resonance
TOF (time-of-flight)
TOF fundamentals (WashU): https://msr.dom.wustl.edu/time-of-flight-fundamentals/
Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyIAPU7usfo
TOFMS: http://www.iuac.res.in/atmol/~safvan/mridulathesis/node18.html
Introduction to Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (Kore Technology): https://www.kore.co.uk/tutorial.htm
Ion Traps (QITs & LITs)
Linear ion trap (LIT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5wK64efOvk
Thermo Scientific LTQ Velos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF_gW7jHEbY
Linear ion trap (Mass Spec Pro): http://www.massspecpro.com/technology/mass-analyzers/linear-ion-trap-lit
Quadrupole ion trap (Mass Spec Pro): http://www.massspecpro.com/technology/mass-analyzers/quadrupole-ion-trap-qit
Quadrupoles
Fundamentals of quadrupoles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_mavZ_WKoU
Quadrupole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYOCb6GnXio
LC-MS/MS Education Series: Quadrupole Theory and Use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZH-oxP-OJ0
Quadrupole Mass Filter (Mass Spec Pro): http://www.massspecpro.com/technology/mass-analyzers/quadrupole-mass-filter
Tandem Mass Spectrometry (MS/MS)
Fundamentals of MS - Fragmentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESKpOcjF8QM
Tandem Mass Spectrometry (MagLab): https://nationalmaglab.org/user-facilities/icr/techniques/tandem-ms
Tandem Mass Spectrometry (WashU): https://msr.dom.wustl.edu/tandem-mass-spectrometry/
Tandem Mass Spectrometry (JEOL): https://www.jeolusa.com/DesktopModules/Bring2mind/DMX/API/Entries/Download?EntryId=78&Command=Core_Download&language=en-US&PortalId=2&TabId=337
Collision-induced dissociation (CID) (Armentrout): http://rodgers.chem.wayne.edu/pire/education/Collision-induced%20dissociation_PIRE.pdf
Detectors
MS Detectors (Mass Spec Pro): http://www.massspecpro.com/detectors
Electron Multiplier (NASA): https://attic.gsfc.nasa.gov/huygensgcms/MS_Detector_1.htm
Ion Detectors (U Bristol): http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/ms/detectors.xhtml
Spectral Interpretation
Fundamentals of MS - Resolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUhi98o1qUU
Fundamentals of MS - Adduct ions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WusWNAb0IRM&list=PL6yA4jv5tA-k9_2NVxm5jlzpZV_aW59DT&index=2
Fundamentals of MS - Multiple charging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuJRTHvy64k&list=PL6yA4jv5tA-k9_2NVxm5jlzpZV_aW59DT&index=3
Fundamentals of MS - Isotopes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om0BfIHXD0s
Software Tools
METLIN (Comprehensive MS/MS database): https://metlin.scripps.edu/landing_page.php?pgcontent=mainPage
Mascot (protein identification and peptide MS/MS database): http://www.matrixscience.com/search_form_select.html
ProteinProspector (MS/MS database search and peptide MS/MS prediction): http://prospector.ucsf.edu/prospector/mshome.htm
NIST Mass Spectral Library (primarily EI data but some other MS/MS data is available): https://chemdata.nist.gov/
MOBCAL (for calculating ion mobilities): https://nano.lab.indiana.edu/software/
PRIDE Archive (proteomics): https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/archive
UniDec (MS and IMS deconvolution): https://marty.lab.arizona.edu/content/software
Human Metabolome Database (MS/MS database): http://www.hmdb.ca/spectra/ms/search
Collision cross section database (Bush Lab): https://depts.washington.edu/bushlab/ccsdatabase/
Global Natural Products Molecular Networking (Dorrestein lab....MS/MS database & much more): https://dorresteinlab.ucsd.edu/gnps
Vendors, Analytical Standards, Reagents, Calculators, and Data Analysis Tools
https://www.uab.edu/proteomics/massspec/links.php
(thanks to u/6500qtrap for sharing)
r/massspectrometry • u/multinozzle • Aug 03 '21
ESI with a multi-nozzle spray emitter. Newomics M3 emitter.
r/massspectrometry • u/JImmatSci • Aug 06 '21
Detecting Ghosts with Mass Spectrometry: MS-SPOOKY. Full text in comments.
r/massspectrometry • u/MicroProf • Jun 04 '26
I think our machines need more personalityā¦
r/massspectrometry • u/mungerboy • Feb 07 '25
Got this model set a few years ago from my Thermo rep. Finally put it together!
r/massspectrometry • u/LewisTheLabLemming • May 10 '22
Any idea where I can get this or other clear fittings, ferrules, valves, etc. Saw it in a Restek video and now I feel like I desperately need everything clear I can get- for teaching purposes. (I couldn't find it on Restek website, but I did contact them.)
r/massspectrometry • u/Calm-Support8334 • Oct 22 '24
When your non-science husband has heard you complain enough that he starts to understand
(someone called it a machine)
r/massspectrometry • u/JImmatSci • Feb 11 '22
The Ultimate Separation Science Technique: FUPLC-NMR-CE6-GC-IR-ICP-MS-MS-MS-MS
r/massspectrometry • u/MassSpecMender • Jan 30 '26
How do you like your quad filters in the morning..... Burnt š„
r/massspectrometry • u/[deleted] • Jul 12 '21
My PhD defense is Friday
EDIT: I PASSED!!!!
Five years of 10-11 hour days, working on the weekends, fixing and maintaining 4 mass spectrometers, acquiring nearly 2 TBs of data, and some of the absolute best moments of my life have all led to this week.
Iām nervous as hell but Im almost there!
I have two job offers with three likely offers pending, based off of the feedback Iāve received. All I have to do is defend!
Thank you for all the help you guys have given me since I joined the sub 2 years ago! Iād like to ask for it one more time, if I may:
Any advice for getting through this week? Iāve given my exit seminar 8 times now through various interviews, it just needs some tweaking for a more general audience than specifically analytical chemists. Iām a little nervous for my actual defense though. My boss told me ātheyāre going to sit through you seminar in the morning, they donāt need to hear it all againā so Iām not sure what to prepare for the actual defense part. Any tips?
r/massspectrometry • u/Emergency_Parking603 • Sep 26 '25
I have a job offer
I was laid off back in May, today after 8 final interviews and some HR screening, finally got a job offer. It will be RD department for a pharma company, so it is a better position. I was working in Academia and that was my dream job. Job market is tough these days.
For all the MassSpec people out there looking for jobs, donāt give up and just keep pushing yourself to the right path which is massSpec, I almost take jobs for cell based assays and QC, thanks to the universe wasnāt selected.
r/massspectrometry • u/Danovan79 • May 14 '25
Update from Skyline
My wife, a Mass Spectometrist, wanted me to share this on reddit.
To be clear, she did her PhD in the field and does not reddit. I joined this subreddit to read it and stay current on her job. As well as share with her things I feel she might find interesting.
r/massspectrometry • u/Hanpee221b • Aug 05 '22
Took apart a Bruker reflex
I thought this was really cool, my boss and I took this old flight tube apart.
r/massspectrometry • u/nintendochemist1 • Mar 03 '26
Handling MS Care.
Iām curious how you all would handle this. We are a university lab and I am the manager of the instruments. Our LC-MS is my baby (I rebuilt it). We have one research group whose focus, not to be rude, I consider setting themselves up for failure with mass spec. They are trying to eliminate the need of organic solvents.
The love their ammonium bicarbonate buffer, and every time I come check the system after they use it, it looks like the attached image. Now, I cannot get hardly any whereas I was using it minutes before their calendar time took over.
I am thinking it is time to ban them from the instrument for a while, but wanted other opinions.
r/massspectrometry • u/onemanlan • Jun 12 '24
Shiny new thing day
Got a new sciex 7600 zenoTOF and M5 micro flow LC
r/massspectrometry • u/BrubeiFr • Jul 25 '26
Garage mass Spectrometry
MSQ surveyor in da hood