SGMS School / Workshop
4th (2022)3rd (2021)2nd (2019) 1st (2018)
During the last years, the SGMS board had the idea to organise the SGMS meeting with more focus on one subject. But as our member base is very broad, we did not want to change much to the format. So the idea of an SGMS School / Workshop was born.
We are open to hear suggestions for future schools and for future SGMS speakers.
2024
GC-MS Technology – From Fundamentals to Future
Unlock the secrets of Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) with our comprehensive 2024 SGMS School program. With presentations and practical applications based on real-life challenges and closely accompanied by expert guidance, this school is designed to delve deep into the fundamentals as well as explore raising analytical approaches.
Main organisers: Dr. Sonja Klee & Dr. Susanne Kern
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2022
MS/MS: Fundamentals & Applications
The School’s focus is on the Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) fundamentals and applications for structural analysis of small and large molecules. The importance of ion activation and dissociation techniques that form the basis of MS/MS is growing with every year, while the new methods and approaches continue to widen the already impressive arsenal of MS/MS techniques. In addition to the well-characterized collision-induced dissociation (CID) methods, the radical-driven electron capture/transfer dissociation (ExD) methods have become commercially available on diverse platforms, including FTMS and TOF MS. The enhanced quality experimental data are now accompanied by modern software approaches to facilitate and automate the MS/MS data analysis. The powerful computational approaches process extreme amounts of information to reveal hidden information. The 2022 SGMS School will thus provide an overview of the modern MS/MS approaches, accompanied by practical work aiming to better understand how the MS/MS data is linked to molecular structure. The faculty comprises experts in the structural analysis of both the large molecules (proteins) and the small molecules (metabolites). We look forward to your active participation!
Faculty
- Pierre-Marie Allard
- Gaetan Glauser
- Richard Knochenmuss
- Joe Loo
- Luc Patiny
- Yury Tsybin
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2021
Best practices in small molecules analysis
Detection and identification of small molecules from complex mixtures using GC- and LC-MS is like looking for a needle in a haystack. This 3rd SGMS school is intended for participant with basic knowledge of mass spectrometry. Strategies and tools will be presented that enable data processing with confident authentication, structure elucidation, and quantification. The relevance of improved annotations will be illustrated by presentations from different applied areas including e.g. food safety, and water contaminants. Aspects of quality control and assessment of compound properties in drug discovery used in pharmaceutical industry will also be treated. The second day will be focussed on best practices in metabolomics and lipidomics, including analytical methods, data processing, and the use of metabolic pathways in the annotation.
Main organisers: Prof. Dr. Laurent Bigler & Dr. Bertran Rubi
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2019
Ion Mobility Fundamentals & Applications
Ion Mobility coupled with Mass Spectrometry (IM-MS) is a rapidly developing and increasingly powerful and versatile technique. Although known since about 1900, only recently has IM advanced to the point of wider commercialisation and application. This is partly due to a recent burst of new technologies which are exciting but diverse, complex and not easy to compare. The 2019 SGMS School on Ion Mobility: Fundamentals and Application, brings together top experts from the major IM-MS suppliers to give us high-level insight into the technologies, their strengths and weakness, and show us example applications. Anyone who wants to be informed about these key new analytical technologies, or is considering adding IM-MS to their lab, should find the workshop useful and interesting.
Main Organiser: Dr. Richard Knochenmuss
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2018
FTMS Fundamentals
The 2018 pre-SGMS workshop is about “FTMS Fundamentals”. It will focus on teaching and discussing current knowledge in Fourier transform mass spectrometry (FTMS), with a particular focus on Orbitrap FTMS fundamentals and FTMS data processing. The program is built around didactic lectures and practical workshops, with a particular emphasis on hands-on problem solving, obtaining practical knowledge of data processing, and interaction with the teachers. The workshop is designed for the FTMS end-users in academic and industrial analytical departments, with a focus on industrial scientists, advanced graduate students, post-docs and scientists in the areas of analytical chemistry, physical chemistry, biochemistry and biotechnology.
Main Organiser: Dr. Yury Tsibin
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