UConn Proteomics & Metabolomics Facility is Officially Open!
The UConn Center for Open Research Resources and Equipment (COR²E) is excited to announce that the UConn Proteomics & Metabolomics Facility (UConn PMF) is officially open and accepting samples for analysis.
The facility implements high resolution mass spectrometry (MS) technology and currently has two state-of-the-art instruments (a Thermo Scientific Q Exactive HF and Waters Synapt G2Si) capable of accurately measuring masses of proteins, peptides, and small molecule metabolites in complex mixtures. Both instruments are coupled to high resolution liquid chromatograph (LC) instruments to provide solution-based separations prior to mass analysis. This technology allows researchers to identify and quantify thousands of analytes in a single LC-MS run.
We would also like to take this opportunity to formally introduce Dr. Jeremy Balsbaugh, the new Director of the Proteomics & Metabolomics Facility. Dr. Balsbaugh did his graduate and post-doctoral training in the labs of Dr. Donald Hunt and Dr. Natalie Ahn, respectively - two pioneers in mass spectrometry and proteomics. Most recently he served as Director of the University of Colorado at Boulder Mass Spectrometry Core Facility, where he led that core facility to high degree of success. Dr. Balsbaugh is excited to help implement high resolution mass spectrometry at UConn and we are excited to have him here.
For more information (including rates/services) visit the COR²E website (http://core.uconn.edu/) or UConn PMF’s brand new website (http://proteomics.uconn.edu). Dr. Balsbaugh can also be directly contacted at jeremy.balsbaugh@uconn.edu.
Finally, it is worth noting that support for the creation of the Proteomics & Metabolomics Facility was truly institutional, and was made possible by funding contributions/pledges from the Office of the Provost (via a 2015 Academic Plan award), the Office of the Vice President for Research, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Pharmacy, the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources, the School of Engineering, the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, the Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, the Department of Chemistry, the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and the Department of Plant Sciences and Landscape Architecture.
For more information, contact: Daniel Schwartz, Director of COR²E at daniel.schwartz@uconn.edu