Group Meeting Presentations 2026

Month	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5
January	January 1st No Group Meeting -- Winter Break	January 8th Zuzu: Distinguishing 4- vs 5-Hydroxy-N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (Psilocin vs Bufotenine) Using Hydrogen Deuterium Back-Exchange Jordan: Impact of Multipole Fields on the Performance and Dynamics of Quadrupole Linear Ion Traps	January 15th Teresa: Implementation of Infrared-Activated Negative Electron Transfer Dissociation (IR-NETD) Using Xenon on a Quadrupole-Orbitrap-Quadrupole Linear Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer Meredith: Development and Optimization of an Electrospray Diverter for Reduced Background Signal in Ambient Ionization Sources	January 22nd Zuzu: ~Spring Seminar Series~ Sectors and Elemental MS	January 29th Katherine: ~Spring Seminar Series~ Ion Optics
February	February 5th Zach: ~Spring Seminar Series~ Electrospray Ionization	February 12th Rebekah: ~Spring Seminar Series~ Ionization Mechanisms	February 19th Nick: ~Spring Seminar Series~ Quadrupole Mass Analyzers/Ion Traps	February 26th Seth: ~Spring Seminar Series~ Fundamentals of Activation: RRKM/QET
March	March 5th No Group Meeting	March 12th Alex: ~Spring Seminar Series~ Architecture of a Tandem MS Experiment	March 19th Zuzu: Quantitative Mapping of NHS Ester–Protein Reactivity Using Native Top-Down Mass Spectrometry Katherine: Water Radical Anion/Cation Pair-Induced C–F Activation for Sensitive Ambient Mass Spectrometry of Perfluoroalkanes	March 26th Erick: ~Spring Seminar Series~ TOF Mass Analyzers
April	April 2nd Jordan: ~Spring Seminar Series~ FT Mass Analyzers	April 9th Sebastian: ~Spring Seminar Series~ Biological MS and Review	March 19th Teresa: Exploring the Potential of Ultrafast Arylation for Capping Cysteine Residues with Fixed Charge Modifications Alex: Evaluation of cleavable crosslinking for characterization of proteoform structural differences by top-down mass spectrometry	March 23rd Seth: ASMS Practice Talk Meredith: Profiling of Low-Abundance Branched-Chain Fatty Acids via Radical Directed Dissociation Tandem Mass Spectrometry	March 30th Nick: ASMS Practice Talk Sebastian: Regarding Emitter Positioning for Nanoflow Electrospray Ionization with a High-Capacity Inlet Capillary
May	May 7th Zach: ASMS Practice Talk Rebekah: The Development of the Digital Ion Trap	Zuzu: Ribosome Heterogeneity Revealed by Complex-Up Native Mass Spectrometry and Top-Down Proteomics	Teresa: Proton-Driven Click Reactions of Nitrile Imines with Serine and Threonine in Gas-Phase Peptide Ions Katherine: Gas-Phase Discrimination of Histidine Epimers in Peptides by Silver-Cation-Assisted Energy-Resolved Mass Spectrometry	Rebekah: Manipulation of Gas-Phase Charge Inversion Ion/Ion Reaction Kinetics for Improved Phospholipid Identification in Imaging Mass Spectrometry Alex: ASMS 101
June	ASMS 2026 \| San Diego!	ASMS Recaps Alex Zach Jordan	ASMS Recaps Meredith Zuzu Katherine	ASMS Recaps Seth Nicholas R. Ellin Sebastian
July	ASMS Recaps Rebekah Teresa Good Job Everyone!!!	Alexander: Distinct Solvent Effect on the Conformation and Charge State Distribution of Typical Proteases Revealed by Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry Zachary: Distinct Solvent Effect on the Conformation and Charge State Distribution of Typical Proteases Revealed by Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry	Jordan: Design and characteristics of a collision cell with axial field for quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer Zuzu: Manipulation of Electrospray-Produced Biomolecular Ions with Acoustic Fields at Atmospheric Pressure	July 23rd Katherine: Elucidating Formation Mechanisms of Inorganic Sulfates upon OH Radical Oxidation of Organosulfates via Non-Sulfur Radical Pathways: Insights from Methyl Sulfate Meredith: Molecular Framework Modification in Mass Spectrometry: Atom Exchange, Insertion, and Deletion	July 30th Sebastian: A spectroscopic test suggests that fragment ion structure annotations in MS/MS libraries are frequently incorrect Nick: Digital Revitalization of a Legacy Linear Ion Trap System
August	August 6th Rebekah: Triboelectric Nanogenerator-Driven Laser Ablation Electrospray Ionization Enables Neutral Lipid Ionization and in Situ Double-Bond Localization Seth: Creativity in the Physical Sciences!!!
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