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Here are some online learning opportunities recently made available due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This list will be updated as new opportunities are made available. May Institute on computation and statistics for mass spectrometry and proteomics - FREE online...

We have recently had approval to halve the academic user charge rates for the TripleTOF 6600 mass spectrometer in SBS, and to introduce an even more affordable rate for targeted analyses using MRM (Multiple Reaction Monitoring) methods on this instrument: 30min...

MaSH were proud to support the third edition of the University of Auckland Mass Spectrometry Symposium. Approximately 80 delegates attended throughout the day, which featured talks from fields as varied as cancer research and beer brewing. The day-long symposium...

Applications are invited for the full-time position of Mass-Spectrometry Technologist, primarily tasked with operating and maintaining the instruments and facilities of the Mass-Spectrometry suite housed within the School of Chemical Sciences. If you are organised,...

The Liggins Institute require an experienced technician to work full-time in their modern research facility at Grafton, Auckland. The main function of this position is to operate their suite of three mass spectrometers (two triple quads and a Q-Exactive) and a sample...

Dr. Nicholas Demarais, Prof. Paul Donaldson, and Dr. Angus Grey publish their study "Age-related spatial differences of human lens UV filters revealed by negative ion mode MALDI imaging mass spectrometry" in Experimental Eye Research (DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2019.04.016)....

Anna Radionova graduates with a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics. Her thesis, titled Theta-Channel Emitters for Nano-Electrospray and Mass Spectrometry, studied fluid dynamics and mixing processes in binary microfluidic systems under static electric fields. She...

Staff at the Liggins lab have recently completed an analytical first, for the lab and New Zealand.  They have successfully implemented the use of MetIDQ p400 kits with LC-MS for the identification and quantitation of more than 400 compounds, including amino acids,...

The 27th edition of the ANZSMS (Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry) conference was held in Auckland Jan 30 – Feb 3. The conference was a great success, with some fantastic science presented by both invited speakers and local presenters. MaSH was...

For those of you that use the SCiLS MALDI imaging analysis software on our VMs, we have recently upgraded to 2019c. This major upgrade provides major stability and performance improvements. Rework of internal data handling to improve general performance SCiLS Lab is...