Boston University Medical Campus
Mass Spectrometry Resource

Mass Spectrometry Course GMS BI 793

Mass Spectrometry, Proteomics, and Functional Genomics–Spring, 2009

Instructors:
Catherine E. Costello
Mark McComb
Peter B. O’Connor
Joseph Zaia

Announcements.

1. The course will be offered on the Medical Campus, starting Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.
2. The course will meet Tuesdays from 3-5pm Rm 107-108, 670 Albany St., (also known as the Biosquare III building) which is shown on the Campus Map. The building is located immediately behind 700 Albany St (the CABR Building).
3. The lecture handout will be posted the day before each lecture. Please download and print the handout before the lecture.  Make sure you are downloading the 2009 version of the material.
4. For registered students, there will be a weekly problem set and a final paper.
5. The final paper is due May 8, 2009
6. Final paper instructions
7. lecture-schedule-2009
8. bi-793-student-profile-2009

The lecture content is password protected. Please contact one of the instructors for access.

The links to the lectures are given below (content will be updated the week before the lecture in the spring term):

• Lecture 1: Introduction Jan. 20 2009

• Lecture 2: Mass Spectrometry Fundamentals Jan. 27 2009

• Lecture 3: Ionization methods Feb. 3, 2009

• Lecture 4: Mass Analyzers Feb. 10, 2009

• No Class, Feb. 17, 2009

• Lecture 5: Mass Spectrometry of Peptides, Protein, and Glycoproteins, Feb. 24, 2009

• Lecture 6: Proteomics and Database Searching, Mar. 3, 2009

• Lab visit: Hands on Experience with Database Searching, March 10, 2009

• Lecture 7: Affintiy Mass Spectrometry: Strategies for Proteome Profiling, March 17, 2009

• Lecture 8: Top-Down Protein Characterization, Non-covalent complexes, and Protein Conformations, March 24, 2009

Lecture 9: Mass Spectrometry of Carbohydrates, March 31, 2009

• Lecture 10: Mass Spectrometry of Glycoconjugates and Lipids, April 7, 2009

• Lecture 11: Mass Spectrometry of Nucleic Acids, April 14, 2009

• Lecture 12: Tissue Imaging and Disease State Profiling Using Mass Spectrometry, April 21, 2009

• Lecture 13: Medical Applications of Mass Spectrometry, April 28, 2009