Mass Spectrometry Course GMS BI 793
Mass Spectrometry, Proteomics, and Functional Genomics–Spring, 2025
Instructors:
Catherine E. Costello (CEC)
Cheng Lin (CL)
Manveen Sethi (MS)
Chaoshuang Xia (CX)
Joe Zaia (JZ)
Guest lecturer:
Bing Wang (BHW)
Announcements.
The course meets Tuesdays from 3-4:50pm in BUSM, 670 Albany St. Rm. 107/108 – Campus Map
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 2025 version of the material.
For access to Zoom recordings of lectures, please contact cecmsms@bu.edu.
For registered students, there will be a weekly problem set and a final paper.
Please fill out the participant profile and bring it with you to the first lecture.
BI-793 Student profile 2025
The lecture content is password protected. Please contact one of the instructors for access.
The links to the lectures are given below (contents will be updated the day before the lecture):
Lecture 1: Introduction; Lab tour, January 21 2025 (CL)
Lecture 2: Mass Spectrometry Fundamentals, January 28, 2025 (CL)
Lecture 3: Ionization Methods and Tandem Mass Spectrometry, February 4, 2025 (CL)
Lecture 4: Mass Analyzers, February 11, 2025 (CL)
No class, Monday classes held on February 18, 2025
Lecture 5: MS of Peptides and Proteins, February 25, 2025 (JZ)
Lecture 6: Proteomics and Databases, March 4, 2025 (MS)
No class, spring break, March 11, 2025
Lecture 6a: Lab Demos: MSn, Database Searching, March 11-16, 2025 (CX)
Lecture 7: Noncovalent Complexes, March 18, 2025 (MS)
Lecture 8: MS of Nucleic Acids: March 25, 2025 (BHW)
Lecture 9: MS of Lipids, Glycoconjugates, April 1, 2025 (CL)
Lecture 10: Affinity Methods, April 8, 2025 (JZ)
Lecture 11: MS of Carbohydrates, April 15, 2025 (JZ)
Lecture 12: MS Imaging and Profiling, April 22, 2025 (JZ)
Lecture 13: Medical Applications, April 29, 2025 (MS)
Final Papers Due May 8, 2025.