Mass Spectrometry (MS) and Tandem MS of Macromolecules

About

intSMS 2026 is a six day full immersion school aimed to give advanced and higher education in mass spectrometry to graduate, PhD, post-doc students, and all those working in different areas of science interested to improve their knowledge and culture in mass spectrometry.
The IntSMS – 3rd course is devoted to Mass Spectrometry (MS) and Tandem MS of Macromolecules - Fundamentals, Advances, and Applications.
The school, organized in tutorial lectures, exercises, poster sessions, short orals, problem solving sessions and social events, joins together participants from academia, public and private research centers and industry, and it is an useful occasion for allowing meeting of students and tutors coming from different countries and for creating new links and networking

Course leader

Prof. Joseph A. Loo, UCLA Molecular Biology Institute (USA) - Prof. Ljiljana Pasa-Tolic, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL, USA) - Prof. Gianluca Giorgi, University of Siena (Italy)

Target group

Graduate, PhD, post-doc students, researchers and all those working in different areas of science, ranging from chemistry, biosciences, food, omics sciences to medicine

Course aim

The intSMS2026 aim is to give advanced and higher education in Mass Spectrometry (MS) and Tandem MS of Macromolecules, such as intact nucleic acids, proteins and therapeutic proteins and their complexes.
Starting from sample preparation strategies and on-line separations, the course will move to present instrumentation for MS and MS/MS fragmentation strategies, native MS, middle/top-down sequencing, data analysis and bioinformatics together with integration of MS with structural biology and recent technological developments.
Tutorial lectures are taught by experienced scientists, many of whom have contributed key innovations to the field

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