Advanced Instrumentation Workshop 2025

The Gallagher Lab was thrilled to help welcome undergraduate students from universities across Texas and the surrounding region to Baylor University for this year’s Advanced Instrumentation Workshop (AIW)! During the workshop, students gained valuable hands-on experience with instrumentation that they might not have access to at their home college or university. Along the way, they had the opportunity to ask questions, build technical skills, and gain insight into what graduate school life is really like. We also had the opportunity to meet up with one of our Gallagher lab alums, Jacob Hatvany, as he attended AIW this year as a faculty member from Harding University!

This year, Maddie, Lyssa, and Pedro hosted a workshop called “Proteomics and Protein Mass Spectrometry” where the students learned about:

  • Parts of the Orbitrap Fusion Tribrid MS instrument and how they are used in experiments

  • Practiced dilution calculations

  • Sample prepped an unknown peptide in the lab

  • Ran experiments on the unknown peptide

  • Identified fragments on a mass spectrum using Roepstorff’s nomenclature

  • Walked through a proteomics workflow

  • Learned about other applications for protein mass spectrometry (ie. Native MS)

  • Calculated charge states and identified in-tact proteins

We were super excited to teach everyone about the super cool things you can do with mass spectrometry, and we cannot wait to teach it again next year to even more students! Take a look at some of the photos from the workshop below!

 
 
Lyssa Garber