Join us at UC Irvine for a day of scientific discussion around Shimadzu’s MS Imaging solutions. Come to discuss your projects, network and learn how Shimadzu will enable you to achieve your experimental goals. No plans on starting MS Imaging? Join us anyway and meet Shimadzu’s brilliant collaborators and your local and national application team!

Dr. Pierre Chaurand

Full Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Montreal

Dr. Ruth Gordillo

Associate Professor at UT Southwestern’s Touchstone
Diabetes Center and Director of the Metabolic Phenotyping Core

Felix Grun, Ph.D. 

Director, MS Facility, Department of Chemistry, UC Irvine

9:00am – 9:10am  —  Welcome/Opening Remarks, Jordan Frost / Michelle Zipse, Shimadzu
9:10am – 9:25am  —  Shimadzu MS Imaging Solutions, Nazim Boutaghou, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments
9:30am – 10:00am  —  MALDI IMS in a High-Throughput Core Facility, Felix Grun, University of California Irvine          10:10am – 10:30am — Break
10:30am – 11:00am  —  Multimodal Mass Spectrometry Imaging Using a Unified Platform: Metabolomics, Lipidomics, Elemental Mapping, and Targeted Multiplexed Proteomics, Dr. Ruth Gordillo, Associate Professor at UT Southwestern's Touchstone Diabetes Center and Director of the Metabolic Phenotyping Core
11:10am – 11:40am  —  Mass Spectrometry Imaging of the Gut Microbiome, Dr. Pierre Chaurand, Full Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Montreal
11:50am – 12:10pm  —  Unlocking the Full Spatial Potential of Individual Samples, John Gillespie, CEO, AmberGen
12:20pm – 1:30pm  —  Lunch
1:30pm – 5:00pm  —  Instrument and Software Demonstration