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Congratulations to Rae Eaton, who was selected to be a PNNL Graduate Fellow!

Rachael (Rae) Eaton, a first year graduate student in the Bush Lab, was one of three graduate students selected to be the first-ever PNNL Graduate Fellows! From the UW Department of Chemistry announcement:

The PNNL Graduate Fellowship Program provides recipients with valuable research experiences complementary to their graduate education at the University of Washington. This program was recently established by the Department of Chemistry and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with the goal of generating new opportunities for collaboration, accelerating progress in research areas of mutual interest, and strengthening existing ties between the Department and PNNL.

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Matthew Bush receives 2014 Eli Lilly Young Investigator Award in Analytical Chemistry

From UW Chemistry website (link):

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Assistant Professor Matthew F. Bush has been selected to receive the 2014 Eli Lilly and Company Young Investigator Award in Analytical Chemistry. The award is given by the Analytical Chemistry Academic Contacts Committee at Eli Lilly and Company based upon Dr. Bush’s outstanding research, publication record, and the impact they feel he is making in the field of analytical chemistry.

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Upcoming Presentations: November/December 2014

Prof. Bush will present the following seminars this Winter:

  • Department of Chemistry, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 12/2/14.
  • Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 12/1/14.
  • Department of Chemistry, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 11/17/14.
  • Department of Chemistry, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, 11/17/14.
  • Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 11/10/14.
  • American Society for Mass Spectrometry Fall Workshop, Seattle, WA, 11/7/14. (Link)
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Upcoming Presentations: September 2014

Prof. Bush will present the following seminars this September:

  • Department of Chemistry, Gustavus Aldolphus College, Saint Peter, MN. 9/26/14.
  • Minnesota Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 9/25/14. (Seminar at 7:00 PM at the Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Room 15, 1334 Eckles Ave., St. Paul, 55108.)
  • Department of Chemistry, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN. 9/24/14.
  • Applications of Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Meeting, Waters Co. / University of California at Los Angeles, Long Beach, CA, 9/15/14. (Link)
  • Proteomics Resource Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 9/9/14.

MFB thanks the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Local Area Discussion Group Speaker Support Program for support for his trip to Minnesota.

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Goodbye to Chrissy Stachl and Nora Munger

The Bush Lab says goodbye to Chrissy Stachl and Nora Munger. Chrissy recently graduated from the University of Washington as a Gates Millennium Scholar with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Neurobiology. She will spend next year as a DAAD Scholar in the laboratory of Gert von Helden at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin. Nora Munger was an Amgen Scholar this summer and will return to Carleton College to complete degrees in Chemistry and Art History. 

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248th American Chemical Society Fall National Meeting

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The Bush Lab and collaborators will present the following talks at the 248th American Chemical Society Fall National Meeting, which will be held in San Francisco (August 10-14):

  • Droplet sizes, electrospray currents, and nonspecific aggregation in electrokinetically controlled native nanoelectrospray ionization. Kimberly L Davidson, Derek Oberreit, Christopher J Hogan, Matthew F Bush. (Sunday at 3:10 PM in Moscone Center, North Bldg. Room: 130)
  • Native electrospray ionization: From initial droplets to final ions. Matthew F. Bush (Monday at 3:20 PM in Moscone Center, North Bldg. Room: 125)
  • Determining masses, separating mixtures, and probing structures of native-like ions using selected cation to anion proton transfer (SCAPT) reactions. Matthew F. Bush, Kenneth J. Laszlo. (Wednesday at 3:30 PM in Moscone Center, North Bldg. Room: 125)

Prof. Bush is also organizing the Advances in Ionization Techniques and Mechanisms Symposium, which will be held on Monday in Moscone Center, North Bldg. Room: 125. Prof. Bush thanks the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry, Agilent, Bruker, Sutter Instrument, Thermo Scientific, and Waters for the generous sponsorship that made this symposium possible. (Symposium Program | 405 kB)

  • Introductory Remarks (8:30)
  • Development of Multi-Stage Reactive Transmission Mode Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Characterizing Multicatalytic Reactions. Richard H. Perry, Kevin C. Peters, Kevin E. Parker, Troy J. Comi (8:35)
  • Development of Solvent-Free Ambient Mass Spectrometry for Green Chemistry Applications. Hao Chen, Pengyuan Liu, Amanda Forni. (9:05)
  • Ambient ionization mass spectrometric imaging with high spatiotemporal resolution. Richard N. Zare, Jae Kyoo Lee, Hong Gil Nam (9:35)
  • Intermission (10:05)
  • Development of a surface acoustic wave nebulization source for mass spectrometry. David Goodlett, Tao Liang, Scott R Heron, Shivangi Awasthi, Sung H Yoon, Yue Huang, Michael Wilson, David P A Kilgour. (10:05)
  • Magic Matrices for Ionization in Mass Spectrometry. Sarah Trimpin. (10:55)
  • Low zeptomole detection limits with capillary electrophoresis coupled to an improved nanospray. Norman J. Dovichi, Liangliang Sun, Guijie Zhu (11:25)
  • Break for Lunch (11:55)
  • Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Electrospray Ionization (MALDESI): From Fundamentals to Tissue and Chemical Imaging. David C. Muddiman. (1:30)
  • Matrix-free, ambient pressure mass spectrometry via ultra-intense laser vaporization. Robert J. Levis. (2:00)
  • Molecular modeling of the ejection mechanisms of macromolecules from charged nanodroplets. Styliani Consta. (2:30)
  • Intermission. (3:00)
  • Native Electrospray Ionization: From Initial Droplets to Final Ions. Matthew F. Bush. (3:20)
  • Charges in protein electrospray ionization: Like or opposite? Rachel R. Ogorzalek Loo, Joseph A. Loo. (3:50)
  • Supercharging, Fast Mixing and Charge Detection in Mass Spectrometry. Evan R. Williams. (4:20)

Kim Davidson is also co-organizing the Graduate Student Symposium on International Collaborations with International Impact: Chemistry for Global Change, which will be held on Tuesday in the Esplanade Ballroom 304 in the south building of the Moscone Center.

We look forward to seeing everyone in San Francisco!

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About

The Bush Lab is a research group in the Department of Chemistry and the Biological Physics, Structure & Design Program at the University of Washington. Our research focuses on the development and application of mass spectrometry and ion mobility spectrometry techniques to elucidate the structures and assembly of protein complexes and subcellular machines.

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