I kicked off the scientific presentations for the virtualized Northeastern University May Institute with a workshop on the basics of mass spectrometry proteomics. In this mixed-methods 1.5 hour session, I aimed to give biomedical researchers a crash course in all things quantitative mass spectrometry-based proteomics and even give some of the pros a few tips on the Skyline software ecosystem. By the end of this workshop, I wanted participants to come away with the ability to:
- Assess the experimental pros and cons of targeted proteomics, and compare to discovery proteomics.
- Explain the fundamentals of mass spectrometry proteomics, including peptide fragmentation and basic components of a mass spectrometer
- Describe the steps of a targeted proteomics workflow and the information required to build an assay
- Apply the Skyline software ecosystem to their own targeted proteomics experiments.
Throughout the lecture-based workshop, I mixed participant question-and-answer and examples of the concepts discussed in Skyline. Finally, I closed with three hands-on examples of using Skyline to build a Parallel Reaction Monitoring (PRM) mass spectrometry experiment.
You can check out the recording below:
Lindsay K. Pino 