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Detect & identify biomolecules -                                                                                        
Advance the education & training of 'omics' sciences for high schools
      

From the laboratory of Dr. Sixue Chen at the University of Florida        

 

 

 

 

2013 ICORE Teachers "Omics" Workshop

(July 17 -19, 2013 in ICBR Education and Training Lab, Chen Lab and Polfer Lab)

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the UF CPET program

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Introduction of the Proteomics Lab by Ms. Drew Joseph from ICORE and Dr. Sixue Chen, Associate Professor from Biology Department

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Dr. Chen introduces proteomics, plant materials and the objectives of the workshop

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Sample preparation

 

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Ms. Drew Joseph works with the teachers

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Mr. Jon Benskin, a high school teacher from Boca Raton Community High School presents his proteomics lab protocol. 

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Spotting protein digest on MALDI plate for peptide mass fingerprinting 

 

 

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Mr. Ning Zhu from the Chen lab shows how to fire the laser on a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer 

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A lot of hands-on experiments including peptide mass fingerprint acquisition and database searching to identify the unknown protein, cool stuff.

 

 

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Dr. Cecilia Silva-Sanchez explains MALDI-TOF/TOF technology

 

 

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Dr. Sixue Chen demonstrates the nanoflow liquid chromatography system

 

 

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Dr. Chen introduces the high-end LC-MS/MS system and demonstrates MS/MS spectrum acquisition workflow

 

 

Polfer explains Orbitrap

Dr. Nick Polfer explains the Orbitrap technology 

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The 2013 ICORE class

 

 

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Proteomics workshop is FUN!

 

 

For more pictures, please click here: http://www.cpet.ufl.edu/ICORE/ICORE2013/PhotoGallery.html

 

 

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