About Our Laboratory
Our Laboratory is situated at the University of Toledo Main Campus, in Toledo, Ohio, USA.
Instrumentation
a.k.a. Nina
QSight 200 Series
and QSight® LX50 UHPLC
-UPLC-Triple Quadruple MS
-StayClean™ Source, self-cleaning design for maximum sensitivity and exceptional uptime
-Laminar Flow Ion Guide™ for highly efficient field-free transmission, providing virtually no maintenance requirements
-Dual Source technology gives you the capability to set ESI or APCI modes, with two independent probes for true multiplexing
-Modular Simplicity™ 3Q software to acquire, quantify, and report with flexible data viewing options and powerful remote diagnostics.
a.k.a. Alex
LUCIDITY MINI GC, Gas Chromatograph-flame ionization detector (GC-FID)
GC-FID. With the smallest oven of any fully functional GC on the market, the miniGC can ramp all the way to 400C at 60C/min and can cool from 400C to 50C in 5 minutes, meaning it heats faster and cools faster than any of the traditional GCs. This allows for much faster analysis times and much less down time between runs.
a.k.a. Barack
Agilent 7890B GC/5977B Inert Plus MSD, GERSTEL MultiPurpose Sampler Robotic, GERSTEL Thermal Desorption Unit (TDU)
-Gas-chromatograph hyphenated to a single quadrupole mass spectrometer. - The GERSTEL Robotic autosampler enables automation of sample introduction, that can be performed by liquid injection, static headspace (HS) and soliphase microextraction (SPME). - The use of the TDU module enables the use of Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction (SBSE) using the GERSTEL Twister®, thermal desorption of adsorbent tubes used for air sampling, thermal extraction of solid samples placed in fritted TDU tubes, thermal extraction of liquids placed in µ-vials inside the TDU and desorption of thin-film microextraction devices (aka TFME or TF-SPME)
a.k.a. Phoenix
ThermoScientific™ Vanquish™ Flex Binary UHPLC system and Thermo Scientific™ LTQ XL™ Linear Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer
UPLC - LTQ XL ion trap MS. - Pulsed Q dissociation (PQD) for generating more fragments and extending the low mass range. - High-resolution isolation (HRI) enables isolation of isobaric mass peaks for cleaner MSn spectra. - Ultra-fast polarity switching for high sensitivity analysis of unknowns. - Metabolite identification and quantification. - Biomarker studies and PTM identification.