We've purchased a Thermo-Electron TSQ Discovery Triple Quadrupole system to support proteomics and metabolomics
Our novel method for quantitative proteomics is published in Nature Methods
We ran the first instance of the NERC hands-on proteomics course
We've installed a Proxeon nanoLC system
Our paper on positional proteomics of N-terminal peptides has been published in Nature Methods
We took delivery of a Kratos/Shimadzu Biotech Axima CFR Tof^2 MALDI MS and Accuspot robot, to develop LC-MALDI.
We've installed two Dionex Ultimate 3000 nanoLC systems

News from 2006

Our buffer calculation web site is finally transferred to a new home.
We took several posters to the 'Genomes to Systems' meeting in Manchester. [all posters under Research/Publications]
We took several poster to ASMS, Seattle.
Two of our papers have been cited in "Faculty of 1000"
We presented our work at the British Society for Proteome Research in Cambridge
We hosted, with the Mammalian Behaviour and Evolution Group, the International Symposium on "Chemical Signals in Vertebrates" at The University of Chester
We've installed our Waters Micromass GC-ToF for metabolite/semiochemistry research
We've installed a second Proxeon nanoLC system

Installation of our Synapt G2

Our Synapt G2 is due for install this week! [More...]

Our new Thermo Velos Orbitrap has been installed. [More...]

Dec - Welcome Baby Lupe Gomez-Baena!
Dec - Amy successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations, Dr Claydon!
Nov - Mandy Peffers joins us on her Wellcome Trust Fellowship. Welcome Mandy!
Oct - Stu successfully defended his thesis Congratulations, Dr Armstrong!
Sept Installation of our Waters Synapt and a Waters Xevo QqQ for quantitative studies
Aug - Jenny and John create an unbreakable covalent bond. Congratulations!
June - Phil Brownridge and Victoria Harman join us for the big proteome project. Welcome both!
April - Lupe Gomez-Baena joins us from Cordoba as a Marie Curie Research fellow for biomarker studies. Welcome Lupe!
Feb - Amy rejoins us to work on ribosome proteomics. Welcome back, Amy
Feb - Rob starts his sabbatical in earnest, and is working as a BBSRC Industrial Exchange Visitor at Waters in Manchester
Jan - We received formal notification of our large grant on global quantitative proteomics

We took delivery of our second ThermoElectron LTQ system, coupled to a Dionex Ultimate 3000
Ian successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr Edwards!
We presented posters at the 4th joint BSPR/EBI meeting in Hinxton
We were awarded a new BBSRC grant with Simon Hubbard (Manchester) to develop our positional proteomics approach to rational proteome simplification
We were awarded a new BBSRC grant with Daniel Coca (Sheffield) to extend our studies on FPGA computing to MS/MS and Quantification data

We've been joined by a new student, Andie Pennington. Welcome Andie!
We've ordered our third Dionex Ultimate 3000, this one will supply the maXis
At last, the MaxiS is coming! Photo diary to follow.At 3m tall, it will be major installation challenge, on the first floor of a building with no lifts!
We presented two posters at the Siena Proteomics meeting
Rowan successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr Moore!
We presented four posters at the HUPO meeting in Amsterdam
We have been awarded a new BBSRC grant to work on supramolecular assembly and dynamics, with colleagues in Manchester
Jenny successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr Rivers!
We ordered our Bruker MaxiS QToFsystem (resolution=50,000, accuracy=<1ppm, 20Hz acquisition)