We welcome graduate (M.S. and Ph.D) students interested in mass spectrometry and ion mobility separations,
with topical biomedical and analytical applications. 

We offer Research Assistantships with competitive stipends, extensive national and international collaborative opportunities with prominent academic and industrial partners (see publications), and excellent research exposure with numerous publications in highly rated journals and presentations at major conferences in the field.

All previous students have graduated on time and immediately obtained employment according to training. 

We cover moving to Wichita for incoming students, including international students.

Current Events
News
ASMS Interest group on Ion Mobility Spectrometry has finalized the guidelines for reporting IMS and FAIMS data. See link in publications.

2019

Invited Talks:
  • Fort Hays State University, Kansas
  • Institute of Bio-sciences and Biotechnology, Grenoble, France
  • University of Lyon, France
  • European Institute for Chemistry and Biology, Bordeaux, France



2018

Invited Talks:
  • Midwest Meeting of the American Chemical Society (Ames, IA; October 2018)
  • West Virginia University (Morgantown)

Conference Presentations:

MWRM 2018:

Pratima Pathak*, Matthew A. Baird, Gordon A. Anderson, Alexandre A. Shvartsburg.  Broad Isomer Identification by elemental isotopic Shifts in High-Field Ion Mobility Spectra.

International Mass Spectrometry Conference, IMSC (Florence, Italy; August 2018):

K.J. Dit Fouque, J. Porter, F. Fernandez-Lima, A. A. Shvartsburg. Practical Two-Dimensional High-Resolution Ion Mobility Separations Using FAIMS Integrated with Trapped IMS

ASMS (2018) San Diego:

Matthew A. Baird and Co-Authors: Eugene Moskovets, Victor Laiko, Alexandre Shvartsburg*. High-Definition Differential IMS with Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry for IMS/MS Analyses with High 2-D Resolution.

Jacob Porter* and Co-Authors: Kevin Jeanne Dit Fouque, Matthew A. Baird, Alexandre A. Shvartsburg, Philippe Maitre, Mark E Ridgeway, Melvin A Park, Francisco Fernandez-Lima. Separation and structural characterization of middle-down proteoforms using linear trapped IMS-FT-ICR MS/MS.

Matthew Baird* and Co-Authors: Alexandre Shvartsburg. Separations of D-Amino Acid Containing Peptides of all Sizes Using High-Resolution FAIMS Followed by Electron Transfer Dissociation

Pratima Pathak* and Co-Authors: Matthew A. Baird, Julia L. Kaszycki, Gordon A. Anderson, Alexandre A. Shvartsburg. Exploring the Trends and Structural Specificity of Isotopologic Shifts in High-Field Ion Mobility Spectra

Daniel G. Delafield and Co-Authors: Matthew A. Baird, Zhe Wang, Alexandre A. Shvartsburg, Si Wu. Characterization analysis of glycopeptides through arrival time correlation using concurrent RPLC fraction monitoring and FAIMS filtering.

2017

Invited Talks:
  • University of Washington Medical School
  • Russian Mass Spectrometry Society, Moscow
  • Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles 
  • University of South California, Los Angeles
  • Mid-America Nazarene University, Olathe, KS
  • Washington-Baltimore Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group, Columbia MD 

Conference Presentations:

26th International Conference on Ion Mobility Spectrometry, Ozarow Mazowiecki, Poland (July 2017) Dr. Shvartsburg: High-Resolution FAIMS for Characterization of Variant Peptides and Isomer Identifications Based on Isotopic Shifts

​11th North American FTMS Conference (Key West, FL April 23-27) Dr. Shvartsburg poster: ADVANTAGES OF TIMS-FT-ICR MS/MS FOR THE STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS IN HISTONE TAILS

Sanibel Conference on Impact of Metabolomics in Translational and Clinical Research (Clearwater Beach, FL January) Matt Baird poster and highlight talk: Isomeric Characterization of D-Amino Acid Containing Peptides and N-Linked Glycopeptides by Differential Ion Mobility Spectrometry

ASMS 2017 (Indianapolis, IN):

Andrew Bowman and Co-Authors: B. Poad, S. J. Blanksby, T. W. Mitchell, J. L. Kaszycki, M. A. Baird, A. A. Shvartsburg Structural Characterization of Isomeric Lipids by High-Resolution FAIMS/Ozone Identification Analyses of Metal-Cationized Species

Matt Baird and Co-Authors: P. Shliaha, M. Nielsen, V. Gorshkov, A. P. Bowman, J. L. Kaszycki, G. A. Anderson, T. D. Williams, O N. Jensen, A. A. Shvartsburg. Characterization of Histone Proteoforms Using Linear and Nonlinear Ion Mobility Separations with Electron Transfer Dissociation

Julia Kaszycki and Co-Authors: M. A. Baird, A. P. Bowman, A. A. Shvartsburg. Using a Priori Intrinsic Size Parameters to Predict Ion Mobilities and Understand the Folding patterns of Modified and Metalated Peptides

Dr. A. A. Shvartsburg and Co-Authors: J. L. Kaszycki, M. A. Baird, A. P. Bowman. Identification of Isomers by Fingerprint Isotopic Fine Structure in High-Resolution FAIMS Spectra

A. A. Shvartsburg, A. Entwistle, R. Andrezejewski, A. Harris, R. Giles: Rapid FAIMS inside the mass spectrometry envelope: exploring ion mobility separations in the extreme field region.

D. Delafield, Z. Wang, M. A. Baird, A. A. Shvartsburg, S. Wu, K. Smith: Characterization of N-linked Isomeric Glycans Using LC and Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometery (FAIMS) with Mass Spectrometry

Other annoucements:

2nd Edition of Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry-the Next 5 Years  is released and has a contribution from Dr. Shvartsburg inside.
Our paper on FAIMS separation of peptide isotopomers featured on the cover of JASMS May 2016 issue
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2016

Dr. Alex Shvartsburg is giving an invited talk at the DAPSOC (6 December, Odense, Denmark)

Dr. Alex Shvartsburg is giving an invited talk at the International Symposium on Supramolecular Science-Based Organic Materials and Devices (9-11 December, Chiba, Japan)

Dr. Alex Shvartsburg gave an invited talk at the 2nd International Conference "Innovations in Mass Spectrometry: Instrumentation and Methods" (7-11 November 2016, Moscow)

Midwest Regional Meeting for American Chemical Society (26-28 October, Manhattan, Kansas):
Oral Presentations
Andrew Bowman and Julia Kaszycki

Julia Kaszycki had a poster and poster-highlight talk at the Asilomar conference (14-18 October, Pacific Grove, California)

Dr. Alex Shvartsburg gave an invited talk at the International Mass Spectrometry Conference (August 20-26, Toronto, Canada)

Andrew Bowman gave an oral presentation at the International Mass SPectrometry Conference (August 20-26, Toronto, Canada)
 
64th Annual National ASMS Conference (San Antonio, TX):
Posters:
​
Matt Baird Co-authors: Alex Shvartsburg
Characterizing Post-Translationally Modified Peptides by High-Resolution FAIMS Coupled to Electron Transfer Dissociation

Andrew Bowman Co-authors: Rinat Abzalimov, Gordon Anderson, and Alex Shvartsburg
​Separation of Metalated Lipid Isomers Using Nonlinear Ion Mobility Spectrometry

Julia Kaszycki Co-authors: Matt Baird, Andrew Bowman, and Alex Shvartsburg
Resolution of Isotopolouge and Isotopomers by High-Field Ion Mobility Spectrometry: Path to Gas-Phase NMR?

Alex Shvartsburg Co-authors: Andrew Entwistle and Roger Giles
Rapid FAIMS at Extreme Fields Inside the Mass Spectrometry Envelope with Applications to Peptide and Protein Analyses.

Oral Presentations:

Rinat Abzalimov Co-authors: Andrew Bowman and Alex Shvartsburg
Broad Characterization of Isomeric Lipids by High-Resolution Differential Ion Mobility Separations with Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Xueqin Pang Co authors: Chenxi Jia, Matt Baird, Zhengqei Chen, Matthew Glover, Alex Shvartsburg, and Lingjun Li
Structural characterization of monomers and oligomers of D-amino acid containing peptides (DAACPs) using T-Wave and nonlinear ion mobility separations

Dr. Shvartsburg wins the NSF Career Award (January 2016)

K-INBRE Meeting (Overland Park, KS):
Posters:
Matt Baird and Andrew Bowman

Dr. Shvartsburg is speaking in:

Invited Lectures:

University of Southern Denmark (Odense)
Maastricht Institute for Imaging (Netherlands)
Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University (Russia)
University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
University of Adelaide (Australia)
National Oncology Scientific Center (Moscow, Russia)
Ryazan State Radio Engineering University (Russia)
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (Russia)
Shimadzu Research Laboratory (Manchester, United Kingdom)
University of Birmingham (United Kingdom)
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​2015

Dr. Shvartsburg appointed as the Entrepreneurship Fellow of the Coleman Foundation
(June 2015)

Mid-West Regional ACS Meeting (St. Joseph, MO):
Posters:
Matt Baird and Julia Kaszycki
Talks:
Andrew Bowman

Our service page is up:
http://massspec.weebly.com/

Dr. Shvartsburg's Book:

 Differential Ion Mobility Spectrometry 

The lab is currently young, with many improvements still being done. As different adjustments are made there will be adjustments on here.  If you have any questions or comments please contact us.