Waters and the University of California will bring together some of the world’s leading life science researchers and practitioners of mass spectrometry (MS) at the Applications of Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Conference to be held between September 13 and 15, 2010 in California.

The platform will see experts discuss on the applications time-of-flight mass spectrometry to complex bio-molecule research and analysis.

“The meeting provides an excellent platform for review and discussion of the current theories and applications in time-of-flight mass spectrometry,” said Brian Smith, V.P. Mass Spectrometry Operations, Waters Division.

“The conference will bring together leaders with specialties in areas such as proteomics, chemistry and pharmacology, all of whom are gathering to share ideas and advance research,” he added.

Meeting will have attendees and presenters from some of the prestigious academic and industrial laboratories. Twenty-five presentations will be given topics such as quantitative proteomics, drug discovery, probing protein conformation, protein complexes, metabolites, lipids and glycoproteins.

Waters scientists are making certain key presentions at the Applications of Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Conference. These will cover practical and theoretical Constraints of System-wide Protein Quantification by LC-MS, James Langridge Characterization of Protein Therapeutics by Ion-mobility Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometry, Weibin Chen Use of OA Login and OA Toolkit for Walkup Open Access Accurate Mass LC/MS, John Van Antwerp Development of a Lipidomic Platform Based on a Hybrid Quadrupole Time-Of-Flight (QTof) Ion-Mobility Mass Spectrometer for Both Targeted And Non-targeted Analysis.

Waters benchtop and research-grade time-of-flight (Tof) and quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometers (QTof), the Waters Xevo, Synapt HDMS mass spectrometers, and LCT Premier – are state-of-the-art instruments known for their ability to elucidate the structure of biomolecules including individual proteins, protein complexes, protein metabolites, protein biomarkers. The instruments ability to make exact mass measurements help to pinpoint a molecular ion’s mass-to-charge ratio to four decimal places.

Recent advances in technology are making Tof mass spectrometers more capable of quantifying proteins in samples enabling scientists to perform qualitative and quantitative experiments in a single analysis, which was virtually impossible to do a few years ago, stated the company officials.