This June Linköping hosted the second national meeting of the Swedish chemical society which Helen, Amina, Anneli and I all attended together with Tim Åström and Sara Jamshidi who also work in the analytical chemistry section at SU. Helen, Amina and I all gave oral presentations of our work and Anneli presented Lisa’s poster of […]
Recently, I attended my first in-person conference, the Nontarget Analysis for Environmental Risk Assessment SETAC Focused Topic Meeting. It was held in Durham, NC, USA from May 22 -26 2022, and it was a very intense week filled with interesting talks, posters, and meetings with other scientists. It was very nice to put a face […]
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Mar
Mar
Retention time is a crucial information for structural elucidation of unknown chemicals in non-targeted analysis using liquid chromatography coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry via electrospray ionization (LC/ESI/HRMS). Most of the predictive models of retention time are developed in limited chromatographic conditions, mostly for reversed phase and HILIC mode and in acidic conditions. However, retention […]
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Feb
Feb
Masoumeh Akhlaqi is a Master student in analytical chemistry at Stockholm University. For her Master’s thesis, she is using two-dimensional ion mobility to separated, distinguish or identify isomeric compounds, specifically isomeric pesticides in food samples. For this purpose, she is using cyclic ion mobility instrument coupled to liquid chromatography and Time-of-Flight mass analyzer.
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Feb
Feb
Non-target analysis with LC/ESI/HRMS is increasingly used to detect thousands of chemicals in environmental samples. However, most of these chemicals are never confidently identified nor quantified. This in turn means that they are ignored in risk assessments. In our recent paper, we address this issue by modeling the response factor for chemicals without the need […]
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Feb
Feb
Lisa is a second year Master’s student with a background in environmental chemistry. For her Master’s thesis, Lisa is working on the exciting field of non-targeted screening and developing a prioritization method for unidentified compounds in the MS spectra of real life samples. In order to give compounds priority ranks, she is using in-house built […]
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Nov
Nov
Pauline Petitfour is an intern from Sigma-Clermont engineering school in Clermont-Ferrand (France). She is studying organic and analytical chemistry and she is joining our group for four months internship. She will evaluate and model the extraction efficiency for most common solid phase extraction workflows used in non-targeted screening. Bienvenue Pauline!
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Oct
Oct
After almost two years of zoom-only meetings, it was my great pleasure to last week get back to meeting fellow scientists in person at Intentional Conference on Non-Targeted Screening, Erding, Germany. The meeting was held in parallel in-person and online. The conference ran over four days with talks covering computational mass spectrometry, instrumental techniques for […]
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Oct
Oct
After spending six months in South-Korea as an exchange student and finishing her Master’s degree from University of Tartu, Helen Sepman is back in our group. Helen was part of Kruvelab in Stockholm University in October 2020-January 2021, when she studied protomer formation of caffeine metabolites with cyclic-IMS as an intern. She was one of […]
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Sep
Sep
Emma Palm and Louise Malm started their master thesis in our group. Emma and Louise are master students in analytical chemistry at Stockholm University and they did their bachelor’s thesis in our group. Emma Palm will work with cyclic ion mobility for the identification of isomeric compounds based on the collision cross-section. This will […]