Services & Instruments

Technologies @Ghesquière Lab

1. LC Q-Exactive OrbiTRAP (Thermo)

Chromatography modus: ion-pairing (tributylamine) Orbitrap

          Suited for:
                 Organic acids
                 Nucleotides
                 Fatty acids

Only negative ionization mode

Application Field: Targeted (tracer) metabolomics

2. LC Q-Exactive OrbiTRAP Focus (Thermo)

Chromatography modus: HILIC, C18, …

Suited for:
            Amino acids
            Nucleotides
            Organic acids
          Phosphorylated compounds

Positive and negative ionization mode

Application Field: Targeted (tracer) metabolomics

3. LC Q-Exactive OrbiTRAP Lumos (Thermo)

Lumos Chromatography modus: HILIC, C18, …

     Suited for:
                 Amino acids
                 Nucleotides
                 Organic acids
               Phosphorylated compounds

Positive and negative ionization mode

Application Field: Targeted (tracer) metabolomics + untargeted metabolomics

4. GC-QQQ (Agilent)

Chromatography modus: gas chromatography (multiple columns)

           Suited for:
                       Amino acids
                       Organic acids
                       Fatty acids

Electron ionization mode

Application Field: Targeted (tracer) metabolomics

5. Scimax MR-MS (Brüker)

Chromatography modus: flow injection analysis (direct infusion)

                Suited for:
                            Polar and apolar metabolites
                            Lipids

Positive and negative ionization mode

Application Field: Targeted (tracer) metabolomics
+ untargeted metabolomics/lipidomics

6. timsTOF Flex (Brüker)

timsTOF                                               Suited for:
                                                              Polar/apolar metabolites
                                                              Lipids

Application Field: imaging mass spectrometry (spatial)