Sydney Mass Spectrometry
Sydney Mass Spectrometry provides access to cutting-edge instrumentation and expert assistance for proteomics, glycomics, metabolomics, lipidomics, and mass spectrometry imaging.
Our facilities feature a diverse portfolio of 20 mass spectrometers, with extensive data processing and analysis packages, and are located across three sites: the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney Camperdown Campus, the Kolling Institute at Royal North Shore Hospital and the Biomedical Building in the South Eveleigh precinct.
Our specialist technical staff have over 50 years’ combined experience and are on hand to provide high-level training, project development, and contract research services.
- Academic Director – Professor Stuart Cordwell
- Associate Director – Dr Ben Crossett
- Senior Administration Officer – Jacquie Kufner
We welcome enquiries regarding our range of research services available on a contractual basis. Examples of our services include:
- Protein identification – either by peptide mass fingerprinting (for samples like bands on a gel) or by one dimensional liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (1D LC-MS) which can be used for more complex protein mixtures, such as pull-down assays
- Quantitative discovery proteomics – for a comprehensive analysis of complex protein mixtures which typically identifies and quantifies thousands of proteins. There is a choice of label-based or label-free methods
- Targeted metabolomics – there is a growing repertoire of targeted assays covering groups of compounds such as bile acids, central carbon metabolites, short chain fatty acids or synthetic compounds such as PFAS
- Targeted lipidomics – our method covers >550 lipid species, across 34 lipid classes and subclasses
- Service research – for the more challenging research, where we don’t have an established assay, we can design a bespoke method to meet your research goals.