Joe Loo

@joelooucla.bsky.social

UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Better living through mass spectrometry.

It was great to have you @asms.org #ASMS2026 in San Diego! Your Plenary Lecture was a great way to end our conference. I hope you didn't mind talking about Science Integrity continuously during the USS Midway tour afterwards with our members. Thanks for discussing this important topic in science.

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Elisabeth Bik@elisabethbik.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Traveling today to San Diego, to give the closing plenary at the @asms.org #ASMS2026 #MassSpectrometry meeting. I am not aware of a lot of MS fraud, and would have a hard time finding it myself, but hopefully we can learn from each other. This might be my biggest audience ever (7K participants)!

Interested in the structures of large, gas-phase molecules measured by mass spectrometry and the comparison to their solution-phase origins? Come to the Fundamentals and Native MS Wednesday evening workshop @ #ASMS2026. Let's see if there are any fights among the speakers and the audience.

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Mass spec and skiing. Will @asms.org organize a ski meeting? ASMS members and Board members are checking it out in Santa Fe this week - L to R, @jyates.bsky.social, Roy Martin, Brian Clowers, fearless leader Jennifer Watson, me, Rachel Loo. What do you think? It won't be cheap, but it would be fun!⛷️

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I almost forgot about this "oldie but a goodie" paper published in 1994. It might be one of the first ones showing the use of variable-temperature ESI to measure the thermodynamics of non-covalent binding of a protein to a peptide (native MS). The first author was a young @goodlettlabb.bsky.social

Kermit Murray@kkmurray.bsky.social · 10mo ago

(JASMS) [ASAP] Correction to ″A study of the thermal denaturation of ribonuclease S by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry″: Journal of the American Society for Mass SpectrometryDOI: 10.1021/jasms.5c00331 (RSS) #MassSpecRSS #JASMS

Great meeting to get a "top-down" view of how mass spectrometry and microscopy can merge to "see" large biological molecules. Can't wait for the next version of MS + M, wherever and whenever it's held.

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Albert Heck@hecklab.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Having a great time at msandm2025.org with a great bunch of people interesting in visualizing biomolecules, together with my co-chairs @joostsnijder.bsky.social @vixklen.bsky.social & Kyle Fort. Learning so much from all posters & lectures. We thanks all participants for joining us in Utrecht.

(J Am Chem Soc) [ASAP] Retention and Rearrangement of Membrane Protein Complexes’ Higher Order Structure by Collisionally Activated Dissociation- and Electron Capture Dissociation-Mass Spectrometry: Journal of the American Chemical SocietyDOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c05797 #JAmChemSoc #MassSpecRSS

[ASAP] Retention and Rearrangement of Membrane Protein Complexes’ Higher Order Structure by Collisionally Activated Dissociation- and Electron Capture Dissociation-Mass Spectrometry

Journal of the American Chemical SocietyDOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c05797

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Hey, ASMSers @asms.org , did you see Jack Henion, our new Fenn Distinguished Contribution Awardee, on HBO's The Mortician tonight? He briefly talked about trying to detect a poison, oleandrin, from a corpse during his #ASMS2025 talk. You'll have to watch the show to find out whether he did or not.

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I wonder how many ASMSers are at the ball game today (Sunday). Raise your hand if you're cheering on the Orioles! And don't forget to come back for the tutorials, opening plenary, and evening reception. #ASMS2025

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The longer version of my comments can be found here: theanalyticalscientist.com/issues/2025/... I encourage all to remain engaged with the science enterprise. Come to the upcoming ASMS conference to engage fully in our shared scientific pursuits. @asms.org

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Henry Thomas@hcrthomas.bsky.social · last yr.

Special thanks to @erinbakerims.bsky.social, @joelooucla.bsky.social, Kevin Schug, @jyates.bsky.social, Susan Richardson, Richard Zare and Lloyd Smith for sharing your perspectives with me, without which this piece would not have been possible. #analyticalchemistry #researchfunding #nih #science

Last week was busy for the ASMS Board, meeting in Santa Fe to plan for the 2025 ASMS annual conf in Baltimore. After 3-days, we were looking pretty tired and grumpy (left), but the thought of #ASMS2025 cheered us up (right). Check out the Asilomar, Winter conf, and Fall Workshop topics @asms.org.

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Happy holidays from the Loo group at UCLA. It's been an eventful year - some people leaving (graduating, making tons of $$), and new students joining. Next year promises to be equally busy and fun. "Nothin' but blue skies from now on...". Wishing all a peaceful 2025.

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