Short Course on IMS and IMS-MS
Instructors:
Brian H. Clowers, Ph.D. — Washington State University
Maggie Tam, Ph.D. — Canada Border Services Agency
Ansgar T. Kirk, Dr.-Ing — ACKISION
Alexander Haack — Leibniz University Hannover
Francisco Fernández-Lima — Florida International University
The Short Course for ISIMS 2024 will be held on the Saturday and Sunday July 20—21, 2024. The syllabus and learning objectives are listed below. For further information, please contact Professor Brian Clowers at brian.clowers AT wsu.edu.
The in-person short course is suitable for individuals with varying levels of experience including those who are new to the field. All efforts will be made to accommodate the interests of the attendees with topics ranging from IMS fundamentals to a wide array of applications, including detection and structural identification of molecules. Lectures covered various forms of IMS (e.g., drift tube IMS, DMS, TWIMS, TIMS, cyclic IMS, AIMS), stand-alone IMS instrument and tandem systems (e.g., coupled to chromatograph and mass spectrometer). The short course also includes the popular hands-on training with IMS instruments!
Dates and Location
Dates: Saturday July 20 and Sunday July 21, 2024
Location: Academic Health Center 4, Florida International University
Transportation will be provided to bring short course participants to and from the Holiday Inn Miami Beach-Oceanfront.
Syllabus
History and operating principles of IMS
Ionization sources and ion chemistry
Collisional theory and measuring mobility
Different types of IMS and tandem IMS systems, including IMS-MS
Applications
Hands-on instrument demonstration
Learning Objectives
After attending the short course, students will be familiar with:
Principles and operation of linear gradient ion mobility, differential mobility spectrometry, aspirator and dynamic field instruments
Instrument attributes associated with hyphenated mobility systems
Components of an IMS and their importance in relation to the performance of the IMS system
