If you're in Baltimore for #ASMS2025 make sure to catch Lars' talk (@KonermannLars) at 10:10 in room 309!. There's also Evelyn's poster today (WP 609) and @kirstynyk's talk tomorrow at 3:10 in Ballroom IV to watch out for!.

From Taylor cone formation to gaseous ions, the complete ESI process has been modeled with continuous solution flow for the first time! Our very own @mdolatkh has just published her MD simulations in our newest paper.

We have a last minute holiday gift from (and also to) the Konermann Lab! @pabloscrosati.and Evelyn have married HPLC and MD using umbrella sampling to determine the free energy of peptide-stationary phase binding and correctly predict elution order! .

A huge congratulations to Kirsty Ng @kirstynyk for receiving the 2024 G. Michael and Joan Bancroft Research Award and presenting her outstanding research! This award celebrates the research excellence of a third year PhD student @westernuchem

"Can we get serious [about HDX-MS] now?" Lars and Pablo (@pabloscrosati) address the limitations of HDX-MS's ability to provide truly quantitative information on protein dynamics and share some strategies for complementing HDX data with simulation tools.

Another great talk by Prof. Lars Konermann at the CFABS Toronto Post-ASMS Symposium! If you're interested in learning more about these serine magic number clusters, you can check them out here😉

Credit also goes to Sanvid Mehta in our lab, who wrote an important part of the code used for the MD simulations of serine cluster formation!.

Ever wondered how serine octomers form to dominate spectra during ESI? Vida (@AlinezhadVida) and Kirsty (@kirstynyk) explain it all in the Konermann Lab's newest paper! We've got experiments *and* MD simulations in here so there's something for everyone!.

Newest paper from the lab: @HanifiKasra examines ESI droplet simulation parameterization and proposes some new "best practices" for modeling ESI droplets with MD.

Glad to see old friends (and labmates) here for convocation. Great to hear about what @heisenberg2T1 and @AlinezhadVida are doing now and where they're heading next.

Congratulations to @pabloscrosati for winning a CSC travel award to present his poster (The Stressful Life of Cytochrome c) at @ProteinSociety 's 38th annual symposium. This is the Konermann Lab' s third year in a row winning this award🥳🥳

The Konermann Lab ASMS reunion was tons of fun this year! Always great to talk shop (and Kevin Costner) with Konermann students past and present!

Always a joy to see young scientists fall in love with mass spectrometry!!! (our own young scientists now feel prompted to flex their #ASMS2024 awards too👀)

The Konermann Lab is at #ASMS2024! You may have missed our two posters, but you can still catch Lars' oral presentation tomorrow morning in room 207ABC! He'll be talking about serine octamer cluster formation (a very interesting story), and you won't want to miss it!.

Huge congratulations to Vida (@AlinezhadVida), who successfully defended her Master's thesis on Monday! She studied the formation mechanism of serine magic number clusters during ESI! That drink from the Goblet of Knowledge was well earned.

Kirsty (@kirstynyk) is here doing some hard-hitting science! Additives are commonly used to stop protein aggregation in solution, but Kirsty wondered how these additives actually work, and she may have just figured it out. JACS sure seems to think so 😉.

Our former lab member Haidy (@haidy_metwally) was just featured in this month’s Faces of Mass Spectrometry series by JASMS! We are all excited to see her building her career and getting some well-deserved recognition. Read the full interview here:.

As grad students, we’re incredibly proud and honoured to be mentored by Prof. Lars Konermann, who was recognized as a Distinguished University Professor here at Western University. A public lecture will be held tomorrow at 5 pm! More info here:

Join us in congratulating Yousef (@heisenberg2T1) on his successful MSc defence. Yousef did some great work peering into the world of gas-phase analytes with a fantastic publication comparing solution- and gas-phase protein stability. Good luck on all that is to follow Yousef!.

We all know that ammonium acetate isn’t a buffer at pH 7, but that left us wondering what the pH is inside droplets during native ESI experiments undergoing evaporation. Take a look at what we found!.