Instrument Reservation

All instrument reservations in the MSMS facility are performed through Stratocore PPMS via the link below. Please note that you will be unable to book instruments until you have completed an instrument training session with the staff and given user rights.

If you do not yet have a PPMS account, you will be able to request an account after logging in:

PPMS Login

Sample Submission Forms

Sample submission can now be completed in PPMS through the Order tab.

Facility SOPs

Please visit our documentation page for facility Standard Operating Procedures on instrumentation, sample preparation, and data analysis. If you need additional assistance, reach out to the facility manager.

Facility Methods

LC-MS: Metabolomics

15 minutes, 4 samples/hour

Waters BEH Amidwe, Water/Acetonitrile 0.1% Formic acid

LC-MS: Lipidomics

13 minutes, 4.6 samples/hour

Agilent RRHD Eclipse Plus C8

A: 50% acetonitrile, 50% water, 0.1% Formic acid

B: 90% isopropyl alcohol, 10% acetonitrile, 0.1% Formic acid

LC-MS: Small Molecule (Organic Synthesis Confirmation)

10 minutes, 6 samples/hour

Agilent RRHD Eclipse Plus C18, Water/Acetonitrile 0.1% Formic acid

GC-MS: General Screening Method

15 minutes, 4 samples/hour

5 ms column, helium carrier gas

ICP-MS: Total Metals (Environmental)

4 minutes per sample, 15 samples/hour

External Users:

External facility users please use the following form to submit your samples. Please fill in all necessary details in the sample submission form. Failure to provide all the necessary background information on the samples can delay the results. Please email the form to the core facility manager before sending or dropping off any samples. External users require a Testing Services Agreement (TSA).

Sample Submission Form

Acknowledgement

When citing a core facility, please ensure that you are referrencing their Research Resource Identifier (RRID) number, and funding source. A citation example for Mass Spec is provided below:

“Funding for the Montana State Mass Spectrometry Facility (RRID: SCR_012482) used in this publication was made possible in part by the MJ Murdock Charitable Trust, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers P20GM103474 and S10OD28650, and the MSU Office of Research and Economic Development ."