🇨🇦 As part of our premier TMIC collective on metabolomics, please consider joining the Canadian Metabolomics Conference aka CanMetCon! Abstract deadline 15 MAR 2025 with the event being held 24-25 April in New Residence Hall, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec 🇨🇦

This year MSBM will feature The Loos! That’s Rachel and Joe, not a grunge band. I met them in 1991 when worked for Dick Smith doing loads of Native MS work before it was even a term, PMID: 24221963. EU PhD students could be eligible for 1.6-1.8 ECTS credits. Register now at msbm.org/registration/

lemon 🍋 went down first but delightfully delicious all eventually succumbed 😋 @mgoncheva.bsky.social

🙏🏼 Forgedaxe.ca 🪓🎄🇨🇦 Nearly 30 of us gathered to learn the art of the axe toss. 6 undergraduate students, 6 graduate students, 2 postdocs and loads of professional staff focused on Gram negative bacterial inflammation and fee-for-service in quantitative analysis of metabolites and proteins

kitchen chemistry: a variation on chocolate chess pie with date paste in place of sugar: 1/2 cup goat milk butter, 4 Tablespoons cocoa, 2 eggs, 4 oz whipping cream, 1 tsp vanilla, and 1 cup date paste made from 6 oz of medjool dates in place of 1 cup brown sugar. Bake at 400F ~ 45 minutes.

Movember saw Ljiljana Paša-Tolić (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljiljan...) visit the lab. She and I have had parallel careers in proteomics with her more focused on the top-down variety and me nearly giving it up in favor of microbial lipids in the last decade.