Project

Accurate and ultra-sensitive quantification of analytes using an Acquity UPLC - Xevo TQ-XS LC-MS triple quadrupole system.

Code
bof/bas/2025/082
Duration
01 December 2025 → 30 November 2027
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Analytical spectrometry
    • Spectroscopic methods
    • Analytical biochemistry
    • Proteins
    • Palaeontology
    • Proteomics
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Archaeology of the Low countries or Belgium
    • Bioarchaeology
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Medical metabolomics
    • Microbial diagnostics
    • Protein diagnostics
  • Agricultural and food sciences
    • Food packaging, preservation and safety
Keywords
proteomics Peptide analysis Forensic Proteomics targeted protein analysis LC-MS/MS Food safety Accurate quantification Palaeoproteomics High-throughput analysis metabolomics
 
Project description

With this funding application we want to expand the analytical capacity of the ProGenTomics core facility with the robustness, ultra-high sensitivity, throughput and quantitative accuracy of a Waters Acquity UPLC system coupled to a Xevo TQ-XS triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. This refurbished, and therefore affordable system will allow for the simultaneous analysis of over 25 analytes per sample, with quantification limits reaching the low attomole range and a throughput of up to 700 samples per day. This will enable us to facilitate the growing analytical needs of our numerous (future) collaborators, supporting research projects that currently span a wide range of applications including pathogen detection, drug response profiling, clinical metabolomics, forensic protein analysis, allergen detection in food, and even sex determination of human remains in an archaeological context.