At the 50th ASMS Meeting in Orlando June 2-6, “The Capitol Specs,” a group of researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, led a moderately sober crowd (made festive by corporate hospitality) in rousing renditions of the following mass spectrometry-related songs:
TIME-OF-FLIGHT
(to the tune of “Oklahoma”)
Time of Flight
It’s al-right
Measures every ion in sight
Start pulse here
Stop pulse there
Looks at masses
Everywhere
Our resolution’s growing every day ....
Cause those peptides and proteins are making big ions.
Refrain
So keep your eye on my flight tube
Gonna stand the world on its ear
And you’ll see just how much we’ve grown
When we start mapping YOUR proteome
Time of flight
Line of sight
Reflectrons make the energy right
We use UV
And matrices
Any wavelength
That you please
Our resolution’s growing every day....
Cause those peptides and proteins are making big ions.
Those peptides and proteins are making big ions
Time of flight, its alright, yes and its out of sight
Today
MASS SPECTROMETRY
(to the tune of “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,”
from the musical Gypsy)
Mass spectrometry, we are alive and well
With our electrospray sources and MALDI of course, it’s
Sure we’re doing awfully swell
Mass spectrometry, we’re growing all the time
With our tandems and traps, you could say perhaps
That we’re doing awfully fine.
We know we can extend our high masses,
If we all work off our [rhymes with masses]
And so we say
To everyone today
It’s surely clear that
We’re doing fine mass spectrometry
Mass spectrometry
OK!