Instrument Reservation

All instrument reservations are conducted through the facility manager. Please email donald.smith8@montana.edu once you have completed all necessary training.

MSU Users:

On-campus MSU users should use the online sample submission form below or the sample kiosk in CBB 28 to submit samples.

Online Mass Spec Sample Submission form

 

The form below should be uploaded with your sample submission form, and is is essential for small molecule molecular weight confirmation. It should contain sample names, molecular formulas, and structures.

Formulas and Structures Form

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.

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 . The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.”

Recommended Guidelines for Authorship on Manuscripts

How should we acknowledge or include core facility personnel as authors? (the publication of results and data interpretation provided by the core facility)  

Please follow this link to Association of Biomolecular Resources Facilities (ABRF) site on recommended guidelines for including core facility personnel as co-authors in publications.

Publication record is essential to ensure a high-quality core facility and for the professional development of its staff, we ask our users to carefully consider the input of core members to scientific publications.