{"692591":{"#nid":"692591","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Postdoc Candidate - Brison Shira (Purdue) ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETITLE:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIon Trap Mass Spectrometry Beyond \u003Cem\u003Em\/z\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis seminar will introduce me and how I think about chemistry. Naturally, the goal of any chemist is to do cool chemistry that matters, but the challenge is how to get there. This will be the seminar\u2019s thematic center. Two ideas guide my approach: an appreciation for chemistry in a broad sense and knowledge about the technical details of instrumental analysis. As an illustration, I will highlight a few key findings from the literature and merge this narrative with my own work. On the technical side, my key argument is that quadrupole ion traps offer under-exploited functions perfect for the AI-powered era. I will discuss my work with serine octamer chiral molecular clusters and MS\/MS fragmentation, which has broad relevance in origins of life chemistry\/homochirality and chemical analysis. An important motivator for me is mentorship and I will take time to explain my work with undergraduate and visiting scholars. To close, I will zoom back out and discuss chemistry\u2019s unmet needs and explain how my work fits in. Since AI has all the \u201csettled science\u201d at its fingertips, doing novel experiments has never been more advantageous and ion traps offer several avenues for new experiment types.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOne in the series of SoCB seminars.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Postdoc Candidate "}],"uid":"36903","created_gmt":"2026-09-15 14:25:22","changed_gmt":"2026-09-15 14:56:25","author":"amiller427","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2026-09-24T15:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2026-09-24T16:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2026-09-24T16:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2026-09-24 19:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2026-09-24 20:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2026-09-24 20:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"EBB Krone 1005","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHosted by: Vicki Wysocki\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}