Vision for the ICR Program (end of 2017)

as of summer 2010, mid-point in current award period

Maintain and extend world leadership in FT-ICR MS instrumentation and capabilities:

Highest magnetic field (21 T (also EMSL))Highest resolution and mass accuracyNew ionization methodsIon opticsAutomationData reduction

Orbitrap --possible 2-3x improvement?Multi-Pass Time-of-Flight--possible 2-3x improvement?

Future Fuels Institute

Joint industrial partnerships to establish a rational molecular-level basis for understanding and predicting the properties and behavior of petroleum (especially heavy ends) and biofuels

$250K/year for 4 years initially per Member Company>80% Publishable (Grad Students/Postdocs)<20% Proprietary (Staff--Treat as Patent I.P.)

Shell Global Nalco UOP Saudi Aramco ConocoPhillips Total (France) ExxonMobil Sinopec PetroChina

Exploratory Biofuels (1-2 year, $50-100K each): Sapphire Energy, Primus, Solazyme

DistillationHydroprocessing: Chemical Reactivity ModelingOil/Water EmulsionsAsphaltene CrackingCompartmentalization

Petroleomics database: >100,000 cpds from 77 Crudes

Petroleomics as a Predictive Tool

Quantitation: HPLC FT-ICR MS (W. Robbins, ex-ExxonMobil)

Distillation: GCxGC 7 T FT-ICR MS (Partner with Zoex)Pilot Data: 2010-2011

SBIR: 2011 Commercial Instrument 2012

Oil Spill MonitoringNalco, Woods Hole, NSF RAPID $$?, BP $$?

NIH: H/D Exchange to Map Interfaces in Protein Complexes Drug Design Top-Down Proteomics (Human Proteome) Cell Membrane Lipids/Glycolipids Metabolomics Biomarkers

Partners: Pfizer (Donated ESI/TOF mass spectrometer) M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Scripps La Jolla Northwestern U.

Need Bioinformatics Expert

Target needs for FT-ICR MS for Biochemistry & Biology