NIU Molecular Analysis Core (MAC) Laboratory
The Northern Illinois University Molecular Analysis Core (NIU MAC) Laboratory serves as a premier research resource that primarily offers analytical and instructional expertise in mass spectrometry (MS). We offer a wide selection of mass spectrometry services to the NIU research community as well as external academic and non-academic researchers.
Our primary aim is to provide access to state-of-the-art MS instrumentation to meet the needs of users' research interests. Other spectroscopy, chromatography, and thermal analysis instruments are available.
NIU MAC is located in La Tourette Hall 304 and is managed and supported by the Division of Research and Innovation Partnerships (RIPS). The MS instrumentation and services offered by NIU MAC are available to academic (NIU and non-NIU) and non-academic users after appropriate new user registration and training.
To register as a user, please complete the user registration form and key card access agreement.
Learn more about the NIU MAC agreement, policies and scheduling.
Sponsorship
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments sponsors NIU MAC as part of its SPARQ (Shimadzu Partnership for Academics, Research, and Quality of Life) program. The SPARQ program provides top-tier maintenance and service contracts for the instruments for the lifetime of the partnership. The facility houses a suite of MS instrumentation for characterizing small molecules through to large (ca. 2 MDa) polymers and biopolymers.
Crediting and Acknowledging
The MAC Lab is subsidized by institutional funds. Therefore, all publications, press releases, theses, dissertations, other documents, seminars, posters, funding awards, and the like that result from utilization of the MAC Lab (including funding, tools, services, or support) are required to credit the MAC Lab and associated RRIDs. Use of instruments or services in the MAC Lab must include the following citation:
Northern Illinois University Molecular Analysis Core Laboratory, RRID:SCR_024586 (established in partnership with Shimadzu Scientific Instruments).
If you use the MAC Lab's Bruker Maxis Plus QTOF for high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) analysis, the acknowledgment described above must be modified to include the National Science Foundation because NSF funding was used to purchase the QTOF. The modified acknowledgment should be as follows:
This work was supported by Northern Illinois University's Molecular Analysis Core Laboratory, RRID:SCR_024586, which was established in partnership with Shimadzu Scientific Instruments. Purchase of the Bruker Maxis Plus QTOF was made possible by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1726931.
Contact Us
Elizabeth R. Gaillard, Ph.D.
Lab Director and Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
gaillard@niu.edu
Michael Vega, Ph.D.
Lab Manager
mvega5@niu.edu