• proteomics and lipidomics study in affective disorders.

• matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometer with double time-of-flight analyzer MALDI-TOF/TOF MS (ultrafleXtreme, Bruke Daltonik, Germany, 2011);
• liquid nanochromatograph (EASY-nLC II, Bruker Daltonik, Germany, 2011);
• fraction collector co-operating with the nanochromatograph (PROTEINEER fc II, Bruker Daltonik, Germany, 2011).

• diagnostic of the affective disorders on early step and evaluation of the progress of therapy;
• material: blood from the patients and tissue slices from animal (protein and lipids imaging);
• proteomic analyses – identification of proteins and analysis of their post-translational modifications, PTMs (BioTools software) with the use of:
• peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF),
• top-down sequencing (TDS),
• analysis of nucleic acids (oligonucleotides);
• analysis of lipid classes with the use of TLC-MALDI (esp. phospholipids);
• MALDI Imaging (MALDI IMS).

Methods and research techniques:

• MALDI-TOF MS, MALDI-TOF/TOF MS, LC-MALDI, TLC-MALDI, MALDI IMS.

• identification of proteins (on the basis of PMF and TDS experiments), analysis of protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs) with the use of BioTools software;
• analysis of macrocyclic compounds;
• analysis of synthetic polymers (end group analysis).