Site sponsor and imaging mass spec service provider Protein Discovery has been busy. First, they have provided tissueimaging.org with artwork for their new corporate logo. Here's a handy guide to help you grok the change:
Old logo:

New logo:

So much better.
Second, they've put together a whole new web site, featuring descriptions of their imaging mass spectrometry services, their new PPS Silent™ Surfactant, and their upcoming MALDIplex™ M5 Sample Prep Station. I'm sure they wouldn't mind if you visited.
Third, CEO Chuck Witkowski describes Protein Discovery's ASMS debut as "a success on all fronts." Protein Discovery brought both imaging and non-imaging mass spec sample prep information and products to the conference. Their poster with LEAP Technologies on the new matrix sprayer for tissue imaging sample prep drew a cluster of interested imaging mass spectrometrists, and the company's information booth in the posters/exhibits area was quite overwhelmed Wednesday evening and Thursday morning following Wednesday afternoon's imaging sessions. More information is available on their web site; for a copy of the matrix sprayer poster, contact Jeremy Norris.
Fourth, on Tuesday during the conference, a press release crossed the wire announcing a cooperative imaging mass spec marketing agreement between Protein Discovery and Bruker. It was summarized thusly by GenomeWeb:
"Bruker Daltonics and Protein Discovery will co-market MALDI molecular imaging mass spectrometry products for protein biomarker discovery, the companies said today.
Protein Discovery holds a license from Vanderbilt University to provide imaging mass spectrometry services to customers in the research, pharmaceutical and diagnostics industries. Bruker, meantime, markets the MALDI Molecular Imager for this technique for research use only with Professor Richard Caprioli at Vanderbilt.
Protein Discovery's imaging mass spectrometry service laboratory is currently outfitted with Bruker instrumentation.
MALDI molecular imaging mass spectrometry reads cell type-specific protein and peptide mass spectra directly from sliced tissues. The imaging resolution of the technique enables differential mass spectrometry analysis of adjacent tissue types within a single tissue slice, such as cancerous versus non-cancerous regions."
Also at ASMS, it was the editor's privilege to meet many of the imaging mass spectrometrists mentioned previously on this site, including Richard Caprioli, and Swiss Alps snowboarder Markus Stoeckli, who advised us to "Keep posting interesting content. Keep it going."