The goal of the MSACL Practical Training track is to provide down-to-earth advice from those with extensive or specific hands-on expertise to less experienced users in diagnostic laboratories.  Although talking about chromatography and mass spectrometry theory is important, as many people are using the technique with minimal theoretical background, we have found that spicing small doses of theory with large amounts of tasty real world case examples from your own practice is the most effective teaching mode for this track.  These are tutorial sessions, not presentations of your research.  We encourage interactive formats whenever feasible.