Dear Colleagues,
The Thermo Scientific Proteomics Seminars of have become an established venue for scientific and technological discussion and the sharing of practical tips. This year, many cities across Europe will host one of these events, and we would like to invite you to join us.
Protein quantitation is the main theme of the 2008 seminar series. These seminars provide you with the opportunity to get first-hand information about protein quantitation methods such as SILAC (for example, Prof. Matthias Mann at the Munich seminar), analysis of iTRAQ-labeled proteins with the LTQ Orbitrap (for example, Prof. Bernhard Kuester at the Berlin and Munich seminars) and targeted peptide quantitation applied to biomarker verification (for example, Prof. Mike MacCoss at the Utrecht, Copenhagen and Stockholm seminars; Dr. Melanie Flint at the London, Manchester, and Dublin seminars). In addition, Thermo Scientific application scientists will cover practical issues related to sample preparation, method setup and data processing for various quantitation approaches.
Electron Transfer Dissociation (ETD), a new dissociation technique broadly applicable to proteomics, is delivering exciting results. Scientists from Prof. Josh Coon's lab, the co-inventor of ETD, (Douglas Phanstiel and David Good) will talk about the novel LTQ Orbitrap XL ETD system and its application to the study of the human embryonic stem cell proteome. The advantages of ETD in the context of post-translational modification analysis will be discussed by Prof. Martin Larsen (at the Copenhagen and Stockholm seminars), Dr. Bruno Domon (at the Basel seminar), Dr Nick Morrice (at the London seminar) and Dr. Benito Canas (at the Madrid seminar).
Metabolomics and proteomics approaches are complementary and provide better insight into the organisation and function of biological systems. Contributions from Prof. Wolfram Weckwerth(at the Vienna seminar), Prof. Vladimir Shulaev (at the Madrid, Barcelona, and Milan seminars), Dr. Rob Vreeken (at the Dublin and Manchester seminars), Dr. Warwick Dunn (at the Utrecht and Copenhagen seminars), and Dr. Partick Kiefer in metabolomics will cover this interesting research area currently gaining momentum.
Functional proteomics (Dr. Keiryn Bennett at the Vienna seminar), signaling networks (Dr. Claus Jorgensen at the London, Manchester, and Dublin seminars), phosphopeptide and other PTM analysis (Dr. Nick Morrice at the London seminar; Dr. Carsten Sonksen at the Copenhagen seminar) and top-down intact protein analyses (Dr. Marta Vilaseca at the Barcelona seminar) add to the breadth of topics covered by Thermo Scientific Proteomics Seminars 2008.
Come and join us for the day!