Fall 2024 Mass Spec Users' Meeting

8 - 9 a.m.

Continental breakfast & name badge pick-up

9 - 9:15 a.m.

Welcome: Introduction to Thermo Fisher Scientific's Users' Meeting
Paul Fayad, Ph.D., Senior Manager, Instrument Sales, Thermo Fisher Scientific

9:15 - 9:45 a.m.

From compounds to clinics: How Thermo Fisher innovation fuels your research
Maciej Bromirski, M.Sc., MBA, Sr. Marketing Manager for Hybrid Orbitrap MS, Thermo Fisher Scientific

9:45 - 10:15 a.m.

From natural sources to antifungal compounds
Jennifer Geddes-McAlister, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Guelph

10:15 - 10:35 a.m.

Coffee break & vendor fair

10:35 - 11:05 a.m.

Topic: Clinical metabolomics 
Ian Lewis, Ph.D., Director, Alberta Centre for Advanced Diagnostics

11:05 - 11:35 a.m.

Characterization of signal rewiring in cancer via proteomics approaches
Anne-Claude, Senior Investigator, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

11:35 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.

Lunch, vendor fair & raffle #1

12:35 - 1:05 p.m.

Context matters:  in situ crosslinking for mapping cellular interactomes
David Schriemer, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Calgary

1:05 - 1:35 p.m.

Unveiling hidden antigens: Rethinking cancer vaccines beyond somatic mutations
Pierre Thibault, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, University of Montreal

1:35 - 2:05 p.m.

Revolutionizing Targeted Metabolomics: A Stellar Approach
Susan Bird, Ph.D., Sr. Manager, Metabolomics, Vertical Marketing, Thermo Fisher Scientific

2:05 - 2:25 p.m.

Coffee break & vendor fair

2:25 - 2:55 p.m.

Topic: Environmental
Paul Fayad, Ph.D., Senior Manager, Instrument Sales, Thermo Fisher Scientific

2:55 - 3:25 p.m.

Uncovering the heterogeneity of the human metabolome
J. Rafael Montenegro Burke, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

3:25 - 3:40 p.m.

Wrap-up & raffle #2

8 - 9 a.m.

Continental breakfast & name badge pick-up

9 - 9:15 a.m.

Welcome: Introduction to Thermo Fisher Scientific's Users' Meeting
Paul Fayad, Ph.D., Senior Manager, Instrument Sales, Thermo Fisher Scientific

9:15 - 9:45 a.m.

From compounds to clinics: How Thermo Fisher innovation fuels your research
Maciej Bromirski, M.Sc., MBA, Sr. Marketing Manager for Hybrid Orbitrap MS, Thermo Fisher Scientific

9:45 - 10:15 a.m.

Uncovering the heterogeneity of the human metabolome
J. Rafael Montenegro Burke, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

10:15 - 10:35 a.m.

Coffee break & vendor fair

10:35 - 11:05 a.m.

Topic: Clinical metabolomics
Ian Lewis, Ph.D., Director, Alberta Centre for Advanced Diagnostics

11:05 - 11:35 a.m.

Characterization of signal rewiring by kinase fusions and truncations via proteomics approaches
Ugo Dionne, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

11:35 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.

Lunch, vendor fair & raffle #1

12:35 - 1:05 p.m.

Context matters:  in situ crosslinking for mapping cellular interactomes
David Schriemer, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Calgary

1:05 - 1:35 p.m.

Unveiling hidden antigens: Rethinking cancer vaccines beyond somatic mutations
Pierre Thibault, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, University of Montreal

1:35 - 2:05 p.m.

Revolutionizing Targeted Metabolomics: A Stellar Approach
Susan Bird, Ph.D., Sr. Manager, Metabolomics, Vertical Marketing, Thermo Fisher Scientific

2:05 - 2:25 p.m.

Coffee break & vendor fair

2:25 - 2:55 p.m.

Topic: Environmental
Paul Fayad, Ph.D., Senior Manager, Instrument Sales, Thermo Fisher Scientific

2:55 - 3:25 p.m.

From natural sources to antifungal compounds
Jennifer Geddes-McAlister, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Guelph

3:25 - 3:40 p.m.

Wrap-up & raffle #2

8 - 9 a.m.

Continental breakfast & name badge pick-up

9 - 9:15 a.m.

Welcome: Introduction to Thermo Fisher Scientific's Users' Meeting
Matthew Clabaugh, Sr. Manager,Technical Sales Specialists, Thermo Fisher Scientific

9:15 - 9:45 a.m.

From compounds to clinics: How Thermo Fisher innovation fuels your research
Aaron Robitaille, Ph.D., Director, LSMS Marketing, Thermo Fisher Scientific

9:45 - 10:20 a.m.

Topic to be announced

10:20 - 10:40 a.m.

Coffee break & vendor fair

10:40 - 11:15 a.m.

The journey from unbiased plasma proteomics biomarker discovery to translated clinical assay
Jimmy Zeng, Associate Director of Mass Spectrometry, PrognomiQ

11:15 - 11:50 a.m.

Clinical proteomics to support translational research in drug development
Veronica Anania, Senior Principal Scientist, Director of Clinical Proteomics Genentech, Inc.

11:50 a.m. - 12:50 p.m.

Lunch, posters, vendor fair & raffle #1

8:00 - 9 a.m.

Continental breakfast & name badge pick-up

9 - 9:15 a.m.

Welcome: Introduction to Thermo Fisher Scientific's Users' Meeting
Kate Lincoln, Thermo Fisher Scientific

9:15 - 9:45 a.m.

From compounds to clinics: How Thermo Fisher innovation fuels your research
Amanda Lee, Ph.D., Product Marketing, Thermo Fisher Scientific

9:45 - 10:05 a.m.

Tandem Mass Tagging: New reagents and instrumentation
Joao A. Paulo, Instructor in Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School

Applications of TMT sample multiplexing to compound library screening
Steven Gygi, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School

10:30 - 10:50 a.m.

Coffee break & vendor fair

10:50 - 11:20 a.m.

Immunopeptidomics and SureQuant pMHC for development of targeted immunotherapies
Forest M. White, Ned C. (1949) and Janet C. (Bemis) Rice Professor of Biological Engineering, Koch Institute for Cancer Research, MIT

11:20 - 11:50 a.m.

Topic to be announced

11:50 a.m. - 12:50 p.m.

Lunch, vendor fair & raffle #1

8:30 - 9:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast and Name Badge Pick-up

9:30 - 9:45 a.m.

Welcome & Introductions
Sean Bennett, Sales Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific

9:45 - 10:15 a.m.

From compounds to clinics: How Thermo Fisher innovation fuels your research.
Scott Peterman Ph.D., Product Marketing LSMS, Thermo Fisher Scientific

10:15 - 10:45 a.m.

Native MS involving electron capture charge reduction and/or surface induced dissociation
Vicky Wysocki Ph.D, Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio State University

10:45 - 11:05 a.m.

Coffee break & vendor fair

11:05 - 11:35 a.m.

Glycoproteomic approaches to characterize viral spike proteins and glycoprotein biologics
Lance Wells, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia

11:35 - 12:05 p.m.

Topic to be announced
Gary Patti, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis

12:05 - 1:00 p.m.

Lunch, vendor fair, & raffle #1

8:30 - 9 a.m.

Registration: Badge pick-up, refreshments, and networking

9 - 9:45 a.m.

Single Shot DIA Proteome Analysis with the Orbitrap Astral – the new gold standard for quantitative proteomics
Joshua Coon Ph.D., Professor, Biomolecular Chemistry and Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison

9:45 - 10:20 a.m.

Use of Thermo HRMS Systems in GMP Settings
Jie Ding Ph.D., Senior Director, Extractables &Leachables, Mass Spec and Protein Characterization, PPD

10:20 - 10:40 a.m.

Coffee break

10:40 - 11:10 a.m.

Exploring New Frontiers in HDX-MS with Thermo Fisher Scientific - Latest Developments and Applications
Yuqi Shi Ph.D., Structural Biology Vertical Marketing Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific

11:10 - 11:40 a.m.

Applying UHPLC-HRAM MS/MS method to assess host cell protein clearance during the purification process development of therapeutic mAbs
Reiko Kiyonami Ph.D., Sr. Product Applications Scientist, Thermo Fisher Scientific

11:40 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.

Expanding sample multiplexing for high throughput quantitative proteomics using TMTpro 32plex reagents
Ryan Bomgarden Ph.D., Sr. Mgr. R&D Chemistry & MS Reagents, Thermo Fisher Scientific

12:10 - 1:15 p.m.

Lunch & networking

1:15 - 2 p.m.

Changing the paradigm of translational research with the introduction of the Stellar mass spectrometer
Scott Peterman Ph.D., Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific

2 - 2:30 p.m.

Deciphering spatial variation in lipid profiles of X-Ray irradiated cells using nanoflow LC coupled to an Orbitrap Exploris 240 MS
Susan Bird Ph.D., Sr. Manager, Metabolomics Vertical Marketing Group, Thermo Fisher Scientific

2:30 - 3 p.m.

Q&A session, wrap up and adjourn