Toronto Post-ASMS Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group Meeting

"Environmental, Analytical, Bioanalytical, Proteomics Topics "

September 22, 2010 (Wednesday), from 4pm to 9:30pm, Toronto, Canada

Free-to-attend Event

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Program of the Meeting:

04:00pm-04:35pm – Registration and Coffee Time

04:35pm-05:00pm – "A high-density interactome for the ubquitin-like protein systems" - Presented by Sarah Wheaton (Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada)

05:00pm-05:25pm – "Mass spectrometric examination of metabolic changes following Emerald Ash Borer invasion; examination of volatile emissions, leaf extracts, and phloem samples" - Presented by Professor Raymond March (Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada)

05:25pm-06:25pm – Networking Dinner

06:25pm-06:50pm – "A Fully Automated Online Extraction Method for Determination of Raltegravir in Plasma by LC/MS/MS " - Presented by Dr. KC Van Horne (Tandem Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT, USA)

06:50pm-07:15pm – "Screening for Pesticides in Food and Water Samples with Identification based on Library Searching using Accurate Mass LC/MS/MS" - Presented by Dr. Paul Yang (Ministry of Environment, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

07:15pm-07:40pm – "Triacylglycerol Profiling and Positional Isomer Analysis in Omega-3 Enriched Fish Oil by Mass Spectrometry" - Presented by Dr. Lisandra Cubero Herrera (NRC Institute for Marine Biosciences, Halifax, NS, Canada)

07:40pm-08:10pm – Networking Coffee Break

08:10pm-08:35pm – "Structural Characterization of Short-Lived Protein Folding Intermediates by Hydrogen Exchange Mass Spectrometry with Top-Down Electron Capture Dissociation" - Presented by Professor Lars Konermann (University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada)

08:35pm-09:00pm – "Automated solid-phase microextraction in 96-well plate format: high-throughput analysis and ligand-receptor binding studies" - Presented by Erasmus Cudjoe (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada)

09:00pm-09:25pm – "Effect of Phospholipids on Efficiency, Reproducibility, Accuracy and Linearity of Bioanalytical Assays and Importance of Removing them During Sample Clean-up" - Presented by Dr. Fabio Garofolo (Algorithme Pharma, Laval, QC, Canada)