Calling all Early Career Researchers! Join us at HUPO Connect 2020 for an action-packed virtual meeting. The HUPO Early Career Researcher Initiative and the Young Proteomics Investigators Club invite you to participate in the following events:
The manuscript competition was first initiated at HUPO 2015 in Vancouver and is a unique opportunity for early career researchers to gain visibility in the proteomics community. It serves as a platform to highlight the important contributions that postdoctoral fellows, young clinicians and junior faculty members make to the proteomics field. The ECR Manuscript Competition takes place on October 21, 2020 at 14:00 UTC.
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We are delighted to announce that HUPO is holding its PhD Poster Competition at HUPO Connect 2020 which will be held online from October 19-22, 2020. Eight abstracts will be selected by an international panel to give oral presentations of 5 minutes during a dedicated PhD Poster Competition session scheduled on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 14:00 UTC. From these eight presentations, three presenting authors will be identified and awarded (USD $300 for the winner and USD $150 for the two runners-up) plus have their congress registration reimbursed.
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Mentoring Session 2: Career, Family and Work-Life Balance
Benjamin A. Garcia obtained his BS in Chemistry at UC Davis in 2000, where he worked as an undergraduate researcher in Prof. Carlito Lebrilla’s laboratory. He then received his PhD in Chemistry in 2005 at the University of Virginia under Prof. Donald Hunt and then was an NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois under Prof. Neil Kelleher from 2005-2008. From there Ben was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Molecular Biology Department at Princeton University from 2008-2012, until his recruitment as the Presidential Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in 2012, and was promoted to full Professor in 2016, and named the John McCrea Dickson M.D. Presidential Professor in 2018. The Garcia lab has been developing and applying novel proteomic approaches and bioinformatics for interrogating protein modifications, especially those involved in epigenetic mechanisms such as histones during human disease, publishing over 310 publications. Dr. Garcia is on the editorial boards for the Molecular Omics and Molecular and Cellular Proteomics journals, and serves on the Board of Directors for the U.S. Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) and the World HUPO Council. He has also been recognized with many honors and awards for his mass spectrometry research including the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Research Award, a National Science Foundation early faculty CAREER award, an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (awarded by President Obama), an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the PITTCON Achievement Award, the American Chemical Society Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist, inducted into the Royal Society of Chemistry, the ASMS Biemann Medal and most recently the HUPO Discovery in Proteomic Sciences Award.
Mentoring Session 2: Career, Family and Work-Life Balance
The Industry Needs You
Bernard Delanghe is currently the Product Marketing Manager Omics Software at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Bremen, Germany. His primary role is the bioinformatics market development, including managing strategic collaborations to develop new algorithms as well as complete workflows. In a previous role, Bernard Delanghe was Product Manager FT-MS, and Product Manager Biosoftware. During that time, he was responsible for Proteome Discoverer for which he received in 2018 the Industry Award from the European Proteomics Association (EUPA). He joined Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2003 after having worked for several years at Applied Biosystems in Sales, Support and Business Development. He has over 20 years of experience in Mass Spectrometry and Bioinformatics.
Mentoring Session 1: How to Make the Most Out of a Mentor-Mentee Relationship
Brandon T. Ruotolo is currently a Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Saint Louis University in 1999. Brandon then received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 2004 under the direction of David H. Russell. He did his post-doctoral work at the University of Cambridge with Dame Carol V. Robinson, and was awarded the first ever Waters Research Fellowship in 2008. Brandon moved to the University of Michigan in 2009, where he began his independent career. The Ruotolo research group at the University of Michigan seeks to enable breakthroughs in structural biology and drug discovery by leveraging the potential of ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS) for the comprehensive, 3D structural analysis of the proteome. To this end, Ruotolo and his team have studied the role of solvation on biomolecular structure, introduced collision induced unfolding (CIU) - a new fingerprinting technology capable of detecting the structural state of protein-ligand complexes and biotherapeutics, developed software packages for the enhanced interpretation and throughput of IM-MS and CIU data, and investigated the structural consequences of small molecule drug-like compounds on amyloid-related peptides. Ruotolo’s work has resulted in ca. 120 peer-reviewed publications, and many awards, including the Eli Lilly Award in Analytical Chemistry, the NSF CAREER award, the ASMS Research Award, the Protein Science Young Investigator Award, and the Agilent Thought Leader Award.
Mentoring Session 3 - Beyond Academia - Reflections from Industry: Transition from Academia to Industry
Publishing: A Career Beyond Academia
James Anson received a Masters of Chemistry at Oxford University before joining the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2010. Since then he has worked across multiple roles in publishing and is currently the Deputy Editor for a portfolio of journals including the multi-omics journal Molecular Omics.
In-Cell Protein Footprinting: A Tool for Structural Biology Across the Proteome
Lisa M. Jones is an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Maryland. She received her PhD in Chemistry from Georgia State University. She was a postdoctoral associate in the lab of Michael L. Gross at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research interests include the use of the protein footprinting method fast photochemical oxidation of proteins (FPOP) coupled with mass spectrometry for the characterization of the higher order structure of proteins. In particular, her lab has further developed FPOP for in-cell (IC-FPOP) studies for proteome-wide structural biology. Biological applications of IC-FPOP include characterizing protein folding intermediates directly in the cell and drug target engagement. The Jones lab has also extended the method for in vivo analysis (IV-FPOP) in C. elegans for studying protein structure in an animal model for human disease.
Mentoring Session 2: Career, Family and Work-Life Balance
Mathieu Lavallée-Adam is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa in the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology and is affiliated to the Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology. He obtained a B.Sc. in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Bioinformatics option, from McGill University. He then performed his postdoctoral research at The Scripps Research Institute. His research focuses on the development of statistical and machine learning algorithms for the analysis of mass spectrometry-based proteomics data and protein-protein interaction networks. He also designs computational methods mining proteomics datasets for biological information through their integration with genomics data. Dr. Lavallée-Adam is a recipient of the 2017 John Charles Polanyi Prize in Chemistry, recognizing the impact of his bioinformatics algorithms on the mass spectrometry community. One of his publications was also recognized as the 2018 Highlight of the Year by an early career researcher at the Human Proteome Organization World Congress. He is also a member of the HUPO Early Career Researcher Initiative, in which he organizes training activities for early career researchers in proteomics and events highlighting their research on the international stage.
Mentoring Session 2 - Career, Family and Work-Life Balance
Ruth Huttenhain received her PhD from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where she developed high-throughput, large scale targeted mass spectrometric approaches. During her postdoc at UCSF, Ruth extended her expertise in quantitative mass spectrometry to study dynamics of protein interaction networks. She pioneered a proximity labeling-mass spectrometry approach that simultaneously captures the precise temporal remodeling and spatial organization of proximal protein networks. Recently, Ruth became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at UCSF. Her group is focused on characterizing protein interaction and signaling networks to understand the biology underlying the development of psychiatric disorders and the sensing and transmission of pain. Besides being a scientist, Ruth is a passionate mom of a 2 year old toddler with whom she loves spending time.
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