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ETC Pre-Congress Training Courses

Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 8:30-14:15

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Session 1

Post-translational modifications: insights into sample preparation, enrichment, detection and computational.

8:30-10:00 | Conference room 3-4

Chairs
 
  • Yansheng Liu (Yale University, US)
  • Sayantani Chatterjee (Boston University, US)
 
Short description
This session aims to educate and inspire researchers and students interested in measuring and understanding protein post-translational modifications in their biological or clinical samples. The latest methodologies and research from leading experts in the field will be presented and discussed. Attendees will gain knowledge of the latest strategies, challenges, and solutions in PTM sample preparation and enrichment, covering protein phosphorylation, glycosylation, Cys modifications, and other PTMs like malonylation and succinylation. Additionally, the session will provide insights into PTM detection using state-of-the-art mass spectrometry techniques and demonstrate how advanced computational tools can be properly used for identifying, quantifying, and annotating PTMs.
Audience of the course
This course will be tailored to students, industry professionals, medical researchers, regulatory and quality control personnel, and academic scholars interested in exploring the experimental and computational approaches to characterize post-translational modifications. Moreover, the attendees of this course will explore the role of PTMs in various biological processes, disease states, and therapeutic interventions.
Proposed speakers
 
  • Martin R. Larsen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
  • Birgit Schilling (Buck Institute for Reseach on Aging, US)
  • Daniel Kolarich (Griffith University, Australia)
 

 

 

Session 2

Leveraging repository data to improve study designs

10:15-11:45 | Conference room 3-4

Chairs
 
  • Giuseppe Palmisano (Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
  • Marie A Brunet (University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada)
 
Short description
This Computational Proteomics Pre-Congress Training is intended to help both new and experienced researchers to incorporate existing knowledge into their proteomics study designs. The program will begin by discussing strengths and weaknesses of sequence databases from sources such as UniProt, Ensembl, and the Joint Genome Institute. It will illustrate strategies for building targeted or DIA experiment designs on the basis of biological pathways known to be involved in a phenotype. Finally, it will discuss strategies to include ProteomeXchange raw data in meta-analysis and the reporting of metadata to enable data reuse.
Audience of the course
This course will be tailored to students, industry professionals, medical researchers, regulatory and quality control personnel, and academic scholars interested in exploring the computational tools and resources to design a proteomic experiment. Moreover, the attendees will learn how to interrogate public proteomic data repositories.
Proposed speakers
 
  • David L. Tabb (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
  • Deepti Jaiswal Kundu (EMBL-EBI European Bioinformatics Institute, UK)
  • Lars Juhl Jensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
 

 

 

Session 3

Principal Investigator School

12:45-14:15 | Conference room 3-4

Chairs
 
  • Brian Searle (The Ohio State University, USA)
  • Bernhard Küster (TUM School of Life Sciences, Germany)
 
Short description
Despite all the training researchers get during grad school and in a postdoc, no one teaches you how to run a productive lab. This workshop will present multiple philosophies towards running a proteomics or mass spectrometry lab given by established professors and PIs, including HUPO president, Jenny Van Eyk, TUM Professor Bernhard Kuster, and other guests. Targeting early career professors, principal investigators, and PI-bound postdocs, this workshop will start with statements from each established panelist on how they got their labs established and predominantly focus on an interactive panel session. The discussion topics will include how to establish a lab community, how to mentor students, how to plan funding, how to manage your attention and focus, and how to prevent burnout. In short, the goal is to teach new and future PIs how to build lasting labs. The workshop and panel discussion will be moderated by Brian Searle.
Audience of the course
This course will be tailored to early career professors, principal investigators, and PI-bound postdocs that want to lead and manage their research groups including mentoring students, planning funds and organize the different research and administrative activities. This course will aim at preparing the attendees for current and future research endeavors or careers as group leaders in academia or industry.
Proposed speakers
 
  • Jennifer Van Eyk (Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, US)
  • Ruth Huttenhain (Stanford University, US)
  • Bernhard Küster (TUM School of Life Sciences, Germany)