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Stanford University Mass Spectrometry Vincent Coates Foundation
Vincent Coates Foundation

2012 Stanford Mass Spectrometry Users' Meeting

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Many thanks to all the attendees, speakers and sponsors, who made this a fantastic meeting!

Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Time: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Location: Arrillaga Alumni Center [map, transportation & parking directions]
Parking: Galvez Field event parking; register to obtain parking discount code
Admission: Free

Symposium for users of Stanford mass spectrometry resources as well as those interested in finding out more about applications of the technology. The Mass Spec Users’ Meeting is an annual opportunity for Stanford and community scientists to meet, mingle, and learn about research resources and ongoing mass spec related research at Stanford.

PROGRAM:

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Time: Activity:
8:30am

Registration, Breakfast
 

Workshops
9:00am

Developing Biostatistics resources at Stanford - an interactive discussion 
Prof. Phil Lavori, Dept. of Biostatistics
9:40am Research Resources at Stanford - Core Directors' Panel
Allis Chien, PhD, SU Mass Spectrometry
Michael Eckart, PhD, Protein & Nucleic Acid Facility
Caroline Harris, PhD, Stanford Plasma Lab
Joanna Liliental, PhD, Translational Research & Applied Medicine
Corey Liu, PhD, Stanford Magnetic Resonance Lab
Stephen Lynch, PhD, NMR Lab
Holden Maecker, PhD, Human Immune Monitoring Center
Orr Sharpe, MS, Palo Alto Veterans Administration Core
10:20am Bad Data in Mass Spectrometry - real-life examples, common sources, practical solutions
Chris Adams, PhD, SU Mass Spectrometry
Brett Phinney, PhD, UC Davis Genome Center Proteomics Core Facility
11:00am

Morning Coffee Break
11:15am

Keynote presentation

LC/MS today: From applications for the expert to those for the 'masses'
Dr. Jack Henion, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University; co-founder, Advion Biosciences
12:15pm

Lunch
1:00pm

Sponsor Seminars

(click for abstracts)
  Expression CMS & ChipMate nanoESI source - two new techniques to enhance mass spectrometry
Mark Laikhtman, West Regional Manager, Advion
  An Automated On-Line Card Extraction LC/MS System for the Determination of Clozpaine and its Metabolites in Rat Blood
Na Pi Parra, PhD , LCMS Product Manager for Solutions and Kits, Agilent Technologies Inc.
  EVOQ LC-Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
Chris Kellogg, PhD, QqQ R&D Manager, Bruker
  You found a what in your food??
Sharanya Reddy, PhD, Applications scientist, PerkinElmer Inc.
2:00pm

Afternoon Break
 

User presentations
2:15pm LADS: A Chemical Labeling Approach for Higher Confidence De Novo Sequencing
Arun Devabhaktuni, PhD, Dept. of Chemical & Systems Biology
2:50pm Chemical cross-linking & mass spectrometry for mapping 3-D structures of the transcription pre-initiation complex
Kenji Murakami, PhD, Dept. of Structural Biology
Chris Adams, PhD, SU Mass Spectrometry
3:25pm Metabolomic Search for Uremic Toxins
Dr. Tammy Sirich, Research Fellow in Nephrology
Dr. Tim Meyer, Professor of Medicine/Nephrology
4:00pm

Reception & Prize raffle

Many thanks to our meeting sponsors:

  • AB Sciex

  • Advion

  • Agilent Technologies

  • Bruker

  • Cell Signaling Technologies, Inc.

  • Fisher Chemical

  • Metabolon

  • Perkin Elmer

  • Phenomenex

  • Promega

  • Sage-N Research, Inc.

  • Thermo Scientific

  • Waters Corporation