From Mass Spectrometry to Protein Complexes

September 9 at ECCB'12, Basel, Switzerland

 

Motivation

Mass spectrometry (MS) and proteomics have developed at an extraordinary pace over the last two decades to reach levels of sensitivity and diversity in their applications that make them fundamental tools of biomedical research. This spectacular development regularly augmented the quality, complexity, and also the quantity of generated data such that, overall, the field of computational proteomics has emerged as a very rich and broad branch of computational biology.

 

Goals

In this workshop, we want to provide an overview of current research topics and applied methods as a mean to introduce beginners to the field and to provide a timely update to attendees with previous knowledge in computational proteomics.

The covered topics will include (but are not limited to):

  • MS data identification
  • PTM characterization
  • Peptide de novo sequencing and proteomics for unsequenced genomes
  • Indexing and search acceleration
  • Quantitative proteomics and PTM dynamics
  • Determination of protein interactions via affinity purification MS (AP-MS)
  • Inference of protein complex architecture from AP-MS datasets

 

Abstract submission

We strongly encourage interested researchers to present their recent work or interesting overviews at the workshop. Abstracts should use the following Microsoft Word example.

Please send abstracts to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. not later than the 31th of May, 2012, and not forgetting to indicate whether an oral or a poster presentation is preferred.

 

Detailed program 

Can be downloaded here (program and abstracts).

 

Organization

Selection committee

  • Florian P. Breitwieser (CeMM, Vienna, Austria)
  • Thomas Burger (CNRS, Geneoble, France)
  • Jacques Colinge (CeMM, Vienna, Austria)
  • Fazel Famili (NRCC, Ottawa, Canada)
  • Oliver Horlacher (SIB, Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Markus Müller (SIB, Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Alexander Schmidt (Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland)
  • Alexey Stukalov (CeMM, Vienna, Austria)
  • Thomas Taus (IMP, Vienna, Austria)

Organizers

  • Jacques Colinge, PhD, Univ.-Doz., heads the bioinformatics department at CeMM and is an adjunct professor at the Technical University of Graz. His group develops methods to analyze quantitative proteomics data, infer protein complexes, and analyze gene/protein interaction networks.
  • Markus J. Müller, PhD, is a senior scientist at the Proteome Informatics Group at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, where he leads and supervises the development of computational proteomics software.
  • Alexander Schmidt, PhD, heads the Basel Biozentrum Proteomics Core Facility and has a broad experience of the application of computational proteomics acquired notably during his postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology.