International Symposium on: Mass Spectrometry in Life Sciences.

Date : September 27-29, 2009
Place :National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore

last web page updated: 9th November, 2009

Participants of the Symposium :

A photo album can be downloaded from here .

The inauguration of the newly established MS-Facility at the National Centre for Biological Sciences was celebrated together with leading international scientist in the mass spectrometry field and with the community of Indian Scientists and students.
 

Program

Sunday, September 27, 2009

19:00 Grand Opening of the MS-Facility at NCBS-TIFR

 

Monday, September 28, 2009

SESSION I: Protein Structure / Proteomics

9:30 – 11:00

USING ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY-MASS SPECTROMETRY (IMS-MS) TO UNRAVEL BIOMOLECULAR ASSEMBLY PATHWAYS

Alison E. Ashcroft, University of Leeds, UK

NATIVE STATE DYNAMICS DRIVE THE UNFOLDING OF THE SH3 DOMAIN OF PI3 KINASE AT HIGH DENATURANT CONCENTRATION

Jayant Udgaonkar, NCBS-TIFR, India

INTENSITY FADING MALDI MASS SPECTROMETRY- FOR MONITORING PROTEIN INTERACTIONS, POST TRANSLATION MODIFICATIONS AND DRUG DISCOVERY

Mahesh J. Kulkarni, National Chemical Laboratory, India

SESSION II: Small Molecules

11:30 – 12:30

DETERMINATION OF CANCER CAUSING CHEMICALS IN THE OVARIAN CANCER TISSUES AND CYST FLUIDS COMBINED WITH MASS SPECTROMETRY

Chanbasha Basheer, National University of Singapore, Singapore

CHIRAL DISCRIMINATION OF AMINO ACIDS IN GAS PHASE USING ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY

Mariappanadar Vairamani, Institute of Pesticide Formulation Tech., India

SESSION III: Novel Instrumentation Concepts

14:00 – 16:00

IMPLEMENTATION OF ETD FRAGMENTATION ON CURRENT MASS SPECTROMETRY INSTRUMENTATION

Marcus Macht, Bruker Daltonics, Germany

HIGH DEFINITION LC/MS FOR UNBIASED DISCOVERY AND TARGETED PROTEOMICS

Mark A. McDowall, Waters Cooperation, UK

ORBITRAP TECHNOLOGY APPLIED TO THE LIFE SCIENCES - FOCUS ON 'MASS SPEC OMICS'

Martin Hornshaw, Thermo Fisher Scientific, UK

TOOLS FOR STRUCTURAL ELUCIDATION & METABOLITE IDENTIFICATION USING ESI-IT-TOF TECHNOLOGY

Zhan Zhaoqi,  Shimadzu Customer Support Centre, Singapore

Poster Session – Open Discussion

16:00 – 18:00

 

 

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

SESSION IV: Proteomics

9:00 – 10:30

HIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY: FROM SIGNALING TO CANCER BIOMARKERS

Raghotham Chaerkady, Insitute of Bioinformatics, Bangalore, India

FROM LABELLED TO LABEL-FREE METHODS: VARIOUS TOOLS IN QUANTITATIVE PROTEOMICS

Patrice Waridel, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

TWO DIMENSIONAL DIFFERENCE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS AND MASS SPECTROMETRY IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Kuppamuthu. Dharmalingam, Madurai Kamaraj University, India

SESSION V: Lipidomics

11:00 – 13:30

HIGH THROUGHPUT LIPID QUANTIFICATION BY TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY

Gerhard Liebisch, Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, Germany

APPLICATION OF HIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR THE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX GLYCOLIPIDS

Buko Lindner, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Germany

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER DEVELOPMENT TRACKED DOWN BY LIPIDOMICS

Dominik Schwudke, NCBS-TIFR, India

Poster Prizes - Certificates

Closing Remarks

 

We are grateful to funding agencies for their generous support

Department of Science & Technology, Government of India
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India

We are thankful to the sponsors for their support

Platinum Sponsor: M/S. Thermo Electron LLS India Pvt. Ltd.

Gold Sponsor: Waters India Pvt. Ltd.

Silver Sponsor: Bruker Daltonics

Special events are sponsored by

C-CAMP, Agilent Technologies

Mailing Address:
The Organisers
“Mass Spectrometry 2009
National Centre for Biological Sciences
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
GKVK, Bellary Road,
Bangalore 560 065 INDIA