Toronto Post-ASMS Symposium - Oct 21

19th Toronto Post-ASMS Mass Spec Symposium, a Free-to-Attend Mass Spec Users' Meeting will take place on Oct. 21 at Crowne Plaza Toronto Airport.

List of Talks (in speaker name alphabetical order):

• Prof. Nicolas Bisson, Laval University/CHU Research Center of Quebec, Quebec, QC
  "Functional proteomics insights into receptor tyrosine kinase biology"
• Dr. Eric Bonneil, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC
  "Segmented Ion Fractionation and High Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometry expands proteome coverage to uncover sequence variants"
• Prof. Christoph Borchers, McGill University/University of Victoria, Montreal, QC
  "Structure determination of neurodegenerative disease-related misfolded protein aggregates by short-distance crosslinking constraint-guided discrete molecular dynamics (CL-DMD)"
• Prof. Christine Des Rosiers, University of Montreal/Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC
  "Comprehensive lipidomics unveils lipid dyshomeostasis and low circulating plasmalogens as biomarker in a monogenic form of mitochondrial disorder"
• Prof. Jennifer Geddes-McAlister, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
  "Dynamic proteomic profiling of the Salmonella-host interplay reveals new modes of action for known and novel virulence factors"
• Dr. Kaveh Kahen, Sigma Analytical Services, Toronto, ON
  "The use of mass spectrometry for quality control and understanding the complex chemistry of cannabis and its therapeutic effects"
• Dr. Yuyong Ke, EndoCeutics, Quebec City, QC
  "Application of LC-MS in the investigation of recovery loss, degradation and storage stability of finished products"
• Dr. John Kelly, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, ON
  "A comparative study of N-glycosylation assays for the characterization of Fc and Fab N-glycans on monoclonal antibodies"
• Dr. Lili Mats, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph, ON
  "Effects of purple potato rich diet on fecal metabolome profiles of mice as determined by untargeted LC-MS/MS screening"
• Mr. Kevork Mekhssian, Altasciences, Laval, QC
  "A sensitive LC-HRMS method for the quantitation of dystrophin protein in human muscle tissue"
• Dr. Adrien Musuku, Pharmascience, Montreal, QC
  "Matrix Effect, Recovery and Stability Issues in Regulated Cannabis Testing: Should Proficiency Testing Be Mandatory to Ensure Reliable Pesticides Analysis by LC-MS/MS?"
• Prof. Hannes Rost, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
  "Ion Mobility Separation improves MS sensitivity and duty cycle for data-independent acquisition on the timsTOF Pro"
• Dr. Audrey Roy-Lachapelle, Environment Canada, Montreal, QC
  "High-throughput determination of seventeen cyanotoxins and suspect screening of other cyanopeptides by SPE-UHPLC-HRMS in Canadian lakes"
• Dr. Varoon Singh, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
  "Direct Coupling of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Enhancement of Blade Spray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Quantitation of Analytes in Complex Matrices"
• Prof. Jeff Smith, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
  "iTrEnDi on biomolecules and beyond: enhancing MS-based quantitative analyses using new in situ diazoalkane chemistry"
• Dr. Jonathan St-Germain, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, ON
  "FBXO11 Network Identifies Novel Disease-Relevant Interaction with the Ubiquitin-Specific Protease USP28"
• Prof. Bingyun Sun, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
  "Body-wide proteome dynamics in the understanding and assessment of multiorgan drug response"
• Dr. Difei Sun, Lifelabs Medical Laboratories, Toronto, ON - TBC
  "Method development and validation of LC-MS/MS based assay for detection of carfentanil and norcarfentanil in human urine"
• Prof. Derek Wilson, York University, Toronto, ON
  "Illuminating the 'Dark Stage' of Amyloidogenesis in Neurodegenerative Disease Drug Development"
• Prof. Arash Zarrine-Afsar, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
  "Metabolic discrepancies within histologically equivalent tissues may limit the relevance of tumour bearing mice for mass spectrometry research"

Fun Part of the Meeting:

• Good Food and Good Science as always!
• Raffle Time - 3 Winners will be Drawn, and Each Winner will Receive a VISA Gift Card of $100

Many thanks to our 2019 Post-ASMS Sponsors:

• Peak Scientific
• Agilent Technologies
• Waters
• Phytronix
• Parker Hannifin
• Sciex
• Mandel Shimadzu
• Bruker
• EVOSEP
• Thermo Scientific
• Hamilton
• Canadian Life Science
• LECO
• Zef Scientific
• PerkinElmer
• DIKMA
• IonBench

Detailed information of this meeting is available at http://www.cfabs.org/ms_2019_toronto_PostASMS.php

This meeting is Free-to-Attend for Mass Spec users, but pre-registration to attend is required.

We look forward to seeing you on Oct. 21.