LPDG

-- The London Proteomics Discussion Group --
Proteomics seminar series for the South East

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Proteomics seminar series for the South East
Discussion
Networking
Methods Challenge
---Registration is free---

About the LPDG

We are a free, local proteomics seminar series in the South East,
with a focus towards networking, discussion and supporting early career researchers.

The LPDG...

was founded to bring together the large community of proteomics scientists all working in and around London. We aim to provide a space for discussion, with a focus on methods and early career researchers (two fundamental building blocks of good research!), on all topics related to proteomics. The meetings comprise of research talks framed by a proteomics methods challenge, lunch, refreshments and pizza - they are free to attend thanks to sponsorship.


Meeting Dates:

  • For past meetings click here
  • 7th November 2024 (Meeting) - Dr Vadim Demichev, Dr Maarten Dhaenens, Dr Sindhuja Sridharan, Shelley Jager, Dr Alejandro Brenes
  • 20th Feburary 2025 (Meeting) - Dr Georg Kustatscher, Emilie Alard, Dr Hongtao Zhang, Dr Yusuke Nishimura
  • 22nd May 2025 (Meeting) - TBC
  • 23rd October 2025 (Meeting) - TBC

Next Meeting
View updates from LPDG on Bluesky

Happy to be here on Bluesky. We'll be doing a little series of "meet the committee members" over the next few weeks, having just held our elections for new members. Look out for the old and new faces coming soon 😊

— London Proteomics Discussion Group (@lpdg.bsky.social) December 8, 2024 at 7:00 PM

Sponsors

These seminars would not be possible without our amazing sponsors.
If you are interested in sponsoring an LPDG seminar,
please get in touch at sponsor@londonproteomics.co.uk

Programme

for 20th February 2025 Time 12:00

Event Speakers

Would you like to present at an LPDG meeting? Email: speaker@londonproteomics.co.uk
Research presentations from:

Dr Georg Kustatscher
Dr Georg Kustatscher
Dr Georg Kustatscher Insitute for Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology
University of Edinburgh

I am a group leader and MRC Career Development Fellow at the Centre for Cell Biology in Edinburgh. The aim of our lab is to understand, from a systems biology perspective, how cells regulate protein levels and how these processes are disrupted in cancer cells. We address this question by combining proteomics and computational approaches, including machine-learning.

Emilie Alard
Emilie Alard
Emilie Alard Department of Biochemistry
University of Oxford

TBC

Dr Hongtao Zhang
Dr Hongtao Zhang
Dr Hongtao Zhang Rothamsted Research

TBC

Dr Hongtao Zhang
Dr Yusuke Nishimura
Dr Yusuke Nishimura Cellular & Molecular Physiology of Lifelong Health research group
Liverpool John Moores University

TBC

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London
16 De Crespigny Park
SE5 8AB

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FAQ

Here is a list of answers to frequently asked questions for speakers, delegates and sponsors

If you still have unanswered questions after reading this page, wish to present a talk, suggest a venue or sponsor a meeting, please contact us.

Organising Committee

The organising committee is made up of early and "not-so-early" career scientists
from academia and industry.
If you are interested in joining the committee, please get in touch.

Tom Ruane
Tom Ruane Chairperson

Tom has been working for SCIEX since 2018, having worked at Phenomenex since leaving the University of Manchester in 2015. He currently helps SCIEXs customers across Nordic countries, UK and Ireland working in life science research and drug development. In particular he has an interest in accurate mass technologies.

Dr Lukas Krasny
Dr Lukas Krasny Secretary

I am Principal Scientist in R&D Dpt in Lonza Biologics and focus on use of proteomics and multi-omics for applications in bioprocessing including MS-based analysis of host cell proteins, identification of predictive markers and targets for further improvements of expression system.

Brett Johnson
Brett Johnson Treasurer

Brett is a PhD student whose project focuses on skeletal muscle phosphoproteomics and membrane proteomics in response to α-melanocyte stimulating hormone infusion in healthy volunteers and patients with type 1 diabetes.

Amina Nigmatulina
Amina Nigmatulina Sponsor Liason

I am a final year PhD student in Prof. Ed Tate's group at Imperial College, with an interest in proteomics method development and profiling PTMs.

Dr Jack Houghton
Dr Jack Houghton
Dr Jack Houghton Venue Scout

Jack is a post-doc in the Tate Group at Imperial with an interest in proteomics methodology development and bioinformatics.

Thomas Maher
Thomas Maher
Thomas Maher Website Manager

Thomas is a PhD Student in the Vilar, Tate and Di Antonio groups at Imperial employing proteomics to interrogate DNA-protein interactions.

Dr Harry Whitwell
Dr Harry Whitwell Committee Member

I am a lecturer in the Division of Systems Medicine at ICL. My research is multidisciplinary, using chemistry, bioinformatics and biology. For more info, click here.

Dr Roberto Buccafusca
Dr Roberto Buccafusca Committee Member

I manage an MS lab at QMUL. I graduated from Drexel University (USA) in Biomedical Science, completing my PhD work at Harvard University. After a long stint in the private sector, I re-joined academia here in the UK researching lipidomics and proteomics.

Joanna Kirkpatrick
Dr Joanna Kirkpatrick
Dr Joanna Kirkpatrick Committee Member

Joanna Kirkpatrick
Crick Insitute

Dr Elizabeth Want
Dr Elizabeth Want
Dr Elizabeth Want Committee Member

Liz is Senior Lecturer in Molecular Spectroscopy at Imperial College London.

Dr Harvey Johnston
Dr Harvey Johnston Committee Member, Founder

After my PhD in blood plasma cancer proteomics I moved to the Cancer Proteomics Group at UCL. I founded the LPDG as a focus group for the SE. I am currently at the Babraham Institute investigating protein degradation pathways using proteomics.

Dr Vahitha Abdul Salam
Dr Vahitha Adbul Salam
Dr Vahitha Abdul Salam Committee Member

Vahitha is a lecturer in vascular pharmacology at WHRI, QMUL.

Dr Georgina Charlton
Dr Georgina Charlton
Dr Georgina Charlton Committee Member

Georgina completed her PhD in the Jones lab at the University of Warwick and now works as a postdoc in the Thalassinos lab at UCL where she works on structural proteomics of proteins associated with Huntington’s disease.

Dr Sindhuja Sridharan
Dr Sindhuja Sridharan
Dr Sindhuja Sridharan Committee Member

I am a lecturer at QMUL investigating the role of biomolecular condensation in brain tumour development using biophysical proteomics.

Dr Karin Barnouin
Dr Karin Barnouin
Dr Karin Barnouin Committee Member

Karin is a Senior scientist at UCB.

London and the South East
United Kindgom

Please email with any questions.
Particularly welcome are venue suggestions,
speaker suggestions or if you are thinking of sponsoring a meeting.

This seminar series is run by volunteers from academia and industry. We will try to reply to your email as quickly as possible, but please allow at least 5 days.