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
  • 22nd May 2025 (Meeting) - Dr Johanna Jackson, Prof Kevin Mills, Dr Lukas Krasny, Dr Irbaz I. Badshah, Xun Xie
  • 29th October 2025 (Meeting) - Prof Matthias Trost, Dr Amina Nigmatulina, Dr Karin Barnouin, Dr. Emily Bowler-Barnett and Dr. Jack Houghton
  • 30th April 2026 (Meeting) - Dr Mercedes Pardo Calvo, Dr Richard Kay, Dr Ben C. Collins, Dr. Pavel Shliaha and Luke Higgins
  • 15th October 2026 (Meeting) - Dr Keshava Datta, Dr Matt White, Dr Francesca Roberston, Matilde Burridge and more TBA

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 15th October 2026 Time 12:00

Event Speakers

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

Dr Keshava Datta
Dr Keshava Datta
Dr Keshava Datta MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
London

Keshava heads the Proteomics Core Laboratory at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, where he collaborates with research groups to enable discovery and translational research.

Dr Matt White
Dr Matt White
Dr Matt White Department of Chemistry
Imperial College London

TBC

Matilde Burridge
Matilde Burridge
Matilde Burridge Department of Brain Sciences
Imperial College London

Matilda is a final year PhD student in the Ye lab at Imperial funded by the President's PhD scholarship, whose work uses post-mortem brain tissue and iPSC-derived neuron models to investigate the role of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in the development of tauopathies.

Dr Francesca Roberston
Dr Francesca Roberston
Dr Francesca Roberston Guilford Street Laboratories
London

Dr Francesca Roberston completed her PhD and Post Doc at Royal Holloway before becoming Experimental Officer to support staff and Students with Mass spectrometry experiments at University of Surrey. She moved to work into Industry and Protein Metrology research at LGC. She joined the new start-up company Guilford Street Laboratories in March 2025 and leads ImmunoTADA™ IVD for detection of anti-drug antibodies in Fabry disease. She works with NHS partners at the Neurometabolic Unit, UCLH to develop the assay to a clinical standard.

Wolfson Education Centre, Imperial College London
Du Cane Road
London W12 0TN

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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.

Dr Lukas Krasny
Dr Lukas Krasny Chairperson

Lukas is a Principal Scientist in Lonza Biologics, focusing his research on proteomics of the CHO cells and analysis of host cell proteins. In pre-industry life, Lukas spent 7-years as a postdoc at The Institute of Cancer Research, developing proteomic methods for analysis of extracellular matrix and FFPE tissues.

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.

Mark Weeks
Mark Weeks
Mark Weeks Venue Scout

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.

Tom Ruane
Tom Ruane Committee Member

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 Jack Houghton
Dr Jack Houghton
Dr Jack Houghton Committee Member

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

Dr Keshava Datta
Dr Keshava Dattan
Dr Keshava Datta Committee Member

Keshava heads the Proteomics Core Laboratory at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, where he collaborates with research groups to enable discovery and translational research.

Dr Lucy Ann Woods
Dr Lucy Ann Woods
Dr Lucy Ann Woods Committee Member

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 plant proteomics at the University of Warwick, then moved to UCL to do a postdoc working on structural proteomics of proteins associated with Huntington’s disease. Georgina now works at GSK on single cell and low input proteomics.

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.