Proteomics seminar series for the South East
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-- The London Proteomics Discussion Group --
Proteomics seminar series for the South East
Proteomics seminar series for the South East
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:
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
08th October 2021 14:00 GMT
Quantifying uncertainty in mass-spectrometry based proteomics
Uncertainties arise in mass spectrometry because of the technical variability inherent in the instruments we use, the biologically variability in the samples, as well as the choices made by filtering and preprocessing. These choices are often employed to control an error rate or prioritise “hits”. I will apply Bayesian statistics to model data and answer complex questions in spatial proteomics, thermal proteome profiling and hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry and show what tools we have to deal with errors and uncertainties in mass spectrometry data science.
Bringing proteomics data closer to biologists: disseminating and integrating public proteomics data into added-value bioinformatics resources
I will first briefly introduce the work we have done over the years to support open science practices in the proteomics field, highlighting the role of the PRIDE database (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/), the world-leading public repository for mass spectrometry proteomics data. In this context, additionally, I will introduce the activities of the ProteomeXchange consortium (http://www.proteomexchange.org/) and of the Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI, https://www.psidev.info/).
Reuse of public proteomics datasets is increasing dramatically in recent years with multiple applications. In this context, our main focus is to disseminate and integrate public PRIDE proteomics data into added-value EMBL-EBI resources, namely UniProt (post-translational modification data), Expression Atlas (protein expression information) and Ensembl (proteogenomics data). We started to work with these resources and other collaborators in recent years, working in data reanalysis and dissemination pipelines. I will describe the status of these efforts, which are at a different state depending on each specific resource. I will also outline our future plans. These efforts are in my view required to bring proteomics data closer to a larger number of biologists, especially to those without any background in the field.
Would you like to present at an LPDG meeting? Email: speaker@londonproteomics.co.uk
Research presentations from:
Dr Vizcaino leads the Proteomics team at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, responsible for the PRIDE database and related software tools. Juan co-led the establishment of the ProteomeXchange consortium of proteomics repositories and is currently chairing the Proteomics Informatics Working Group for the HUPO-Proteomics Standards Initiative. He co-founded the ELIXIR Proteomics Community coordinating computational proteomics activities in Europe. His overall goal is to help researchers make the most public proteomics data, including data re-use and integration between multi 'omics data types.
Olly is a Todd-Bird Junior Research Fellow in Biochemistry at New College Oxford and a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Statistics, where he works on advanced computational methods for structural proteomics. He is supervised by Charlotte Deane from the University of Oxford and Chun-wa Chun of GSK. He completed his Ph.D in Bayesian methods for spatial proteomics with Prof. Kathryn Lilley, and an MMath at the University of Warwick. Olly's primary interest is to level-up mass spectrometry by developing models than can answer new questions of our challenging data.
Prof Dowsey is Chair in Population Health Data Science and Chair in One Health Bioinformatics and Biostatistics at Bristol Veterinary School. Andrew’s research group focuses on the facilitation and acceleration of health sciences research through novel artificial intelligence and statistical data science methodology, as well as data collection and management platforms. He is Co-Director for Enterprise & Innovation in the Faculty of Health Sciences, is an Associate Director of the HDR-UK South-West Better Care Partnership, and a Turing Fellow.
March 2020 Meeting
Here is a list of answers to frequently asked questions for speakers, delegates and sponsors
The meetings are free to attend! We raise money through the generous support of sponsors for refreshments and venue hire. Sponsors are offered the opporunity to suggest a plenary research presentaiton or present a short (10min) sales talk.
Yes! Thanks again to the support of our sponsors, we are able to provide a sandwhich buffet lunch, refreshments, and pizza and drinks to end. We try our best to get a range of refreshments to support diverse dietry requirments, but please let us know in advance if you have any specific needs.
We are always looking for new speakers - from PhD candidates to senior scientists within proteomics. We recruit speakers through personal invitations/networking, suggestions from deligates and from people contacting us directly. If you would like to present at a meeting, we would be delighted to hear from you, please get in touch at speaker@londonproteomics.co.uk
Registration is not essential, but it is very helpful for us to arrange catering and venues to ensure we don't over/under spend. In some cases, where space is limiting, registration may be essential and we will advertise this. If in doubt - register!
We do not have any funding to support delegates. However, if you are speaking, it may be possible to get a travel grant from the British Society for Proteome Research (BSPR). In some instances, we may be able to subsidise travel costs for speakers, but this is dependant on sponsorship for that meeting.
The organising committee is made up of early career (including PhD candidates) and more experienced scientist from academia and industry. We are very keen to have a bredth of backgrounds and experience on the committee, so if you would like to be involved, please get in touch by speaking to a committee member at a meeting, or emailing us - we would like to hear from you!
Our meetings are focused on proteomics and the delegates include proteomics-users from academia and industry. Therefore, at these meetings, there is a "captured audience" of possible clients. Sponsoring our meeting will allow you to present your product or service to a concentrated group of possible users. These meetings are only possible with sponsorship, and you will be contributing to the disemiation of science, and potentially meeting tallented future employees through networking.
We have a range of options for meeting sponsorship. To sponsor a meeting, please get in touch at sponsor@londonproteomics.co.uk, we will be delighted to hear from you.
Yes! Just like our physical meetings, our webinars are completely free to attend.
Please register for our meeting in the normal way (click here). A link will be emailed to you prior to the meeting starting with instructions on how to join. Alternatively, a join link for the webinar will also be posted here immediately prior to it starting. For webinars run as a Microsoft Live Event, find instructions on how to join here, or using Zoom here.
The discussion will be mediated by the chairperson who will take questions from all attendies. The best way to contribute during the talk and to post questions is through our slack account.
The meetings are recored and will be posted to our archive page.
The webinars are put on with the generous support academic institutions (as indicated in the webinar acknowledgements). We may accept sponsorship for webinars to allow us to run competitions and maintain our ability to put on free meetings in high quality venues. Webinar sponsors get the opportunity of a short presentation at the beginning of the webinar, and we may disseminate some information through our mailing list after the event. Sponsorship does not represent endorsement by LPDG or its affiliates.
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.
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.
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.
I am a post doc at ICL, developing mass spectrometry and data analysis methodology for the study of protein PTMs, in particular methylation. My research is multidisciplinary, using chemistry, bioinformatics and biology. For more info, click here.
I am a post-doc at the ICR in Paul Huang’s group. My research interest is in extracellular matrix remodelling during cancer progression. From an analytical point of view, I am interested in protein quantification by DIA mass spectrometry.
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.
Danai studied biology and biomedical sciences in Greece. She has worked in numerous labs in England, Singapore, the Netherlands and Greece. Now she is focusing on her PhD at UCL in Primary Biliary Cholangitis analyzing human samples using Mass spectrometry.
I am a PhD student at UCL on the CellX project in the Thalassinos Lab studying competition in cellular populations using mass spectrometry-based proteomics.
Daniel is a post-doc in the lab of Prof. Ed Tate at Imperial College London. His research interests lie in the use of chemical proteomics for better understanding of drug targets, protein function, and post-translational modification dynamics.
Tom works for SCIEX in the London region helping customers with MS and 'OMICS applications. He gained an interest in MS from working with Prof Roy Goodacre, Manchester Institute of Biotech. applying -omics and chemometric approaches for rapid food authenticity determination.
Jack is a post-doc in the Tate Group at Imperial with an interest in proteomics methodology development and bioinformatics.
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.
