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The International Association for Protein Structure Analysis and Proteomics mission is to promote the discovery and exchange of new methods and techniques for the analysis of protein structure, to facilitate the application of methods in protein structure analysis in the pursuit of solutions to biological problems, and to support and foster the education of researchers in the techniques of protein chemistry, protein structure analysis, and proteomics.


 

 

MPSA2008:

Chemical and Structural Proteomics - The Solution to Biological Problems!

Location: Conference Hall, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Conference Dates:  August 26 - 29, 2008

International Advisory Committee 

Fumio Sakiyama (Chair),  IAPSAP, Japan

  • Carl W. Anderson, IASPAP, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
  • Ettore Appella, IAPSAP, National Institutes of Health, USA
  • Mitiko Go, Ochanomizu University, Japan
  • Hisashi Hirano, IAPSAP, Yokohama City University, Japan
  • Kazuyasu Sakaguchi, IAPSAP, Hokkaido University, Japan
  • Yasutsugu Shimonishi, Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology, Japan
  • Koichi Suzuki, New Frontiers Research Laboratories, Toray Industries, Inc., Japan
  • Naoyuki Taniguchi, Osaka University, Japan

International Advisors

  • Ruedi H Abersold, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
  • Carl W. Anderson, IASPAP, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
  • Ettore Appella, IAPSAP, National Institutes of Health, USA 
  • Juan J. Calvete, Institute de Biomedica, C.S.I.C., Spain
  • Theodora Choli-Papadopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Jay W. Fox, University of Virginia, USA
  • Roza M. Kamp, University of Applied Sciences, Germany 
  • Guy Lippens, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France
  • Gabriel Padrón Palomares, Centro de Ingenieria Genetica y Biotecnologia, Cuba
  • Richard N. Perham, Cambridge University, U.K. 
  • Kazuyasu Sakaguchi, Hokkaido University, Japan
  • Richard Simpson, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Australia 
  • Harald Tschesche, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  • Joël Vandekerchkhove, Ghent University, Belgium
  • Satya Yadav, The Cleveland Clinnic Foundation, USA 
     

Local Organizing Committee Chair

Kazuyasu Sakaguchi,  Hokkaido University, Japan


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IAPSAP/MPSA 2008 Pehr Edman Awards
 

The Pehr Edman Award is given to individuals whose efforts have significantly advanced the fields of protein chemistry, protein structure analysis, or proteomics. The award honors and commemorates the work of Pehr Edman, the Swedish chemist principally responsible for developing the chemistry for sequencing proteins by removing amino acids from the amino terminus one at a time. The 2008 awards, which are supported by Applied Biosystems and The Waters Corporation, will be presented at MPSA2008 to:

 

 Dr. Richard Perham

(http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/perham.html)
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, for his pioneering contributions to the structural analysis of proteins, protein complexes and filamentous viruses that have provided important insights for their assembly and function and for the development of techniques for protein modification.

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 Dr. Ettore Appella

(http://ccr.cancer.gov/staff/staff.asp?profileid=5715)
Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, for his work on deciphering the code through which posttranslational modifications modulate the activity of the p53 tumor suppressor and his contributions to characterizing the interactions of the T-cell receptor (TCR) with class I molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC).

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IAPSAP/MPSA 2008 Young Investigator Award
 

IAPSAP created the Young Investigator Award in 2000 to recognize promising young investigators who are beginning to advance the fields of protein chemistry, protein structure analysis, or proteomics. The 2008 IAPSAP/MPSA Young Investigator Award is supported by Agilent, Inc., and will be presented to:


 

Dr. Andreas Ladurner


(http://www-db.embl.de/jss/EmblGroupsOrg/per_2728.html) 
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, for his pioneering efforts to identify protein modules that recognize post-translational modifications in histone proteins and his protein engineering analysis of key components in the RNAi pathway.

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FEBS Journal Mini Review Series:


These Mini-reviews were derived from selected presentations at MPSA2006 and are available free of charged at The FEBS Journal (formerly European Journal of Biochemistry) website:  http://content.febsjournal.org/

Series 1:
Post-translational Modifications
Volume 274, Issue 20, October 2007
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ejb/274/20

Appella, E. and Anderson, C.W. 2007. Introduction: Post-translational modifications - S-palmitoylation, proline isomerization, disulfide bond isomerization. FEBS J 274(20): 5201.  

Nadolski, M.J. and Linder, M.E. 2007. Protein lipidation. FEBS J 274(20): 5202-5210.  

Lippens, G., Landrieu, I., and Smet, C. 2007. Molecular mechanisms of the phospho-dependent prolyl cis/trans isomerase Pin1. FEBS J 274(20): 5211-5222.

Hatahet, F. and Ruddock, L.W. 2007. Substrate recognition by the protein disulfide isomerases. FEBS J 274(20): 5223-5234.

Series 2:
New prospects for proteomics
Volume 274, Issue 24,  December 2007
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ejb/274/24

Appella, E. and Anderson, C.W. 2007. New prospects for proteomics - electron-capture (ECD) and electron-transfer dissociation (ETD) fragmentation techniques and combined fractional diagonal chromatography (COFRADIC). FEBS J 274(24): 6255.

McLafferty, F.W., Breuker, K., Jin, M., Han, X., Infusini, G., Jiang, H., Kong, X., and Begley, T.P. 2007. Top-down MS, a powerful complement to the high capabilities of proteolysis proteomics. FEBS J 274(24): 6256-6268.

Udeshi, N.D., Shabanowitz, J., Hunt, D.F., and Rose, K.L. 2007. Analysis of proteins and peptides on a chromatographic timescale by electron-transfer dissociation MS. FEBS J 274(24): 6269-6276

Gevaert, K., Impens, F., Van Damme, P., Ghesquière, B., Hanoulle, X., and Vandekerckhove, J. 2007. Applications of diagonal chromatography for proteome-wide characterization of protein modifications and activity-based analyses. FEBS J 274(24): 6277-6289.

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Last Modified: April 22, 2008
 


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