May Meeting Announcement, Delaware Valley Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group

NOTE: We have a new location for this year's vendors meeting. The Radnor Hotel in Wayne PA.

Delaware Valley Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group Vendors Meeting.

Please RSVP to Kevin Owens kevin.owens@drexel.edu - by Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 5:00 pm.
An RSVP is needed to get a headcount for the served dinner.

• Topic: "Towards a "Molecular Microscope" "

• Speaker:Brian T. Chait, The Rockefeller University

• Date: Monday May 8, 2017. 5:00 PM

• Time: 5:00-6:30 p.m. Vendor Show
  6:30-7:30 p.m. Free Buffet-Style Dinner
  7:30-7:40 p.m. Business (Election of Officers, etc)
  7:40-8:45 p.m. Talk (Brian T. Chait)

• Please RSVP to Kevin Owens kevin.owens@drexel.edu - by Tuesday, May 2, 2017.
  An RSVP is needed to get a headcount for the served dinner.

• Place: Radnor Hotell, Wayne, PA.

• Directions: GPS users: 591 E. Lancaster Avenue Wayne, PA 19087
  http://radnorhotel.com/directions/

• Abstract:The myriad events that occur in living cells (replication, organellar assembly, transport, genome organization, transcription etc.) are to a large extent carried out through dynamic associations and assemblies of macromolecules. I will describe our efforts to develop and integrate sets of tools that are designed to throw light on the evolution, structure and function of these macromolecular machines.

  To do this, we are developing approaches for elucidating proximal, distal, and transient protein-protein interactions in cellular milieus, as well as for determining distance restraints between amino acid residues within large protein assemblies by chemical cross-linking and mass spectrometry. The long-term goal of this research is to develop what I will loosely term a "molecular microscope" for defining cellular systems with scales spanning all the way from dimensions of the cell to atomic resolution of molecules.

• Bio:
Brian T. Chait was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He received his B. Sc. (1969) and B. Sc. (Hons) (1970) from the University of Cape Town and D.Phil. (1976) in experimental nuclear physics from Oxford University. He has spent the past 38 years at The Rockefeller University, where he is currently Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor, heads the Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry, and directs the NIH-funded National Resource for the Mass spectrometric Analysis of Biological Macromolecules, constructing novel mass spectrometers, developing useful methodologies, and applying the developed technologies to challenging biological and biomedical problems. This work is documented in 392 research papers and 30 US patents, many of which are commercialized and widely used throughout the world. These publications have been cited more than 47,000 times with an average citation rate of 120 citations/paper. Professor Chait has received several awards for his research in developing instrumentation and methods for characterizing proteins, including the 2000 Bijvoet Medal, the 2002 ACS Field & Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry, the 2007 HUPO 2007 Distinguished Discovery Award In Proteomics, the 2012 Per Edman Award, and the 2015 ASMS Award for a Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry.

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