Using Proteomics, Lipidomics, and NMR analysis to solve biological problems!
THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS
AND THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC
You may register on-site. Please plan to attend this informative and exciting Symposium on
March 4 and 5, 2009!
Wednesday, March 4
12:45 - 1:20 Registration - Big 12 Room in the K-State Student Union
1:20 - 1:30
1:30 - 2:15
2:15 - 3:00
Welcome and announcements
William Old - University of Colorado at Boulder
Title: Melanoma and the B-Raf connection: application of phosphoproteomics to unravel mechanisms of cancer progression
Xianlin Han - Washington University School of Medicine
Title: Shotgun Lipidomics reveals altered lipid content/composition and identifies the responsible biochemical mechanism(s)
3:00 - 3:30 Emily Ragan - Kansas State University
Title: Using proteomics to identify serpin-1 isoforms and immune related proteins in the insect
Manduca sexta
3:30 - 4:00
4:00 - 5:00
Refreshments - Chalmers atrium
John L. Markley - University of Wisconsin-Madison - Ackert Room 120
Title: New approaches to the detection, identification, and quantification of metabolites in biological fluids and extracts
Thursday, March 5
7:30 - 8:25 Registration and continental breakfast - Big 12 Room in the K-State Student Union
8:25 - 8:30
8:30 - 9:15
9:15 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:20
10:20 - 11:05
Welcome and announcements
Gerhard Wagner - Harvard Medical School
Title: Changes of metabolite levels due to expression of oncogenes
Maria Sepulveda - Purdue University
Title: Use of Omic tools for the evaluation of contaminant effect in aquatic organisms
Refreshments - Flint Hills Room in the K-State Student Union
Roman Ganta - Kansas State University
Title: Total, membrane, and immunogenic proteomes of macrophage- and tick cell-specific
Ehrlichia chaffeensis

11:05 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:55
12:00 - 1:15
1:15 - 2:00
2:00 - 2:45
2:45 - 3:15
3:15 - 4:00
4:00 - 4:30
4:30 - 4:50
J. Ernest Minton & Stacy Place - Kansas State University
Title: Omega-3 fatty acid supplementation affects selected phospholipids in peripheral white blood cells and in plasma of full-sized and miniature mares
Neal Dittmer - Kansas State University
Title: Proteomic and expression analysis of Tribolium cuticle proteins
Lunch - Flint Hills Room in the K-State Student Union - No charge!
Brenda Oppert - ARS Grain Marketing and Production Research Center
Title: Encyclopedia Tribolium : Mapping the larval gut transcriptome and proteome of Tribolium castaneum
David Tabb - Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Title: Untangling newly annotated proteomes with IDPicker protein assembly
Refreshments - Flint Hills Room in the K-State Student Union
Teresa Fan - University of Louisville
Title: Pathway elucidation by stable isotope-assisted metabolomics (SIAM)
Dr. Asokan Anbanandam - University of Kansas
Title: Structural insight into methionine oxidation and calmodulin function
Sean Finnie - Kansas State University
Title: Variation in polar lipid composition among near-isogenic wheat lines containing different puroindoline mutations
Who should attend: Professors, scientists, postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and research associates/assistants!
Cost: Kansas State University participants will be FREE!
Other institutions: Faculty - $55.00 and postdoctoral scientists and students will be $35.00!
Travelers: Hotel reservations can be made at the Hampton Inn for participants at the special rate of $96
(plus tax). Please refer to the Functional Genomics Consortium when making your reservation directly with the hotel at 785-539-5000. If you are staying at the Hampton Inn and driving to campus, you will need a parking permit. Please indicate your need for a permit on your registration form and a permit with parking instructions will be sent to you prior to the event.
Please write to registration@k-state.edu
if you have any questions concerning your registration. Please include Functional Genomics Consortium in the subject line. We look forward to seeing you March 4 & 5!
Agenda subject to change
An Initiative of the Targeted Excellence Program at K-State