70th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics (June 5- 9, 2022) Graduate Student Jonathan Choi presented a poster in Carbohydrates session titled "Identification of Glycosylation Occupancy in CD16 protein using Top-Down Proteomics" Graduate student Jandi Kim presented a poster in the Carbohydrates session titled "A comparison of CZE-FT-ICR MS and CZE-Orbitrap MS for the analysis of complex GAGs mixtures" Graduate Student Elijah Roberts presented a poster in Informatics: Algorithms and Statistical Advances session titled "Informatics software for the comprehensive composition and structural analysis of sulfated glycosaminoglycans" Graduate student Yiqing Zhang presented a poster in the Carbohydrates session titled "Capillary zone electrophoresis - Mass spectrometry and Principal component analysis of human plasma heparin sulphate oligosaccharides" 69th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics (October 31- November 4, 2021) Graduate student Jandi Kim presented a poster in the Carbohydrates session titled "Identification of Glycosaminoglycan Mixtures by CZE-MS and Evaluation of a Supercharging reagent for MS/MS analysis" Graduate student Robert Williams presented an oral in the glycopeptides and Glycoproteins session titled "Studying the Domain Orientation of Robo1-Ig1-2 and the effect of Heparan Sulfate Binding via IM, NMR, and MD" Graduate student Elijah Roberts presented a poster in the Carbohydrates session titled "Informatics approach for the composition assignment of full-length glycosaminoglycans extracted from human plasma" Graduate student Tanvir Ahmed presented a poster in the Glycoproteins session titled "Effect of Glycosylation on CEACAM1 protein structure studied by IM-MS and FT-ICR" Graduate student Yiqing Zhang presented a poster in the Carbohydrates session titled "The Comprehensive Sequence profiling of Bikunin GAGs with CZE-Tandem Mass Spectrometry" Graduate student Brianna Garcia presented a poster in the Metabolomics: Untargeted Metabolite Profiling session titled "Effect of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) mutation on the untargeted metabolome and exogenous xenobiotic detoxification capabilities of Caenorhabditis elegans" 68th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics Reboot (June 1-12 2020) Online due to CoVID-19 Postdoc researcher Gina Renois presented a poster in the Carbohydrates session titled "Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Negative Electron Transfer Dissociation Mass Spectrometry (CZE-NETD-MS) Analysis of Protein Pull-Down Glycosaminoglycans" Graduate student Lauren Pepi presented an oral in the Carbohydrates session titled "Advances in Tandem Mass Spectrometry Approaches for the Structural Characterization of Sulfated Glycosaminoglycans" Graduate student Rob Williams presented a poster in the Proteins: Conformation Analysis and Structural Biology session titled "Domain orientation of the HS-binding protein Robo1 studied by IM-MS, NMR, and SAXS" Graduate student Tanvir Ahmed presented a poster in the Proteins: Conformation Analysis and Structural Biology session titled "Investigating the Impact of Heparan Sulfate Domain Structure on Interleukin 8 Heparan Sulfate interactions" Graduate student Jandi Kim presented a poster in the Carbohydrates session titled "Multivariate Analysis of Tandem Mass Spectrometry Data Distinguishes Epimeric Glycosaminoglycans" Graduate student Yiqing Zhang presented a poster in the Carbohydrates session titled "Capillary Zone Electrophoresis-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Long Chain Chondroitin Sulfate / Dermatan Sulfate and Bikunin" Undergraduate student Marshall Liss presented a poster in the Carbohydrates session titled "Identification of Synthetic Heparan Sulfate Glycosaminoglycan Hexasaccharides Epimers by Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Negative Electron Transfer Dissociation Tandem Mass Spectrometry" Atlanta-Athens Mass Spectrometry Discussion Groups (AAMSDG) (September 27, 2019) at Emory Graduate student Lauren Pepi presented a poster titled "Comparison of Charge Transfer Dissociation (CTD) and Electron Detachment Dissociation (EDD) for the structural analysis of Glycosaminoglycans " Graduate student Brianna Garcia presented a poster titled "Design of Experiments: Sample preparation optimization for a large-scale C. elegans metabolomics study " Graduate student Lauren Pepi presented a poster titled "Comparison of Charge Transfer Dissociation (CTD) and Electron Detachment Dissociation (EDD) for the structural analysis of Glycosaminoglycans " Graduate student Brianna Garcia presented a poster titled "Design of Experiments: Sample preparation optimization for a large-scale C. elegans metabolomics study " 67th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics (June 2-6 2019) Atlanta, GA Graduate student Morgan Stickney presented a poster titled "Negative Electron Transfer Dissociation Mass Spectrometry of Glycosaminoglycan Mixtures After Capillary Zone Electrophoresis" Graduate student Patience Sanderson presented a poster titled "Separation and Identification of Sulfated Glycosaminoglycans in Urine using Capillary Electrophoresis and Tandem Mass Spectrometry" Graduate student Lauren Pepi had an oral presentation titled "Comparison of Charge Transfer Dissociation (CTD) and Electron Detachment Dissociation (EDD) for the Strucutral Analysis of Glycosaminoglycans" in the Carbohydrate oral session. Graduate student Rob Williams presented a poster titled "Top-Down and FTICR-ECD MS/MS of the Multiply Glycosylated CEACAM1 N-Terminal Domain" Graduate student Brianna Garcia presented a poster titled "Optimization of Caenorhabditis elegans Homogenization and Extraction Methods for Non-targeted Metabolomics using Orbitrap and FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry" Graduate student Patience Sanderson presented a poster titled "Separation and Identification of Sulfated Glycosaminoglycans in Urine using Capillary Electrophoresis and Tandem Mass Spectrometry" Graduate student Lauren Pepi had an oral presentation titled "Comparison of Charge Transfer Dissociation (CTD) and Electron Detachment Dissociation (EDD) for the Strucutral Analysis of Glycosaminoglycans" in the Carbohydrate oral session. 12th North American FT MS Conference (April 28- May 2 2019) Key West, FL Dr. Amster presented a talk titled "FTMS Approaches to Glycosaminoglycan Analysis" Graduate Students Rob and Brianna were two of three students chosen from their poster presentations to give an oral presentation. Graduate student Morgan Stickney presented a poster titled "Negative Electron Transfer Dissociation Mass Spectrometry of Glycosaminoglycan Mixtures After Capillary Zone Electrophoresis" Graduate student Patience Sanderson presented a poster titled "Separation and Identification of Sulfated Glycosaminoglycans in Urine using Capillary Electrophoresis and Tandem Mass Spectrometry" Graduate student Lauren Pepi presented a poster titled "Comparison of Charge Transfer Dissociation (CTD) and Electron Detachment Dissociation (EDD) for the Structural Analysis of Glycosaminoglycans" Graduate student Rob Williams presented a poster titled "Top-Down and FTICR-ECD MS/MS of the Multiply Glycosylated CEACAM1 N-Terminal Domain" Graduate student Brianna Garcia presented a poster titled "Optimization of Caenorhabditis elegans Homogenization and Extraction Methods for Non-targeted Metabolomics using Orbitrap and FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry" Graduate student Morgan Stickney presented a poster titled "Negative Electron Transfer Dissociation Mass Spectrometry of Glycosaminoglycan Mixtures After Capillary Zone Electrophoresis" Graduate student Patience Sanderson presented a poster titled "Separation and Identification of Sulfated Glycosaminoglycans in Urine using Capillary Electrophoresis and Tandem Mass Spectrometry" Graduate student Lauren Pepi presented a poster titled "Comparison of Charge Transfer Dissociation (CTD) and Electron Detachment Dissociation (EDD) for the Structural Analysis of Glycosaminoglycans" Graduate student Rob Williams presented a poster titled "Top-Down and FTICR-ECD MS/MS of the Multiply Glycosylated CEACAM1 N-Terminal Domain" Graduate student Brianna Garcia presented a poster titled "Optimization of Caenorhabditis elegans Homogenization and Extraction Methods for Non-targeted Metabolomics using Orbitrap and FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry" Gordon Research Conference: Proteoglycans in Homeostasis and Disease: Cracking the PG Code (July 8-13 2018) Andover, NH This conference was preceded by a Gordon Research Seminar (July 7-8). Graduate student Lauren Pepi had an oral presentation titled "Assignment of C-5 Uronic Acid Stereochemistry in Synthetic Heparan Sulfate Glycosaminoglycan Hexasaccharides by Electron Detachment Dissociation" during the GRS portion. Additionally both Lauren and graduate student Rob Williams presented posters during both the GRS and GRC. Rob's poster was titled "Investigation of Robo1-Ig1-2 Conformational Change on Heparan Sulfate Binding". Research scientist Franklin E. Leach III attended the GRC portion of the conference. He presented a poster and had an oral presentation on the same topic, "Mass Spectrometry Sequencing Tools for Glycosaminoglycans". 66th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics (June 3-7 2018) San Diego, CA Research scientist Franklin E. Leach III presented his work titled "UVPD Joins the FTMS Ion Activation and Dissociation Toolbox for Sulfated Glycosaminoglycan Oligosaccharide Gas-Phase Ion Sequencing" during the Fundamentals: Ion Activation and Dissociation oral section. Graduate student Jiana Duan presented a poster titled "Discovering Intact Glycosaminoglycan Sequence Motifs from Proteoglycans: A Database Independent Method for Interpretation of Glycan MS2" Graduate student Morgan Stickney had an oral presentation titled "Negative Electron Transfer Dissociation Paired with Capillary Electrophoresis- Mass Spectrometry for the Investigation of Glycosaminoglycan Mixtures" which was presented during the Carbohydrates section. Graduate student Patience Sanderson Presented a poster titled "Tandem Mass Spectrometry Coupled to Capillary Electrophoresis for the Structural Analysis of Glycosaminoglycan Mixtures" Graduate student Lauren Pepi presented her work titled "Assignment of C-5 Uronic Acid Stereochemistry in Synthetic Heparan Sulfate Glycosaminoglycan Hexasaccharides by Electron Detachment Dissociation" Graduate student Rob Williams presented a poster titled "Comparison of Gas-Phase and Solution Conformations of Roundabout 1 - Effect of Heparan Sulfate Binding". Graduate student Brianna Garcia presented a poster titled "Metabolomic Profiling of Caenorhabditis elegans Using Capillary Electrophoresis Mass Spectrometry (CE-MS)" Graduate student Patience Sanderson Presented a poster titled "Tandem Mass Spectrometry Coupled to Capillary Electrophoresis for the Structural Analysis of Glycosaminoglycan Mixtures" Graduate student Lauren Pepi presented her work titled "Assignment of C-5 Uronic Acid Stereochemistry in Synthetic Heparan Sulfate Glycosaminoglycan Hexasaccharides by Electron Detachment Dissociation" Graduate student Brianna Garcia presented a poster titled "Metabolomic Profiling of Caenorhabditis elegans Using Capillary Electrophoresis Mass Spectrometry (CE-MS)" 65th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics (June 4-8 2017) Indianapolis, IN Graduate Student Joshua Driver presented a poster in the Instrumentation: New Developments in Ion Detection poster session titled "Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Quadrupolar Ion Detection in the NADEL Cell with Four Detection Electrodes" Graduate student Yuejie Zhao presented in the Proteins: Conformation Analysis and Structural Biology poster session on her work titled "A Traveling Wave Ion Mobility Spectrometry and Molecular Modeling Study of Heparin/HS-Protein Interactions for Robo1". Multiple graduate students presented their work in the Carbohydrates poster session. Jiana Duan presented a poster titled "Sequence Analysis of Proteoglycan Decorin and Other Large Chain Glycosaminoglycan MS2 Using Automated Analysis Software" Morgan Stickney's work was titled "Optimization of Reverse Polarity Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry Separations for the Analysis of Sulfated Glycosaminoglycan Oligosaccharide Mixtures". Graduate students Isaac Agyekum and Lauren Pepi co-presented a poster on their work titled "Structural Elucidation of Fucosylated Chondroitin Sulfates from Sea Cucumber Using Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry". Research scientist Franklin E. Leach III presented a poster, "Negative Electron Transfer Dissociation Sequencing of Increasingly Sulfated Glycosaminoglycan Oligosaccharides in an Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer". Graduate student Patience Sanderson presented her work titled "An Integrated Capillary Electrophoresis Mass Spectrometry Platform for the Analysis of Glycosaminoglycan Mixtures" in the Carbohydrates oral session. 11th North American FT MS Conference (April 23-27 2017) Key West, FL Dr. Amster presented on “Nadel-Cell Behaviors Studied Using Particle-In-Cell Simulations”. Graduate Student Joshua Driver was selected from poster sessions to present orally on his research. His talk was titled "NADEL- Cell Behavior Studied Using Particle-In-Cell Simulations" The following posters were presented: Franklin E. Leach (Research Scientist), "Negative Electron Transfer Dissociation Sequencing of Increasingly Sulfated Glycosaminoglycan Oligosaccharides on an Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer" Joshua Driver, "Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Quadrupolar Ion Detection in the NADEL Cell with Four Detection Electrodes" Jiana Duan, "Sequence Analysis of Proteoglycan Decorin MSMS Using Glycosaminoglycan Automated Analysis Software" Isaac Agyekum, "Structural Elucidation of Fucosylated Chondroitin Sulfates from Sea Cucumber Using FTICR-MS/MS" Morgan Stickney, "Optimization of Reverse Polarity Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry Separations for the Analysis of Sulfated Glycosaminoglycan Oligosaccharide Mixtures on an Orbitrap FTMS" Patience Sanderson, "An Integrated Capillary Electrophoresis- Fourier transform Mass Spectrometry Platform for the Analysis of Glycosaminoglycan Mixtures" 64th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics (June 5-9 2016) San Antonio, TX Joshua Driver presented his work, "Simulation of Ion Motion in Non-Ideal Electric Fields Generated by Novel FTICR Mass Analyzers" in the Instrumentation: New Developments in Mass Analyzers poster session. Yuejie Zhao presented in the Proteins: Complexes/ Non-covalent Interactions on her work "Investigating the Gas-Phase Conformation of Fibroblast Growth Factor 1 upon Binding of Heparin/HS Using Traveling Wave Ion Mobility Spectrometry (TWIMS)". Jiana Duan presented his poster "Non-Arbitrary Scoring Model for Structural Identification of Glycosaminoglycan Tandem MS" Isaac Agyekum presented his work "Single Stage Tandem Mass Spectrometry Assignment of the C-5 Uronic Acid Stereochemistry in Heparan Sulfate Tetrasaccharides Using Electron Detachment Dissociation" Morgan Stickney and Patience Sanderson co-presented their work titled "Capillary Electrophoresis Separation of Glycosaminoglycans Followed by Tandem Mass Spectrometry". These three posters were all presented in the Carbohydrates poster session.
