Program for the 28^th Annual Trent Conference on Mass Spectrometry

August 8^th  –  11^th, 2011

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Abstracts

Poster Titles

Monday, August 8^th

5:00 pm Dinner:  Geneva Court Dining Room
Evening Session Chair:  Saunder Mommers (University of Ottawa)
6:30 pm	Welcome: Paul Mayer
6:40	Poster Introductions: 3 min per poster for Monday evening poster session
7:10	Monday Evening Poster Session at Copeland Hall, Chair: Sander Mommers
9:10 or so	Social, 4^th floor of Geneva Lodge

Tuesday, August 9^th

7:45 am Breakfast:  Geneva Court Dining Room
Morning Session I Chair:  Paul Mayer (Ottawa)
9:00 am	“From diatomic molecules to eight thousand two hundred and three-atomic molecules: MS-based biomolecule analysis at the Trent Conference on Mass Spectrometry over the past decade:  A tutorial and perspective by Jeffrey C. Smith” Jeffrey C. Smith (Carleton)
10:00	“Characterization and Quantification of free Fatty acids and triacyl glycerol during the development of Onopordum acanthium seeds” Moufida Oueslati and Paul Mayer (University of Ottawa)
10:20	“Quantification of low abundance plasma proteins by immunoaffinity purification, reverse phase nanoflow chromatography and selected reaction monitoring” Declan Williams, Leroi V. DeSouza, and K. W. Michael Siu (York University)
10:40	Coffee Break
Morning Session II Chair:  Maxim V. Berezovski (Ottawa)
11:00	“A quantitative mass spectrometry-based proteomic and phosphoproteomic analysis of VSV-infected K562 cells” Matthew P. Huebsch and Jeffrey C. Smith (Carleton)
11:20	“Quantitative lipidomics of K562 leukemic cells infected with Vesicular Stomatitis Virus” Shira Joudan, Lennart Trouborst and Jeffrey C. Smith (Carleton)
11:40	“Enzyme Mechanisms and Dynamics Studied by Time-Resolved Electrospray Ionization: Pre-steady state kinetics of Chymotrypsin” Araby Jeganathan and Derek Wilson (York)
12:10 pm Group Photo
12:30 Lunch: Geneva Court Dining Room
5:00 Dinner: Geneva Court Dining Room
Evening Session Chair: Greg Koyanagi (York)
6:10	“IRMPD Spectroscopic Study of Solvated [Ca(AlaGly-H)]^+, [Ca(GlyAla-H)]^+, Na(AlaGly)]^+, and [Na(GlyAla)]^+ Complexes in the Gas Phase” Maryam B. Moghaddam and Travis D. Fridgen (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
6:30	“Structures of bare and hydrated [Pb(AminoAcid-H)]^+complexes using infrared multi- photon dissociation spectroscopy: Deprotonation at amine” Michael B. Burt, Sarah G. A. Decker, Chad G. Atkins, Mark Rowsell, and Travis D. Fridgen (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
6:50	“Lead-catalyzed oxidation of DNA: oxidation of guanine by hydrogen peroxide” Laura Banu, Voislav Blagojevic and Diethard K. Bohme (York University)
7:10	Tuesday Evening Poster Session at Copeland Hall, Chair: Sander Mommers
9:10	Social Part II, 4^th floor of Geneva Lodge

Wednesday, August 10^th

7:45 am Breakfast:  Geneva Court Dining Room
Morning Session Chair:  Derek Wilson (York)
9:00 am	“Comparing the Energy/Structure Relationship of Peptides/Saccharides Complexes using Electrospray Mass Spectrometry, Tandem Mass Spectrometry, RRKM Theory, Ion Mobility Spectrometry and Molecular Dynamics” Amanda Comeau, Justin Renaud, Paul Mayer (Universtiy of Ottawa)
9:20	“Gas phase activation of hydrocarbons by unsaturated bipyridinium ruthenium complex, Ru(bipy)2^2+: The effect of ligation of Ru(bipy)2^2+ with CO on the dehydrogenation of i-butane, and propane” Ameneh Gholami and Travis D. Fridgen (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
9:40	“Measuring Kinetic Isotope Effects Using Time-resolved Electrospray Mass Spectrometry” Peter Liuni and Derek J. Wilson (York)
10:00	“The Study of Electron Transfer and Bond Insertion Involving Metal Anions” Alex Mungham, Julie Roy and Paul Mayer (University of Ottawa)
10:20	Coffee Break
Morning Session II Chair:  Jeffrey Smith (Carleton)
10:40	“A meticulous investigation of the effects of substrate structure and charge state upon the energetics and conformations of non-covalent complexes” Justin Renaud and Paul M Mayer (University of Ottawa)
11:00	"Energetics of dissociation of PAHs and Dihydro-PAHs" Brandi West, Paul Mayer, Christine Joblin, Valerie Blanchet, Andras Bodi and Balint Sztaray (University of Ottawa)
11:20	“Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry of Volatile Organic Compounds, Potential Disease Bio-markers in Breath” Vitaliy Kapishon, Gregory K. Koyanagi and Diethard K. Bohme (York University)
11:40	“Kinetic Capillary Electrophoresis – Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry (KCE-IM-MS) for Studying Conformational Changes of Nucleic Acid-Metal Complexes” Gleb Mironov and Maxim V. Berezovski (University of Ottawa)
12:00	“Evaluation of the performance of molecularly imprinted polymers for trace analysis of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid in the environment” Adam G. Beaton, Geert Van Biesen, Christina S. Bottaro
12:20	Business Meeting
12:30 Lunch: Geneva Court Dining Room
5:30 BBQ Supper Including Musical Entertainment by the 9-piece jazzband“Souper Jazz” with singer Mary Moore.

Thursday, August 11^th

8:00 am Breakfast: Geneva Court Dining Room
Morning Session Chair:  Voislav Blagojevic (York)
9:20 am	“Analysis of protein dynamics by H/D exchange using FORTRAN language” Shaolong Zhu and Derek J. Wilson (York)
9:40	“Optimization of protein digestion using microfluidic immobilized trypsin columns” Carlos Canez, Jinal Patel and Jeffrey C. Smith (Carleton)
10:00	“Structurally Resolved Snapshots of Protein Dynamics on Millisecond Time-scale using a Microfluidic Device incorporating  TRESI, HDX and Rapid Proteolytic Digestion” Tamanna Rob, Shaolong Zhu, Preet Kamal Gill and Derek Wilson (York University)
10:20	“Exploring Amyloidogenic Surfaces on Acylphosphatase from Sulfolobus solfataricus (Sso Acp) in the Native and Native-like State” Yanfang Liang, Tamanna Rob, Derek J. Wilson (York)
10:40	“Towards automating quantitative analyses of blood plasma lipids” Lennart Trouborst, Shira Joudan and Jeffrey C. Smith (Carleton)
11:00	“Novel microfluidic methods to methylate peptides and permit quantitative analysis using tandem mass spectrometry” Karl Wasslen and Jeffrey C. Smith (Carleton)
12:30 pm Lunch: Geneva Court Dining Room