22nd Toronto Post-ASMS Symposium
Free-to-Attend Mass Spectrometry Users' Meeting
November 4, 2024 (Monday), from 3:00pm to 9:30pm
Four Points by Sheraton Toronto Airport
Parallel Oral Sessions and Exhibition
Program Agenda
03:00 pm -
04:00 pm:
Registration & Welcome Refreshment Dinner Coffee and Tea and Cookies and Fruits
Parallel Sessions Before Dinner

Session 1A Chaired by Prof. Lekha Sleno
(Georgian)
Session 1B Chaired by Prof. Christoph Borchers
(Windsor C)
04:00 pm -
04:20 pm:
Prof. Tao Huan, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
"A Mechanistic Understanding of Post-Acquisition Sample Normalization for Untargeted Metabolomics"
Prof. Lars Konermann, Western University, London, ON
"Atomistic Modeling of the ESI Process: From Taylor Cones to Biomolecular Ions and Magic Number Clusters"
04:20 pm -
04:40 pm:
Prof. Styliani Consta, Western University, London, ON
"Insight into Matrix Assisted Ionization in Vacuum - Mass Spectrometry by Molecular Modeling"
Dr. Florence Roux-Dalvai, CHU de Québec - Université Laval, Québec City, QC
"Artificial intelligence combined with LC-MS enables rapid identification of pathogens in urinary tract infections"
04:40 pm -
05:00 pm:
Prof. Derek Wilson, York University, Toronto, ON
"Quantitative Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry for Rapid Validation and Characterization of Drug Candidates from Small Molecule Libraries"
Prof. Rene Zahedi, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
"Accelerating relative and absolute quantitative proteomics using broad specificity proteases"
05:00 pm -
05:20 pm:
Prof. Scott Hopkins, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
"Multi-Staged Transfer Learning Using A Small Spectral Dataset of Metabolites"
Prof. Leonard Foster, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
"How to make progress toward single-cell proteomics and what to avoid"
05:20 pm -
06:20 pm:
Networking Buffet DinnerDinner Good Food & Good Science!
Parallel Sessions After Dinner

Session 2A Chaired by Prof. Rebecca Jockusch
(Georgian)
Session 2B Chaired by Prof. Lars Konermann
(Windsor C)
06:20 pm -
06:40 pm:
Prof. Lekha Sleno, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, QC
"Untargeted metabolomics workflows using correlation analysis to uncover links between metabolic pathways"
Prof. Mathieu Lavallée-Adam, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
"Ending brute force mass spectrometry-based proteomics data acquisition using machine learning"
06:40 pm -
07:00 pm:
Prof. Richard Oleschuk, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
"An Ambient Ionization Approach to Tissue Analysis, and Natural Products Discovery"
Prof. Thomas Kislinger, University of Toronto, Toronto ON
"Pan-cancer N-glycoproteomic atlas of patient-derived xenografts for therapeutic target discovery"
07:00 pm -
07:20 pm:
Dr. Dayue Shang, Environnement and Climate Change Canada, Vancouver, BC
"CITES listed wood species Identification based on biomarkers, GC/QToF, and machine learning"
Prof. John Marshall, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto ON
"Selected ion extraction of peptides with heavy isotopes and hydrogen loss reduces the type II error in plasma proteomics"
07:20 pm -
07:40 pm:
Prof. J. Rafael Montenegro Burke, University of Toronto, Toronto ON
"The Human Metabolome Atlas unveils metabolic heterogeneity across cell types and stratifies"
Prof. Ken Stark, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
"Lipidomic Profiles of Common Dietary Sources of Long-Chain Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids"
07:40 pm -
08:10 pm:
Networking Dessert Break Desserts Time for something sweet...
Plenary Session Finale

Session 3 Chaired by Prof. Denina Simmons
(Georgian)
08:10 pm -
08:30 pm:
Prof. Philip Britz-McKibbin, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
"Urinary Metabolite Profiling to Non-Invasively Monitor the Omega-3 Index"
08:30 pm -
08:50 pm:
Prof. Christoph Borchers, McGill University, Montreal, QC
"A Novel Strategy For The Absolute Quantitation Of Human Proteins"
08:50 pm -
09:10 pm:
Prof. Karl Jobst, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL
"Isotopic Ratio and Collision Cross-section Space: An Efficient Approach to Non-targeted Screening of Per-/Polyfluoroalkyl Substances"
09:10 pm -
09:30 pm:
Dr. Shaolong Zhu, Sanofi, Toronto, ON
"Epitope mapping and protein dynamics analysis by HDX-MS to characterize the antigenicity maturation effect of SARS CoV-2 Beta spike protein"
 
09:30 pm:
Raffle TimeGiftCard3 Winners will be Drawn - Each Winner will Receive a VISA Gift Card of $100
Please make sure you drop your name card in the bowl at the registration desk.