14th Montreal Post-ASMS Mass Spec Symposium
Free-to-Attend Mass Spectrometry Users' Meeting
October 22, 2019 (Tuesday), from 3:15pm to 9:30pm
Holiday Inn Pointe Claire
Oral Sessions, Poster Presentations and Exhibition
Program Agenda
03:15pm-04:00pm: Registration & Welcome Refreshment Dinner Coffee and Tea and Cookies and Fruits
Parallel Sessions Before Dinner

Session 1C Chaired by Prof. Lekha Sleno
(Champagne Ballroom C)
Session 1B Chaired by Prof. Ann English
(Champagne Ballroom B)
04:00pm-04:20pm: Dr. Lili Mats, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph, ON
"Effects of purple potato rich diet on fecal metabolome profiles of mice as determined by untargeted LC-MS/MS screening"
Prof. Derek Wilson, York University, Toronto, ON
"Illuminating the 'Dark Stage' of Amyloidogenesis in Neurodegenerative Disease Drug Development"
04:20pm-04:40pm: Dr. Audrey Roy-Lachapelle, Environment Canada, Montreal, QC
"High-throughput determination of seventeen cyanotoxins and suspect screening of other cyanopeptides by SPE-UHPLC-HRMS in Canadian lakes"
Prof. Jeff Smith, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
"iTrEnDi on biomolecules and beyond: enhancing MS-based quantitative analyses using new in situ diazoalkane chemistry"
04:40pm-05:00pm: Mr. Kevork Mekhssian, Altasciences, Laval, QC
"A sensitive LC-HRMS method for the quantitation of dystrophin protein in human muscle tissue"
Dr. Eric Bonneil, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC
"Segmented Ion Fractionation and High Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometry expands proteome coverage to uncover sequence variants"
05:00pm-05:20pm: Dr. Adrien Musuku, Pharmascience, Montreal, QC
"Matrix Effect, Recovery and Stability Issues in Regulated Cannabis Testing: Use of Matrix Matched Calibration Curve and Quality Control Samples Should Be a Mandatory Regulatory Requirement to Ensure Reliable Pesticides Analysis by LC-MS/MS and GC-MS/MS"
Prof. Christine Des Rosiers, University of Montreal/Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC
"Comprehensive lipidomics unveils peroxisomal lipid dyshomeostasis and low circulating plasmalogens as biomarkers in a monogenic form of mitochondrial disorder”"
05:20pm-06:20pm: Networking Buffet DinnerDinner Good Food & Good Science!
Parallel Sessions After Dinner

Session 2C Chaired by Prof. Jeff Smith
(Champagne Ballroom C)
Session 2B Chaired by Dr. Sylvie Bourassa
(Champagne Ballroom B)
06:20pm-06:40pm: Prof. Lekha Sleno, UQAM, Montreal, QC
"Studying the metabolism of environmental contaminants by LC-MS/MS"
Prof. Mathieu Lavallée-Adam, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
"Improving the sensitivity of mass spectrometry peptide and protein identification using supervised learning and protein-protein interaction data”"
06:40pm-07:00pm: Dr. John Kelly, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, ON
"A comparative study of N-glycosylation assays for the characterization of Fc and Fab N-glycans on monoclonal antibodies"
Prof. Arash Zarrine-Afsar, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
"Metabolic discrepancies within histologically equivalent tissues may limit the relevance of tumour bearing mice for mass spectrometry research"
07:00pm-07:20pm: Dr. Yuyong Ke, EndoCeutics, Quebec City, QC
"Comparison of multiple steroid analysis between plasma and serum from postmenopausal women using validated LC-MS/MS methods"
Dr. Jonathan St-Germain, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, ON
"FBXO11 Network Identifies Novel Disease-Relevant Interaction with the Ubiquitin-Specific Protease USP28"
07:20pm-07:40pm: Four Poster Presentations
Chaired by Dr. Alexandra Furtos
Four Poster Presentations
Chaired by Dr. René Zahedi
07:40pm-08:10pm: Networking Dessert Break Desserts Time for something sweet...
Plenary Session Finale

Session 3 Chaired by Prof. Pierre Thibault
(Champagne Ballroom C)

08:10pm-08:30pm: Prof. Bingyun Sun, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
"Body-wide proteome dynamics in the understanding and assessment of multiorgan drug responses"
08:30pm-08:50pm: Dr. Kaveh Kahen, Sigma Analytical Services, Toronto, ON
"The use of mass spectrometry for quality control and understanding the complex chemistry of cannabis and its therapeutic effects"
08:50pm-09:10pm: Prof. Nicolas Bisson, Laval University/CHU Research Center of Quebec, Quebec, QC
"Dynamic functions for adaptor proteins in cell signalling"
09:10pm-09:30pm: Dr. Karl Jobst, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL
"Top-down and bottom-up exposomics using nontargeted mass spectrometry"
 
09:30pm:
Raffle TimeGiftCard3 Winners will be Drawn - Each Winner will Receive a VISA Gift Card of $100
Please make sure to drop your name card in the bowl at the registration desk.