Advanced proteomics course on protein phosphorylation:

Peptide enrichment, MS analysis and validation.
May 16 – 20, 2011
Turku Proteomics Facility, BioCity, 5th floor

The Turku Proteomics Facility offers a 5 day course including lectures and practical work on all areas of protein phosphorylation analysis. The course is meant for students and academic researchers with existing knowledge and experience in proteomics and mass spectrometry.
Main topics covered during the hands-on sessions are:

• Phosphopeptide enrichment strategies, including our recently published rapid planar surface enrichment using ITO coated glass slides and chromatographic methods using IMAC and TiO2.
• Site-specific phosphopeptide determination by MALDI-MS and ESI- MS
• Data analysis for (phospho)peptide identification and phosphorylation site assignment » Read more: Phosphorylation course in Turku

26.-27.1.2011: Mascot course
The Turku Proteomics Facility will offer a two-days course on Mascot, a search engine that uses mass spectrometry data to identify proteins from primary sequence databases.

16.2.2011: iTRAQ training
The iTraq Training will be a half day lecture course about iTRAQ and TMT based quantification methods in proteomics for those who haven’t been using these methods earlier. The main focus is on the iTRAQ method. On the following ‘ProteinPilot’ course day the analysis of iTRAQ data will be covered.

17.2.2011: ProteinPilot course
The ProteinPilot course will be a one day lecture course about ProteinPilot software, which uses Paragon algorithm for protein identification. ProteinPilot is used also for quantification of iTRAQ, ICAT and SILAC data produced by Applied Biosystems (ABSciex) instruments.

16.3.2011: Scaffold course
The Turku Proteomics Facility will offer a one-day lecture course on Scaffold, a software tool for visualizing, exploring and validating statistically LC/MS-MS data after protein sequence database searches, e.g. Mascot or Sequest.

Description

Mass spectrometry-based proteomics is showing great potential for giving new biological insight and for discovery of biomarkers. However, the usability of results from proteomics experiments is highly dependent on data analysis and experimental design. In this post-graduate course, properties of data from quantitative mass spectrometry-based proteomics will be discussed, based on hands-on examples with practical data analysis. » Read more: Course on Design and Analysis of Quantitative Proteomics Experiments March 22-26

The large‐scale systematic quantitation of proteins is an important component of proteomics and has contributed to the emergence of the new fields of systems biology and molecular medicine. Quantitative proteomics provides new insights into biological function, facilitates the identification of diagnostic or prognostic disease markers, and contributes to the discovery of proteins as therapeutic targets. The field is growing rapidly and currently driven by technological innovations. Bioinformatics is a crucial component of any proteomics strategy, but none more than quantitative analysis. The general aim of this course is to bring a higher level of understanding in core bioinformatics procedures concerning protein identification strategies, methods for quantitation, and the translation of this information to ontology and pathway analysis. The course forms a basis to a series of training modules where the overall aim is to confidently measure differences in protein expression, from single proteins to proteomes. » Read more: Course on bioinformatic tools for quantitative proteomics November 9-13

Course on Mass spectrometry in protein chemistry and proteomics.

October 19-23, 2009

Organised by Jensen lab in Denmark. The course is full.

Course on bioinformatics with the emphasis on quantitation.

November 9-13, 2009

Organised by Corthals lab in Finland.

Course on design and analysis of quantitative proteomics experiments

March 22-26, 2010

Organised by James lab in Sweden.

Course on Quantitative Proteomics: laboratory and data handling of iTRAQ and SILAC experiments

June 7-11, 2010

Organised by Fladmark in Norway.