Departmental News

■ Prof. Mechref gave an invited talk entitled “Glycan/protein Stable Isotope Labeling in Cell Cultures (Glyprosilc) Enabling Reliable Quantitation of Glycan and Glycopeptide Isomers” at 48TH International Symposium on High-Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques, June 16-20, 2019, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

■ Prof. Gamez gave a Keynote lecture entitled “Novel Spectral Imaging Techniques Applied to Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy Elemental Mapping” at the Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XLI, June 9-14, 2019, Mexico City, Mexico.

■ Dr. Subha Pratihar accepted the Associate Director position with June 28^th as a starting date. Dr. Pratihar will be replacing Dr. Long who is retiring on July 19^th.

■ Drew Brandon (MS with Prof. Poirier, PhD with Prof. Casadonte) recently accepted a tenure track faculty position in the Chemistry department at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. He will be teaching physical chemistry there, and also doing chemical education research. Congrats Drew!

■ Prof. Latham has recently reviewed grants for the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom and the Patton Trust.

■ Prof. Hase gave the following invited talk Use of Direct Dynamics Simulations and Classical Power Spectra to Study the Intramolecular and Unimolecular Dynamics of Vibrationally Excited Molecules at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Dynamical Systems, May 19-23, 2019, Snowbird, Utah.

■ Prof. Hase presented the invited talk entitled Chemical Dynamics of Energy Transfer and Chemical Reaction in Collisions of 3O2 with Graphite at the 2019 AFOSR Molecular Dynamics/Theoretical Chemistry Program Review, Washington, DC, May 21-23.

■ Prof. Latham presented a seminar entitled Structural biology studies of a large DNA repair complex at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel on May 28^th.

■ Prof. Hutchins gave a presentation entitled Unique Supramolecular Complex of Diclofenac via Multiple Types of Hydrogen Bonds at the International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC) in Lecce, Italy on June 5, 2019.

■ Prof. Mechref organized a workshop entitled Enhancing MS-Based Glycomics and Glycoproteomics Toolbox: Round-table Discussion at the 67^th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Atlanta, GA, June 3.

■ Prof. Mechref group presented 15 posters at the 67^th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Atlanta, GA, June 2-6.
– Rui Zhang, Xue Dong, Jianhui Zhu, David M. Lubman, Yehia Mechref, Haixu Tang. Identification of N-glycopeptides using Electron Transfer/High-energy Collision Dissociation (EThcD).
– Xiaoxia Gong, Parvin Mirzaei, Mohamed Fokar, Yehia Mechref, Masoud Zabet Moghaddam. Direct Quantification of Polyamines in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings by LC-MS/MS.
– Wenjing Peng, Jingfu Zhao, Mona Goli, Yehia Mechref. GlyProSILC: Glycan/Protein Stable Isotope Labeling in Cell Cultures Approach for Concurrent Glycomics/Proteomics/Glycoptoeomics Analysis.
– Jair Montford, Wenjing Peng, Jingfu Zhao, Seth Williamson, Aiying Yu, Yehia Mechref. A Filter-Assisted Approach for Rapid Proteomic Sample Quality Estimation.
– Jingfu Zhao, Wenjing Peng, Aiying Yu, Yifan Huang, Xue Dong, Yehia Mechref. LC-MS/MS Proteomic: Identification of Candidate Biomarkers of Breast Cancer Subtypes.
– Aiying Yu, Yifan Huang, Jingfu Zhao, Xue Dong, Yehia Mechref. LC-MS/MS Characterization of Isomeric Glycopeptides using Extra-long C18 Column.
– Junyao Wang, Wenjing Peng, Jingfu Zhao, Yehia Mechref. Improving the Glycomics Fidelity of Cancer Cells in Vitro by Using a Physiological Cell Culture Medium.
– Alireza Banazadeh, Mona Goli, Wenjing Peng, Reed Nieman, Hans Lischka, Yehia Mechref. Isomeric Study of Glycans Using Magnetic Carbon Nanoparticles As a MALDI Co-Matrix.
– Yifan Huang, Jieqiang Zhong, Wenjing Peng, Yehia Mechref. Investigation of ganglioside Isomers to reveal the Expression Differences in Neuron Cells and Breast Cancer Cell Lines using nano-ZIC-HILIC-LC-MS.
– Mona Goli, Jair Montford, Katya Torres Ulloa, Ahmed Hussien, Wenjing Peng, Yehia Mechref. Better Investigation of Integrin Expression in Cancer Cell Lines by Comparison of Different Membrane Protein Enrichment Methods.
– Byeong Gwan “Andrew” Cho, Wenjing Peng, Yifan Huang, Yehia Mechref. GlyLipSILC - Glycolipid Stable Isotope Labeling in Cell Cultures.
– Sakshi Gautam, Wenjing Peng, Xue Dong, Jingfu Zhao, Yifan Huang, Aiying Yu, Jieqiang Zhong, Yehia Mechref. Characterizing Glycans and Glycan Isomers Associated With Breast Cancer Tissue Phenotypes.
– Jieqiang Zhong, Yifan Huang, Wenjing Peng, Yehia Mechref. Isomeric linkage determination of sialic acid on O-glycopeptides using O-protease and LC-MS/MS.
– Seth Williamson, Byeong Gwan “Andrew” Cho, Jair Montford, Yehia Mechref. Dual Enzymatic Digestion Enabling Simultaneous Release of Glycans from Glycoproteins and Glycolipids.
– Xue Dong, Yifan Huang, Jingfu Zhao, Aiying Yu, Yehia Mechref. Isomeric Separation of Permethylated Glycans by Extra Long Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography (RPLC)-MS.

■ Prof. Hutchins gave a presentation entitled Synthesis of Bezafibrate Salts: Application of and Exceptions to the pKa Rule at the Crystal Forms Meeting in Bologna, Italy on June 10, 2019.

■ Prof. Poirier gave the following invited presentations:
– Adiabatic Quantum Trajectory Capture Method for Ultra-cold Chemical Reactions International Symposium on Quantum Effects in Chemistry and Biology NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry, Shanghai, CHINA on June 2, 2019.
– The crystal algorithm: Finding –and fixing – leaky “holes” in potential energy surfaces Telluride Science Research Center Workshop: Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Coupled Anharmonic Vibrations of Floppy Molecular Systems, Telluride, CO on June 10, 2019
– Exact Quantum Dynamical Treatment of Hydrogen-material Interactions: Fe(H)₂(H2)(PEtPh₂)₃ and [FeH(H₂)(PH₃)₄]⁺ 19^th International QAMTS Workshop, Borovets, Bulgaria on June 18, 2019.

■ Research Prof. Eckert, a research professor in Prof. Poirier group, organized the XIX^th International Workshop on Quantum Atomic and Molecular Tunneling Systems (QAMTS) in Borovets, Bulgaria, from June 17 to June 21, 2019. This interdisciplinary series of workshops encompasses work on tunneling of protons and heavier species in gas and condensed phases, in general, including biological systems, chemical reactions, transport phenomena in solids and liquids and in systems of lower dimensionality.

Departmental News

■ Prof. Mechref gave an invited talk entitled “Glycan/protein Stable Isotope Labeling in Cell Cultures (Glyprosilc) Enabling Reliable Quantitation of Glycan and Glycopeptide Isomers” at 48TH International Symposium on High-Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques, June 16-20, 2019, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

■ Prof. Gamez gave a Keynote lecture entitled “Novel Spectral Imaging Techniques Applied to Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy Elemental Mapping” at the Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XLI, June 9-14, 2019, Mexico City, Mexico.

■ Dr. Subha Pratihar accepted the Associate Director position with June 28^th as a starting date. Dr. Pratihar will be replacing Dr. Long who is retiring on July 19^th.

■ Drew Brandon (MS with Prof. Poirier, PhD with Prof. Casadonte) recently accepted a tenure track faculty position in the Chemistry department at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. He will be teaching physical chemistry there, and also doing chemical education research. Congrats Drew!

■ Prof. Latham has recently reviewed grants for the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom and the Patton Trust.

■ Prof. Hase gave the following invited talk Use of Direct Dynamics Simulations and Classical Power Spectra to Study the Intramolecular and Unimolecular Dynamics of Vibrationally Excited Molecules at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Dynamical Systems, May 19-23, 2019, Snowbird, Utah.

■ Prof. Hase presented the invited talk entitled Chemical Dynamics of Energy Transfer and Chemical Reaction in Collisions of 3O2 with Graphite at the 2019 AFOSR Molecular Dynamics/Theoretical Chemistry Program Review, Washington, DC, May 21-23.

■ Prof. Latham presented a seminar entitled Structural biology studies of a large DNA repair complex at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel on May 28^th.

■ Prof. Hutchins gave a presentation entitled Unique Supramolecular Complex of Diclofenac via Multiple Types of Hydrogen Bonds at the International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC) in Lecce, Italy on June 5, 2019.

■ Prof. Mechref organized a workshop entitled Enhancing MS-Based Glycomics and Glycoproteomics Toolbox: Round-table Discussion at the 67^th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Atlanta, GA, June 3.

■ Prof. Mechref group presented 15 posters at the 67^th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Atlanta, GA, June 2-6.
– Rui Zhang, Xue Dong, Jianhui Zhu, David M. Lubman, Yehia Mechref, Haixu Tang. Identification of N-glycopeptides using Electron Transfer/High-energy Collision Dissociation (EThcD).
– Xiaoxia Gong, Parvin Mirzaei, Mohamed Fokar, Yehia Mechref, Masoud Zabet Moghaddam. Direct Quantification of Polyamines in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings by LC-MS/MS.
– Wenjing Peng, Jingfu Zhao, Mona Goli, Yehia Mechref. GlyProSILC: Glycan/Protein Stable Isotope Labeling in Cell Cultures Approach for Concurrent Glycomics/Proteomics/Glycoptoeomics Analysis.
– Jair Montford, Wenjing Peng, Jingfu Zhao, Seth Williamson, Aiying Yu, Yehia Mechref. A Filter-Assisted Approach for Rapid Proteomic Sample Quality Estimation.
– Jingfu Zhao, Wenjing Peng, Aiying Yu, Yifan Huang, Xue Dong, Yehia Mechref. LC-MS/MS Proteomic: Identification of Candidate Biomarkers of Breast Cancer Subtypes.
– Aiying Yu, Yifan Huang, Jingfu Zhao, Xue Dong, Yehia Mechref. LC-MS/MS Characterization of Isomeric Glycopeptides using Extra-long C18 Column.
– Junyao Wang, Wenjing Peng, Jingfu Zhao, Yehia Mechref. Improving the Glycomics Fidelity of Cancer Cells in Vitro by Using a Physiological Cell Culture Medium.
– Alireza Banazadeh, Mona Goli, Wenjing Peng, Reed Nieman, Hans Lischka, Yehia Mechref. Isomeric Study of Glycans Using Magnetic Carbon Nanoparticles As a MALDI Co-Matrix.
– Yifan Huang, Jieqiang Zhong, Wenjing Peng, Yehia Mechref. Investigation of ganglioside Isomers to reveal the Expression Differences in Neuron Cells and Breast Cancer Cell Lines using nano-ZIC-HILIC-LC-MS.
– Mona Goli, Jair Montford, Katya Torres Ulloa, Ahmed Hussien, Wenjing Peng, Yehia Mechref. Better Investigation of Integrin Expression in Cancer Cell Lines by Comparison of Different Membrane Protein Enrichment Methods.
– Byeong Gwan “Andrew” Cho, Wenjing Peng, Yifan Huang, Yehia Mechref. GlyLipSILC - Glycolipid Stable Isotope Labeling in Cell Cultures.
– Sakshi Gautam, Wenjing Peng, Xue Dong, Jingfu Zhao, Yifan Huang, Aiying Yu, Jieqiang Zhong, Yehia Mechref. Characterizing Glycans and Glycan Isomers Associated With Breast Cancer Tissue Phenotypes.
– Jieqiang Zhong, Yifan Huang, Wenjing Peng, Yehia Mechref. Isomeric linkage determination of sialic acid on O-glycopeptides using O-protease and LC-MS/MS.
– Seth Williamson, Byeong Gwan “Andrew” Cho, Jair Montford, Yehia Mechref. Dual Enzymatic Digestion Enabling Simultaneous Release of Glycans from Glycoproteins and Glycolipids.
– Xue Dong, Yifan Huang, Jingfu Zhao, Aiying Yu, Yehia Mechref. Isomeric Separation of Permethylated Glycans by Extra Long Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography (RPLC)-MS.

■ Prof. Hutchins gave a presentation entitled Synthesis of Bezafibrate Salts: Application of and Exceptions to the pKa Rule at the Crystal Forms Meeting in Bologna, Italy on June 10, 2019.

■ Prof. Poirier gave the following invited presentations:
– Adiabatic Quantum Trajectory Capture Method for Ultra-cold Chemical Reactions International Symposium on Quantum Effects in Chemistry and Biology NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry, Shanghai, CHINA on June 2, 2019.
– The crystal algorithm: Finding –and fixing – leaky “holes” in potential energy surfaces Telluride Science Research Center Workshop: Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Coupled Anharmonic Vibrations of Floppy Molecular Systems, Telluride, CO on June 10, 2019
– Exact Quantum Dynamical Treatment of Hydrogen-material Interactions: Fe(H)₂(H2)(PEtPh₂)₃ and [FeH(H₂)(PH₃)₄]⁺ 19^th International QAMTS Workshop, Borovets, Bulgaria on June 18, 2019.

■ Research Prof. Eckert, a research professor in Prof. Poirier group, organized the XIX^th International Workshop on Quantum Atomic and Molecular Tunneling Systems (QAMTS) in Borovets, Bulgaria, from June 17 to June 21, 2019. This interdisciplinary series of workshops encompasses work on tunneling of protons and heavier species in gas and condensed phases, in general, including biological systems, chemical reactions, transport phenomena in solids and liquids and in systems of lower dimensionality.

Departmental News

■ Prof. Mechref gave an invited talk entitled “Glycan/protein Stable Isotope Labeling in Cell Cultures (Glyprosilc) Enabling Reliable Quantitation of Glycan and Glycopeptide Isomers” at 48TH International Symposium on High-Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques, June 16-20, 2019, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

■ Prof. Gamez gave a Keynote lecture entitled “Novel Spectral Imaging Techniques Applied to Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy Elemental Mapping” at the Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XLI, June 9-14, 2019, Mexico City, Mexico.

■ Dr. Subha Pratihar accepted the Associate Director position with June 28^th as a starting date. Dr. Pratihar will be replacing Dr. Long who is retiring on July 19^th.

■ Drew Brandon (MS with Prof. Poirier, PhD with Prof. Casadonte) recently accepted a tenure track faculty position in the Chemistry department at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. He will be teaching physical chemistry there, and also doing chemical education research. Congrats Drew!

■ Prof. Latham has recently reviewed grants for the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom and the Patton Trust.

■ Prof. Hase gave the following invited talk Use of Direct Dynamics Simulations and Classical Power Spectra to Study the Intramolecular and Unimolecular Dynamics of Vibrationally Excited Molecules at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Dynamical Systems, May 19-23, 2019, Snowbird, Utah.

■ Prof. Hase presented the invited talk entitled Chemical Dynamics of Energy Transfer and Chemical Reaction in Collisions of 3O2 with Graphite at the 2019 AFOSR Molecular Dynamics/Theoretical Chemistry Program Review, Washington, DC, May 21-23.

■ Prof. Latham presented a seminar entitled Structural biology studies of a large DNA repair complex at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel on May 28^th.

■ Prof. Hutchins gave a presentation entitled Unique Supramolecular Complex of Diclofenac via Multiple Types of Hydrogen Bonds at the International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC) in Lecce, Italy on June 5, 2019.

■ Prof. Mechref organized a workshop entitled Enhancing MS-Based Glycomics and Glycoproteomics Toolbox: Round-table Discussion at the 67^th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Atlanta, GA, June 3.

■ Prof. Mechref group presented 15 posters at the 67^th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Atlanta, GA, June 2-6.
– Rui Zhang, Xue Dong, Jianhui Zhu, David M. Lubman, Yehia Mechref, Haixu Tang. Identification of N-glycopeptides using Electron Transfer/High-energy Collision Dissociation (EThcD).
– Xiaoxia Gong, Parvin Mirzaei, Mohamed Fokar, Yehia Mechref, Masoud Zabet Moghaddam. Direct Quantification of Polyamines in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings by LC-MS/MS.
– Wenjing Peng, Jingfu Zhao, Mona Goli, Yehia Mechref. GlyProSILC: Glycan/Protein Stable Isotope Labeling in Cell Cultures Approach for Concurrent Glycomics/Proteomics/Glycoptoeomics Analysis.
– Jair Montford, Wenjing Peng, Jingfu Zhao, Seth Williamson, Aiying Yu, Yehia Mechref. A Filter-Assisted Approach for Rapid Proteomic Sample Quality Estimation.
– Jingfu Zhao, Wenjing Peng, Aiying Yu, Yifan Huang, Xue Dong, Yehia Mechref. LC-MS/MS Proteomic: Identification of Candidate Biomarkers of Breast Cancer Subtypes.
– Aiying Yu, Yifan Huang, Jingfu Zhao, Xue Dong, Yehia Mechref. LC-MS/MS Characterization of Isomeric Glycopeptides using Extra-long C18 Column.
– Junyao Wang, Wenjing Peng, Jingfu Zhao, Yehia Mechref. Improving the Glycomics Fidelity of Cancer Cells in Vitro by Using a Physiological Cell Culture Medium.
– Alireza Banazadeh, Mona Goli, Wenjing Peng, Reed Nieman, Hans Lischka, Yehia Mechref. Isomeric Study of Glycans Using Magnetic Carbon Nanoparticles As a MALDI Co-Matrix.
– Yifan Huang, Jieqiang Zhong, Wenjing Peng, Yehia Mechref. Investigation of ganglioside Isomers to reveal the Expression Differences in Neuron Cells and Breast Cancer Cell Lines using nano-ZIC-HILIC-LC-MS.
– Mona Goli, Jair Montford, Katya Torres Ulloa, Ahmed Hussien, Wenjing Peng, Yehia Mechref. Better Investigation of Integrin Expression in Cancer Cell Lines by Comparison of Different Membrane Protein Enrichment Methods.
– Byeong Gwan “Andrew” Cho, Wenjing Peng, Yifan Huang, Yehia Mechref. GlyLipSILC - Glycolipid Stable Isotope Labeling in Cell Cultures.
– Sakshi Gautam, Wenjing Peng, Xue Dong, Jingfu Zhao, Yifan Huang, Aiying Yu, Jieqiang Zhong, Yehia Mechref. Characterizing Glycans and Glycan Isomers Associated With Breast Cancer Tissue Phenotypes.
– Jieqiang Zhong, Yifan Huang, Wenjing Peng, Yehia Mechref. Isomeric linkage determination of sialic acid on O-glycopeptides using O-protease and LC-MS/MS.
– Seth Williamson, Byeong Gwan “Andrew” Cho, Jair Montford, Yehia Mechref. Dual Enzymatic Digestion Enabling Simultaneous Release of Glycans from Glycoproteins and Glycolipids.
– Xue Dong, Yifan Huang, Jingfu Zhao, Aiying Yu, Yehia Mechref. Isomeric Separation of Permethylated Glycans by Extra Long Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography (RPLC)-MS.

■ Prof. Hutchins gave a presentation entitled Synthesis of Bezafibrate Salts: Application of and Exceptions to the pKa Rule at the Crystal Forms Meeting in Bologna, Italy on June 10, 2019.

■ Prof. Poirier gave the following invited presentations:
– Adiabatic Quantum Trajectory Capture Method for Ultra-cold Chemical Reactions International Symposium on Quantum Effects in Chemistry and Biology NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry, Shanghai, CHINA on June 2, 2019.
– The crystal algorithm: Finding –and fixing – leaky “holes” in potential energy surfaces Telluride Science Research Center Workshop: Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Coupled Anharmonic Vibrations of Floppy Molecular Systems, Telluride, CO on June 10, 2019
– Exact Quantum Dynamical Treatment of Hydrogen-material Interactions: Fe(H)₂(H2)(PEtPh₂)₃ and [FeH(H₂)(PH₃)₄]⁺ 19^th International QAMTS Workshop, Borovets, Bulgaria on June 18, 2019.

■ Research Prof. Eckert, a research professor in Prof. Poirier group, organized the XIX^th International Workshop on Quantum Atomic and Molecular Tunneling Systems (QAMTS) in Borovets, Bulgaria, from June 17 to June 21, 2019. This interdisciplinary series of workshops encompasses work on tunneling of protons and heavier species in gas and condensed phases, in general, including biological systems, chemical reactions, transport phenomena in solids and liquids and in systems of lower dimensionality.

Departmental News

■ Prof. Mechref gave an invited talk entitled “Glycan/protein Stable Isotope Labeling in Cell Cultures (Glyprosilc) Enabling Reliable Quantitation of Glycan and Glycopeptide Isomers” at 48TH International Symposium on High-Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques, June 16-20, 2019, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

■ Prof. Gamez gave a Keynote lecture entitled “Novel Spectral Imaging Techniques Applied to Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy Elemental Mapping” at the Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XLI, June 9-14, 2019, Mexico City, Mexico.

■ Dr. Subha Pratihar accepted the Associate Director position with June 28^th as a starting date. Dr. Pratihar will be replacing Dr. Long who is retiring on July 19^th.

■ Drew Brandon (MS with Prof. Poirier, PhD with Prof. Casadonte) recently accepted a tenure track faculty position in the Chemistry department at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. He will be teaching physical chemistry there, and also doing chemical education research. Congrats Drew!

■ Prof. Latham has recently reviewed grants for the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom and the Patton Trust.

■ Prof. Hase gave the following invited talk Use of Direct Dynamics Simulations and Classical Power Spectra to Study the Intramolecular and Unimolecular Dynamics of Vibrationally Excited Molecules at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Dynamical Systems, May 19-23, 2019, Snowbird, Utah.

■ Prof. Hase presented the invited talk entitled Chemical Dynamics of Energy Transfer and Chemical Reaction in Collisions of 3O2 with Graphite at the 2019 AFOSR Molecular Dynamics/Theoretical Chemistry Program Review, Washington, DC, May 21-23.

■ Prof. Latham presented a seminar entitled Structural biology studies of a large DNA repair complex at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel on May 28^th.

■ Prof. Hutchins gave a presentation entitled Unique Supramolecular Complex of Diclofenac via Multiple Types of Hydrogen Bonds at the International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC) in Lecce, Italy on June 5, 2019.

■ Prof. Mechref organized a workshop entitled Enhancing MS-Based Glycomics and Glycoproteomics Toolbox: Round-table Discussion at the 67^th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Atlanta, GA, June 3.

■ Prof. Mechref group presented 15 posters at the 67^th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Atlanta, GA, June 2-6.
– Rui Zhang, Xue Dong, Jianhui Zhu, David M. Lubman, Yehia Mechref, Haixu Tang. Identification of N-glycopeptides using Electron Transfer/High-energy Collision Dissociation (EThcD).
– Xiaoxia Gong, Parvin Mirzaei, Mohamed Fokar, Yehia Mechref, Masoud Zabet Moghaddam. Direct Quantification of Polyamines in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings by LC-MS/MS.
– Wenjing Peng, Jingfu Zhao, Mona Goli, Yehia Mechref. GlyProSILC: Glycan/Protein Stable Isotope Labeling in Cell Cultures Approach for Concurrent Glycomics/Proteomics/Glycoptoeomics Analysis.
– Jair Montford, Wenjing Peng, Jingfu Zhao, Seth Williamson, Aiying Yu, Yehia Mechref. A Filter-Assisted Approach for Rapid Proteomic Sample Quality Estimation.
– Jingfu Zhao, Wenjing Peng, Aiying Yu, Yifan Huang, Xue Dong, Yehia Mechref. LC-MS/MS Proteomic: Identification of Candidate Biomarkers of Breast Cancer Subtypes.
– Aiying Yu, Yifan Huang, Jingfu Zhao, Xue Dong, Yehia Mechref. LC-MS/MS Characterization of Isomeric Glycopeptides using Extra-long C18 Column.
– Junyao Wang, Wenjing Peng, Jingfu Zhao, Yehia Mechref. Improving the Glycomics Fidelity of Cancer Cells in Vitro by Using a Physiological Cell Culture Medium.
– Alireza Banazadeh, Mona Goli, Wenjing Peng, Reed Nieman, Hans Lischka, Yehia Mechref. Isomeric Study of Glycans Using Magnetic Carbon Nanoparticles As a MALDI Co-Matrix.
– Yifan Huang, Jieqiang Zhong, Wenjing Peng, Yehia Mechref. Investigation of ganglioside Isomers to reveal the Expression Differences in Neuron Cells and Breast Cancer Cell Lines using nano-ZIC-HILIC-LC-MS.
– Mona Goli, Jair Montford, Katya Torres Ulloa, Ahmed Hussien, Wenjing Peng, Yehia Mechref. Better Investigation of Integrin Expression in Cancer Cell Lines by Comparison of Different Membrane Protein Enrichment Methods.
– Byeong Gwan “Andrew” Cho, Wenjing Peng, Yifan Huang, Yehia Mechref. GlyLipSILC - Glycolipid Stable Isotope Labeling in Cell Cultures.
– Sakshi Gautam, Wenjing Peng, Xue Dong, Jingfu Zhao, Yifan Huang, Aiying Yu, Jieqiang Zhong, Yehia Mechref. Characterizing Glycans and Glycan Isomers Associated With Breast Cancer Tissue Phenotypes.
– Jieqiang Zhong, Yifan Huang, Wenjing Peng, Yehia Mechref. Isomeric linkage determination of sialic acid on O-glycopeptides using O-protease and LC-MS/MS.
– Seth Williamson, Byeong Gwan “Andrew” Cho, Jair Montford, Yehia Mechref. Dual Enzymatic Digestion Enabling Simultaneous Release of Glycans from Glycoproteins and Glycolipids.
– Xue Dong, Yifan Huang, Jingfu Zhao, Aiying Yu, Yehia Mechref. Isomeric Separation of Permethylated Glycans by Extra Long Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography (RPLC)-MS.

■ Prof. Hutchins gave a presentation entitled Synthesis of Bezafibrate Salts: Application of and Exceptions to the pKa Rule at the Crystal Forms Meeting in Bologna, Italy on June 10, 2019.

■ Prof. Poirier gave the following invited presentations:
– Adiabatic Quantum Trajectory Capture Method for Ultra-cold Chemical Reactions International Symposium on Quantum Effects in Chemistry and Biology NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry, Shanghai, CHINA on June 2, 2019.
– The crystal algorithm: Finding –and fixing – leaky “holes” in potential energy surfaces Telluride Science Research Center Workshop: Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Coupled Anharmonic Vibrations of Floppy Molecular Systems, Telluride, CO on June 10, 2019
– Exact Quantum Dynamical Treatment of Hydrogen-material Interactions: Fe(H)₂(H2)(PEtPh₂)₃ and [FeH(H₂)(PH₃)₄]⁺ 19^th International QAMTS Workshop, Borovets, Bulgaria on June 18, 2019.

■ Research Prof. Eckert, a research professor in Prof. Poirier group, organized the XIX^th International Workshop on Quantum Atomic and Molecular Tunneling Systems (QAMTS) in Borovets, Bulgaria, from June 17 to June 21, 2019. This interdisciplinary series of workshops encompasses work on tunneling of protons and heavier species in gas and condensed phases, in general, including biological systems, chemical reactions, transport phenomena in solids and liquids and in systems of lower dimensionality.

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