A tentative schedule of events for Top-Down Analysis of Antibodies is provided below for your convenience.

This is a one-day conference scheduled for Friday, June 20, 2014 at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, located at 20 N. Pine Street in Baltimore, MD. The conference is open to the public. Download a printer-friendly version of the agenda here‌.

Morning Session:

Moderators: Young Ah Goo, PhD, and Maureen Kane, PhD

TimeActivity
8:50-9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
David Goodlett, PhD
Isaac E. Emerson Chair of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Director, Mass Spectrometry Center
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
9:00-9:25 a.m. The NIST mAb: A Reference Material for Biopharmaceutical Method Evaluation
John Schiel, PhD
Research Chemist
Biomolecular Measurement Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
9:25-9:50 a.m. Mass Accurate Analysis of Protein Therapeutics: Assessment of Top Down Approaches
Michael Boyne, PhD
Research Chemist
Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis
Food and Drug Administration
9:50-10:15 a.m. Analysis of Antibody-Auristatin Conjugates for Cancer Therapy
Shawna Hengel, PhD
Scientist
Seattle Genetics
10:15-10:40 a.m. Coffee Break
10:40-11:05 a.m. Mass Spectrometry Strategies for Rapid and Artifact-Free Antibody Structure Analysis
Yury Tsybin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Physical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
Head, Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
Director, Mass Spectrometry Service Facility
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
11:05-11:30 a.m. Protein Footprinting for Problem Solving in Biophysics
Michael Gross, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Professor of Immunology and Internal Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
11:30-11:55 a.m. Structural Characterization of Biosimilars by HDX and Top Down Analysis Using EDC/EDT-FTMS
Christoph Borchers, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, MRM Proteomics, Inc.
Professor and Director, Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre
University of Victoria, Canada
11:55-12:40 p.m. Lunch
12:40-1:00 p.m. Tour of Mass Spectrometry Center

Afternoon Session:

Moderator: Michael Przybylski, PhD, and Michael Glocker, PhD

TimeActivity
1:00-1:25 p.m. UV Photodissociation for Characterization of Intact Proteins
Jenny Brodbelt, PhD
William H. Wade Endowed Professor in Chemistry
Chair, Department of Chemistry
University of Texas at Austin
1:25-1:50 p.m. Surface-induced Dissociation/Ion Mobility Characterization of Non-covalent Complexes
Vicki Wysocki, PhD
Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Director, Campus Chemical Instrument Center
Ohio State University
1:50-2:15 p.m. Online Biosensor-/Affinity- Mass Spectrometry for Structure Determination and Quantification of Protein Interactions from Biological Material
Michael Przybylski, PhD
Professor & Director
Steinbeis Center for Biopolymer Analysis & Biomedical Mass Spectrometry
University of Konstanz & Rüsselsheim, Germany
2:15-2:40 p.m. Defining the Stoichiometry and Cargo Load of Viral and Bacterial Nanoparticles by Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry
Joost Snijder, MSc
Graduate Student (Albert Heck's Lab)
Utrecht University, Netherlands
2:40-3:05 p.m. A Novel Strategy for Rapid Preparation and Isolation of Intact Immune Complexes
Michael Glocker, PhD
Director, Proteome Center Rostock
University of Rostock, Germany
3:05-3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
3:30-3:55 p.m. HDX-MS: Effects of Small Molecule Ligands on the Conformational Dynamics of the Farnesoid X Receptor Ligand Binding Domain
Claudia Maier, PhD
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Oregon State University
3:55-4:20 p.m. Title TBA
David Clemmer, PhD
Associate Dean for the Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
Professor and Robert & Marjorie Mann Chair
Department of Chemistry
Indiana University, Bloomington
4:20-4:45 p.m. A Mass Spectrometry-based Functional Assay for Monitoring Intrinsic Proteolytic Activity in Human Serum Samples
Jing-Zhi Yang, MSc
Proteome Center Rostock
University of Rostock, Germany
4:45-5:10 p.m. Title TBA
Brian Chait, DPhil
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor
Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry
The Rockefeller University
5:10 p.m. Concluding Remarks
Michael Glocker, PhD
Director, Proteome Center Rostock
University of Rostock