HUPOST Editor: Ben Garcia | Staff Editor: Olivia Galun | December 2023
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Message from Ben Garcia, Editor, HUPOST
This December HUPOST marks my last newsletter as HUPOST Editor.

I’ve been in this position for almost 3 years, and it has truly been a wonderful experience. I took this position with the hope that I could continue the high-level information content and style, and with the help of the amazing HUPO Office staff, I feel we have accomplished that. Additionally, and most importantly my life has been made easier by all of the fantastic contributions from the HUPO membership to add articles, opinion pieces and to keep us updated on the latest proteomics results, events and activities from around the world. I’ve enjoyed this opportunity to serve the HUPO community tremendously, in addition to my other involvement in HUPO committees and leadership.

I would highly recommend to everyone out there to get involved in this organization, as I have found HUPO to be dedicated to not only advancing proteomics, but even more importantly promoting and supporting our scientists at all levels.
I would also like to take this time to introduce the next HUPOST Editor, Aleksandra Nita-Lazar from the NIH. Aleksandra has been a committed member of HUPO for a long time now, being involved in many different aspects of HUPO. There is no doubt that she will continue to elevate the HUPOST newsletter and HUPO in the coming years.

Hope to see #TeamMassSpec at future HUPO conferences, stay in touch.

Ben Garcia
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Speaker: Daniel DeBord, PhD

Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Time: 6am PST / 9am EST / 3pm CET 

Daniel currently serves as the Vice President of R&D for MOBILion Systems, Inc. In this role, he leverages his 15 years’ experience to develop novel analytical instrumentation to address challenges across a range of application spaces. Daniel received a BS in Chemistry from Campbell University and a Doctorate in Analytical Chemistry from Texas A&M University. Prior to starting work with MOBILion, he served as the Chemistry Manager and lead developer for 1st Detect Corporation, a company which develops miniaturized mass spectrometry-based detection systems for a variety of markets. Daniel also worked as a staff Research Scientist and Associate Director of the Mass Spectrometry Facility at Florida International University and as an LC-MS chemist for BASF. For the past 10 years, Daniel’s work has focused on developing ion mobility technologies like Trapped Ion Mobility Spectrometry (TIMS) and Structures for Lossless Ion Manipulation (SLIM) and exploring how these new techniques can be coupled to traditional LC-MS instruments to access higher performance in fields like Proteomics and Biopharma Characterization.
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Speaker: Oliver Raether
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Location: Zoom (link to follow upon registration)
Time: 7am PST / 10am EST / 4pm CET

Oliver Raether is Research and Development Manager at Bruker Daltonics in Bremen. He received his M.Sc. in engineering from the Hamburg University of Technology (1995). Over the past nearly three decades he and his colleagues have developed orthogonal time of flight mass spectrometers including since 2010 the timsTOF product line. He has produced 14 peer reviewed journal articles and is inventor/co-inventor of 71 patents in the field of mass spectrometry and, more recently, ion mobility spectrometry (h-index 13). His awards include the HUPO Science and Technology Award for contributions on Trapped Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation (2020).
Recruitment of the HPP EC Chair and Co-chair

The Human Proteome Project (HPP) was launched in 2010 under the aegis of HUPO. The vision of HUPO is that HPP activities will collectively and ultimately lead to breakthroughs enabled by proteomics, in medicine, biotechnology and the life sciences, thereby leaving a legacy of human proteome research.
  
The HPP continues to make progress, addressing three major components, Chromosome-HPP (C-HPP), Biology and disease-HPP (BD-HPP) and the HPP-Grand Challenge. It is focused on:

  1. Cataloguing the human protein ‘parts’ list with high accuracy.
  2. Understanding the complexity and function of the human proteome (including post-translational modifications, splice variants, proteoforms, small proteins/peptides, etc.).
  3. Document and provide data deposition and analysis globally through portals (e.g., ProteomeXchange) and via major specific efforts (e.g., Human Protein Atlas, PeptideAtlas, neXtProt) with communal guidelines/metrics published with an annual communal reanalysis of whole human proteome’s protein existence (PE) status and making proteomics an integrated complement across the clinical, biomedical and life sciences research space.
  4. In 2021, the HPP inaugurated the establishment of the HPP Grand Challenge project “A function for every protein”.

Roles/Responsibilities

Chair
The HPP Chair leads the development and implementation of the Human Proteome activities of the C-HPP, the B/D-HPP and the HPP Grand Challenge. The term of the HPP Chair is two years and so the position becomes vacant on December 31, 2024. To ensure a smooth and consistent transition, the incoming Chair will sit on the HPP EC for one year (2024) prior to their 2-year term (2025-2026) and also be present as past Chair in 2027.

Co-chair
The HPP Co-Chair helps lead the development and implementation of the Human Proteome activities of the C-HPP, the B/D-HPP and the HPP Grand Challenge with the HPP Chair. The term of the HPP Co-Chair is two years and is staggered with appointment of the HPP Chair. The HPP Co-Chair position becomes vacant on December 31, 2023, for a 2-year term (2024-2025).

Responsibilities:
  • Chair the HPP Executive Committee and work with the HPP strategic advisory group to maximize the impact of HPP
  • Evolve and implement the strategic goals of the HPP by working with the HPP Executive Council and its membership to accelerate progress, assess the goals and performance of each component, and connect the components of the HPP
  • Support all HPP initiatives (C-HPP, B/D-HPP) and the HPP Grand Challenge
  • Represent the HPP on the HUPO Executive Committee monthly calls
  • Represent the HPP at national/international/strategic meetings, as needed
  • Liaise with other HUPO Committees (e.g., HUPO Marketing and HUPO Early Career Committee) and initiatives (e.g., Antibody and Single Cell) to support the development of science and education.
  • Work with HUPO External Development Committee (HEDI) and the HUPO EC to work on strategic projects and funding with other resources for the scientific community
The C-HPP is pleased to announce new leadership has been elected to the Executive Committee (EC). 
 
Commencing January 1, 2024, we welcome Dr Gong Zhang as the new C-HPP Co-chair, replacing Dr Lydie Lane. 

Dr Lane has been an active member of the C-HPP EC and Co-Chair for many years. As the lead scientist of the official C-HPP database neXtprot, Lydie has made incredible contributions to the HPP, HUPO and the wider community. We wish Lydie all the best in her new endeavours moving forward and thank her immensely for her curation of neXtprot. 
 
We are delighted to welcome two new members at large to the C-HPP EC.  Sergio Manuel Encarnación Guevara, who you will remember, was the Chair of the highly successful Cancun 2022 General HUPO Congress and Dr Heeyoun Hwang, Korea Basic Sciences Institute, Republic of Korea. Heeyoun was the local organizer for the C-HPP Workshop in Busan before the 2023 HUPO congress.
 
Furthermore, we would like to extend a warm welcome to the proteomics community of Qatar to the C-HPP, as Dr Frank Schmidt begins his role as the new Principal Investigator of Chromosome 21.
 
The Korean Chromosome 11 and Chromosome 13 teams both have new leaders. We welcome Drs Heeyoun Hwang and Min-Sik Kim, as the new Principal Investigators, respectively.
 
New Leadership is sought for Chromosome 2, where Lydie Lane is stepping down effective December 31, 2023.
 
Thank you to all the leaders of the new and past C-HPP EC and chromosome teams for their enthusiasm and for leadership renewal of the C-HPP. 
 
Chris Overall
Chair C-HPP, on behalf of the C-HPP Leadership Executive Committee
Each month a member of HUPO is highlighted. A diverse group of researchers representing different career stages, disciplines, geographical locations, and ethnicities are invited to submit a profile for the monthly highlight. This initiative will improve visibility of HUPO members, advertise research and enhance the HUPO community. This month we are featuring:
Emily Hashimoto-Roth, Canada

What is your current position and location?
I’m a PhD student in computational biology supervised by Dr. Hannes Röst at the University of Toronto. Previously, I completed my Master’s at the University of Ottawa, under the co-supervision of Dr. Mathieu Lavallée-Adam and Dr. Steffany Bennett.

How did you get started in the field of proteomics?
I was introduced to the field of proteomics during my undergraduate research project, where I met Dr. Lavallée-Adam. More specifically, I was introduced to mass spectrometry-based proteomics and the methods used for investigating protein-protein interactions. Further learning about bioinformatics and how machine learning can be applied to biological questions got me hooked!
On behalf of HUPO President Jennifer Van Eyk and the entire HUPO Executive Committee and Council, we extend sincere best wishes for a peaceful, safe and joyous holiday season to all HUPO committees, initiatives, the Industrial Advisory Board (IAB), HUPO members and the proteomics community. This holiday, we want to express our heartfelt thanks for your continued support and participation in HUPO. Your contributions are a cherished gift and an extraordinary testament to the proteomics success story.
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