Department of Chemistry to celebrate Purdue's innovations in mass spectrometry

The Department of Chemistry will celebrate Purdue's innovations in mass spectrometry with an event June 2 and 3.

The celebration will involve a mixture of presentations from prominent members of the mass spectrometry community, discussion of the future of the technology, laboratory tours, demonstrations, dinners, group excursions and more. The event is free with the exception of a dinner charge and is open to Purdue faculty, staff and students.

Speakers at the event include:

* Carol Robinson, professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford: Robinson is the first female professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford. She is best known for studying the 3-D structures of protein complexes as well as recent work on interactions of small molecules.

* Helmut Schwarz, professor of chemistry at Technische Universität Berlin: Schwarz is a highly cited chemist who has received a myriad of awards. His research interests include gas-phase organometallic chemistry, catalysis, bond activation, reactivity and other topics in physical and theoretical organic chemistry.

* Donald Hunt, professor of chemistry and pathology at the University of Virginia: Hunt is widely regarded as the founder of the field of proteomics. His research interests include the development of methods and instrumentation for structural characterization of proteins as well as post-translational modifications.

Other speakers at the event will include researchers in mass spectrometry, gas-phase chemistry, thermodynamics, physical chemistry, chemical kinetics, proteomics, and theoretical and physical organic chemistry.

The celebration is organized by R. Graham Cooks, the Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the Aston Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry at Purdue.

More information can be found at https://www.chem.purdue.edu/ms2017/index.html.

Writer: Kelsey Schnieders, kschnied@purdue.edu

Sources: R. Graham Cooks, cooks@purdue.edu

Steven Scherer, scherer@purdue.edu