Newsletter：2014, No. 2
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The 4th Asia Oceania Agricultural Proteomics Organization
Council Meeting
The 4th Asia Oceania Agricultural Proteomics Organization (AOAPO) council
meeting was held in the city of Harbin, China on June 24th, 2014 during the period of
the 6th International Symposium on Frontiers in Agriculture Proteome Research
(FAPR). It was organized by Prof. Setsuko Komatsu, the president of AOAPO. Nine
council members from eight countries, including China, Japan, Australia, Saudi
Arabia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and South Korea, and three invitees attended this
meeting.
The council members discussed about the FAPR, including the places and time for
the next two, and changes on its title. Prof. Sun Hee Woo from South Korea presented
some information about the 7th International Symposium on FAPR. They proposed to
hold this symposium in July or August 2015, in the city of Daejeo, South Korea. Prof.
Subhra Chakraborty from India introduced something about the 8th International
Symposium on FAPR, which will be held in December 2016 in India. All the Council
members agreed to keep the name still as 7th and 8th International Symposium on
FAPR, meanwhile, the 2nd and 3rd AOAPO conference will be used. After that, the
conference name will be changed into AOAPO Conference solely.
The attendees also discussed and confirmed the newly nominated council
members. They are Profs. Boxiong Zhong (China, Insect), Lal Chand Rai (India,
Microorganism), and JongSoon Choi (South Korea, Microorganism). Council
members decided to have a join review paper on Agricultural Proteomics in 2015. The
potential title will be “Crop Proteomics in Asia and Oceania region: current status and
future perspective”. The president of AOAPO will lead the review paper and contact
authors to contribute in manuscript.
Provided by Pingfang Yang ([email protected])
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The
6th
International
Symposium
on
Frontiers
in
Agriculture Proteome Research
The 6th International Symposium on FAPR, the 1st AOAPO conference and the
5th Plant Proteomics Conference in China was held June 23rd to 27th, 2014 in
Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China. The goal of this conference was to promote
the development of proteome research in agricultural and plant biology areas and to
enhance communication and cooperation between the members of the international
plant proteomics community. The conference was primarily organized by AOAPO,
the Chinese Society for Cell Biology and the Heilongjiang Province Proteomics and
hosted by Heilongjiang University, the Hereditary Tree Breeding State Key laboratory
from Northeast Forestry University and Qiqihar University. The corporate sponsors of
the conference included the Wuxianfeng Scientific Corporation in Harbin, Thermo
Fisher Scientific, GE, and AB SCIEX.
The conference was a big success with over 200 participants from China and
overseas including the US, Japan, Australia, India, South Korea, Parkistan and Saudi
Arabia. It has also invited world leading scientists in plant and agricultural proteomics
areas to present how the fast advancing proteomics technologies are applied to solving
important agricultural and plant biology problems. The topics including plant
signaling proteomics, posttranslational modification proteomics, developmental and
organelle proteomics, stress proteomics, and agricultural and GMO proteomics. In
addition to leading scientists including national academy members from different
countries, scientists from Asia and all over the world who worked on the related areas
have enjoyed attending this important conference in the beautiful city of Harbin.
The attraction for the budding proteomics leaders was the “Best Poster” and “Best
presentation” Awards. Finally, there was the announcement of the 2015 meeting in
South Korea.
Provided by Sixue Chen ([email protected])
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The 13th Human Proteome Organization World Congress
The 13th Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) congress was held from
October
5th
to
8th,
2014
in
Madrid,
alongwith
the
7th
European Proteomics Association (EuPA) (EuPA) annual conference and the 6th
Spanish Proteomics Society congress in Spain. Around 1200 participants from various
scientific disciplines, including Human and non-human field attended the conference.
Of which approximately 200 participants were from Asia and Oceania region. It was
inaugurated by the Congress Co-Chairs Profs. Concha Gill, Fernando J. Corrales, and
Juan Calvete with their opening remarks and tribute to Prof. Juan Pablo Albar. Two
keynote talks were delivered by Profs. Tom L. Blundell and Mathias Uhlen during the
inaugural session in the area of human multiprotein assemblies and human protein
atlas, respectively.
The conference was attended by leading scientists in the field from across the
globe. Their presentations showed how the fast advancing proteomics research and
technologies are applied to solve important issues related to human health. The
lectures delivered during the conference covered various areas, including Human and
Non-human proteomics and could be broadly categorized under Human Plasma
Proteomics, Disease Proteomics, Liver Proteomics, Proteomics of metabolic disorders
Organeller Proteomics, Phosphoproteomics, Proteogenomics, New Trends in
Biomarker Discovery, Immunobiology and Cell Signaling, Redox Proteomics,
Interactomics and Computational Proteomics, Model organism (iMOP) Proteomics,
Non-human/Food proteomics. The sessions on iMOP and Non-human/Food
Proteomics focused on various facets of how the proteomics study of non-human
organisms could contribute to the HUPO initiatives and in turn benefit the human life.
There were lectures on plant, marine organism, and animal besides talks on food
safety, linking of genome scale metabolic data with other omics data, different
proteomics workflows and databases for the study of orphan species. From research
field of the plant proteomics, Profs. Wolfram Weckwerth and Setsuko Komatsu
lectured.
Every day the morning session was devoted to the updates in the Human
Proteome Initiatives in various directions. There were parallel sessions that included
five plenary talks, more than hundred and fifty invited talks by leading national and
international scientists in their respective field of research and luncheon Industry talks
on new technology developments in mass spectrometry, omics data analyses and
protein interaction studies. Besides the plenary lectures and invited talks, there were
informal poster sessions and exhibitions by sponsors, which played a central role in
vibrant discussions and exchange of scientific ideas amongst the students, researchers,
and fellow colleagues. Organizers provided ample opportunity for everyone especially
for students and young investigators to participate in this congress. Two sessions were
devoted to the talks by EuPA and HUPO young investigators. The attraction for the
budding proteomics leaders was the “Best Poster” and “Young investigators” Awards.
The conference was a great success and it was brought to a close by vote of thanks to
the organizers, and the announcement of the 2015 meeting in Canada.
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Overall, it was impressing to observe the enthusiasm of young proteomics
researchers and the positive attitude of the World proteomics community. This is
encouraging as it serves the purpose and goal of HUPO. Nevertheless in comparison
to human and animal proteomics, non-human proteomics including agriculture and
plant proteomics has miles to go to usher in the benefits to the living world. The 14th
HUPO congress will be hosted by Canadian National Proteomics Network in
coordination with the BC Proteomics Network in Vancouver, Canada.
Provided by Subhra Chakraborty ([email protected])
If you wish to contribute news, notices of events, or any other items, please
feel free to forward it to AOAPO Newsletter Office:
Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan
Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuchang Moshan, Wuhan 430074
China
Tel/fax : +86-27-87510956
Email: [email protected]
Newsletter Editor:
Pingfang Yang (China)
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