Time: Dec. 20th, 2026
Place: Shrum Science Center, room SSB7172, Simon Fraser University, MAP
Fee: $100/SFU student and employee; $200/non-SFU student; $350/general (supervisors are encouraged to use grants to cover students' registration)
Register by emailing contacts before Nov. 20, 2026 for attendence.
Contacts: Ed Bigornia, email: edarlin_royce_bigornia at sfu.ca; or Dr. Bingyun Sun, email: bingyun_sun at sfu.ca
Proteomics is a contemporary and high throughput technology analyzing the entire complement of proteins in a biological system. The featured characterization is a holistic examination of all the interweaving biological pathways and networks. It has been an indispensable tool in molecular and cellular biology, biomedicine, and biodefence as well as in the emerging field of systems biology. The technique relies on specialized liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) to achieve accurate, highly sensitive, and rapid sequencing and quantification of thousands and millions of peptides to infer proteins and their structural modifications. The acquired data relies on biostatistics and bioinformatics for data mining and pattern recognition to gain biological insights.
In this workshop, participants will be able to learn the fundamental theory of this widely used technology in one hour tutorial, and subsequently work in the lab for the rest of the day to practice a well-designed complete proteomic procedure outlined in the workshop program below including sample preparation, instrumentation, and data analysis. Three parallel modules are offered at this time with two focusing on general proteomics and the other on membrane proteomics. It is recommended that for beginners, take the general proteomics module first as the membrane proteomics module is designed for trainees already equipped with basic proteomics knowledge.
Module 1 (General Proteomics-kit (two enzymes))
Starting material of the workshop: Proteins of 100ug in powder form or in buffer solution with known composition will be needed for this workshop. We will provide sample proteins for participants, yet attendees can bring their own samples (please contact us for suitabiligy of your samples two weeks ahead of workshop).
Itinerary of the day: 8:15am Check in with breakfast and morning coffee. 8:45am Presentation of the basic principle of the methodology, the key steps, and the general application of the methodology. 9:30am Bench work: Denaturation, alkylation, quenching, enzymatic digestion. 12:00am Group lunch. 1:00pm SPE cleaning up and speedvac concentration. 3:30pm Discussion of the method, introduction of MS characterization, database search and analysis. 4:30pm Nanodrop, MS characterization 5:30pm Wrap up.
Module 2 (General Proteomics-manual (single enzyme))
Starting material of the workshop: Proteins of 100ug in powder form or in buffer solution with known composition will be needed for this workshop. We will provide sample proteins for participants, yet attendees can bring their own samples (please contact us for suitabiligy of your samples two weeks ahead of workshop).
Itinerary of the day: 8:15am Check in with breakfast and morning coffee. 8:45am Presentation of the basic principle of the methodology, the key steps, and the general application of the methodology. 9:30am Bench work: Denaturation, alkylation, quenching, enzymatic digestion. 12:00am Group lunch. 1:00pm SPE cleaning up and speedvac concentration. 3:30pm Discussion of the method, introduction of MS characterization, database search and analysis. 4:30pm Nanodrop, MS characterization 5:30pm Wrap up.
Module 3 (Membrane Proteomics)
Starting material of the workshop: Clean and dried 100ug tryptic membrane peptides are needed for this workshop. We will provide samples for participants, yet attendees can bring their own samples (please contact us for suitabiligy of your samples two weeks ahead of workshop).
Itinerary of the day: 8:15am Check in with breakfast and morning coffee. 8:45am Presentation of the basic principle of the methodology, the key steps, and the general application of the methodology. 9:30am Bench work: Dispersion, oxidation, coupling of peptides to the resin. 12:00am Group lunch. 1:00pm Wash, release the captured peptides, ziptip cleaning up, and speedvac concentration. 3:30pm Discussion of the method, introduction of MS characterization, database search and analysis. 4:30pm Nanodrop, MS characterization 5:30pm Wrap up.