June 2012
Several group members went to Shire Human Genetic Therapies (Lexington, MA) for a site visit and discussion of collaborative work
May 2012
Congratulations to Guanbo Wang, who was awarded a highly competitive University Graduate School Fellowship for UMass-Amherst for the academic year 2012/2013
Dr. Cedric Bobst, Shunhai Wang, Guanbo Wang, and Hanwei Zhao went to Vancouver to attend the annual conference of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry and present their research
Prof. Kaltashov was invited to attend a Protein Engineering Summit in Boston (PEGS-2012), where he gave a presentation on new mass spectrometry-based approaches to study aggregation of protein drugs.
Several group members went to Biogen IDEC (Cambridge, MA) for a site visit and discussion of collaborative work
April 2012
The second edition of the textbook on mass spectrometry in biophysics (I.A. Kaltashov, S.J. Eyles. Mass Spectrometry in Structural Biology and Biophysics: Architecture, Dynamics and Interaction of Biomolecules, 2nd edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012 (ISBN 978-0-470-93779-2)) was published by J. Wiley and Sons – order your copy today!
March 2012
Congratulations to Dr. Rinat Abzalimov on becoming an Assistant Director of the Mass Spectrometry Center at UMass-Amherst
February 2012
A U.S. patent application was filed based on work by Guanbo Wang to develop new temperature-controlled ESI Ms source to study protein behavior under heat-stress conditions
January 2012
Two outstanding first-year graduate students have joined our research group: Jake Pawlowski (UMass-Amherst 2011) and Shengsheng Xu (Wuhan University 2011)
