Invited Seminars

Talks in bold were given by Joshua Coon; all others were given by a student. Typically, all students (including first-years) attend and present at conferences at least once per year.

2012

• Mar - US Human Proteome Organization (HUPO); San Francisco, CA
• Feb - Uppsala Conference on ECD & ETD; Charleston, SC
• Jan - Florida State University; Tallahassee, FL




2011

• Nov - University of Georgia, Department of Chemistry; Athens, GA
• Oct - University of Notre Dame, Department of Chemistry; South Bend, IN
• Oct - National Institute of Health, Workshop on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research; Bethesda, MD
• Oct - American Chemical Society, Regional Symposium; St. Louis, MO
• Sep - National Institute of Health, Human Proteome Workshop; Bethesda, MD
• Sep - University of Michigan, Department of Chemistry; Ann Arbor, MI
• Aug - Wisconsin Human Proteomics Symposium; Madison, WI
• Jul - University of Texas - Austin, Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Austin, TX
• Jun - ASMS Conference; Denver, CO
• Jun - Plant Biology; Minneapolis, MN
• Jun - US National Library of Medicine, Informatics Training Conference; Bethesda, MD
• May - University of California, San Francisco, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry; San Francisco, CA
• May - North American FT-MS Conference; Key West, FL
• May - Thermo Scientific Symposium, Niagara-on-the-Lake; Ontario, Canada
• Apr - University of North Carolina, Department of Chemistry; Chapel Hill, NC
• Apr - Glaxo-Smith-Kline Pharmaceuticals; Raleigh, NC
• Apr - Triangle Area Mass Spectrometry, Discussion Group; Raleigh, NC
• Feb - Uppsala Conference on ECD & ETD; Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland
• Jan - ASMS Sanibel Conference on Mass Spectrometry; St. Pete's Beach, FL
• Jan - University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Knoxville, TN




2010

• Nov - Indiana University, Department of Chemistry; Bloomington, IN
• Sep - HUPO Thermo Scientific Workshop; Sydney, Australia
• Sep - Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh, PA
• Sep - University of Texas-Austin; Austin, TX
• Aug - University of Illinois-Chicago; Chicago, IL
• Aug - Chicago Biomedical Consortium; Chicago, IL
• Aug - UW Proteomics Symposium; Madison, WI
• Jul - Land O'Lakes Bioanalytical Conference; Merrimac, WI
• May - ASMS Ion Trap Interest Group; Salt Lake City, UT
• May - ASMS Protein Quantitation Workshop; Salt Lake City, UT
• May - ASMS Phosphoproteomics Applications; Salt Lake City, UT
• May - ASMS New Developments in Ion Traps and Hybrid Instruments; Salt Lake City, UT
• May - ASMS Quantitative Intact Proteomics; Salt Lake City, UT
• May - ASMS MS and Systems Biology; Salt Lake City, UT
• May - ASMS Fundamentals: Ion/Molecule, Ion/Ion, Ion/Electron Interactions; Salt Lake City, UT
• May - ASMS Electron & Photon-Based Ion Activation/Dissociation-PD, ECD, ETD, EDD; Salt Lake City, UT
• Feb - California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology; Pasadena, CA




2009

• Dec - Uppsala Conference on Electron Capture and Transfer Dissociation; Nara, Japan
• Nov - Thermo Scientific Proteomics Seminar Series; Research Triangle Park, NC
• Nov - Thermo Scientific Proteomics Seminar Series; Gaithersburg, MD
• Nov - Grinnell College, Department of Chemistry; Grinnell, IA
• Nov - University of Illinois, Department of Chemistry; Urbana, IL
• Oct - Boston Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group; Boston, MA
• Aug - Chang Gung University; Taipei, Taiwan
• Aug - Academia Sinica; Taipei, Taiwan
• Aug - University of California-San Francisco; San Francisco, CA
• Aug - FASEB Summer Research Conference; Lucca, Italy
• Jun - ASMS Novel Developments in Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation: Ion Sources; Philidelphia, PA
• Jun - ASMS Quantitative Bottom Up Proteomics; Philidelphia, PA
• Jun - ASMS Polypeptide Ion Fragmentation: Theory and Experiment; Philidelphia, PA
• Jun - ASMS Advances in Global Phosphoprotein Analysis; Philidelphia, PA
• Jun - ASMS ETD/ECD/EDD Applications; Philidelphia, PA
• May - University of Wisconsin, Department of Chemistry; Madison, WI
• May - University of Wisconsin, Department of Biomolecular Chemistry; Madison, WI
• Apr - 7th Annual North American FT MS Conference; Key West, FL
• Mar - Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School; Boston, MA
• Feb - Genome Center of Wisconsin; Madison, WI
• Feb - NIH Proteomics Interest Group; Bethesda, MD
• Feb - University of Florida, Department of Chemistry; Gainesville, FL




2008

• Dec - University of Montreal, Department of Chemistry; Montreal, Canada
• Dec - Montreal Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group; Montreal, Canada
• Nov - Thermo Scientific Proteomics Seminar Series; Madrid, Spain
• Nov - Thermo Scientific Proteomics Seminar Series; Barcelona, Spain
• Nov - Thermo Scientific Proteomics Seminar Series; Milan, Italy
• Oct - Eli Lilly and Company; Indianapolis, IN
• Oct - Thermo Scientific Proteomics Seminar Series; Paris, France
• Oct - Thermo Scientific Proteomics Seminar Series; Utrecht, Netherlands
• Oct - Thermo Scientific Proteomics Seminar Series; Copenhagen, Austria
• Oct - Thermo Scientific Proteomics Seminar Series; Stockholm, Sweden
• Oct - Thermo Scientific Proteomics Seminar Series; Vienna, Austria
• Oct - Thermo Scientific Proteomics Seminar Series; Basel, Switzerland
• Oct - Thermo Scientific Proteomics Seminar Series; Munich, Germany
• Oct - Thermo Scientific Proteomics Seminar Series; Berlin, Germany
• Sep - University of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences; Seattle, WA
• Jun - University of Washington, Department of Anesthesiology; Seattle, WA
• Jun - Thermo Scientific User Forum at the ASMS Conference (plenary lecturer); Denver, CO
• Feb - Institute for Systems Biology; Seattle, WA
• Feb - University of Wisconsin, Department of Chemistry; Madison, WI
• Jan - Texas Tech University, Department of Chemistry; Lubbock, TX
• Jan - University of Texas Health Science Center, Department of Biochemistry; San Antonio, TX
• Jan - University of Texas San Antonio, Department of Biochemistry; San Antonio, TX
• Jan - University of California Los Angeles, Department of Biochemistry; Los Angeles, CA




2007

• Dec - Thermo Scientific Proteomic Seminar Series; Boston, MA
• Nov - Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biological Chemistry; Baltimore, MD
• Nov - Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group; Baltimore, Wa
• Nov - Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Biochemistry; Milwaukee, WI
• Oct - Heartland Mass Spectrometry Workshop; Osage Beach, MO
• Oct - University of Alabama, Department of Microbiology; Birmingham, AL
• Aug - Chicago Biomedical Consortium Proteomics and Informatics Workshop; Chicago, IL
• Jun - ASMS Fourier Transform MS Interest Group Speaker; Indianapolis, IN
• Jun - ASMS Ion Trap Interest Group Speaker; Indianapolis, IN
• Jun - Thermo Fisher User Forum; Indianapolis, IN
• Jun - Advion Biosciences User Forum; Indianapolis, IN
• Jun - Human Proteomics Symposium; Madison, WI
• Apr - Thermo Fisher Proteomics Seminar Series; Chicago, IL
• Apr - Thermo Fisher Proteomics Seminar Series; Cincinnati, OH
• Apr - Thermo Fisher Proteomics Seminar Series; Pittsburgh, PA
• Mar - Genome Center of Wisconsin Technology Forum; Madison, WI
• Jan - WiCell Seminar Series; Madison, WI
• Jan - Northern Illinois University, Department of Chemistry; DeKalb, IL




2006

• Oct - Midwest Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group; St. Louis, MO
• Oct - Madison Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group; Madison, WI
• Sep - Thermo Electron Proteomics Seminar Series; Indianapolis, IN
• Aug - Thermo Electron User Forum; Prague, Czech Republic
• Jun - Advion Biosciences Webinar; the ether
• Jun - Advion Biosciences User Forum; Seattle, WA




2005

• Nov - Dartmouth College, Norris Cotton Cancer Center; Hanover, NH
• Nov - Indiana University, Department of Chemistry; Bloomington, IN
• Nov - University of Wisconsin, Department of Chemistry; Madison, WI
• Oct - Thermo Electron Proteomics Seminar Series; St. Louis, MO
• Sep - University of Wisconsin, Department of Biomolecular Chemistry; Madison, WI
• Aug - University of Wisconsin, Department of Pathology; Madison, WI
• Jan - University of Chicago, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics; Chicago, IL
• Jan - Dartmouth College, Department of Chemistry; Hanover, NH




2004

• Mar - Central Michigan University, Department of Chemistry; Mt. Pleasant, MI

 

 

Media Coverage

2009
Nov 1st - Tailor-Made Mass Spec (The Scientist)
Mar 17th - Spotlight (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

2008
Augt 7th - Technology Feature Genomics (Nature)
Apr 18th - Joshua Coon: Retooling Chemical Biology (ACS Chemical Biology)

2007
Jun 1st - High Power for Mid-Level Proteomics (Analystical Chemistry)
Mar 1st- Modification Marathon (GenomeWeb.com)
Jan 15th - Taming Stem Cells (Chemical & Engineering News)

2006
Dec 31st - Mass Spec, But Better (Genome Technology)

 

 

Community Outreach

For the lab’s community outreach effort, Technology and Science (TESci), we partner with Thermo Scientific to reach outside academic and industry confines to introduce instrumentation development to both academically driven and challenged secondary education students. Participants in the weeklong summer course include students and teachers from five Madison area high schools.  For the 2011 workshop we are seeking to enlist participation from alternative high schools in hopes of incorporating more ethnically or socially underrepresented groups.

The program includes formal presentations by professionals about educational and career opportunities in the biotechnology industry and graduate instruction on instrument usage and project brainstorming. Access to five Nicolet iS10 Fourier-Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometers ensured that each participant had ample opportunity to work with the instruments directly. Students were instructed on proper instrument usage and data interpretation and collected spectra from polymer standards to build a spectral library. Applications included distinguishing between different black inks of several writing samples, comparing lipids from different types of shortening, and the sugar content of various types of soft-drinks. Students were then challenged with forensic problems which they had to solve using their new knowledge and skills.

The best measure of success for such a project is its effect on the students’ views on future participation in science.  Comments were overwhelmingly positive, with all participants indicating their enthusiasm for and knowledge gained from TESci and a majority indicating usefulness in confirming aspirations to pursue science-related careers.  Teachers eagerly anticipated integrating the course into their curriculum during the academic year, a most important testament to reaching not twenty but hundreds of area students. Furthermore, following the summer programs, the commercial-grade spectrophotometers were loaned to each team/school during the fall semesters where they were used for experiments and demonstrations in a variety of science courses. With assistance from Thermo staff and Coon lab members, teachers instructed their students (and fellow instructors) on technological aspects of these instruments.

Our program affords an opportunity to extend technological training at the secondary education level, providing elements of rigor and relevance even outside a vocationally minded model.  TESci has already demonstrated its ability to: (1) foster interest in the sciences among those least likely to become engaged in scientific research, (2) develop technology skills among college-bound science students, male and female, and (3) instill the value of interdisciplinary collaboration and diversity in science.  Additionally, graduate students supported by this award learn how to integrate research and teaching so they can become better educators.  Wisconsin Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin put it well:  “This type of outreach on the part of the company and the University of Wisconsin - Madison offers much more than a weeklong learning experience or a public service event; it nurtures future generations of scientists and educators.”

2010
Jul 23rd - TE-SCI (Channel 3000)

 
2009
Sep 2nd - TE-SCI (Thermo Fisher Scientific)
Jul 29th - TE-SCI (Wisconsin State Journal)
Jul 2nd - TE-SCI (University of Wisconsin-Madison)