Mass Spectrometry

A. L. Burlingame is Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco. He is Director of the NIH-supported National Bio-organic, Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Facility and of the core mass spectrometry facility of the Liver Center in the School of Medicine at UCSF. He received his B.S. from the University of Rhode Island and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962. His current interests focus on sequence determination of proteins in tumor cell lysates separated on 2-D gels, and detailed structural studies of posttranslationally and xenobiotically modified proteins, cell surface receptors and glycoconjugates of biomedical importance. He is a member of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, The Protein Society, and The American Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Robert K. Boyd is Principal Research Officer and Analytical Chemistry Group Leader at the Institute for Marine Biosciences, National Research Council, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He received both B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physical chemistry from St. Andrews University. He has been appointed as a Canadian representative to the Chemical Metrology Working Group of NORAMET, the metrology subcommittee working under the auspices of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and has been elected to the Board of the Canadian Association of Environmental Analytical Laboratories. In 1996 he will complete a two-year term on the Board of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry and a three-year term on the Grant Selection Committee for Physical and Analytical Chemistry of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He is an Editor of Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mass Spectrometry.

Simon J. Gaskell is Professor of Mass Spectrometry and Director of the Michael Barber Centre for Mass Spectrometry in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). He received his B.Sc. (1974) and Ph.D. (1977) degrees from the University of Bristol. He took up his present position at UMIST in 1993. His research activities are in the development of mass spectrometry (particularly tandem MS) and related techniques, and their application to biological research. Specific interests range from the characterization of modified peptides and proteins to the trace quantification of lipid mediators. He is the cofounder (with R. K. Boyd and P. W. Brooks) and current Chairman of the Lake Louise Workshops on Tandem Mass Spectrometry. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, and Mass Spectrometry Reviews.