Vicki Wysocki was invited to present in a symposium encompassing recent advances in native MS from both academia and biopharma. The online symposium, Native Mass Spectrometry (nMS) for Studying Biomolecules, was hosted by Pharmaceutical & Bioscience Society International (PBSS), and co-organized by Dr. Surinder Kaur at Genentech and Dr. Daojing Wang at Newomics. The symposium was held March 14, 2023, with 318 participants. 

Speakers and Topics included:
Surinder Kaur (Co-organizer), PhD, Executive Director, BioAnalytical Sciences, Genentech, Welcome Remarks

Daojing Wang (Co-organizer), PhD, Founder & CEO, Newomics, Inc., Symposium Overview

Joseph A. Loo, PhD, Professor, UCLA, “Linking Native Mass Spectrometry and Top-down MS for Characterizing Proteins and Complexes”

Shunhai Wang, PhD, Director, Analytical Chemistry Group, Regeneron, “Empowering Native MS Characterization of Biologics by a Diverse Collection of Separation Techniques”

Elizabeth Hecht, PhD, Principal Scientist, Dept. of Microchemistry, Proteomics, and Lipidomics, Genentech, “Hybrid MS, IM, and Imaging Approaches to Separate, Automate, and Characterize Protein Complexes”

Rosa Viner, PhD, Sr. Manager Omics Marketing, Thermo Fisher Scientific, “Automated High-throughput Online Native MS Screening for Proteins and Protein Complexes”

Vicki Wysocki, PhD, Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar, Ohio State University, “Electron Capture and Surface Collisions for Protein and Nucleoprotein Structure Characterization”