June, 2016

New Graduate Students are WELCOME now!

Please contact Dr. John Klassen (john.klassen@ualberta.ca) for more information

May, 2016

Congratulations to Yuyu for successfully defending his Master degree!

Jun 29th, 2015

Congratulations to Ling for successfully defending his PhD degree!

Left to Right: Dr. John Klassen, Dr. Ling Han, Dr. Joseph Loo (UCLA)

Left to Right: Fawkes, Jun, Mia, Doha, Di & Ling, Dr. Joseph Loo (UCLA), Dr. John Klassen, Dr. Emma-Dune Leriche, Dr. Elena Kitova, Dr. Rambod Daneshfar, Yuyu, Reza

Apr 22nd, 2015

A paper entitled: "Recognition of Human Milk Oligosaccharides by Bacterial Exotoxins" has been accepted in Glycobiology. Congratulations Amr!

Apr 20th, 2015

Ling has won the Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize! Congratulations!

Apr 15th, 2015

Congratulations to Jun for successfully passing her 502!

Apr 15th, 2015

Congratulations to Sanaz for successfully defending her Master degree!

Apr 12th, 2015

A paper entitled: "Protein-Glycolipid Interactions Studied in vitro using ESI-MS and Nanodiscs. Insights into the Mechanisms and Energetics of Binding" has been accepted in Anal Chem. Congratulations Ling!

Apr 9th, 2015

A paper entitled: "Picodiscs for Facile Protein-Glycolipid Interaction Analysis" has been accepted in Anal Chem. Congratulations Aneika!

Apr 1st, 2015

Congratulations to Dr. John Klassen for being the director of the alberta glycomics centre (AGC)!

Feb 25th, 2015

Congratulations to Dr. Lan Liu for the recipient of the Ron Hites Award 2015 for the paper entitled "Energetics of Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonds in a Hydrophobic Cavity" JASMS, 2014, 25, 742-750.

Left to Right: Dr. Elena Kitova, Dr. Lan Liu, Dr. John Klassen

Jan 3rd, 2015

Fawkes (Yajie) Chen joined our group. Welcome!

Oct 17th, 2014

Dr.John Klassen has been invited to serve on the Editorial Board for J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. Congratulations John!

Sep 16th, 2014

A paper entitled: "Affinities of Human Histo-Blood Group Antigens for Norovirus Capsid Protein Complexes" has been accepted in Glycobiology. Congratulations Ling!

Sep 5th, 2014

A paper entitled: "Quantifying Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions Using Liquid Sample Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry" has been accepted in J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. Congratulations Yuyu & Doha!

Sep 2nd, 2014

Dr. Emma-Dune Leriche joined our group. Welcome!

Aug 27th, 2014

Congratulations to Nobar for successfully defending her Master degree!

Aug 22th, 2014

Congratulations to Jingjing for successfully defending her Master degree!

Aug 8th, 2014

A paper entitled: "Gangliosides are Ligands for Human Noroviruses" has been accepted in J Am Chem Soc. Congratulations Ling!

Jul 6th, 2014

A paper entitled: "Screening Carbohydrate Libraries for Protein Interactions using the Direct ESI-MS Assay. Applications to Libraries of Unknown Concentration" has been accepted in Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry. Congratulations Elena!

Apr 29th, 2014

A paper entitled: "Nanodiscs and Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry. A Novel Tool for Screening Glycolipids Against Proteins" has been accepted in Analytical Chemistry. Congratulations Aneika & Mia!

Mar 19th, 2014

Congratulations to Yuyu for successfully passing his 502!

Mar 19th, 2014

Congratulations to Sanaz for having been awarded a 2014 Graduate Student Teaching Award!

Nov 13th, 2013

Congratulations to Jingjing! She is the winner of the 2012-2013 Analytical Chemistry Oral Presentation Award!

Oct 12th, 2013

A paper entitled: "Measuring Positive Cooperativity Using the Direct ESI-MS Assay. Cholera Toxin B Subunit Homopentamer Binding to GM1 Pentasaccharide" has been accepted in Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry. Congratulations Ling!

Oct 1st, 2013

Jun Li joined our group. Welcome!

Sep 17th, 2013

A paper entitled: "Quantifying Protein-Ligand interactions by Direct ESI-MS Analysis. Evidence of Non-uniform Response Factors Induced by High Molecular Weight Molecules and Complexes" has been accepted in Analytical Chemistry. Congratulations Hong!

Aug 15th, 2013

A paper entitled: "Identifying Carbohydrate Ligands of a Norovirus P Partical using a Catch and Release Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry Assay" has been accepted in Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry. Congratulations Ling!

Aug 12th, 2013

A paper entitled: "Measuring Positive Cooperativity using the Direct ESI-MS Assay. Cholera Toxin B Subunit Homopentamer Binding to GM1 Pentasaccharide" has been accepted in Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry. Congratulations Hong!

Jul 29th, 2013

A paper entitled: "Quantifying Protein Interactions with Isomeric Carbohydrate Ligands Using a Catch and Release ESI-MS Assay" has been accepted in Analytical Chemistry. Congratulations Amr!

Jun 27th, 2013

A paper entitled: "Dissociation of Multisubunit Protein-Ligand Complexes in the Gas Phase. Evidence for Ligand Migration" has been accepted in Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry. Congratulations Yixuan!

Jun 26th, 2013

Congratulations to Yixuan for successfully defending her Master degree!

Jun 19th, 2013

A paper entitled: "Mapping Protein-Ligand Interactions in the Gas Phase Using a Functional Group Replacement Strategy. Comparison of CID and BIRD Activation Methods" has been accepted in Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry and published online. Congratulations Lu!

Jun 5th, 2013

Congratulations to Sanaz for successfully passing her 502!

Mar 27th, 2013

Congratulations to Jingjing for successfully passing her 502!

Mar 22nd, 2013

Congratulations to Lu for successfully defending her PhD degree!

Jan 7th, 2013

Dr. Aneika Leney joined our group. Welcome!

Nov 5th, 2012

A paper entitled: "Dissociation Kinetics of the Streptavidin-Biotin Interaction Measured
using Direct Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry Analysis" has been accepted in Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry. Congratulations Lu!

Oct 1st, 2012

Sanaz Nikjah, Reza Rezaei Darestani, Xuxin Fan, Yijun Chen, Yuyu Yao and Km Shams-Ud-Doha joined our group. Welcome!

Oct 1st, 2012

A paper entitled: "Affinities of Recombinant Norovirus P Dimers for Human Blood Group Antigens" has been accepted in Glycobiology. Congratulations Ling!

Oct 1st, 2012

A paper entitled: "Kinetic Stability of the Streptavidin-Biotin Interaction Enhanced in the Gas Phase " has been accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations Lu!

Aug 24th, 2012

A paper entitled: "Protein-Glycosphingolipid Interactions Revealed using Catch-and-Release Mass Spectrometry" has been accepted in Anal. Chem. Congratulations Yixuan!

Aug 21st, 2012

A paper entitled: "Electrospray Ionization-Induced Protein Unfolding" has been accepted in J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. Congratulations Hong!

Aug 15th, 2012

A paper entitled: "Thermal Dissociation of Streptavidin Homotetramer in the Gas Phase. Subunit Loss versus Backbone Fragmentation" has been accepted in Int. J. Mass spectrom. Congratulations Elena!

Jun 22nd, 2012

Congratulations to Ling! He is the winner of the CHEM 502 presentation award for the physical division for the 2011-12 academic year.

Jun 5th, 2012

A paper entitled: "Carbohydrate–Lipid Interactions. Affinities of Methylmannose Polysaccharides for Lipids in Aqueous Solution" has been accepted in Chemistry - A European Journal. Congratulations Lan!

May 7th, 2012

A paper entitled: "Quantifying Carbohydrate-Protein Interactions by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry Analysis" has been accepted in Biochemistry. Congratulations Amr!

Apr 30th, 2012

A paper entitled: "Quantifying ligand binding to large protein complexes using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry" has been accepted in Anal. Chem. Congratulations Amr!

 

Apr 20th, 2012

A paper entitled: "Deuterium Kinetic Isotope Effects on the Dissociation of a Protein–Fatty Acid Complex in the Gas Phase" has been published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations Lan!

A paper entitled: "Energetics of Lipid Binding in a Hydrophobic Protein Cavity" has been published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations Lan!

April 18th, 2012

Congratulations to Ling for successfully passing his 502.

Feb 27th, 2012

Five senior members of the Alberta Glycomics Centre have received the prestigious Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering from the Natural Science Engineering and Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Congratulations Drs. David Bundle, Todd Lowary and John Klassen!

Dec 1st, 2011

A paper entitled: "Applications of a Catch and Release Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry Assay for Carbohydrate Library Screening" has been accepted in Anal. Chem. Congratulations Amr!

Nov 28th, 2011

The critical insight piece entitled: "Reliable Determinations of Protein-Ligand Interactions by Direct ESI-MS Measurements. Are We There Yet?" has been accepted in J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. Congratulations Elena!

Nov 15th, 2011

Welcome Jingjing Zhang and Nobar Jalili to join our group for their PhD studies.

Oct 20th, 2011

A paper entitled: "Substrate Recognition of the Membrane-Associated Sialidase NEU3 Requires a Hydrophobic Aglycone " has been accepted in Biochemistry. Congratulations Naoto!

Aug 30th, 2011

A paper entitled: "Ligands for C. difficile toxins:Unexpected structure of a pentasaccharide produced by enzymatic fucosylation and corrected annotation in a popular screening library" has been accepted in Chem. Comm.

A paper entitled: "Blackbody Infrared Radiative Dissociation of Protonated Oligosaccharides " has been accepted in J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. Congratulations Messele!

A paper entitled: "Exploiting bacterial glycosylation machineries for the synthesis of a Lewis antigen-containing glycoprotein " has been accepted in J. Biol. Chem.