Dr. John R. Yates, III
Scripps Research Institute
John R. Yates III is an American chemist and professor of chemical biology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. His work is focused on developing tools and in proteomics and he specializes in mass spectrometry. He is probably best known for the development of the SEQUEST algorithm for automated peptide sequencing and Multidimensional Protein Identification Technology (MudPIT). He received a B.A. (1980) and M.S. (1983) from the University of Maine and a Ph.D. (1987) from the University of Virginia. He won the 1998 Pehr Edman Award and, in 2004, won the Biemann Medal.
Dr. Steven Gygi
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Gygi is a well-known proteomics researcher with extensive expertise in peptide sequencing using tandem mass spectrometery and stable isotope dilution. His research techniques enable the global identification of protein modifications, such as ubiquination.
Dr. Roman Zubarev
Uppsala University
Dr. Zubarev received his M.Sc. in Applied Physics from the Moscow Engineering-Physical Institute in Russia and his Ph.D. in Ion Physics from Uppsala University in Sweden. He is the recipient of the Curt Brunnae Award from the International Mass Spectrometry Society in 2006 and the Biemann Medal from the American Society of Mass Spectrometry in 2007.
Ruedi Aebersold
Swiss Institute of Tech. Zurich
Rudolf Aebersold (better known as Ruedi Aebersold) is a Swiss biologist, regarded as a pioneer in the fields of proteomics and systems biology. Prof. Aebersold has primarily researched techniques for measuring proteins in complex samples, in many cases via mass spectrometry. He is probably best known as one of the inventors of the Isotope-Coded Affinity Tag (ICAT) technique for proteomics, a technique for measuring the relative quantities of proteins in one sample relative to another sample by using tags containing stable isotopes of different masses.