Lisa M. Jones is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California San Diego. She received her BS from the Department of Chemistry at Syracuse University and her PhD in Chemistry from Georgia State University. She received postdoctoral training in structural virology at the University of Alabama- Birmingham and in MS-based protein footprinting at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Jones’s research interests include the use of the protein footprinting method fast photochemical oxidation of proteins (FPOP) coupled with mass spectrometry for the characterization of the higher order structure of proteins. In particular, her lab has further developed the FPOP method for in-cell (IC-FPOP) studies for proteome-wide structural biology. Biological applications of IC-FPOP include characterizing protein folding intermediates directly in the cell and drug target (both on and off targets) determination. The Jones lab has also extended the method for in vivo analysis (IV-FPOP) in C. elegans. This provides the ability to study protein structure in an animal model for human disease.

Isabell Bludau is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Prof. Matthias Mann at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry near Munich. She is specialized in computational proteomics and systems biology. During her PhD with Prof. Ruedi Aebersold at ETH Zurich, Isabell developed computational methods for analyzing large-scale proteomics data. She specifically worked on the detection and quantification of protein complexes and the inference of proteoform groups from bottom-up proteomics data. Recently, Isabell’s work focuses on investigating post-translational modifications in their 3-dimensional context. Isabell’s PhD thesis was awarded with the ETH silver medal and her postdoctoral research is supported by a Postdoc.Mobility fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Next to her research, Isabell is a member of the organizing committee of the ISCB’s Community of Special Interest on Computational Mass Spectrometry and she is part of the HUPO Early Career Researcher Initiative.

Cheng Chang received his B.E. in Electronic Engineering from Hunan University, China, in 2010 and received in his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Beijing Proteome Research Center, China, in 2015. Currently, he is an associate research fellow in Department of Biomedical Big Data, Beijing Proteome Research Center and National Center for Protein Sciences (Beijing). His major research interests include proteomics, bioinformatics, and precision medicine.