by Dr. Robert L. Stevenson
By the time Pittcon 2022 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, key elements of the technical program were already in place, leading the organizers reformat portions of the program for electronic distribution. This included the Keynote speech, called the Wallace. H. Coulter Award Lecture, presented by professor Albert J. R. Heck of Utrecht University (Netherlands) on March 9.
Heck, a professor of chemistry and pharmaceutical Sciences at Utrecht University and scientific director of the Netherlands Proteomics Center, is a leading expert in protein mass spectrometry. His group develops and implements innovative mass spectrometric methods for the more efficient and detailed characterization of proteins in relation to their biological function. In short, Heck applies protein mass spectrometry to problems in proteomics, glycoproteomics and structural biology.
Heck’s Pittcon lecture addressed two topics: characterization of single molecules or particles of large biopolymers by mass spectrometry; and characterization of antibodies in blood of individual donors to study variability in the human immune response to pathogens.
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