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Understanding the Central Nervous System by Mass Spectrometry

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Ling Hao

Ling Hao

University of Maryland, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Dr. Ling Hao is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. She obtained her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, followed by postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH/NINDS). She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, a Rising Star Award from the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO), a Ralph E Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities, and a Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Research in the Hao Lab focuses on developing mass spectrometry-based proteomics, metabolomics, and lipidomics methods to study neuroscience questions. Her team combines analytical chemistry, cell biology, and bioinformatic strategies to understand organelle dynamics, proteostasis, and molecular interactions in human stem cells and stem cell-derived neurons, to decipher molecular mechanisms underlying brain diseases.

Collection Overview

Most central nervous system (CNS) disorders are currently incurable due to our limited understanding of disease mechanisms and the challenges of CNS drug development. Mass Spectrometry (MS) has become one of the foremost technologies to analyze diverse biomolecules with unbeaten throughput and accuracy to contribute to our fundamental understanding of the CNS. MS-based techniques are also widely applied to decipher the molecular mechanisms of neurological disorders and discover biomarkers and therapeutic targets for brain diseases. This Method Collection will highlight recent advancements and methods in various MS techniques and MS-based analyses of diverse biomolecules, including but not limited to MS-based proteomics, peptidomics, metabolomics, lipidomics, MS-imaging, single-cell analysis, and biomarker discovery, with a special focus in studying the CNS. MS-based methods to analyze samples from different cellular and animal models of neurological disorders, as well as human patient samples, will also be included in this collection. The goal is to provide video-based protocols and promote best practices in cutting-edge MS-based methodologies, assisting the researchers in the field to advance new technologies and deepen our understandings of the CNS.

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Laser Microdissection-Based Protocol for the LC-MS/MS Analysis of the Proteomic Profile of Neuromelanin Granules
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Laser Microdissection-Based Protocol for the LC-MS/MS Analysis of the Proteomic Profile of Neuromelanin Granules

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2021

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Personalized and deep analysis of the aging brain proteome by mass spectrometry using OpenCustomDB

Noé Guilloy1,

Xavier Roucou*2,

Marie A Brunet*3,

Sébastien Leblanc4

1Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada; Medical Genetics Service, Department of Pediatrics, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada,

2Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada,

3Medical Genetics Service, Department of Pediatrics, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada,

4Medical Genetics Service, Department of Pediatrics, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada; Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada