Instructors:
Ola Forsstrom-Olsson has an academic background in Engineering Physics and Medicine from Lund University, Sweden. In 2001 he founded the proteomics software company Ludesi (www.ludesi.com) in Sweden, and is today operating as the company's CEO. He won Medicon Valley Entrepreneurship Award in 2001, was nominated for MIT's Technology Review's Top100 list of the World's Best Technology Innovators in 2004, won the Global Emerging Technology of the Year Award 2008 from Frost & Sullivan for Ludesi's products and services in the 2D Gel Electrophoresis field. Ola Forsstrom-Olsson is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO). He is a regular lecturer at all proteomics training courses at the National Institutes of Health in Washington DC, USA."
Ludesi Corp, Malmö, Sweden and Boston, MA (USA)
Roman Zubarev studied technical physics in the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and received his PhD in Ion Physics from the Uppsala University, Sweden. After postdoc training in Fred W. McLafferty's group at the Cornell University in USA, he became associate professor at the Chemistry Department in Odense, Denmark. In 2002 Dr. Zubarev came back to the Uppsala University as full professor, and became engaged in proteomics work. Dr. Zubarev is a Director of HUPO, and an awardee of the prestigious Carl Brunnee award (ISMS, 2006) and Biemann medal (ASMS, 2007) for his work in mass spectrometry. Dr. Zubarev has published more than 130 peer-reviewed papers, and has several patents. He teaches courses related to mass spectrometry and proteomics analysis.
Molecular Biometry Group, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Lennart Martens studied biotechnology at Ghent University in Belgium, where he did his Master's thesis on the computational interpretation of peptide mass spectra. He then worked as a software developer and framework architect for a software company for a few years, before returning to Ghent University to pursue a Ph.D. in Biotechnology. During this time, he focussed on the development of high-throughput peptide centric proteomics techniques and on bioinformatics tools to support these new approaches. In 2003 he started the PRIDE proteomics database at the EBI as a Marie Curie fellow of the European Commission. After obtaining his Ph.D., Dr. Martens rejoined the PRIDE group at EBI, which he now coordinates. He is Bioinformatics Section Editor for the Springer journal Amino Acids, is an author on more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, and has written a Wiley textbook on Computational Methods for Mass Spectrometry.
European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
Phillip Jones studied Genetics ad the University of Sheffield in the UK and Software Engineering with the Open University in the UK. He spent six years working as a secondary level science teacher before moving into Bioinformatics Software Engineering with the UK Medical Research Council, in 2001. In 2004 he started working at the EBI, where he developed the UniProt DAS Reference Server, the MyDas DAS server framework and has spent most of his time working as the technical lead developer on the PRIDE proteomics database and the PRIDE BioMart. Philip regularly delivers training on EBI resources at both roadshows around the world and also at EBI based hands-on workshops.
European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK