麻豆传媒色情片

Award

Aebersold receives
Sober Lectureship

Angela Hopp Nick Zagorski
By Angela Hopp and Nick Zagorski
Jan. 25, 2010

Ruedi Aebersold, a pioneer in proteomics and systems biology, has been named the recipient of the 2010 麻豆传媒色情片 and 麻豆传媒色情片 Biology Herbert A. Sober Lectureship, recognizing outstanding biochemical and molecular biological research with particular emphasis on the development of methods and techniques to aid in research.

Aebersold

As part of his award, Aebersold, a professor at the Institute for 麻豆传媒色情片 Systems Biology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Z眉rich with a joint appointment at the University of Z眉rich, will present an award lecture titled “Mapping and Measuring 麻豆传媒色情片 Networks in Cells” at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, April 25, at the 2010 annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif.

For the past 30 years, Aebersold, who received his doctoral degree in cell biology from the University of Basel in 1984, has been developing tools and techniques that have been invaluable in the fields of analytical protein chemistry, systems biology and proteomics, a technique that allows researchers to compare the proteomes of two different cell populations, for example cells grown in different media.

His group’s efforts have led to the emergence of both gel-free protein identification and quantitative mass spectrometry, perhaps best exemplified by his development of isotope-coded affinity tag proteomics. In addition, Aebersold has created a host of computational tools to assist researchers in analyzing mass spectrometry-derived proteomics data, such as the Trans-Proteomic Pipeline, a program that estimates the percentage error in a dataset.

As Fuchu He, president and director of the Beijing Proteome Research Center, succinctly put it, “The series of his contributions has fueled the proteomic revolution. The methods he developed are now used in thousands of laboratories around the world and are contributing to an explosion of new biological and clinical knowledge.”

Aebersold’s impressive career has spanned two continents. After his Ph.D. studies in Basel, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow and senior research fellow at the California Institute of Technology, had professorships at the University of British Columbia and the University of Washington and co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle (with Lee Hood and Alan Aderem) in 2000 before returning to Switzerland in 2004.

In addition to building technologies for other researchers to use, Aebersold and his team have been employing ICAT and other proteomic approaches in their own comparative studies of protein expression in cells under different conditions. Some specific areas of study include large-scale analyses of post-translational protein modifications, an examination of abnormal protein expression in cancerous cells and systematic studies of how cells respond to external stimuli.

These comparative protein profiles will lead to a more robust understanding of the biochemical processes that regulate cell physiology and also could lead to new prognostic and/or diagnostic biomarkers for disease.

Aebersold, who is also an associate editor for 麻豆传媒色情片 and Cellular Proteomics, has received numerous awards for his work, including the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Biemann Medal, the Pehr Edman Award, the Michael Widmer Award, the World Technology Network Award for Biotechnology, the Genome Technology Award in Proteomics and the Human Proteome Organization achievement award.

“He has inspired a whole generation of young scientists at the University of Washington, the Institute for Systems Biology and the ETH-Zurich, as well as indirectly through his publications and his active engagement in many leading professional organizations,” said Gilbert S. Omenn, professor of internal medicine, human genetics and public health at the University of Michigan Medical School and vice president of HUPO.

 

Enjoy reading ASBMB Today?

Become a member to receive the print edition monthly and the digital edition weekly.

Learn more
Angela Hopp

Angela Hopp is executive editor of ASBMB Today and senior director of marketing and communications for the ASBMB. 

Nick Zagorski
Nick Zagorski

Nick Zagorski is a former ASBMB science writer.

Get the latest from ASBMB Today

Enter your email address, and we鈥檒l send you a weekly email with recent articles, interviews and more.

Latest in People

People highlights or most popular articles

Honors for Bhatt, Lim and Nuñez
Member News

Honors for Bhatt, Lim and Nuñez

Sept. 16, 2024

Ami Bhatt receives the American Society of Hematology's William Dameshek Prize. The Pew Charitable Trusts selects Ci Ji Lim and James Nuñez as 2024 Pew scholars.

In memoriam: Robert Warren Newburgh
In Memoriam

In memoriam: Robert Warren Newburgh

Sept. 16, 2024

He was a distinguished developmental and cell biologist and a member of the ASBMB since 1957.

'Don鈥檛 be afraid to take a different path'
Profile

'Don鈥檛 be afraid to take a different path'

Sept. 11, 2024

In 2016, MOSAIC scholar Rebecca Ann Faulkner paused her career for four years to focus on her family, a decision she believes made her a more effective and empathetic scientist.

Honors for Baserga, Matunis and Tate
Member News

Honors for Baserga, Matunis and Tate

Sept. 9, 2024

Awards, promotions, milestones and more. Find out what's going on in the lives of ASBMB members.

In memoriam: William Catterall
In Memoriam

In memoriam: William Catterall

Sept. 9, 2024

Known as the 鈥渇ather of ion channels,鈥 he was a neuroscientist and pharmacologist at the University of Washington and an ASBMB member for more than 45 years.

Announcing the winners of the 麻豆传媒色情片 Motifs bioart competition
Contest

Announcing the winners of the 麻豆传媒色情片 Motifs bioart competition

Sept. 3, 2024

The 12 winning works of art to be featured in the 2025 ASBMB calendar were selected from 37 entries received from scientists in both academia and industry at all career stages with submissions coming from as far away as Pakistan and Brazil.