The MSBM Committee
Prof David Goodlett
MSBM Chair and Faculty Member
Prof Goodlett has over 30 years experience in the field of mass spectrometry as an academic, industrial scientist and scientific journal editor. He has been active in a variety of fields publishing ~300 papers with an h-index of ~90. Since 2020 he has been a Professor of Biochemistry and Microbiology at the University of Victoria where he holds the Don and Eleanor Rix BC Leadership Chair in Biomedical and Environmental Proteomics.
Dr Laura Bindila
MSBM Committee Member and Faculty
Dr. Bindila is Head of Lipidomics/Mass Spectrometry Facility at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center Mainz, where her scientific interest is unravelling the lipid signals involved in various neurobiological processes, and more generally in physiological and pathophysiological states. She serves as advisory and editorial board member for several peer-review journals and published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles.
Prof Garry Corthals
MSBM Committee Member and Faculty
Prof. Corthals is Professor and Chair of the Analytical Chemistry Group at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and a guest professor at both the Amsterdam UMC and M4I. Prof. Corthals has been a passionate advocate for mass spectrometry education since 1997, contributing to education, training, and promotion of proteomics and MS methods. A founder of the European Proteomics Association (EuPA), and active in the HUPO, he has has aided the development of national and international research facilities.
Prof Ron Heeren
MSBM Treasurer and Faculty
Prof Heeren is Distinguished Professor and Limburg Chair at Maastricht University where he is the founder and scientific director of M4I, the Maastricht MultiModal Molecular Imaging institute. He was awarded the prestigious 2019 Physics Valorization prize by the Dutch organization for scientific Research, NWO and the 2020 Thomson medal of the international mass spectrometry foundation. In 2021 he was elected as a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, KNAW.
Dr David Kilgour
MSBM Program Coordinator
Dr Kilgour is currently Head of Research for Vibrat-Ion Ltd, in the UK, developing the Beacon ion source range and AutoVectis, a suite of data processing software for mass spectrometry. During a varied career, he has also been a Principal Scientist for the UK government, a scientific advisor to NATO, and an academic in both the UK and US. He has worked on prototype quadrupole, ion trap, ToF and Orbitrap and FT-ICR systems and has developed data processing systems for all of them. He has also developed a range of different ion sources.
Dr Lili Pasa-Tolic
MSBM Committee Member and Faculty
Dr. Paša-Tolić is a Staff Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the Capability Steward for Mass Spectrometry at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a national scientific user facility operated by PNNL for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Her research centers on developing sophisticated analytical methods with emphasis on Fourier transform (FT) mass spectrometry (MS) and micro-separations,
Dr Harry Taylor
MSBM Committee Member and Faculty
Dr. Harry Taylor working i undustry before completting a PhD. Currently, he is a Business Science Fellow at the University of Nottingham in the UK and is leading the development of a spin-out company, called Photene, that specializes in advanced protein footprinting capabilities. Harry is also a committee member for the EMSG and is on the organizing committee for the Ardgour Symposium.
Dr Irena Dapic
MSBM Committee Member and Faculty
Dr Dapic has a decade of experience as a mass spectrometrist and has worked in Croatia, the Netherlands and Poland, research in the areas of biomarker discover and quantitative proteomics of the human tissues, the development and translation of the methods for mass spectrometry based quantitative protein analysis from human biopsy materials and biofluids and collaboration with medical and pathological research. Since 2024 she has been a Senior Research Associate at the Ruder Boskovic Institute in Zagreb.
Željana Mikovčić
MSBM Administration Manager
Željana Mikovčić is Head of the Office for Projects and International Collaboration, for the Faculty of Biotechnology and Drug Development, at the University of Rijeka and is also an experienced and expert manager of international scientific meetings, for which she has built a formidable reputation for excellence and efficiency. She has been at the heart of the MSBM Organization for over a decade.
Guest Faculty
Prof Joseph Loo
MSBM Faculty
Prof Loo is a Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, and in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and he is the Faculty Director of the UCLA Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Technology Center. He is an expert in the mass spectrometry characterization of proteins and their post-translational modifications, and is the author of over 180 scientific publications. In 2000-2002, he served on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. He has been on the Editorial Boards of the journals Bioconjugate Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (JASMS), and Chemical & Engineering News and currently he serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry and as an Associate Editor for JASMS. He has taught at MSBM multiple times and is always a valuable and well liked faculty member.
Dr Rachel Loo
MSBM Faculty
Dr Loo is a hugely experienced research scientist in the Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is a member of UCLA/DOE Laboratory for Genomics and Proteomics and an Associate Member of the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute.
Her research interests include the development of bioanalytical mass spectrometry methods for the structural characterization of proteins and the elucidation of ionization mechanisms for mass spectrometry. She is also interested in developing the Virtual 2D Gel method, MALDI analysis directly from polyacrylamide gels. She is an author of over 85 scientific publications and currently serves as secretary for the American Society of Mass Spectrometry. Before joining UCLA, she was Director of Mass Spectrometry for the University of Michigan Protein and Carbohydrate Structure Facility, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), and later moved to Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical (Pfizer Global Research, Ann Arbor, MI) as a Research Associate. The MSMB Summer School is delighted to have Dr Loo back on the faculty once again.