Simon Letarte's profile

What I do

Mass spectrometry, proteomics, metabolomics, systems biology, biomarker discovery

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Interests

I have been working on biomarker discovery for a while. My role is mostly to setup analytical platforms and validate them. Our group at ISB is looking at plasma for biomarkers of diabetes and cancer.

Projects

Label-free quantification based on LC-MS peak intensity was my first main project at ISB. The idea was to find differentially abundant peaks from LC-MS maps and select only those for MS/MS fragmentation.

Anothter big project is to use multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) and isotopically labeled synthetic peptides to measure absolute quantification of very low abundant peptides.

Publications

  • SuperHirn - a novel tool for high resolution LC-MS-based peptide/protein profiling. 7 (19) , 3470-3480 (2007) PubMed ID:(17726677)

  • The Standard Protein Mix Database: A Diverse Data Set To Assist in the Production of Improved Peptide and Protein Identification Software Tools. (2007) (Epub 21 Aug 2007) PubMed ID:(17711323)

  • Stuart L, Boulais J, Charriere G, Hennessy E, Brunet S, Jutras I, Goyette G, Rondeau C, Letarte S, Huang H, Ye P, Morales F, Kocks C, Bader J, Desjardins M, Ezekowitz R. A systems biology analysis of the Drosophila phagosome. Nature 445 (7123) , 95-101 (2007) (Epub 06 Dec 2006) PubMed ID:(17151602)

  • Wilkes J, Glover K, Holcomb M, Rafii F, Cao X, Sutherland J, McCarthy S, Letarte S, Bertrand M. Defining and using microbial spectral databases. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 13 (7) , 875-87 (2002) PubMed ID:(12148811)

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