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2024 Diversity Candidates |
Each regional organization (Western, Central, Eastern) was asked to nominate two (2) candidates to be considered for 'diversity' positions on the HUPO Council. 'Diversity' candidates are nominated by the national/regional proteomics societies with the understanding that the selections should increase the diversity of the HUPO Council from each region (examples: less represented countries as defined by HUPO membership fees, gender balance, young scientists, agricultural and micro-organism proteomic, industry). This year, the Western, Central and Eastern regions nominated two (2) diversity candidates so their remaining three (3) Council seats will be filled by the general election. Candidates are listed alphabetical by surname. Fabio César Sousa Nogueira Associate Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  I am head of the Proteomics Unit, and of the Laboratory of Proteomics, both from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. In my background, I have a BSc in Biology at the State University of Ceará, a master's in Biochemistry at Universidade Federal do Ceará (2007), and a doctorate in Biochemistry at UFRJ and Protein Research Group, University of Southern Denmark (2012). I was a pos-doc and visiting researcher at the Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, UFRJ. I am, since 2019, Guest Scientist at Lund University, working on the Project Cancer Moonshot - Melanoma and Lung Cancer - in collaboration with the European Cancer Moonshot Lund Center, Lund University. I am currently a professor at the Department of Biochemistry, UFRJ. I am a founding member of the Brazilian Proteomics Society - BrProt, a society that I am a board member as vice-president. I have coordinated the implementation of the LC-MS methods to analyses peptides and proteins in the Brazilian Laboratory of Doping Control, and I have participated of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio2016. My interests in proteomics are broad, from basic biology/disease to plant proteomics developing and applying new approaches in quantitative and PTMs analysis. I am happy and excited to be part of the development of proteomics and mass spectrometry in its more ambitious project - The Human Proteome Project, since our lab is a member of the Chromosome-Centric Human Protein Project - chromosome 15th.Devin Schweppe Assistant Professor, University of Washington, USA
Central Region - Diversity CandidatesThe Central region submitted two (2) diversity candidates in 2024 so their remaining three (3) Council seats will be filled by the general election.Maurine Fucito Product Specialist, Evosep, Italy  I am thrilled to serve the Human Proteome Organization by contributing to the consolidation of the proteomics network, by disseminating proteomics knowledge across the world and by being an advocate for early career researchers, for the continued advancement of our field. Lilla Turiák Senior Research Scientist, Group Leader, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungary  Dr. Lilla Turiák obtained her Ph.D. from Semmelweis University (Budapest, Hungary) in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Károly Vékey, focusing on mass spectrometry-based identification of proteins in extracellular vesicles. She then spent 2,5 years at the Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry, Boston University, working as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Joseph Zaia's lab. Here, she mastered analytical techniques for characterizing glycosaminoglycans and developed a serial enzymatic digestion method to analyze various compounds from tissue surfaces for subsequent HPLC-MS analysis. Later she moved back to her native country and worked as research scientist (2015-2020) and then as a senior research scientist (2020-2023) at the MS Proteomics Research Group of the HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. She focused on developing methods for proteomics, glycoproteomics, phosphoprotoemics and glycosaminoglycan analysis of small tissue sections and biopsies of prostate and lung cancer patients to identify molecular changes occurring in these diseases. Since September 2023 Dr. Turiák is the group leader of the Glycan Biomarker Research Group of the HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences. Her current research aims include characterizing the glycomic and glycoproteomic profiles of small extracellular vesicles isolated from lung cancer cell lines, as well as liquid biopsies of patients with lung cancer. She is an active member of the EUPA Conferences& Communication Committee since 2021.Eastern Region - Diversity Candidates |
Dr. Devin Schweppe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington (since 2020) and a Pew Biomedical Scholar (2024). Dr. Schweppe's research interests focus on the implementation of millisecond informatics to enable intelligent data acquisition strategies. His research group applies these technologies to quantify proteins as a readout for diverse cell states with broad interests spanning microbial protein interactions, small-molecule binding events,pre-clinical proteomics, and profiling primary tissue samples. Dr. Schweppe's research group builds on the application of sample multiplexing and real-time search to achieve high efficiency instrument acquisition for both discovery and targeted proteomics platforms. Along with the methods and technology development focus, the group has worked to build applications and resources to disseminate large-scale proteomics datasets to the research community, these efforts include work the crosslinking mass spectrometry repository XLinkDB, the cysteine oxidation explorer for OxiMouse, and the BioPlex human interactome explorer. Dr. Schweppe has been actively involved in HUPO and US-HUPO for over five years through invited presentations, speaking engagements, and panel discussions. He also served on the Board of Directors for US-HUPO (2021 - 2023), as a lead Mentor for the US-HUPO Early Career Research Committee, and most recently, Dr. Schweppe was co-organizer of the US HUPO Annual Meeting (2024).
I have actively promoted proteomics research in Japan since the early stages of my career. I gave oral presentations at HUPO Annual Congress in 2012 and 2013. Since 2021, I have been a member of the HUPO Early Career Researchers group and have chaired an online mentoring session in HUPO Reconnect2021. HUPO ReConnect 2021 was held during the pandemic, and I was honored to be a part of it and to contribute. At the 2023 HUPO Annual Congress, I chaired a discussion on enhancing HUPO activities in Asia and used online polling tools to engage participants. Since 2021, I have also served as a council member of the Japanese Proteomics Society, working as a Scientific Officer. To broaden the use of proteomics, I organized an annual symposium at the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, the largest academic society in Japan, to facilitate research exchanges. If elected as a council member, I am eager to leverage my experiences and youth to accelerate and promote international collaborative research, creating exciting opportunities for further advancement.
I am honored to be considered for the HUPO Council. With over 20 years of dedicated research and leadership in bioanalytical mass spectrometry, I believe my extensive experience and passion for advancing proteomics make me a suitable candidate.