Description:

"Discovery of Protein Complexes using Native Mass Spectrometry"
Pierre Havugimana, PhD, CLP Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Havugimana, coming to us from Toronto, Canada, is working under Professors Neil Kelleher (Molecular Biosciences, Chemistry, and Medicine) and Navdeep Chandel (Medicine) to study the role of protein-protein interactions in the cellular changes associated with aging. Since the vast majority of life’s processes at a cellular level are carried out by complexes of multiple proteins, he has proposed to systematically characterize endogenous protein complexes and protein-protein interactions (PPI) specific to normal Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) and its long-lived mutant as a model system for understanding the molecular mechanisms of aging and cancer in humans.