Introducing Spatial Proteomics for Protists

(to a general audience)

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This meeting will be held at the Natural History Museum, London.

After registration, we will start at 12:30 on the 3rd September 2026, and end at 14:00 on the 4th September 2026, allowing tours of the museum.

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The theme of the 2026 meeting explores the role of modern omics and cell biology tools in unravelling the biology of protists. On day one, our meeting will include keynote talks and a workshop where everyone, regardless of background, will be able to explore the modern method of spatial proteomics. On day two we will have both invited and offered talks within the theme of protist cell and evolutionary biology, and casting the net much wider to encompass posters across broad protistology themes such as taxonomy, biogeography, parasitology, medicine and ecology. All are welcome!

 

Spatial Proteomics Workshop for Protists

The genomics field has driven much of the ‘modern’ protistology advances in recent years, providing a phylogenetic framework for understanding protist evolution, and an appreciation of the molecular novelty of this wide snapshot of eukaryotic diversity. But it has presented the further challenge of interpreting this molecular diversity and, in particular, vast novelty.

Spatial proteomics methods (aka 'LOPIT’) enable thousands of proteins to be simultaneously assigned to subcellular locations (organelles, complexes, substructures and symbionts). This provides a huge window of opportunity in protistology that is being embraced in many labs. This workshop will be aimed at a general audience, presenting the ways in which spatial proteomes can be generated and interpreted, and providing an opportunity for scientists interested in applying it to their protist, or those who are just curious, to discuss this with those experienced in this field.