PROTEOMICS 2015* Advent of Proteomics Discourse in Australia: The Lorne Proteomics Symposia (#4)
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Lorne Proteomics Symposium, an annual meeting of the Australasian Proteomics Society. From its humble beginnings, the APS meeting (for which it is now commonly referred to) has grown into an internationally recognized meeting for proteomics scientists to exchange ideas, start new collaborations, promote new technologies and to gather socially amongst friends and start up new friendships and collaborations on a global scale. The Lorne Proteomics Symposium of the APS is now considered a world-class meeting and has hosted well over 100 international guests over the last 20 years. The concept of the meeting was originally to provide a technology focused day prior to the Lorne Proteins Conference (a world class meeting in itself now in its 40th year. These “technology days” proved to be so successful, the meeting soon found itself expanding to include many aspects of protein identification and quantitation to also promote biological, clinical and agricultural applications of the technology. Lending from the phrase “proteomics” coined by Marc Wilkins for part of its name, this meeting now encompasses all aspects of proteome based studies and has become a fertile and important international meeting as part of the world wide proteome organization. We celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Lorne APS meeting.
