Bruce Invited to Top Chinese-American Science Symposium

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University chemist James Bruce has been invited to chair a session at a prestigious science symposium in Beijing in October.  The 10^th annual Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium is jointly organized by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 

Only 35 top US scientists and 35 Chinese scientists, all under 45, are selected, based on their scientific achievements, to report on current research within their disciplines.  They highlight major research challenges, methodologies and limitations to progress at the frontiers of their respective fields, and are joined by a dozen senior scientists.

This year discussion topics include proteomics, astronomy, environmental genomics, large-scale scientific computing, neurobiology, epigenomics, single molecule studies and spintronics.  Bruce will chair a session on proteomics.

The symposium is slated for Oct. 27 through 29 in Beijing.

Bruce is associate professor of chemistry and director of WSU’s Proteomics and Biological Mass Spectrometry Center.  He came to WSU in 2002 from research positions at Merck Research Laboratories, Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

His research group focuses on biological mass spectrometry and proteomics and their application to protein, protein interactions and protein posttranslational modifications.
A noted international authority on proteomics, he collaborates with other researchers in many different disciplines from WSU, the University of Washington, PNNL and other institutions.

Bruce was nominated for the symposium by WSU associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering Susmita Bose, who was an invited participant at last year’s symposium in Irvine, Calif. This year, at the invitation of the National Academy of Sciences, Bose is serving on the seven member organizing committee where she is one of the organizers of the proteomics session.  As an organizing committee member, she developed topics for this years’ symposium and will also participate in this year’s symposium in China.

The Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia are sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences with major support in the U.S. by the Kavli Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences and the Ellison Medical Foundation.