IUPUC faculty member James Clack, Ph.D., was a presenter at the 58th annual American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics May 23 through 27 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Clack’s presentation was entitled, “Proteomic Profiling of Individual Sera for Discovery of Potential Biomarkers of Alcohol Abuse Using Label-free Quantitative Mass Spectrometry.”

He co-presented with Indiana University School of Medicine faculty members Xianyin Lai, Suthat Liangpunsakul, David W. Crabb, and Frank A. Witzmann.

More than 6,500 scientists attended the conference, where nearly 3,000 papers were presented.

The American Society for Mass Spectrometry was formed in 1969 to promote and disseminate knowledge of mass spectrometry and allied topics. Members come from academic, industrial and governmental laboratories. Their interests include advancement of techniques and instrumentation in mass spectrometry, as well as fundamental research in chemistry, geology, forensics, biological sciences and physics.

Clack is an associate professor of Biology and head of the Division of Science at IUPUC.