Name Ronald Beavis Doctoral advisor Ken Standing | ||
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Thesis Automated dry fraction collection for microbore high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. (1987) Fields Proteomics, Computational biology | ||
Institutions University of Manitoba Institution University of Manitoba Alma mater University of Manitoba | ||
Ronald Charles Beavis (better known professionally as Ron Beavis) is a Canadian protein biochemist, who has been involved in the application of mass spectrometry to protein primary structure, with applications in the fields of proteomics and analytical biochemistry. He has developed methods for measuring the identity and post-translational modification state of proteins obtained from biological samples using mass spectrometry. He is currently best known for developing new methods for analyzing proteomics data and applying the results of these methods to problems in computational biology.
Contents
- Background
- Current status
- Professional affiliations
- Honors and awards
- Most recent publications
- References
Background
Ronald Charles Beavis was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in May 1958. He went to school in Winnipeg and became interested in science at an early age. As a high school student he participated in the Manitoba Science Fair for projects related to chemistry and physics. He received a B.Sc. (Hons) in Zoology and Physics and a Ph.D. (Physics) from the University of Manitoba.
Current status
Dr. Beavis is the founder of Beavis Informatics Ltd, a Canadian company providing consulting services in the general area of mass spectrometry-based proteomics. He oversees the development and operation of the GPM & GPMDB projects.
Professional affiliations
Dr. Beavis was a founding member of Genome Prairie and one of the founders of ProteoMetrics, LLC. He has held academic positions at Rockefeller University, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, New York University Medical Center, the University of British Columbia and the University of Manitoba. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of the Journal of Proteome Research and Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. He has also served on the Editorial Board of Molecular & Cellular Proteomics and on the Editorial Board of Scientific Data. He is part of the Human Proteome Project and a founding member of the U.S. Chromosome 17 project. He has frequently collaborated with David Fenyő on informatics projects.
Honors and awards
Most recent publications
- Keegan, Sarah; Cortens, John P; Beavis, Ronald C; Fenyö, David (2016). "g2pDB: A Database Mapping Protein Post-Translational Modifications to Genomic Coordinates". Journal of Proteome Research. 15: 983–990. ISSN 1535-3893. PMID 26842767. doi:10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b01018.
- McAfee, Alison; Harpur, Brock A.; Michaud, Sarah; Beavis, Ronald C.; Kent, Clement F.; Zayed, Amro; Foster, Leonard J. (2016). "Toward an Upgraded Honey Bee (Apis melliferaL.) Genome Annotation Using Proteogenomics". Journal of Proteome Research. 15: 411–421. ISSN 1535-3893. PMID 26718741. doi:10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00589.
- Fenyö, David; Beavis, Ronald C. (2015). "Selenocysteine: Wherefore Art Thou?". Journal of Proteome Research. ISSN 1535-3893. PMID 26680273. doi:10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b01028.
- Liu, Fei; Koval, Michael; Ranganathan, Shoba; Fanayan, Susan; Hancock, William S.; Lundberg, Emma K.; Beavis, Ronald C.; Lane, Lydie; Duek, Paula; McQuade, Leon; Kelleher, Neil L.; Baker, Mark S. (2016). "Systems Proteomics View of the Endogenous Human Claudin Protein Family". Journal of Proteome Research. ISSN 1535-3893. PMID 26680015. doi:10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00769.
- Yan, Julia Fangfei; Kim, Hoguen; Jeong, Seul-Ki; Lee, Hyoung-Joo; Sethi, Manveen K.; Lee, Ling Y.; Beavis, Ronald C.; Im, Hogune; Snyder, Michael P.; Hofree, Matan; Ideker, Trey; Wu, Shiaw-lin; Paik, Young-Ki; Fanayan, Susan; Hancock, William S. (2015). "Integrated Proteomic and Genomic Analysis of Gastric Cancer Patient Tissues". Journal of Proteome Research. 14 (12): 4995–5006. ISSN 1535-3893. doi:10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00827.
- Omenn, Gilbert S.; Lane, Lydie; Lundberg, Emma K.; Beavis, Ronald C.; Nesvizhskii, Alexey I.; Deutsch, Eric W. (2015). "Metrics for the Human Proteome Project 2015: Progress on the Human Proteome and Guidelines for High-Confidence Protein Identification". Journal of Proteome Research. 14 (9): 3452–3460. ISSN 1535-3893. PMC 4755311 . PMID 26155816. doi:10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00499.
- Fenyö, David; Beavis, Ronald C. (2015). "The GPMDB REST interface". Bioinformatics. 31 (12): 2056–2058. ISSN 1367-4803. PMID 25697819. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv107.