Sumner Group Outreach

Contributions to resources for research and education, training and development

2009

May 31 - June 4: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 57th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry

June 6-10: In Vitro Biology Meeting Preliminary Program Topics (8-10am, June 8th), Charleston, South Carolina

July 12-16: Lloyd Sumner will be in the Medicago Truncatula Model Legume Congress. The Congress will be held at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California

July 18-22: ASPB, Honolulu, Hawaii

August 8-23: Phytochemical Meeting of North America, Towson University, Towson, MD (suburb of Baltimore, MD)

October 31: Monsanto visit Ewa & Wensheng

2008

January 10-11: Lloyd Sumner presented to the Noble Foundation Board of Trustees

February 6: Lloyd Sumner presented at the Noble Foundation All Employee Meeting

February 14: USDA Plant Biology (C) Biochemistry Proposal Due

February 21: Hosted Dr. Gary Thompson (Head, Dept. of Molecular Biology, OSU)

February 23: Lloyd Sumner received a Cameron University Distinguished Alumni 2007 Award and attended the award luncheon in Lawton, OK

February 28: Host Martha Hawes (University of Arizona) invited visit to Noble and presentation.

March 17-21: Barbara Spring break

March 26-28: Lloyd Sumner presented at an invited seminar at the University of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC

April 25: Lloyd Sumner was at an invited seminar at the Cornell University Department of Plant Biology Seminar Series, Ithaca, New York

April 28 - May 1:(Outreach) Noble Analytical Chemistry Core Facility Training Corse on Metabolite Profiling

May 14: (Outreach) Dr. Fabiola Janiak-Spens, Oklahoma City Community College tour and demos

May 14: (Outreach) Ardmore High School Chemistry Class and Science Club tour and demos

May 16: (Outreach) Oklahoma School of Science and Math, presentation, tour and demo

May 20-21: Rick Dixon and Lloyd Sumner were invited speakers at a Symposium on "Secondary Metabolism: Good Things Made in Plants" at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

May 22-23: Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI (Host Jan-Michel Ane, Medicago group, and Botany Department)

May 23: Barbara's last day of school

June 1-5: Lloyd Sumner, David Huhman, Mohamed Bedair, Zhentian Lei and Narumon Sawasdipuksa attended and presented at the 57th American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference, Denver, CO

July 7: Possible committee meeting for Robert Ingram, OSU

July 6-11: Barbara AP Workshop, College Station, TX

July 15-18: Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the 5th International Conference of Plant Metabolomics, Annex Hall in Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan

July 26: Pops arrival at DFW on Saturday, July 26, 12:40pm. Air Tran flight 423

July 23-27,2008: 19th International conference on Arabidopsis research Montreal, Canada

July 28-31.2008: Noble Computational external Review

July 30-August 3: Banff Conference on Plant Metabolism 2008, Banff, Alberta, Canada

August 2-8: Natural Products: with pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmetic, and agrochemical interest, Athens, Greece. Joint meeting of the AFERP,ASP,GA,PSE & SIF

August 8: Barbara starts school

September 2: Pops departure tuesday, September 2 at 12:09pm, Air Tran flight #194

September 2-7: Lloyd Sumner was the co-organizer and chaired two sessions at the 4th Metabolomics Society Meeting, Boston Park Plaza Hotel Boston, MA

September 8: Lloyd Sumner and John Snyder visited Cornell University for John Snyder's preliminary A exam and graduate student committee meeting, Ithaca, New York

September 21-24: 122nd AOAC Annual Meeting & Exposition, Dallas, Texas, USA

September 22-27: (Outreach) Noble Analytical Chemistry Core Facility Training Corse on Protein Profiling

October 1-2: (Outreach) Lloyd Sumner and lab members hosted Dr. Peter Davies from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Presentation - Plant Hormone Review

October 29-31: Plant Biology's 20th Anniversary

November 17-19: Lloyd Sumner provided an invited lecture at a Korean Conference on Innovative Science and Technology (KCIST) focused on "Plant Metabolomics As A Tool For Functional Genomics" in Pusan, Korea (The conference washeld at the Westin Chosum Hotel www.echosunhotel.com)

November 20: (Outreach) Analytical Chemistry Facility Open House for Forage Improvement

2007

January - December, 2007: Special Projects: Dr. Lloyd Sumner is working with Dr. Barabara Sumner, a high school teacher, on developing special projects for the Advanced Placement Chemistry Class at Ardmore High School, Ardmore, OK. USA.

February 23, 2007: Dr. Sumner presented a seminar entitled "Multidisciplinary skill sets, a key for a successful career in scientific research" as part of a Graduate Recruitment and Career Awareness program at Cameron University, Lawton, OK. This program was hosted by Prof. Elizabeth A. Nalley (American Chemical Society President 2006 and former mentor of Dr. Sumner) and the purpose of this seminar series was to stimulate undergraduate student interest in various graduate school and scientific career opportunities.

March - June, 2007: Contributions Beyond Science and Engineering: The Sumner laboratory and The Noble Foundation provide numerous tours and lectures for the general public. For example, laboratory tours and discussions were provided for scientific, nonscientific and civic groups including:

Date	Organization	Participants
03.16.07	Fox Public Schools	25 students
05.02.07	Southeastern Oklahoma State University	6 college students
05.03.07	Waurika High School (AP Science)	25 students
05.11.07	Ardmore High School (2 tours)	50 students
06.06.07	Youth Leadership of Oklahoma	55 students
06.12.07	Chickasaw Foundation	25 students
06.20.07	Oklahoma Counsel on Education	30 adults
06.27.07	East Central University	25 college students

April 9-13, 2007: Noble Metabolite Analysis Workshop and Tutorial: The Sumner group conducted workshop focused on advanced training of Noble postdoctoral fellows outside of our group in the area of metabolomics. These events include lectures, review of procedures, and extensive (i.e. 1 week) hands-on experimental training to enable self use of GC/MS and database queries for metabolite identifications. Each workshop had approximately 20 participants.

May, 2007: Southeastern OK State Instrumental Analysis Class: The Sumner lab hosted Prof. Joel T. Smith and his Instrumental Analysis Class on an annual basis for a 1 day focus on mass spectrometry that involves lectures, tours, and instrumental demonstrations to stimulate scientific interests and provide real world examples of science and mass spectrometry in a research environment.

May - August, 2007: Noble Scholars Program: The Sumner Lab hosted Mr. Cesar M. Moreira from the University of Florida as part of our Noble Scholars program (www.noble.org/SummerScholar/). The Noble Foundation's Summer Research Scholars Program is a nationally competitive program that offers motivated undergraduates the opportunity to conduct plant science research in a real-world laboratory. Projects for the Scholars are selected from an internal competition by Noble Foundation postdoctoral fellows. Thus, this program also provides proposal preparation training and personnel supervision for our post doctoral research fellows. Mr. Moreira participated in a project entitled "Metabolomics of Medicago truncatula roots and border cellsin response to the symbiotic fungus Glomus intraradices"and was supervised by Dr. Ewa Urbanczyk-Wochniak. This project provided Mr Moreira will theoretical and hands-on GC/MS and UPLC/MS metabolic profiling experience using isolated Medicago truncatula border cells. The project also provided fundamental biochemical information concerning the role of border cells in relation to symbiotic nodulation. Mr. Moreira participation also reflects that Noble Foundation's committment to diversity and recruitment of under-represented classes.

June - August, 2007:Visiting Graduate Student: The Sumner group welcomed John Snyder as a new graduate student in its metabolomics program. Mr. Snyder's graduate education is being made possible through a collaboration with the Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Mr. Snyder spent the summer performing research on bioactive compounds from osage orange. In August, 2007 he returned to Cornell to complete his course work and will relocate to Ardmore in May 2008 to complete the research component of his dissertation which will focus on hormone and metabolome analyses.

June-August, 2007: Internship: The Sumner lab hosted Ms Keisha Wood, an Oklahoma University undergraduate research summer intern. Ms. Wood contributed to our ongoing organization of metabolite libraries and harvesting of biological materials for metabolomics experiments. She also participated in numerous workshops and training opportunities provided for our summer interns.

July 2007 - July 2008:Visiting Graduate Student: The Sumner group is hosting Ms. Narumon Sawasdipuksa as a visiting graudate student from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Ms. Sawasdipuksa is receiving proteomics training while working on projects focused on the legumes manila tamarind (Pithecelobium dulce) seeds and Medicago truncatula vacuoles.

July - August, 2007:Visiting Scientist: The Sumner group hosted Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry Dr. Mohammed Meetani from the United Arab Emirates University as a visiting scientist. During this visit Dr. Meetani gained training related to GC/MS, UPLC/MS, and data processing while performing some preliminary metabolomics experiments focused upon the emerging biofuel crop, switchgrass.

August 7, 2007:Noble Scholarsand Teachers Workshop: This workshop focused upon "Weighing Molecules and The Large-scale Biochemical Analysis of Plants". This event included a lecture overview on the basis of mass spectrometry and how we use this technology to weigh molecules. Mock mass spectrometers were assembled using various sized ball bearings, PVC, magnets, and a home-made spring loaded ball bearing accelerator. These materials were used to provide a tangible illustration of time-of-flight and magnetic sector mass spectrometry. These exercises made the subsequent laboratory demonstrations of GC/MS and LC/MS much more meaningful and understandable.

September 10-14, 2007: Noble Protein Analysis Workshop and Tutorial: The Sumner group conducted workshop focused on advanced training of Noble postdoctoral fellows outside of our group in the area of proteomics. These events include lectures, review of procedures, and extensive (i.e. 1 week) hands-on experimental training to enable self use of1D SDS PAGE, 2-DE SDS PAGE, MALDI-TOFMS, and database queries for protein identifications. Each workshop had approximately 20 participants. (Photo)

October 8, 2007:Oklahoma Sectional meeting of the American Chemical Society: Dr. Sumner and the Noble Foundation hosted thespeaker Dr. Eugene Stevens (Chemistry Dept, SUNY at Binghamtom) who presented a seminar entitled "Green Plastics" which focuses on using renewal biosources as starting materials for polymer production.

November 18-19, 2007: Project Meeting: Dr. Sumner and the Noble Foundation will host a project meeting for a NSF 2010 award #0520140 entitled "Metabolomics: A functional genomics tool for deciphering functions of Arabidopsis genes in the context of metabolic and regulatory networks" in Ardmore, OK. This meeting will include Basil Nikalou, Oliver Fiehn, Ruth Welti, Mark Lange, Phil Dixon, Julie Dicherson, Seung Rhee, and several others associated with the project. The meeting will facilitate information exchange, manuscript preparation, and resubmission strategies.

2006

January 2006: Dr. Sumner is currently collaborating with and supporting Dr. Fiona McAlister and her efforts to establish a high school level Biotechnology Academy at the Southern Oklahoma Technology Center located adjacent to The Noble Foundation Campus. Noble Foundation's role is to serve as an academic resource that will provide guest lectures, tours and demonstrations, and intern opportunities for students participating in the Biotech academy. These efforts were recently highlighted in the Oklahoma Educational Television Association program Oklahoma Horizons.

April 20, 2006: The Sumner Lab hosted approximately 80 students from the Adrmore, OK High School Chemistry classes for a general overview of the Noble Foundation, tours of the Foundation Campus, and analytical instrumental demonstrations related to mass spectrometry and its application in plant biology. These were then be followed by an informal question and answer time where students queried Noble Foundation Scientists. The event was entertaining and facilitated light hearted interactions that are fundamental to stimulating scientific interests and providing real world examples of career opportunities in science.

April - June, 2006: Dr. Sumner collaborated with the Southern Oklahoma Technology Center to develop a scientific writing and proposal preparation course for postdoctoral research fellows and other scientific professional at the Noble Foundation. This course was attended by approximately 15 Noble Foundation Staff and Postdoctoral researchers.

May, 2006: Southeastern OK State Instrumental Analysis Class: The Sumner lab hosts Prof. Joel T. Smith and his Instrumental Analysis Class on an annual basis for a 1 day focus on mass spectrometry that involves lectures, tours, and instrumental demonstrations to stimulate scientific interests and provide real world examples of science and mass spectrometry in a research environment.

May 22 - June 15, 2006: Visiting Graduate Student:The Sumner Research Group hosted a visiting graduate student, Ms. Clelia P de la Pena (Colorado State University) for proteomics training and preliminary experiments on secreted proteins.

June 16, 2006: Ag Venture:Dr. Sumner provided an overview presentation, laboratory tours, and instrumental demonstrations for approximately 35 high school student participating in the Ag Venture training program hosted by the Noble Foundation Agricultural Department. This event provides scientific exposure to students exploring careers in agriculture.

July-August, 2006: Internship: The Sumner lab hosted Ms Kisha Wood, an Oklahoma University undergraduate research summer intern. Ms. Wood contributed to our ongoing organization of metabolite libraries and harvesting of biological materials for metabolomics experiments. She also participated in numerous workshops and training opportunities provided for our summer interns.

September 10-15, 2006: The Sumner laboratory hosted visiting scientist Dr. Lanfang Levine (Ph.D., Senior Research Chemist, Biological/Analytical Chemistry Core Lead, Dynamac Corporation, Kennedy Space Center) to evaluate the impact of elevated CO2 levels characteristic of compact space environments on plant growth and advance data processing training.

December 2006-January 2007: Internship: The Sumner lab hosted Ms Keisha Wood, an Oklahoma University undergraduate research summer intern. Ms. Wood contributed to our ongoing organization of metabolite libraries and harvesting of biological materials for metabolomics experiments. She also participated in numerous workshops and training opportunities provided for our summer interns.

2005

May, 2005: Southeastern OK State Instrumental Analysis Class: The Sumner lab hosts Prof. Joel T. Smith and his Instrumental Analysis Class on an annual basis for a 1 day focus on mass spectrometry that involves lectures, tours, and instrumental demonstrations to stimulate scientific interests and provide real world examples of science and mass spectrometry in a research environment. (Photo)