About the authors

John R. Yates III

John Yates received his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, where he worked with Donald Hunt. Following a Biotechnology Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology, Pasedena, USA, he moved to the Department of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, where he attained the tenured rank of associate professor. He is now a professor in the Department of Cell Biology at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA. His research interests include the development of integrated methods for the analysis of protein mixtures using tandem mass spectrometry, bioinformatics studies using mass-spectrometry data, and proteomics techniques

Annalyn Gilchrist

Annalyn Gilchrist is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. She is supervised by John Bergeron and Rob Kearney, and is carrying out proteomics studies on organelles of the early secretory pathway.

Kathryn E. Howell

Kathryn Howell is a professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Boulder, USA. She received her Ph.D. in 1971 from Rutgers University, Newark, USA, and was a postdoctoral fellow with George Palade at Rockefeller University, New York, USA, and Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA, where she became an assistant professor. From 1981–1988, she was a group leader in the Cell Biology Division of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany. Her research focuses on the structure–function relationships and molecular mechanisms of exit from the Golgi complex. She and John Yates have collaborated on a number of Golgi-related proteomics projects.

John J. M. Bergeron

John Bergeron is Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, as well as Director of the Montreal Proteomics Network. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and received the McLaughlin Medal of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, The Journal of Biological Chemistry and Biochemistry and Cell Biology, and is currently president of the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO).