Program for Nordic Mass Spectrometry Conference 2027
Tentative programme:
On Sunday there will be two primer sesions open for everyone in the field, more information comming soon.
The short courses will be followed by user meetings from our vendors.
The formal opening of the conference starts in the early evening on Sunday with a plenary lecture at 19.00.
Tuesday will include a KomplemeNT network morning session, as well as a Non-Target Planary session after lunch.
From Monday through Wednesday we have invited the following speakers so far :
Prof. Dr. Erin S. Baker: “Chemical Clues in the Human Body: How Exposure Leaves Its Molecular Fingerprints“.
Erin S. Baker is a Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers applying advanced analytical chemistry techniques to investigate environmental and biological systems. Moreover, her research group leverages multidimensional separations and novel software tools to examine how chemical exposures influence human health. Erin currently serves as the Vice President of Education for the International Lipidomics Society, a mentor for Females in Mass Spectrometry, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.
Dr.Kim Frisch: “Seeing the Unseen — A New Practical Approach in Fingermark Forensics by Mass Spectrometry Imaging“
Kim Frisch is a trained chemist with a PhD in organic synthesis from Aarhus University, Denmark (2006). He has worked for several years on the development of new radioactive tracers for positron emission tomography (PET) scanning at Aarhus University Hospital (2009–2018). Since 2019, he has been employed at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Aarhus University, where his primary focus has been introducing mass spectrometry imaging and developing practically applicable methods for imaging trace evidence — particularly fingermarks — using desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry.
Dr.Katja Prestø Elgstøen: «LC-MS based metabolomics in the clinic»
Katja B Prestø Elgstøen is head of the metabolomics activity at Oslo University Hospital, one of the biggest hospitals in Europe. She is a chemist by training and holds a PhD in medical chemistry from the University of Oslo (UIO) in 2010. She is also head of the Core Facility for Global Lipidomics and Metabolomics at Faculty of Medicine, UIO. Since finishing her PhD, she has been responsible for development and implementation of LC and MS-based diagnostic methods for metabolites in advanced laboratory diagnosis of inborn errors of metabolism. Her research focus has been on development of LC-high resolution MS based global (untargeted) metabolomics methods for clinical use. During the last years, global lipidomics has also been a prioritized task. With her long background in laboratory diagnostics, Dr. Elgstøen has a special focus on implementation of global metabolomics and lipidomics in a diagnostic setting. Dr Elgstøen also has special focus on the importance of proper study design in metabolomics, standardization of result reporting, development of workflow for annotation of unknowns, and implementation of quality assurance systems to improve the overall clinical utility of metabolomics.
Dr.Robert Jansen:“Bottom-up pathway discovery in Mycobacterium tuberculosis“.
Robert Jansen is trained as a pharmacist and obtained a PhD from Utrecht University in bioanalytical chemistry, developing targeted LC-MS assays for anti-cancer drugs. After his PhD, he was a postdoc at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, where he applied untargeted LC-MS metabolomics to find endogenous substrates of ABC transporters. At Weill Cornell Medicine in New York city, he similarly applied untargeted metabolomics to discover the function of enzymes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He now works at Radboud University in the Netherlands, where he and his group apply untargeted metabolomics to discover new metabolites and enzymes in microbes and ecosystems.
Prof. Dr. Juliane Hollender: “Non-target screening of polar contaminants in aquatic systems”.
Juliane Hollender is a Senior scientist / Group leader of the research group “Contaminant fate processes” in the department of Environmental Chemistry at EAWAG, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, in Switzerland. She is also adjunct professor in the department Environmental Systems Science of ETHZ. Her research topics include: Fate of organic contaminants in natural and engineered environments; Organic trace analytics: identification of transformation products, suspect and non-target screening using LC-HRMS/MS; Bioaccumulation and biological transformation of organic compounds in aquatic organisms; Linking of exposure and effects of organic pollutans.
Additionally we have exciting talks from the mass spectrometric community around Norway.
A compendium will be handed out at the meeting, and will be digitally available before the meeting.
Preliminary program is available her