Dutch User Meeting 2025

10th December

December 10, 2025 I 09:00 am - 16:00 pm

We cordially invite you to our Dutch User Meeting 2025!

This year we are pleased to organize a meeting, where we will inform you about recent hardware and software developments in the field of Mass Spectrometry and we will introduce you to the latest developments in the field of typing.

09:00    Arrival at Beatrix Gebouw, Room 417 - Coffee & Tea

09:30    Introduction

Marcel de Groot, Bruker Microbiology & Infection Diagnostics, The Netherlands

09:45    Research with MALDI Biotyper® sirius - Species Typing: how to distinguish closely related microorganisms
Dr. Michiel Bexkens, Reseacher Clinical Innovation Microbiology, Erasmus MC

10:15    Magnusiomyces – A rebellious pathogen: difficult to characterize
Prof. Dr. Ferry Hagen, Medisch Moleculair Microbioloog, UMC Utrecht / Westerdijk Institute & Bert Gerrits van den Ende,  Research Assistant, Westerdijk Institute

10:45    Coffee Break

11:00    First application of FT-IR for anaerobic gut bacteria: identification and subtyping of Faecalibacterium using MALDI-TOF and FT-IR
Dr. Linda Veloo, Research Scientist & Esther Tops, MSc Student (Bachelor of science), UMC Groningen

11:30    MBT Mycobacteria & Filamentous Fungi IVD-Workflows 
Dirk Faro, Senior Technician Mycology, Dicoon

12.00    MBT Sepsityper IVD-Workflow
Anouk Lindaart, Key User MALDI Biotyper, St. Antonius Ziekenhuis

12:15    Lunch and Q&A Service Stand
Service Team available for all your questions

13:15    Beyond MALDI: Unlocking Opportunities and Tackling Challenges in R&D
Dr. Sven Brand, Vice President R&D, Bruker Microbiology & Infection Diagnostics, Germany

14:00    Tackling AMR with Bruker´s MICRONAUT and UMIC®
Dr. Robert Hoenings, Senior Scientific Advisor AST/ART, MERLIN Gesellschaft für mikrobiologische Diagnostika mbH - part of Bruker Microbiology & Infection Diagnostics, Germany

14:30    Coffee Break

14:45    Accelerating Infection Control Efforts in Hospitals with IR Biotyper®
Dr. Carolyn G.J. Moonen, Scientific Product Specialist IR Biotyper – EMEA, Bruker Microbiology & Infection Diagnostics, The Nederlands

15:15    Molecular Diagnostics Solutions
Piet Schilder, Managing Director Benelux, ELITechGroup - a Bruker Company, The Netherlands

15:45    MBT Pathfinder® – Automatic Colony Picking
Arjan de Haan, Business Development Manager Automation, Bruker Microbiology & Infection Diagnostics, The Netherlands

16:00    Closure
Marcel de Groot & Mariam Ahmed, Bruker Microbiology & Infection Diagnostics, The Netherlands

The event is already fully booked. If you would like to be put on the waiting list, please send an email to Marcel.deGroot@bruker.com

 

Venue

Jaarbeurs MeetUp, Beatrixgebouw, Centrale hal, 3e etage
(Beatrixgebouw, Jaarbeursplein 6, 3521 AL, Utrecht, Google maps)

Contact

For further information, please contact:
Bruker Daltonics GmbH & Co. KG
Fahrenheitstrasse 4
28359 Bremen
marketing.bdal.md@bruker.com