Pioneering 4D Multiomics and
Functional Proteomics 2.0 at ASMS 2026

• TIMS-MRMS at the National High-Field Ion Cyclotron Resonance User Facility: a Clairvoyant Twist on Ultrahigh Resolution Biological Analysis
  Kristina (Kiki) Hakansson, Director, Ion Cyclotron Resonance Program and Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Advanced Top-Down Analysis of Next-Generation Antibodies with timsOmni™
  Julia Chamot-Rooke, Ph.D., CNRS Senior Scientist & Head of the MSBio Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

This is just the beginning! Additional exciting talks and speakers are currently being confirmed. Please check back soon as we continue to expand the eXceed Symposium program.

Date, Time & Location

• Sunday, May 31, 2026
• 8:30 am - 10:10 am 
• After the plenary session, the meeting will break into three parallel sessions.
• Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, USA
• Coronado Ballroom

Unlock functional insight across scales: from single‑cell spatial visual proteomics in FFPE tissue to high‑sensitivity XL‑MS on timsUltra AIP, plus robust DDA/diaPASEF^® workflows for PTMs and immunopeptidomics. Practical routes to confident biological insights.

• Single-Cell Spatial Visual Proteomics in FFPE Tissue
  Tian Ruijun, Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
  
• Establishes timsUltra AIP as a High-Sensitivity Platform for Cross-Linking Mass Spectrometry
  Fan Liu, Principle Investigator, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie & Professor, Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  
• Enabling DDA and diaPASEF^® Workflows for PTMs and Immunopeptidomics
  Alexey Nesvizhskii, Godfrey Dorr Stobbe Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Date, Time & Location

• Sunday, May 31, 2026
• 10:30 am - 12:40 pm
• Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, USA

Explore how next‑generation platforms accelerate small‑molecule discovery, led by timsMetabo™ for confident, high‑speed metabolite and lipid analysis, alongside timsMRMS for complex organic matter, ecTOF‑enabled annotation, AI‑driven natural products discovery, and chromatography‑free DART‑MS for clinical research.

• Reading a Book on Metabolomics with 93% of The Words Missing
  Pieter Dorrestein, Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Departments of Pharmacology and Pediatrics, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
• timsMRMS for Complex Organic Matter Analysis
  Pierre Giusti, Analytical Chemistry Specialist, TotalEnergies, Le Havre, France
  Carlos Afonso, Professor, University of Rouen, Rouen, France
• Using the ecTOF Instrument for Compound Annotation by Predicting Formulas, Mass Spectra and Retention Indices
  Oliver Fiehn, Full Professor, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA
• Unlocking Nature's Chemistry in the Age of AI
  Pelle Simpson, Principal Scientist, Enveda, Boulder, CO, USA
• Chromatography-Free DART-MS in the Clinical Research Laboratory
  Kara Lynch, Professor, Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

Date, Time & Location

• Sunday, May 31, 2026
• 10:30 am - 12:40 pm
• Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, USA

Rapid bacterial metabolite screening, single-cell immune phenotyping, aging bone pathology, neurodegeneration: four talks showing how spatial MALDI multiomics reveals biology your bulk methods average away.

• Molecular Pathology of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease Through the Lens of MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry
  Blaine Roberts, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
• Need for Speed: Screening Bacterial Production of Small Molecules
  Laura Sanchez, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz, CA, USA
• Spatial Imaging to investigate human knee osteoarthritis and bone fractures and corresponding synovial fluid biomarkers
  Birgit Schilling, Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA, USA
• Single-Cell Multiomics Mass Spec Imaging of Clinical Immune Cells:  A Single-Shot Approach with SoloCell
  Lyndsay Young, Postdoctoral Scholar, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

Date, Time & Location

• Sunday, May 31, 2026
• 10:30 am - 12:40 pm
• Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, USA

^{Proteomics Breakfast Workshop}

From Spatial Biology to Immunopeptidomics - Functional Insights with timsTOF and timsOmni™

Get a first look at new timsOmni™ capabilities and discover real‑world workflows: from ultra‑sensitive antigen discovery to single‑cell multiomics in the aging brain, designed to increase depth, confidence, and throughput in proteomics.

• Evolving Hardware Architecture and Functionality of the timsOmni™ MS Platform
  Dimitris Papanastasiou, R&D Director, Fasmatech, Athens, Greece
• Multiomics Integration to Define the Molecular Architecture of the Aging Brain at the Single Cell Level
  Brian R. Hoffmann, Ph.D., Director of Protein Sciences and Mass Spectrometry Services, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA
• Ultra-Sensitive Mass spectrometry for Antigen Discovery 
  Susan Klaeger, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Genentech, San Francisco, CA, USA

Time & Location

• Monday, June 1, 2026
• 7:00 am - 8:10 am
• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, USA
• Room 31 ABC

^{Spatial Multiomics Breakfast Workshop}

Translational Spatial Omics: From Tissue to Decision

Pulmonary fibrosis, clinical sample optimization, translational neuroimaging: integrated MSI, LCM-proteomics, and clinical research sample strategies that move spatial multiomics from discovery tool to translational research platform.

• Introduction
  Mike Easterling, Ph.D., Vice President Imaging, Bruker
• Integrated Spatial Multiomics Imaging and LCM‑Proteomics Uncover Inflammatory and Fibrotic Niches in Pulmonary Fibrosis
  Esther Cheow, Ph.D., Associate Principal Scientist, MSD, Singapore
• Less is More: Maximizing Data Coverage from Clinical Samples
  Erin Seeley, PH.D., Director, Mass Spectrometry Imaging Core Facility, Research Group Leader, Department of Core Facilities Management
• Translational Mass Spectrometry Imaging: Mapping Molecules, Decoding Neurodegeneration
  Per Andrén, Ph.D., Professor of Mass Spectrometry Imaging, Uppsala, Sweden

Time & Location

• Monday, June 1, 2026
• 7:00 am - 8:10 am
• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, USA
• Room 32 AB

^{Drugs of Abuse Breakfast Workshop}

Addressing the Challenges of Drug of Abuse and Novel Psychoactive Substances From Identification to High Throughput Analysis

Build faster, more reliable DoA/NPS workflows: covering chromatography‑free DART‑TQ‑MS for unknowns and strategies to keep MS screening ahead of emerging compounds.

• Introduction
  Artem Filipenko, Ph.D., Director of Applied Markets, Bruker
• DART-TQ-MS Applications in Forensic Chemistry: Unknown Identification and Rapid Screening of NPS and related Drugs of Abuse
  Nicholas Khorozov, Forensic Toxicologist/Chemist, Horsham, PA, USA
• The Age of the Cat and Mouse Game - Keeping MS-Screening Approaches up to Date
  Jürgen Kempf, Deputy Head of the Forensic Toxicology Laboratory, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Time & Location

• Monday, June 1, 2026
• 7:00 am - 8:10 am
• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, USA
• Room 30 E

^{Structural Proteomics Breakfast Workshop}

Advancing Structural Analysis with the Omnitrap Technology

Explore innovative applications of trapped EXD MSn on timsOmni™ for deeper sequence and structural insights into protein complexes, antibodies and RNA.

• Introduction
  Michael Greig, Executive Director of Global MRMS Market, Bruker
• Optimizing Native Electron Detachment Dissociation on the timsOmni™ Platform to Reveal Structural Footprints along RNA Sequences
  Rim Chiba, Ph.D. Student, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
• Advanced Characterization of Antibodies Using Top-Down Mass Spectrometry on the timsOmni™ Platform
  Iuliia Stroganova, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

Time & Location

• Tuesday, June 2, 2026
• 7:00 am - 8:10 am
• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, USA
• Room 32 AB

^{MRMS Breakfast Workshop}

timsMRMS - The Next Generation in MRMS Technology

Join us to explore how the new timsMRMS is advancing complex mixture analysis. Discover groundbreaking applications in tissue imaging, environmental studies, and lipidomics and hear directly from scientists about their new user experiences.

• Introduction
  Paul Speir, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations, Bruker
• Tissue Imaging on the timsMRMS
  Madeline E. Colley, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
• Trapped Ion Mobility Spectrometry Enables Electron-Activated FT-ICR Tandem Mass Spectrometry of Lipid Isobars in Complex Matrices
  Stephen DeFiglia, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Research Associate
• Ion Mobility Constrained Non-Targeted Screening of PFAS in Complex Matrices Using gTIMS Coupled to 18 T FTICR Mass Spectrometry
  Carlos Afonso, Professor, University of Rouen, Rouen, France

Time & Location

• Tuesday, June 2, 2026
• 7:00 am - 8:10 am
• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, USA
• Room 30 E

^{Small Molecule Breakfast Workshop}

Comprehensive Metabolite and Lipid Discovery with Confidence and Speed

Boost identification confidence and speed with timsMetabo™, isotope‑based filtering and MassQL, plus hands‑on tactics for robust, reproducible 4D‑Lipidomics™.

• Introduction
  Erica Forsberg, Ph.D., Vice President Metabolomics, Bruker
  Matthew Lewis, Ph.D., Vice President Metabolomics & Lipidomics, Bruker
• Metabolite Annotation Using Multiple Dimensions on the timsMetabo™
  Michael Witting, Deputy Head Metabolomics and Proteomics Core & Executive Manager Metabolomics, Helmholtz Munich, Munich, Germany
• From Chaos to Clarity: Isotope Filtering and MassQL in Xenobiotic Metabolism
  Chris Brown, Senior Research Scientist, Corteva Agrisciences, USA 
• 4D-Lipidomics™ in Action: Robust Extractions, Normalization Tricks, and Compelling Case Studies
  Kari Basso, Ph.D., Director of Mass Spectrometry Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Time & Location

• Wednesday, June 3, 2026
• 7:00 am - 8:10 am
• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, USA
• Room 32 AB

^{Contaminant Analysis Breakfast Workshop}

Advanced Mass Spectrometry Strategies for Contaminants, POPs & PFAS

Explore end‑to‑end solutions for environmental analysis - from sensitive PFAS and POPs quantitation to rapid real‑time screening - covering contaminants from trace to toxic levels.

• Introduction
  Jeffrey Zonderman, Senior Vice President, Bruker
• LC-HESI/GC-APCI-TIMS HRMS with timsMetabo™ for Sensitive Analysis of Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants such as PFAS and Dioxins in Food
  Gauthier Eppe, Full Professor, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
• Real-time PFAS Screening, Regulatory PFAS testing, or Two-in-One?
  Artem Filipenko, Ph.D., Director of Applied Markets, Bruker

Time & Location

• Wednesday, June 3, 2026
• 7:00 am - 8:10 am
• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, USA
• Room 30 E