Leila Birolo is an associate professor in Biochemistry at the University of Naples Federico II. Her scientific activity is focused on the application of proteomics to cultural heritage, and more widely, on organic components in artistic and archaeological objects. This interest came as a natural evolution in her track as chemist that explored different aspects of protein chemistry to the challenging task of studying ancient proteins in cultural heritage. Focuses are the development of tools for minimally invasive identification of proteins and the search of aging biomarkers in ancient proteins.

She published several papers on proteomics applied to cultural heritage, received fundings and presented her works at national and international conferences.
 

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Sebastian Böcker holds the Chair for Bioinformatics at the Institute for Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. He studied mathematics and did his PhD in biomathematics at Bielefeld University, focusing on theoretical phylogenetics. He then went to industry for three years, developing computational methods for the interpretation of DNA/RNA mass spectrometry data. He returned to Bielefeld University as an independent research leader, before he took up his current position in Jena.

His research interests are mainly method-driven and were originally focussed on combinatorics and algorithmics; later, stochastics and machine learning joined the methods of interest. On the application side, his research focuses on the annotation of small molecules from mass spectrometry data; in 2020, SIRIUS 4 from his group was named "method to watch" by Nature Methods.

Sebastian Böcker is a Emmy Noether fellow (Computer Science Action Program) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and also a fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Society. In 2022, he and his group won the Thuringian Research prize.

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Professor of analytical chemistry at the institute of analytical sciences and physical chemistry for environment and materials (University of Pau and Adour Countries / CNRS), his research focuses on the characterization of complex matrices and development of hyphenated techniques between separation device and detection techniques. He is also Vice President Science with and for the society and open science at UPPA and co-founder and co-director of the iC2MC joint laboratory.

https://iprem.univ-pau.fr/fr/~bouyssie

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Current title and position
Dr. Sarah CIANFERANI is a research director at the CNRS and co-heads the BioOrganic Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (LSMBO) in Strasbourg, a team of 40 people that has strong expertise in proteomic analyses and structural mass spectrometry. Her group is part of the French National Proteomic Infrastructure ProFI.
 
Research field
Her expertise focuses on method developments in structural mass spectrometry (mainly native MS, ion mobility MS, H/D exchange MS and cross-linking MS) and applications for multiprotein complex characterization in structural biology projects, membrane proteins and biotherapeutics.
 
Education and former professional experience
Dr. Sarah Cianférani holds a PhD degree in analytical chemistry from the University of Strasbourg, France. She performed and post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for Genetics and Molecular Biology (IGBMC) in Strasbourg to gain expertise in structural biology. She then joined the AliX company to develop native Mass Spectrometry for protein/ligand screening. She was recruited by the CNRS as researcher in 2004 in the team of Alain Van Dorsselaer (BioOrganic Mass Spectrometry Lab, LSMBO) in Strasbourg.
She is co-author of more than 280 scientific papers related to mass spectrometry analysis of proteins and their complexes. She was awarded in 2023 the Gold Medal from the French Proteomic Society.

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Maarten Dhaenens received a Master’s degree in Zoology from Ghent University, Belgium, in 2002, where he was chasing East-African millipedes for his master’s dissertation. Following an additional masters in Medical Molecular Biotechnology, he joined the lab of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology where he first encountered mass spectrometry and later became executive principle investigator of the proteomics department when he finished his PhD in 2011. The lab has since focused on the mass spectrometry-based study of histone epigenetic dynamics, the so-called “histone code”, with a special interest in data-independent acquisition (DIA) MS on QTOF designs since 2013.  The Sars-Cov-2 outbreak abruptly introduced a new research line, developing an MS-based diagnostic assay that detects Sars-Cov-2 proteins in patients which received the EuPA Breakthrough in Proteomics award in 2021. Returning to his zoology foundation, he is increasingly trying to understand the role of histone epigenetics in Eukaryotes.

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In 2017 he founded ProGenTomics, a proteomics service lab specialized in histone analysis, which became the official proteomics core facility of Ghent University in 2023. Maarten was founding president of the European Young Proteomics Investigators Club (YPIC) in 2016 and became president of the Belgian Proteomics Association (BePA) in 2018. This year, he resigned from the latter and became chair of the executive committee for Industry at EuPA.

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Alexander Makarov obtained his PhD from the Moscow Engineering Physics institute in 1992. In 1996 he embarked on pioneering work on the Orbitrap mass analyzer at HD Technologies Ltd, a small company based in Manchester, UK. After its acquisition by Thermo Electron in 2000, Alexander spearheaded development of the Orbitrap analyzer from first prototypes to the commercial launch of the LTQ Orbitrap instrument in 2005. Under his guidance, the Orbitrap technology expanded to encompass five major families of commercial instruments. He also provided scientific leadership of the Astral analyzer development as well as technologies for high-mass analysis.

His awards include the Award for Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry from ASMS, the Aston medal by BMSS and the Thomson medal from IMSF. Presently, he is Director of Research at the Life Science Mass Spectrometry Business Unit of Thermo Fisher Scientific in Bremen, Germany and a Fellow of the Royal Society in the UK.

 

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Since 35 years at the IMP (institute of molecular pathology) which is the basic research institute of boehringer Ingelheim. IMP works in close cooperation with IMBA and GMI (both institutes of the Austrian academy of science). 
From 2000 – 2022 Head of the Protein Chemistry Facility
Since 2023 Head of the Proteomics TechHub 

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2004: Lower Austrian Science Award
2010: Outstanding Scientist Technology Award from the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF), US
2021: Lifetime Award of the Austrian Proteomics and Metabolomics Society
2021: Prof. (h.c.) of the Austrian Proteomics and Metabolomics Association (APMA)
2023: Juan Pablo Award of the European Proteomics Society

SELECTED MEMBERSHIPS
Chairmen of Proteomics Core4Life (Excellence Alliance of European Core Facilities) 2014 - 2021
Founding member of the European Proteomics Academy
2014 – 2019: Coordinator of the Education Committee of the European Proteomics Association 
2011 – 2015: Elected President of the Austrian Proteomics Society
2007 – 2012: The Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities – Leading member of the Proteomics Standard Initiative

 

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Our group is interested in understanding how tumors tame the microenvironment to facilitate growth and spreading. We decided to tackle the aggressive-tumor microenvironment from a global, untargeted, -omic, point of view, as this is representative of what happens in vivo where multiple signals are simultaneously conveyed and used to establish a functional tumor-microenvironment crosstalk.

Our research is aimed at uncovering mechanisms of tumor-host cells-ECM interaction that could not only represent novel drug targets but would also contribute to the development of less invasive diagnostic and prognostic clinical readouts. To achieve this task we are developing and applying new technologies in the field of mass spectrometry-based proteomics and metabolomics.

 

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After graduating in engineering from ENSC in Paris, Hélène Budzinski obtained a doctorate in physical chemistry at the University of Bordeaux, focusing on analytical chemistry applied to organic petroleum geochemistry, followed by a post-doctorate working on sulphur-containing hydrocarbons at Total. She then joined the CNRS, focusing on the study of organic chemical micropollutants in the environment. A member of numerous scientific boards of environmental research organisations (Ineris, IRD, CNRS) and public bodies (Onema, OFB, Water Agencies), since 2011 she has been co-director of the LabEx COTE - Continental To coastal Ecosystems: evolution adaptability and governance. Hélène Budzinski has received numerous awards, including several Prix des technologies innovantes pour l'environnement from Ademe, the CNRS Silver and Bronze Medals, as well as the Guyé Prize and the Berthelot Medal from the Académie des Sciences.

The work carried out by Hélène Budzinski focuses on the characterisation of chemical pollution in all its forms and covers two areas of research:

- Ultra-trace analytical chemistry, in order to develop original methods for the global study of chemical contamination of the environment, taking into account the ″mixing effect″ at low doses, in addition to conventional pollutants (pesticides, hydrocarbons...). This makes it possible to identify emerging contaminants of interest - food additives, body care products, medicines, etc. 

- Studying the ecodynamics of micropollutants: from the sources of contamination (linked to domestic or industrial uses) to their fate and impact in the environment (monitoring their transformation, determining the impact on fauna and flora).

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Vincent Carré is full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Université de Lorraine (Metz, France) and works at the MassLor platform and the LCP-A2MC laboratory of which is vice-director. His scientific activities focus on methodological development using high-resolution mass spectrometry, more specifically Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry, to support the new challenges in energy and ecological transitions. Focusing on plants and their ecosystems, he explores their conversion potential for use as sources of energy and renewable molecules, as well as their ability to live or survive in their micro-environments. He adopts different omic approaches including mass spectrometry imaging.

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Gauthier Eppe obtained his MSc degree in Chemical Engineering and his PhD degree in Analytical Chemistry from University of Liege, ULiege, Belgium. After a post-doc at the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland,  USA), he returned to ULiege and was appointed Associate Professor in 2009. He is currently Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences at ULiege.

He is the director of the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (MSLab), a laboratory hosting a large panel of state-of-the-art MS instruments that can cover a broad range of cutting-edge topics in the domain of mass spectrometry (www.mslab.uliege.be). The group is currently made up of around 40 researchers, including 20 MSc and PhD students. His research mainly focuses on mass spectrometry and ion mobility-mass spectrometry hyphenated with GC and LC, with a particular emphasis on non-targeted analysis in the field of ultra-trace analysis of environmental contaminants entering the food chain.

He is also director of the Center for Analytical Research and Technology (CART), an analytical platform recognized as Belgium’s National Reference Laboratory for halogenated persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and food process contaminants. To date, he has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers utilizing different analytical chemistry techniques to study environmental, food and biological systems. 

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“Sven Heiles is assistant professor for Lipidomics at the University Duisburg-Essen and group leader of the Lipidomics group at the ISAS in Dortmund, Germany. He studied chemistry at the Technical University Darmstadt, followed by a PhD in physical chemistry studying gas-phase clusters with mass spectrometric methods. Subsequently, he moved to the lab of Evan R. Williams at the UC Berkeley as postdoc working on high-resolution mass spectrometry and ion fragmentation, followed by a postdoc with Bernhard Spengler at the Justus Liebig University Giessen. At the same university, he started a junior research group that worked on the combination between high-resolution mass spectrometry imaging and advanced tandem mass spectrometry tools. These projects with extended focus on clinical applications are the subjects of current scientific projects in Essen and Dortmund. 
 
Sven Heiles has been awarded a Leopoldina fellowship in 2013 and 2014, a Liebig fellowship in 2016, the JLU Giessen award in 2022 and most recently the Mattauch Herzog Award of the German society for mass spectrometry in 2023.”

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Céline Henry has been a research engineer in mass spectrometry for more than 24 years at INRAE (Jouy en Josas, France).  She is the technical head manager of the proteomics platform PAPPSO (Plateforme d'Analyses de Protéomique de Paris Sud Ouest, http://pappso.inrae.fr/) which is composed of 10 permanent staff (mass spectrometry analysts, bioinformaticians and statisticians). This platform is part of the Micalis Institute, which brings together more than 350 microbiologists, most of whom are involved in microbiota studies related to health or nutrition.

She has been involved in metaproteomics projects for over 10 years, particularly focusing on the human intestinal microbiota in chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, and more recently on characterizations of vesicles derived from human feces related to Crohn's disease. She was recently first author of a paper on the study Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis (Henry et al, https://doi.org/10.3390/cells11081340). She is also member of Metaproteomic initiative (https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01176-w) and participate to Critical Assessment of MetaProteome Investigation (CAMPI) (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27542-8).

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Philippe Dugourd is a senior scientist at CNRS and the director of the Institute for Light and Matter, a research unit in physics and chemistry located in Lyon with 300 personnel. He has pushed the fields of mass spectrometry and optics beyond traditional boundaries to deepen the understanding of the structure, reactivity, aggregation, and dynamics of proteins, clusters, and nanoparticles. He has received several awards, published over 300 papers and 5 patents, and mentored 15 PhD students. Additionally, he is a member of the board of SATT PULSALYS and the deputy director of the Faculty of Sciences at the University Lyon 1. 

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The ON Jensen research group at SDU focuses on the development and application of highly sensitive and specific bioanalytical methods for protein structure/function analysis and functional proteomics by using advanced MALDI and ESI mass spectrometry. We combine a variety of chemical, analytical, biochemical and computational techniques to elucidate post-translational modifications of proteins and their roles in cellular networks, in health and disease. Main research topics include 1) chromatin biology, epigenetics and cancer; 2) ion mobility separations of isomeric and near-identical biomolecules, and 3) histomolecular mass spectrometry imaging of cancer tumors.   

Professor Ole N. Jensen is director of the INTEGRA research infrastructure at SDU and PLATO: Danish National Mass Spectrometry Platform for Functional Proteomics and Bioimaging.
Ole has co-authored more than 330 research papers in international journals and is cited more than 28.000 times (WoS).

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Thibaut Léger is an omics researcher from northern France who obtained a master's degree in proteomics from the University of Lille in 2005. He applied proteomic technologies to inflammatory (Inserm UMR1149) and cardiovascular (Inserm UMR 1148) diseases from 2006 to 2010 in the Bichat Hospital (Paris).

From 2010 to 2019, he was a research engineer, head of the mass spectrometry and proteomics facility of the Jacques Monod Institute (CNRS, Université Paris Cité). He developed multiple collaborations and several hub such as omics associated to liver diseases and his own research on innovative methodologies in quantitative proteomics (e.g. interactomics, carbon-12 labeling). He defended a PhD in 2015 on the development of proteomic strategies to characterize protease activities in vivo. He developed metabolomics, exposomics and a steroidogenesis assay by MRM and HRMS at the LERES laboratory (EHESP, IRSET, Rennes) (2019-2020).

Since 2021, he has joined the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (ANSES) as a researcher within the Anses Fougères laboratory and its contaminant toxicology unit. He implemented multi-omics approaches applied to toxicology with a particular interest in the effects of contaminants on the healthy and pathological liver and on contaminant interactions with proteins. He created for ANSES in 2024 a national platform in proteomics and metabolomics (PROMETHEE).

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Stephan Rauschenbach is Professor for Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford.  His research is focused on the atomic resolution structural investigation of large biological and synthetic molecules.  For this his lab combines electrospray ion beam deposition (ESIBD), a method that SR pioneered, with scanning probe microscopy (SPM), electron cryo microscopy (cryoEM), and low energy electron holography (LEEH).  Highlights of this work include the imaging of glycans showing flexibility and branching, atomic resolution imaging of proteins deposited from the gas phase, and the discovery of a mechanochemical reaction mechanism when molecules collide with the surface at hyperthermal energy. 
 
SR studied Physics at the University of Augsburg with stays at the ETH Zuerich and a diploma thesis at the TU Muenchen, receiving the degree of Diplom Physik in 2003.  He was working at the Sony Fusion Domian Lab in Tokyo in 2003 before starting a PhD thesis at the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI-FKF) in 2004, receiving the Dr. sc. from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2007.  During the PhD theses and for the next 10 years as a group leader at the MPI-FKF developed the method of electrospray ion beam deposition (ESIBD), the chemically selective preparation of non-volatile molecules at surfaces in ultrahigh vacuum.  Since 2017 he is Professor at the University of Oxford and teaches Physical Chemistry as a Fellow of Wadham College.

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Julia Chamot-Rooke is an Analytical Chemist by training and Senior Scientist at CNRS. She is the head of the Mass Spectrometry for Biology (MSBio) Laboratory at the Institut Pasteur, Paris since 2012. She was previously group leader at the Department of Chemistry of the Ecole Polytechnique. At the Institut Pasteur, her lab proposes research and service in proteomics. Her research focuses on the development of innovative analytical pipelines in top-down proteomics and in structural proteomics, mostly for applications in the field of infectious diseases. Julia Chamot-Rooke is a Past President of the French Society for Mass Spectrometry. She is also a founding member and executive board member of the International Consortium for Top-Down Proteomics (CTDP). In 2019, she co-organized with the CTDP the first European Top-Down Proteomics Symposium at the Institut Pasteur. Julia Chamot-Rooke is the coordinator of several multidisciplinary projects in life sciences. Her lab was also the French partner of the European Research Infrastructure in Proteomics (EPIC-XS). Her work already led to 130 publications and more than 70 invitations into national and international workshops and conferences.

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