Program

The program for the 40th ASMS Asilomar Conference on High-Throughput Mass Spectrometry: New Developments and Applications begins Friday evening, October 9 and concludes Monday evening, October 12, 2026. Most attendees depart at their leisure on the morning of Tuesday, October 13.

The conference sessions (talks, posters, coffee breaks, evening receptions) will all be located in the CHAPEL building [see Asilomar Campus map for location of Chapel]. A final program booklet will be distributed onsite at the meeting.

This is a Preliminary Program and subject to change. A program overview is available HERE.

Friday, October 9, 2026

4:00 - 6:00 pm, ASMS Asilomar Conference Badge pick-up, Chapel

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Dinner for Asilomar lodgers and those that adv. purchase tickets, Crocker Dining Hall

7:15 - 8:25 pm, Opening Session, Chapel; Chang Liu presiding

• 7:15 - 7:25 pm, Welcome & Opening Remarks
• 7:25 - 8:15 pm, Payal Sheth (Bristol Myers Squibb), How Mass Spectrometry Transformed Drug Discovery

8:25 - 8:30 pm, Welcome to the Reception by SCIEX, sponsor of this evening's reception

8:30 - 9:45 pm, Reception & Posters, Chapel

Saturday, October 10, 2026

7:30 - 9:00 am, Breakfast for Asilomar lodgers, Crocker Dining Hall

9:00 - 11:00 am, NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN HT-MS TECHNOLOGY, Chapel; Thomas R. Covey presiding

• Chang Liu (SCIEX), Acoustic Ejection Mass Spectrometry (AEMS) for High-Throughput Analysis
• David Muddiman (North Carolina State University), Infrared Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Electrometry Ionization (IR-MALDESI) for High-Throughput Analysis
• Graham Cooks (Purdue University), Desorption Electrospray Ionization (DESI) for High Throughput Synthesis and Analysis

11:00 - 11:20 am, Coffee Break

11:20 am - 12:00 pm, Short Talks and Poster Highlights - Part I, Chapel; Hui Zhang presiding

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Lunch for Asilomar lodgers and those that paid offsite fee, Crocker Dining Hall

1:00 - 2:00 pm, Free Time

2:00 - 4:00 pm, HT-MS IN HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING, Chapel; Tom Bretschneider presidin

• Wilson Shou (Bristol Myers Squibb), High-Throughput MS for Cell-Based Screening
• Jane Wen (Merck), HT-MS for High-Throughput Hit Identification
• Ronghai Cheng (Takeda), HT-MS for High-Throughput Covalent Binders Screening

4:00 - 6:00 pm, Free Time

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Dinner for Asilomar lodgers and those that adv. purchase tickets, Crocker Dining Hall

7:00 - 9:00 pm, HT-MS IN SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY & HIGH-THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTATION, Chapel; Robert Kennedy presiding

• Daniel Blair (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital), Fragmentation First Experimentation
• Hui Zhang (Iambic Therapeutics), High-Throughput Experimentation in AI Pharma
• Alandra Quinn (Pfizer), High-Throughput Analysis for High-Throughput Experimentation

9:00 - 9:05 pm, Welcome to the Reception by WuXi AppTec, sponsor of this evening's reception, Chapel

9:05 - 10:15 pm, Reception & Posters, Chapel

Sunday, October 11, 2026

7:30 - 9:00 am, Breakfast for Asilomar lodgers, Crocker Dining Hall

9:00 - 11:00 am, HT-MS in HT-ADME, Chapel; Wilson Shou presidin

• Andreas Luippold (Boehringer Ingelheim), Intelligent Bioanalysis System
• Duo Zhang (Wuxi AppTec), Echo MS In ADME/PPB
• Estelle Maes (AbbVie), High-Throughput MS in DMPK 

11:00 - 11:20 am, Coffee Break

11:20 am - 12:00 pm, Short Talks and Poster Highlights - Part II, Chapel; Chang Liu presiding

12:00 - 1:00 pm, Lunch for Asilomar Lodgers and those that paid the offsite fee, Crocker Dining Hall

1:00 - 6:00 pm, Free Afternoon

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Dinner for Asilomar lodgers and those that adv. purchase tickets, Crocker Dining Hall

7:00 - 9:00 pm, HT-MS IN BIOCATALYSIS AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY, Chapel; Graham Cooks presidin

• Wenxuan Li (Merck), A High-throughput MS Platform for Enzyme Discovery and Development
• Michael Poltash (Janssen Pharmaceuticals), High-Throughput Analysis of Biotherapeutic Bioreactors
• Robert Kennedy  (University of Michigan), MT-MS Platform Based on Droplet Microfluidics

9:00 - 9:05 pm, Welcome to the Reception by Genedata, Inc., sponsor of this evening's reception, Chapel

9:05 - 10:15 pm, Reception & Posters, Chapel

Monday, October 12, 2026

7:30 - 9:00 am, Breakfast for Asilomar lodgers, Crocker Dining Hall

9:00 - 11:00 am, DATA PROCESSING FOR HT-MS, Chapel; Nicola Zamboni presiding

• Ismael Zamora (Mass Spec Analytica), Molecular Structure and Mass Spectral Data Quality Driven Processing for Pharmacokinetics
• Mark Spears (Virscidian), Automatic Data Processing for High-Throughput Experimentation
• Tao Huan (University of British Columbia), Incorporation of Machine Learning to Address Dark Metabolomics

11:00 - 11:20 am, Coffee Break

11:20 - 11:50 am, Short Talks, Chapel; Hui Zhang presiding

12:00 - 1:00 pm, Lunch for Asilomar lodgers and those that paid offsite fee, Crocker Dining Hall

1:00 - 3:00 pm, HT-MS IN NEW MODALITY BIOANALYSIS, Chapel; Tao Huan presiding

• Pei Su (University of California, Riverside), Unravelling the Spatial and Single Cell Proteome Using Single Molecule Mass Spectrometry
• Nicola Zamboni (ETH Zürich), High-Throughput Metabolomics 
• Patrick Rudewicz (Novartis), High-Throughput Native MS 

3:00 - 3:30 pm, Short Talks, Chapel; Chang Liu presiding

3:30 - 6:00 pm, Free Time

6:00 - 7:00 pm, Dinner for Asilomar lodgers and those that adv. purchase tickets, Crocker Dining Hall

7:00 - 8:00 pm, Closing Session, Chapel; Hui Zhang presiding

• Benjamin Cravatt (The Scripps Research Institute), Protein and Ligand Discovery
• Closing Remarks

8:00 - 8:05 pm, Welcome to the Bonfire & S'Mores by Agilent, sponsor of this evening's reception, Chapel

8:05 - 9:30 pm, Bonfire & S'Mores (Marshmallow Roast) Reception, Firepit area next to dining hall, weather permitting

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

7:30 - 9:00 am, Breakfast for Asilomar lodgers, Crocker

• Box lunches available for pick up at this time for Asilomar lodgers.

Departures at leisure