Conferences

Preliminary Program

5:00 - 7:00 pm, Registration open

5:00 - 7:00 pm, Poster Setup

7:00 - 7:10 pm, Opening Remarks

7:10 - 8:00 pm Keynote Lecture Eric Skaar (Vanderbilt University), "Molecular Heterogeneity at the Host-Pathogen Interface"

8:00 - 8:10pm, Keynote Q&A

8:10 - 9:15 pm, Reception, drinks & light snacks

8:30 - 10:05 am, Clinically Important Microbes - Detection & Characterization

Ian Lewis (University of Calgary), "Harnessing Mass Spectrometry as a Platform for Rapid Identification and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing"

Andreas Roempp (University of Bayreuth), "MS Imaging in Drug Development: The Clinical-Stage Antibiotic BTZ 043 Accumulates and Efficiently Acts Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Tuberculosis Lesions"
Robert Ernst (University of Maryland), "FLAT - A Technology Platform for Enhanced Diagnostics and Structural Insights of Specialized Bacterial Lipids"

10:15- 10:35 am, Coffee Break

10:35 am - 12:05 pm, Clinically Important Microbes - Detection & Characterization

Neha Garg (Georgia Institute of Technology), "Metabolomics to Decode Drug-Microbe, Microbe-Microbe and Microbe-Host Interactions in the Genus Burkholderia"
Short Talks from submitted abstracts

12:10 - 1:15 pm, Lunch (provided by ASMS) and Group Photo

1:15 - 3:00 pm, Microbial Systems: Interactions (Food, Microbiome, & More)

Laura Sanchez (UC, Santa Cruz), "This Might Sound Cheesy, But We Need to Know More About Fungal Metabolites
Jessica Prenni (Colorado State University), "Sourdough-Omics: Using Modern Analytical Approaches to Understand an Ancient Fermented Food"
Daniel Globish (Science for Life Laboratory), "Chemical Metabolomics - Novel Chemical Biology Tools to Explore Gut Microbiota and Nutrition Metabolism"

3:00 - 3:20 pm, Coffee Break

3:20 - 4:55 pm, Microbial Systems: Interactions (Food, Microbiome, & More)

Peter Turnbaugh (UC, San Francisco), "Diet-Microbiome Interactions during Cancer Chemotherapy"
Short Talks from submitted abstracts

4:55 - 7:00pm - Dinner, on your own

7:00 - 9:00 pm, Poster Session I

8:30 - 10:15 am, Microbial Systems: Fungal, Plant & Environmental

Mingxun Wang (UC-Riverside), "Metabolomics at Repository Scales – New Languages and Computational tools for Scalable Compound Annotation"
Jennifer Geddes-McAlister (University of Guelph), "Defining Spatial and Temporal Proteome Signatures of Fungal Infection Dynamics to Reveal Putative Druggable Targets"
Marcy Balunas (University of Michigan), "Metabolomics Outcomes as a Function of Biological Complexity from Microbiome Samples"

10:15 - 10:35 am, Coffee Break

10:35 am - 12:10 pm, Microbial Systems: Fungal, Plant & Environmental

Christopher Anderton (PNNL), "Advancement of Molecular Cartography Tools for Mapping Environmental Microbiomes…and the Future of Microbial Molecular Phenotyping"
Short Talks from submitted abstracts

12:10 - 7:00 pm, Free Time

7:00 - 9:00 pm, Poster Session II (bar, light snacks)

8:30 - 10:15 am, Meeting Challenges & Emerging Trends in Microbial MS

Kelly Hines (University of Georgia), "Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry for Rapid Multi-Omics in Microbial Diagnostics"
Kai Zhang (Texas Tech University), "Using Lipidomics to Study Leishmania-Host Interaction"
Allegra Aron (University of Denver)

10:15 - 10:45 am, Coffee Break

10:35 am - 12:10 pm, Meeting Challenges & Emerging Trends in Microbial MS

Sizun Jiang (Harvard University), "Spatial-omics for Microbe-Host Interactions: Do we need Everything Everywhere at Once?”
Short Talks from submitted abstracts

12:10 - 1:10 pm, Lunch, on your own

1:10 - 2:00 pm, Closing Keynote Lecture, John Belisle (Colorado State University)

2:00 - 2:20pm, Closing remarks and Bon Voyage

Optional Departures Depending upon Flights.

Departures at Leisure