Conferences

Speakers & Session Topics

Keynote Speakers

  • Eric Skaar (Vanderbilt University), Molecular Heterogeneity at the Host-Pathogen Interface
  • John Belisle (Colorado State University)

Session Topics

Clinically Important Microbes - Detection & Characterization

  • Ian Lewis (University of Calgary)
  • Andreas Roempp (University of Bayreuth)
  • Robert Ernst (University of Maryland)
  • Neha Garg (Georgia Institute of Technology), Metabolomics to Decode Drug-Microbe, Microbe-Microbe and Microbe-Host Interactions in the Genus Burkholderia

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
  • Peter Turnbaugh (UC-San Francisco)

Microbial Systems: Fungal, Plant & Environmental 

  • Jennifer Geddes-McAlister (University of Guelph)
  • Marcy Balunas (University of Michigan), Metabolomics Outcomes as a Function of Biological Complexity from Microbiome Samples
  • Mingxun Wang (UC-Riverside)
  • Christopher Anderton (PNNL), Advancement of Molecular Cartography Tools for Mapping Environmental Microbiomes…and the Future of Microbial Molecular Phenotyping

Meeting Challenges & Emerging Trends in Microbial MS

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