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), 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)
• 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)