Benelux Metabolomics Days 2026
Benelux Metabolomics Days 2026

22 September 2026

8:30-9:15 Arrivals + registration to the conference

 

S1 - Title T.b.a.

Chairs: Thomas Hankemeier & Adriana Carvalho de Souza from BMC

9:15    Welcome to the Benelux Metabolomics Days
9:30  Erin Baker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA When Nature Touches Us: Unraveling Environmental Signatures with Mass Spectrometry
10:15  T.b.a. Smashing barriers in single-cell metabolomics
10:30  T.b.a. Comprehensive Molecular Profiling Using the AstralTM Mass Spectrometer: A Single-Sample Workflow for Metabolomics, Lipidomics and Proteomics
10:45  T.b.a. Discovering the metabolomic wonderland of 3D models: a mass spectrometry adventure to single-cell resolution

11:00 to 11:30 coffee break   

 

S2 - Exposomics & Environmental Health

Chair: T.b.d.

11:30  Arthur David, French School of Public Health, FR  Functional tracer proteo-metabolomics: a toolbox to study cellular metabolism and the regulatory interplay between hub molecules and protein modifications.
12:00  T.b.a.  Integrated Fecal Metabolomics and Lipidomics via 2D-UHPLC-HRMS: A Design of Experiments Approach
12:15  T.b.a.  Navigating the Metabolic Maze: Unveiling the Impact of Cell Sorting Techniques on Metabolic Profiles
12:30  T.b.a. Go with the Flow: Shear Stress as a Metabolic Switch in Endothelial Cells

12:45 Lunch 

13:30 Poster session  

13:30-14:15: Postersession 1 -> odd poster ID [P-01;P-03,...]

 

S3 - Computational metabolomics and AI

Chair: T.b.a.

14:15  Emma Schymanski, University of Luxembourg, LU Exploring Relevant Chemical Space for Metabolomics and Exposomics with Open Science
14:45  T.b.a. Optimising the single cell pipeline using the Xevo™ MRT Mass Spectrometer
15:00  Sponsor talk Bruker Enhanced spectrum clustering for interpretable molecular networking
15:15  T.b.a. Towards automated integration and quality assessment of chromatographic peaks in targeted LC-MS data with TARDIS
15:30  T.b.a Latest SCIEX Advances in Metabolomics and Lipidomics: Unleashing the Power of the ZenoTOF 8600
15:35  Elham Memarian, Leiden University, NL Decoding Hypertension: Machine-Assisted Analysis of Clinical Patterns and Molecular Insights

15:30 to 16:00 Coffee break 

 

S4 - Natural Products, Ecological & Plant Metabolomics

Chair: T.b.a.

16:00  Kyo Bin Kang, Sookmyung’s Women University, KR Computational Mass Spectrometry-based Qualitative Metabolomics for Functional Phenotyping of Xenobiotic Biotransformation
16:30  T.b.a. Integrated Metabolomics and Metaproteomics of Fermented Fecal Samples Enables Species-Level Functional Insights
16:45  T.b.a. FERMO: a Dashboard for Automated Prioritization of Molecular Features from Mass Spectral Data
17:00  T.b.a. Organ on a chip, translation of science research results to industry

17:15-20:15 Drinks, dinner + poster session

18:00-19:00 Postersession 2 -> even poster ID [P-02;P-04,...]

 

23 September 2026

8:45-9:15 Arrivals + registration day 2 

 

S5 - Untargeted Metabolomics: Methods, Workflows & Data Interpretation

Chair: T.b.a.

9:15  Joleen Masschelein, VIB, KU Leuven, BE T.b.a.
9:45 T.b.a. Valorization in MS-based Metabolomics: Targeted lipid signaling applied to the ageing population and patients with COVID-19
10:00  Sponsor talk Metabolomics-Based Evaluation of Murine Models of Cow’s Milk Allergy
10:15  T.b.a. Distinct Metabolic Signatures in Breast Cancer Extracellular Vesicles: Implications for Tumor Progression and Biomarker Discovery

10:30 to 11:00 Coffee break  

 

S6 - Clinical and Translational Metabolomics 

Chair: T.b.a. 

11:00  Gabi Kastenmuller, Helmholtz Munich, DE T.b.a.
11:30 T.b.a. Historical collections of Claviceps sp. sclerotia: an untapped resource of unknown Ergot alkaloids
11:45 T.b.a. Fast-Track Metabolic Profiling to Boost Biosynthetic Performance
12:00  T.b.a. A Paired Omics Data Resource for Plant Natural Product Discovery-Bioactive compunds

12:15 to 13:30 Lunch + poster session  

12:30-13:00 Postersession 3 -> odd poster ID [P-01;P-03,...]

13:00-13:30 Postersession 4 -> even poster ID [P-02;P-04,...]

S7 - Lipidomics

Chair: Esther Zaal, University Utrecht, NL 

13:30  Maria Fedorova, Technical University Dresden, DE Mapping Lipid Metabolism Across Time and Space Using Mass Spectrometry
14:00  T.b.a.

How to combine clinical data with preclinical knowledge?

 
14:15  T.b.a. FAIRify your metabolomics data: achieving convergence on standards for reuse-ready data and workflows.

S8 -Single-Cell & Spatial Metabolomics

Chair: Ahmed Ali, LACRD, Leiden University, LU 

14:30  Melanie Bailey, Imperial College London, UK Recent progress in capillary sampling and mass spectrometry at the SEISMIC facility for spatially resolved single and sub-cellular omics
15:00  T.b.a.

How to combine clinical data with preclinical knowledge?

 
15:15  T.b.a. FAIRify your metabolomics data: achieving convergence on standards for reuse-ready data and workflows

15:30 Closing Session: BEST POSTER 2026 & Announcement of BMD-2027!

15:30-16:30 Informal Farewell Drinks  

 

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