Benelux Metabolomics Days 2026

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

Chairs: T.b.a.

9:15		Opening & Welcome
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	Laura Rosina Torres Ortega, Wageningen University & Research, NL	From defaults to principled networks: parameter tuning and bootstrap confidence for robust MS/MS molecular networking
10:30	Scientific sponsor talk	T.B.A. Molecular Profiling Using the AstralTM Mass Spectrometer: A Single-Sample Workflow for Metabolomics, Lipidomics and Proteomics
10:45	Maosen Zhao, University of Antwerp, BE	Nontarget Identification of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Campus Indoor Dust Using Ion Mobility High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry

11:00 to 11:30 coffee break

Chair: T.b.d.

11:30	Arthur David, French School of Public Health, FR	Toward a Population‑Scale Map of the Human Chemical Exposome: Challenges, Strategies, and Opportunities
12:00	Stelios Papazoglou, INRAE, FR	Optimized Ion Mobility CCS Approaches for PFAS Annotation in Fish Extracts: Implications for Food Safety and Exposomics
12:15	María del Mar Delgado-Povedano, University of Antwerp, BE	Metabolomic Signatures in a Flemish Population Exposed to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
12:30	Ellen De Paepe, Ghent University, BE	A Validated Single-Tube Dual-Extraction Platform for Combined Placental Metabolomics and Lipidomics to Investigate In Utero Exposures

12:45-13:45 Lunch

13:45-14:45 Postersession 1

Chair: T.b.a.

14:45	Emma Schymanski, University of Luxembourg, LU	Exploring Relevant Chemical Space for Metabolomics and Exposomics with Open Science
15:15	Gaetan De Waele, University of Antwerp, BE	Improving metabolomics transformers for chemical database retrieval
15:30	Matthijs Vynck, Ghent University, BE	Robust metabolomics data normalization across scales and experimental designs
15:45	Sponsor talk	T.B.A.Towards automated integration and quality assessment of chromatographic peaks in targeted LC-MS data with TARDIS

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

Chair: T.b.a.

16:30	Sandra Pous Torres, dsm-firmenich, NL	Metabolomics of Bad Taste: Hunting Plant Off-Notes
16:45	Meng Peng, VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology & Ghent University, BE	Identification of a biosynthetic gene cluster underlying three post-chorismate pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana
17:00	Huong T. Pham, Sookmyung Women's University, KR	Functional metabolomics-based reinvestigation of halogen promiscuity in Griseofulvin biosynthesis pathway
17:15	Kyo Bin Kang, Sookmyung’s Women University, KR	Qualitative Metabolomics Accelerates Function Studies of Natural Products

17:45-18:45 Drinks + poster session

19:00 Walking Dinner

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

Chair: T.b.a.

9:00	Joleen Masschelein, VIB, KU Leuven, BE	Metabolomics-driven exploration of antibiotic biosynthesis in bacteria
9:30	Kimberly De Windt, Ghent University, BE	Design of Experiments-Guided Optimization of Automated Biphasic Fecal Extraction for Simultaneous UHPLC‐HRMS-based Metabolomics and Lipidomics
9:45	Samer Makni, University of Antwerp, BE	Structural Analog Discovery in Untargeted Metabolomics with Custom Nearest-Neighbor Suspect Libraries
10:00	Larissa Della Vedova, Utrecht University & Wageningen University & Research, NL	Metabolic resilience as a network property: lessons from co-regulatory rewiring of untargeted metabolomics data across two urobiome models

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break

Chair: T.b.a.

10:45	Gabi Kastenmuller, Helmholtz Munich, DE	T.B.A.
11:15	Maria Tretowicz, University of Amsterdam, NL	Whole-blood NAD⁺ does not decline across age and lifestyle interventions in humans
11:30	Corey Griffith, Luxembourg Institute of Health, LU	Dissecting metabolic plasticity and vulnerabilities in glioblastoma
11:45	Noa Van de Velde, Ghent University, BE	High-throughput fecal metabolomics using cIMS-coupled LA-REIMS in pediatric overweight and obesity

12:00 to 13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 Postersession 3

S7 - Lipidomics

Chair: Esther Zaal, University Utrecht, NL

14:00	Maria Fedorova, Technical University Dresden, DE	Mapping Lipid Metabolism Across Time and Space Using Mass Spectrometry
14:30	Emilie Daut, VU Amsterdam, NL	Zebrafish lipidome across transgenic lines - a comparison and insights into Endocrine disruption
14:45	Frederic Vaz, Amsterdam UMC, NL	Multidimensional mass spectrometry for metabolomics and lipidomics: Applications in inborn errors of metabolism and research
15:00	Sam De Craemer, VIB Ghent & KU Leuven, BE	Broad GC-based targeted tracer metabolomics using Soft Ionization by Chemical Reaction In Transfer (SICRIT)

15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break

Chair: Ahmed Ali, LACRD, Leiden University, LU

15:45	Marco Giampa, KU Leuven, BE	Revealing Hidden Variables in DESI-based Spatial Metabolomics: Solvent Composition and Tissue Type as Critical Drivers
16:00	Peter Verhaert, KU Leuven, BE	Direct high-resolution mass spectrometry imaging of metabolites in histological sections of FFPE tissue samples aligned with pathology. More than expected!
16:15	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