[all dates and times for sessions at the DGMS conference 2025 are subject to change]
See also: all invited speakers of the conference and plenary and award lectures.
Sessions with Abstracts (for DGMS 2025 participants only)
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Session Overview
- WEDNESDAY – March 05, 2025 – 10:15-11:45
- Aula am Wilhelmsplatz
Session II:
Isotope & Environmental Analysis
- WEDNESDAY – March 05, 2025 – 10:15-11:45
- Hannah-Vogt-Saal
Session III:
Gas Phase Ion Spectroscopy
- WEDNESDAY – March 05, 2025 – 10:15-11:45
- Emmy-Noether-Saal
Session IV:
Computational Mass Spectrometry & Data Science
- WEDNESDAY – March 05, 2025 – 14:00-15:30
- Aula am Wilhelmsplatz
Session V:
Lipids, Carbohydrates and Nucleic Acids
- WEDNESDAY – March 05, 2025 – 14:00-15:30
- Hannah-Vogt-Saal
Session VI:
Polymers & High Resolution Mass Spectrometry
- WEDNESDAY – March 05, 2025 – 14:00-15:30
- Emmy-Noether-Saal
Session VII:
Ionisation Mechanisms
- THURSDAY – March 06, 2025 – 10:15-11:45
- Aula am Wilhelmsplatz
Session VIII:
Clinical Mass Spectrometry
- THURSDAY – March 06, 2025 – 10:15-11:45
- Hannah-Vogt-Saal
Session IX:
Fundamentals & Instrumentation
- THURSDAY – March 06, 2025 – 10:15-11:45
- Emmy-Noether-Saal
Session X:
Gas Phase Ion Reactions
- THURSDAY – March 06, 2025 – 14:00-15:30
- Aula am Wilhelmsplatz
- THURSDAY – March 06, 2025 – 14:00-15:30
- Hannah-Vogt-Saal
- THURSDAY – March 06, 2025 – 14:00-15:30
- Emmy-Noether-Saal
- FRIDAY – March 07, 2025 – 10:15-11:45
- Aula am Wilhelmsplatz
Session XIV:
Structural Biology
- FRIDAY – March 07, 2025 – 10:15-11:45
- Hannah-Vogt-Saal
Session XV:
Applications in Pharmaceutical & Food Industry
- FRIDAY – March 07, 2025 – 10:15-11:45
- Emmy-Noether-Saal
I: Proteomics
WEDNESDAY – March 05, 2025 – 10:15-11:45 (Aula am Wilhelmsplatz)
Session abstracts (DGMS participants only)
Keynote Lecture: 10:15-10:45

Prof. Dr. Bettina Warscheid
Department of Biochemistry II
Biocenter, University of Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany
TITLE: Spatial Subcellular Proteomics: Defining the Peroxisomal Niche.
10:45–11:05 |
David Russo: Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Bioorganic Analytics, Jena, Germany Modernizing cyanobacterial proteomics towards a deeper coverage of the endo- and exoproteome |
11:05–11:25 |
Emilio Cirri: Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Thuringia, Germany Optimized Automated Workflow for BioID Improves Reproducibility and Identification of Protein–Protein Interactions |
11:25–11:45 |
Paula Nissen: University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Section Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Center for Diagnostics, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Layer-wise NIRL Ablation of Human Cornea for Spatial Proteomics Reveals Detailed Insight into Structure and Strong Inter-Patient Variances |
II: Isotope & Environmental Analysis
WEDNESDAY – March 05, 2025 – 10:15-11:45 (Hannah-Vogt-Saal)
Session abstracts (DGMS participants only)
Keynote Lecture: 10:15-10:45

Dr. Anneli Kruve-Viil
Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden
TITLE: Detection and identification of toxic and high-risk chemicals with LC/HMRS and machine learning.
10:45–11:05 |
Annika Schardt: Justus-Liebig University of Giessen, Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Giessen, Germany; University of Siegen, Department of Chemistry and Biology, Siegen, Germany Fast screening method for nanoparticles in surface waters via nanosecond spICP‑MS and a tailored automated ion cloud recognition algorithm |
11:05–11:25 |
Nils Kuhlbusch: University of Münster, Münster, Germany; Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH, Bremen, Germany ESI-Orbitrap-MS as a tool for isotopocule analysis on small molecules |
11:25–11:45 |
Carsten Baessmann: Bruker Daltonics GmbH & Co KG, Bremen, Bremen, Germany Detecting PFAS beyond the Current Regulative Request: a Comprehensive Overview of the Water Contamination in the Netherlands by UPHLC-Ion mobility-HRMS |
III: Gas Phase Ion Spectroscopy
WEDNESDAY – March 05, 2025 – 10:15-11:45 (Emmy-Noether-Saal)
Session abstracts (DGMS participants only)
Keynote Lecture: 10:15-10:45

Prof. Dr. Isabelle Compagnon
Physics Department
University of Lyon
Lyon, France
TITLE: Multiscale and multidimensional schemes for ion spectroscopy, applications to glycomics.
10:45–11:05 |
Jonas Warneke: Universität Leipzig, Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany Chemistry of the fragment anion [B12X11]– (X=halogen, CN): From binding noble gases in mass spectrometers to the controlled functionalization of peptides on surfaces |
11:05–11:25 |
Michael Götze: Freie Universität Berlin, Department BCP, Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Fritz-Haber-Institute Berlin, Molekülphysik, Berlin, Berlin, Germany Advancing Glycomics and Beyond: Cryogenic Multiplexed IR Spectroscopy Coupled to Ion Mobility MS |
11:25–11:45 |
Mathias Schäfer: University Cologne, Chemistry, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Curtius and Wolff Rearrangement Reactions investigated by Tandem-MS, IR Ion Spectroscopy (IRIS) and Theory |
IV: Computational Mass Spectrometry & Data Science
WEDNESDAY – March 05, 2025 – 14:00-15:30 (Aula am Wilhelmsplatz)
Session abstracts (DGMS participants only)
Keynote Lecture: 14:00-14:30

Dr. Christina Ludwig
Center Leader Proteomics
Bavarian Center for Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry
Technical University Munich
Freising, Germany
TITLE: Unraveling proteomic diversity in bacteria: From identification to quantitative insights into bacterial proteomes.
14:30-14:50 |
Jan Schwenzfeier: University of Münster, Institute of Hygiene, Münster, Germany Introducing FISCAS – Making single cell MSI spectra compilation easy |
14:50-15:10 |
Antonia Gocke: University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf KöR, Section of Mass Spectrometric Proteomics, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf KöR, Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany OmixLitMiner 2.0: Guided Literature Mining Tool for Efficient Classification and Validation of Omics Studies |
15:10–15:30 |
John Cormican: Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Quantitative and Systems Biology, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany Towards a complete picture of HLA-I immunopeptidome via sensitive MS identification |
V: Lipids, Carbohydrates and Nucleic Acids
WEDNESDAY – March 05, 2025 – 14:00-15:30 (Hannah-Vogt-Saal)
Session abstracts (DGMS participants only)
Keynote Lecture: 14:00-14:30

Dr. Katharina Gutbrod
Institut für Molekulare Physiologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen (IMBIO)
University of Bonn
Bonn, Germany
TITLE: Toward Comprehensive Lipid Quantification in Plants: Challenges and Solutions.
14:30-14:50 |
Vannuruswamy Garikapati: Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Saxony, Germany Organism-Wide Lipid Flux by 15N Metabolic Labeling and Shotgun Ultra-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry |
14:50-15:10 |
Heiko Hayen: University of Münster, Analytical Chemistry, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Rapid MALDI-MS/MS-based profiling of lipid A species from gram-negative bacteria utilizing trapped ion mobility spectrometry |
15:10–15:30 |
Palina Nepachalovich: Technical University Dresden, Center of Membrane Biochemistry and Lipid Research, University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Saxony, Germany Tracing lipid metabolism using click chemistry and LC-MS |
VI: Polymers & High Resolution Mass Spectrometry
WEDNESDAY – March 05, 2025 – 14:00-15:30 (Emmy-Noether-Saal)
Session abstracts (DGMS participants only)
Keynote Lecture: 14:00-14:30

Dr. Christopher Rüger
Department Life Light & Matter
Institute of Chemistry, Division of Analytical and Technical Chemistry
University of Rostock
Rostock, Germany
TITLE: Advances in high-resolution mass spectrometry of complex mixtures: Addressing bottlenecks in hyphenation, ionization, and data processing.
14:30-14:50 |
Christian Escobar-Carranza: University of Siegen, Biology & Chemistry, Siegen, Germany On the Detection of Microplastics by Flowing Atmospheric-Pressure Afterglow Mass Spectrometry (FAPA-MS) |
14:50-15:10 |
Henrik Krolle: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Division of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Amsterdam, Netherlands; MS Vision, Research and Development, Almere, Netherlands Benchmarking Novel and Established Native Mass Spectrometry Methods for High-Mass Applications |
15:10–15:30 |
Laurin Grabler: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Massenspekrtrometrie, Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Aging Effects of Synthetic E-Fuels used as a Replacement for Fossil Heating Fuels |
VII: Ionisation Mechanisms
THURSDAY – March 06, 2025 – 10:15-11:45 (Aula am Wilhelmsplatz)
Session abstracts (DGMS participants only)
Keynote Lecture: 10:15-10:45

Prof. Rainer Cramer
Department of Chemistry
University of Reading
Reading, UK
TITLE: Liquid Atmospheric Pressure (LAP) MALDI Mass Spectrometry and its Applications.
10:45–11:05 |
Laura Tenhumberg: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Department of Mass Spectrometry, Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Is Less Really More? Exploring the Impact of Ultralow Flow Rates on APPI Performance |
11:05–11:25 |
Nina Morgner: Goethe-University Frankfurt, Institute for physical and theoretical chemistry, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany Quantifying Binding affinities of homo dimers with qLILBID-MS |
11:25–11:45 |
Julius Wollmann: Justus-Liebig-University, Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Giessen, Hesse, Germany TransMIT AP-SMALDI5 AF mass spectrometry imaging with SICRIT post-ionization |
VIII: Clinical Mass Spectrometry
THURSDAY – March 06, 2025 – 10:15-11:45 (Hannah-Vogt-Saal)
Session abstracts (DGMS participants only)
Keynote Lecture: 10:15-10:45

Prof. Dr. Renee Ruhaak
Department of Clinical Chemistry
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
TITLE: Personalized medicine for improved patient care: Mass Spectrometry-based precision diagnostics for coagulation and bleeding disorders.
10:45–11:05 |
Boris Zühlke: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute of Biochemistry, Berlin, Berlin, Germany Multidimensional Separation of intact Protein Isoforms in Human Plasma |
11:05–11:25 |
Thomas Mair: University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Section of Mass Spectrometric Proteomics, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Identification of Diagnostic Biomarkers Using Proteomic Analysis in Thoracic Aortic Diseases |
11:25–11:45 |
Besnik Muqaku: German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Ulm, Germany Peptidomic analysis of cerebrospinal fluid samples reveals new biomarker candidates for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
IX: Fundamentals & Instrumentation
THURSDAY – March 06, 2025 – 10:15-11:45 (Emmy-Noether-Saal)
Session abstracts (DGMS participants only)
Keynote Lecture: 10:15-10:45

Prof. Dr. Charlotte Uetrecht
Institute of Chemistry and Metabolomics
University Lübeck
Lübeck, Germany
TITLE: Native mass spectrometry meets X-rays.
10:45–11:05 |
Hamish Stewart: Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen), Bremen, Bremen, Germany New Concept Multi-Reflection Analyzer with a Long Focus Lens |
11:05–11:25 |
Jens Riedel: BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Analytical Chemistry and Reference Materials, Berlin, Germany Acoustic Ion Manipulation: Electric-field-free Approach to Gate, Focus, and Separate Ions at Atmospheric Pressure |
11:25–11:45 |
Christian Klein: Agilent Deutschland GmbH, Waldbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany The combination of ion mobility and electron capture mass spectrometry as a new tool for native mass spectrometry |
X: Gas Phase Ion Reactions
THURSDAY – March 06, 2025 – 14:00-15:30 (Aula am Wilhelmsplatz)
Session abstracts (DGMS participants only)
Keynote Lecture: 14:00-14:30

Prof. Dr. Jennifer Meyer
Chemistry Department
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (RPTU) Kaiserslautern-Landau
Kaiserslautern, Germany
TITLE: Gas phase investigations on the redox-active [M(dgpy)2]n+ complex – On the way towards characterizing excited state reactivity.
DPG Lecture: 14:30-15:00

Prof. Lutz Schweikhard
Institute for Physics, Atomic & Molecular Physics Group
University of Greifswald
Greifswald, Germany
TITLE: How to study molecular ions and atomic clusters by multi-reflection time-of-flight MS.
15:00-15:20 |
Marianne Engeser: Universität Bonn, Kekulé-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Bonn, Germany Metallo-supramolecular tetrahedra in the gas phase |
15:20–15:40 |
Alexander Haack: Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Electrical Engineering and Measurement Technology, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany Fragmentation Mechanism of Protonated Primary Alcohols in Ion Mobility – Mass Spectrometry (IM-MS) |
XI: Imaging
THURSDAY – March 06, 2025 – 14:00-15:30 (Hannah-Vogt-Saal)
Session abstracts (DGMS participants only)
Keynote Lecture: 14:00-14:30

Jens Soltwisch
Institute of Hygiene
University of Münster
Münster, germany
TITLE: Transmission-mode MALDI-2-MSI and In-Source Fluorescence Microscopy for Mass Spectrometric Analysis at Cellular and Sub-Cellular Resolving Power.
14:30-14:50 |
Melanie Föll: University Medical Center Freiburg, Institute for Surgical Pathology, Freiburg, Germany; German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany Spatial proteomics by Parallel Accumulation-Serial Fragmentation Supported MALDI MS/MS imaging: A first glance into multiplexed and spatial peptide identification |
14:50-15:10 |
Katja R. Wiedemann: Justus Liebig University, Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Gießen, Hesse, Germany Mini but mighty – small pixels reveal big impacts of tiny parasites on metabolism of their hosts |
15:10–15:30 |
Chengyi Xie: Hong Kong Baptist University, State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; Hong Kong Baptist University, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Ten-Fold Expansion MALDI Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Tissues and Cells at 500 nm Resolution |
XII: Natural Products
THURSDAY – March 06, 2025 – 14:00-15:30 (Emmy-Noether-Saal)
Session abstracts (DGMS participants only)
Keynote Lecture: 14:00-14:30

Prof. Christian Janfelt
Department of Pharmacy
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
TITLE: Spatial Metabolomics: Unraveling Plant Natural Product Chemistry through Mass Spectrometry Imaging.
14:30-14:50 |
Jan-Philipp Knepper: University of Münster, Institute of Hygiene, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany MALDI-MS Imaging for Spatiotemporal Visualization of Bacillus subtilis Cannibalism Toxins and Lipopeptides in Developing Biofilms |
14:50-15:10 |
Jan Zuber: TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany Advanced Characterization of Lignins from Diverse Plant Sources and Isolation Processes Using FT-ICR-MS |
15:10–15:30 |
Muhaiminatul Azizah: Friedrich Schiller Univeristy Jena, Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Jena, Thuringia, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Max Planck Fellow Group Interaction in Plankton Communities, Jena, Germany High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry for the Discovery of Novel Chemical Mediators Responsible for Stress Adaptation in Marine Plankton |
XIII: Metabolomics
FRIDAY – March 07, 2025 – 10:15-11:45 (Aula am Wilhelmsplatz)
Session abstracts (DGMS participants only)
Keynote Lecture: 10:15-10:45

Prof. Dr. Kathrin Thedieck
Metabolic Signalling
University Medicine Essen
Essen, Germany
TITLE: tba
10:45–11:05 |
Fabian Schmitt: University Medical Center Mainz, Institute of Immunology, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany High-Throughput Metabolomics Profiling of Plasma with Flow Injection Mass Spectrometry |
11:05–11:25 |
Min Qiu: Technical Univeristy of Munich, Munich, Germany Metabolic microarchitecture: Localised biotransformation in wastewater biofilms by Mass Spectrometry Imaging |
11:25–11:45 |
Marcel Kwiatkowski: University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria Proteo-Metabo-Flux: An analytical systems cross-omics approach to link metabolism and signalling. |
XIV: Structural Biology
FRIDAY – March 07, 2025 – 10:15-11:45 (Hannah-Vogt-Saal)
Session abstracts (DGMS participants only)
Keynote Lecture: 10:15-10:45

Prof. Dr. Carla Schmidt
Department of Chemistry – Biochemistry
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Mainz, Germany
TITLE: Structural Mass Spectrometry to Study Protein Complexes in Synaptic Vesicles and the Neuronal Synapse.
10:45–11:05 |
Ilka Wittig: Goethe University, Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany; Goethe University, Center for Functional Proteomics, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany Mass Spectrometry-Based Complexome Profiling: Insights into the Maintenance and Assembly of Mitochondrial Complexes |
11:05–11:25 |
Asat Baischew: Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Institute of Pharmacy, Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Center for Structural Mass Spectrometry, Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Unveiling the Role of the Intrinsically Disordered N-Terminus of the Neuropeptide Y2 Receptor by Cross-Linking Mass Spectrometry |
11:25–11:45 |
Federico Uliana: University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany Structural proteomics approaches to quantify protein structural re-organization within biomolecular condensates |
XV: Applications in Pharmaceutical & Food Industry
FRIDAY – March 07, 2025 – 10:15-11:45 (Emmy-Noether-Saal)
Session abstracts (DGMS participants only)
Keynote Lecture: 10:15-10:45

Dr. Karin Kleigrewe
Bayerisches Zentrum für Biomolekulare Massenspektrometrie (BayBioMS)
Technical University of Munich
Munich, Germany
TITLE: tba
10:45–11:05 |
Andreas Römpp: University of Bayreuth, Bioanalytical Sciences and Food Analysis, Bayreuth, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Thematic Translational Unit Tuberculosis, Braunschweig, Germany MS imaging in drug development: The clinical-stage antibiotic BTZ‑043 accumulates and efficiently acts againstMycobacterium tuberculosisinmurinetuberculosis lesions |
11:05–11:25 |
Michael Glocker: University of Rostock, Proteome Center Rostock, Rostock, Germany Mass Spectrometric ITEM-FOUR Analysis Deciphers Distinct Binding Motifs of Camelid Single-Domain Antibodies – Towards High-Precision Malaria Diagnostics |
11:25–11:45 |
Daniel Heffernan: Technical University of Munich, Department of Chemistry, Garching, Bavaria, Germany Intermittent Headspace Sampling and Profiling of Volatile Organic Compounds via Dielectric Barrier Discharge Ionization: Application to Aroma Differentiation in Wine. |
See also: all invited speakers of the conference and plenary and award lectures.