Thursday, January 29
5:00 - 7:00 pm, Registration open
5:00 - 7:00 pm, Poster Setup
7:00 - 7:10 pm, Opening Remarks
7:10 - 8:00 pm, Keynote Lecture, Eric Skaar (Vanderbilt University), "Molecular Heterogeneity at the Host-Pathogen Interface"
8:00 - 8:10pm, Keynote Q&A
8:10 - 9:15 pm, Reception, drinks & light snacks
Friday, January 30
8:30 - 10:05 am, Clinically Important Microbes - Detection & Characterization
- Ian Lewis, (University of Calgary), "Harnessing Mass Spectrometry as a Platform for Rapid Identification and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing"
- 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), "FLAT - A Technology Platform for Enhanced Diagnostics and Structural Insights of Specialized Bacterial Lipids"
10:15- 10:35 am, Coffee Break
10:35 am - 12:05 pm, Clinically Important Microbes - Detection & Characterization
- Neha Garg (Georgia Institute of Technology), "Metabolomics to Decode Drug-Microbe, Microbe-Microbe and Microbe-Host Interactions in the Genus Burkholderia"
- Short Talks from submitted abstracts
12:10 - 1:15 pm, Lunch (provided by ASMS) and Group Photo
1:15 - 3:00 pm, 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"
3:00 - 3:20 pm, Coffee Break
3:20 - 4:55 pm, Microbial Systems: Interactions (Food, Microbiome, & More)
- Peter Turnbaugh, (UC, San Francisco), "Diet-Microbiome Interactions during Cancer Chemotherapy"
- Short Talks from submitted abstracts
4:55 - 7:00pm - Dinner, on your own
7:00 - 9:00 pm, Poster Session I
Saturday, January 31
8:30 - 10:15 am, Microbial Systems: Fungal, Plant & Environmental
- Mingxun Wang, (UC-Riverside), "Metabolomics at Repository Scales – New Languages and Computational tools for Scalable Compound Annotation"
- Jennifer Geddes-McAlister, (University of Guelph), Defining Spatial and Temporal Proteome Signatures of Fungal Infection Dynamics to Reveal Putative Druggable Targets"
- Marcy Balunas, (University of Michigan), "Metabolomics Outcomes as a Function of Biological Complexity from Microbiome Samples"
10:15 - 10:35 am, Coffee Break
10:35 am - 12:10 pm, Microbial Systems: Fungal, Plant & Environmental
- Christopher Anderton, (PNNL), "Advancement of Molecular Cartography Tools for Mapping Environmental Microbiomes…and the Future of Microbial Molecular Phenotyping"
- Short Talks from submitted abstracts
12:10 - 7:00 pm, Free Time
7:00 - 9:00 pm, Poster Session II (bar, light snacks)
Sunday, February 1
8:30 - 10:15 am, Meeting Challenges & Emerging Trends in Microbial MS
- Erin Carlson
- Kai Zhang, (Texas Tech University), "Using Lipidomics to Study Leishmania-Host Interaction"
- Allegra Aron, (University of Denver)
10:15 - 10:45 am, Coffee Break
10:35 am - 12:10 pm, Meeting Challenges & Emerging Trends in Microbial MS
- Sizun Jiang (Harvard University)
- Short Talks from submitted abstracts
12:10 - 1:10 pm, Lunch, on your own
1:10 - 2:00 pm, Closing Keynote Lecture, John Belisle (Colorado State University)
2:00 - 2:20pm, Closing remarks and Bon Voyage
Optional Departures Depending upon Flights.
Monday, February 2
Departures at Leisure