Scientific Programme

Plenary Speakers

• Adriano Aguzzi (University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
• Jack L. Beauchamp (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States)
• A. Welford Castleman, Jr. (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States)
• Paul J. Crutzen (MPI for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1995)
• Donald F. Hunt (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States)
• Walter Thiel (MPI for Coal Research, Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany)

Tutorial Speakers

• Neil L. Kelleher (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States)
• Helmut Schwarz (Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

Oral Sessions and Keynote Speakers

Activation and Dissociation

Roman A. Zubarev (Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)

Bioinformatics

Bernhard Spengler (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany)

Biomarkers

Gary Siuzdak (Scripps Center for Mass Spectrometry, La Jolla, United States)

Biomolecular Assemblies

Daniel Fabris (University of Maryland, Baltimore, United States)

Drug Discovery and Development

Michael J. Greig (Pfizer, San Diego, United States)

Environmental and Food Analysis

Albert T. Lebedev (Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation)

Forensics and Security Aspects

Catherine C. Fenselau (University of Maryland, College Park, United States)

FT-ICR Instrumentation and Methods

Alan G. Marshall (NHMFL Florida State University, Tallahassee, United States)

Fundamentals: Theory and Experiment

Einar Uggerud (University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway)

Gas Phase Ion Chemistry

Veronica M. Bierbaum (University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States)

Glycomics and Oligosaccharides

Catherine E. Costello (Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, United States)

High Throughput Analysis: From Discovery to Clinical Applications

Yoshinao Wada (Osaka Medical Center, Osaka, Japan)

Hydrocarbons

Ryan P. Rodgers (NHMFL Florida State University, Tallahassee, United States)

Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

Johanna S. Becker (Research Centre Juelich, Juelich, Germany)

Instrumentation and Methodologies for Imaging MS

Ron M.A. Heeren (FOM-AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry

Michael T. Bowers (University of California, Santa Barbara, United States)

Ion Traps and Quadrupoles

Graham R. Cooks (Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States)

Lipidomics

Andrej Shevchenko (MPI for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)

Metabolomics/Metabonomics

William J. Griffiths (University of London, London, United Kingdom)

MS Contribution to Immunology

Michael Przybylski (University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany)

Nanotechnology

Frantisek Foret (Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Brno, Czech Republic)

Peptide Fragmentation

Vicki H. Wysocki (University of Arizona, Tucson, United States)

Peptidomics and Proteomics

David R. Goodlett (University of Washington, Seattle, United States)

Polymer Characterization

Maurizio S. Montaudo (Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Polymers, Catania, Italy)

Protein Conformation and Structure Biology

Carol Robinson (Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Protein Modifications

Ole N. Jensen (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)

Reaction Mechanisms

Marcos. N. Eberlin (State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Reactive Intermediates and Neutral Energetics

Frantisek Turecek (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)

Soft Ionization MS: Fundamentals and Quantification

Michael Karas (J.W.Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany)

Supramolecular Complexes

Alain van Dorsselaer (University Louis Pasteur, Strassbourg, France)

TOF Analyzers

Renato Zenobi (ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)

Trace Gas Analysis

Patrik Spanel (J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague, Czech Republic)