ASMS 2026: Bruker Plenary and Breakout Sessions
Meet Bruker at ASMS 2026 in San Diego and discover how we’re advancing mass spectrometry to help scientists see more, know more, and decide with confidence. Explore what’s new across our portfolio for proteomics, metabolomics, pharma, imaging, and applied markets.
Connect with us at the conference booth, in our hospitality suite, at breakfast workshops, and during the Bruker eXceed Symposium, and see Bruker‑enabled research across poster sessions. Details and registration for workshops and the eXceed Symposium are below.
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eXceed Symposium & Breakout Sessions
Join the Bruker eXceed Symposium for an inspiring deep dive into cutting‑edge research and innovation. This event brings together leading voices to share new methods, emerging applications, and the ideas shaping the future of mass spectrometry.
Expect a mix of scientific rigor and creative thinking - designed to spark fresh perspectives and open new possibilities for your work.
Breakout Sessions:
- Functional Proteomics 2.0 - from Peptides to Proteoforms
- Big Technologies for Small Molecules
- Spatial MultiOmics
eXceed Plenary Session
- Sunday, May 31, 2026
- 8:30 am - 10:10 am
- After the plenary session, the meeting will break into three parallel sessions.
- Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, USA
- Coronado Ballroom
TIMS-MRMS at the National High-Field Ion Cyclotron Resonance User Facility: a Clairvoyant Twist on Ultrahigh Resolution Biological Analysis
- Kristina (Kiki) Hakansson, Director, Ion Cyclotron Resonance Program and Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Advanced Top-Down Analysis of Next-Generation Antibodies with timsOmni™
- Julia Chamot-Rooke, Ph.D., CNRS Senior Scientist & Head of the MSBio Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
This is just the beginning! Additional exciting talks and speakers are currently being confirmed. Please check back soon as we continue to expand the eXceed Symposium program.
Breakout Session: Functional Proteomics 2.0 - from Peptides to Proteoforms
- Sunday, May 31, 2026
- 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, USA
Unlock functional insight across scales: from single‑cell spatial visual proteomics in FFPE tissue to high‑sensitivity XL‑MS on timsUltra AIP, plus robust DDA/diaPASEF® workflows for PTMs and immunopeptidomics. Practical routes to confident biological insights.
Single-Cell Spatial Visual Proteomics in FFPE Tissue
- Tian Ruijun, Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
Establishes timsUltra AIP as a High-Sensitivity Platform for Cross-Linking Mass Spectrometry
- Fan Liu, Principle Investigator, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie & Professor, Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Enabling DDA and diaPASEF® Workflows for PTMs and Immunopeptidomics
- Alexey Nesvizhskii, Godfrey Dorr Stobbe Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Breakout Session: Big Technologies for Small Molecules
- Sunday, May 31, 2026
- 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, USA
Explore how next‑generation platforms accelerate small‑molecule discovery, led by timsMetabo™ for confident, high‑speed metabolite and lipid analysis, alongside timsMRMS for complex organic matter, ecTOF‑enabled annotation, AI‑driven natural products discovery, and chromatography‑free DART‑MS for clinical research.
Reading a Book on Metabolomics with 93% of The Words Missing
- Pieter Dorrestein, Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Departments of Pharmacology and Pediatrics, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
timsMRMS for Complex Organic Matter Analysis
- Pierre Giusti, Analytical Chemistry Specialist, TotalEnergies, Le Havre, France
Carlos Afonso, Professor, University of Rouen, Rouen, France
Using the ecTOF Instrument for Compound Annotation by Predicting Formulas, Mass Spectra and Retention Indices
- Oliver Fiehn, Full Professor, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Unlocking Nature's Chemistry in the Age of AI
- Pelle Simpson, Principal Scientist, Enveda, Boulder, CO, USA
Chromatography-Free DART-MS in the Clinical Research Laboratory
- Kara Lynch, Professor, Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Breakout Session: Spatial Multiomics
- Sunday, May 31, 2026
- 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, USA
Rapid bacterial metabolite screening, single-cell immune phenotyping, aging bone pathology, neurodegeneration: four talks showing how spatial MALDI multiomics reveals biology your bulk methods average away.
Molecular Pathology of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease Through the Lens of MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry
- Blaine Roberts, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Need for Speed: Screening Bacterial Production of Small Molecules
- Laura Sanchez, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Spatial Imaging to investigate human knee osteoarthritis and bone fractures and corresponding synovial fluid biomarkers
- Birgit Schilling, Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA, USA
Single-Cell Multiomics Mass Spec Imaging of Clinical Immune Cells: A Single-Shot Approach with SoloCell
- Lyndsay Young, Postdoctoral Scholar, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
