ASMS 2026: Bruker Breakfast Workshops
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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Breakfast Workshops: Practical Insights to Start Your Day
Kick off your mornings with engaging sessions that combine real‑world workflows with forward‑looking ideas. Our Breakfast Workshops offer a deep-dive into multiomics, imaging, contaminant analysis, MRMS and more, focusing on actionable takeaways, method strategies, application trends, and approaches that can strengthen performance, robustness, and throughput.
Monday Breakfast Workshops, June 1, 2026
1. From Spatial Biology to Immunopeptidomics - Functional Insights with timsTOF and timsOmni™
- 7:00 am - 8:10 am
- San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, USA
- Room 31 ABC
Get a first look at new timsOmni™ capabilities and discover real‑world workflows: from ultra‑sensitive antigen discovery to single‑cell multiomics in the aging brain, designed to increase depth, confidence, and throughput in proteomics.
Evolving Hardware Architecture and Functionality of the timsOmni™ MS Platform
- Dimitris Papanastasiou, R&D Director, Fasmatech, Athens, Greece
Multiomics Integration to Define the Molecular Architecture of the Aging Brain at the Single Cell Level
- Brian R. Hoffmann, Ph.D., Director of Protein Sciences and Mass Spectrometry Services, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA
Ultra-Sensitive Mass spectrometry for Antigen Discovery
- Susan Klaeger, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Genentech, San Francisco, CA, USA
2. Translational Spatial Omics: From Tissue to Decision
- 7:00 am - 8:10 am
- San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, USA
- Room 32 AB
Pulmonary fibrosis, clinical sample optimization, translational neuroimaging: integrated MSI, LCM-proteomics, and clinical research sample strategies that move spatial multiomics from discovery tool to translational research platform.
Introduction
- Mike Easterling, Ph.D., Vice President Imaging, Bruker
Integrated Spatial Multiomics Imaging and LCM‑Proteomics Uncover Inflammatory and Fibrotic Niches in Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Esther Cheow, Ph.D., Associate Principal Scientist, MSD, Singapore
Less is More: Maximizing Data Coverage from Clinical Samples
- Erin Seeley, PH.D., Director, Mass Spectrometry Imaging Core Facility, Research Group Leader, Department of Core Facilities Management
Translational Mass Spectrometry Imaging: Mapping Molecules, Decoding Neurodegeneration
- Per Andrén, Ph.D., Professor of Mass Spectrometry Imaging, Uppsala, Sweden
3. Addressing the Challenges of Drug of Abuse and Novel Psychoactive Substances From Identification to High Throughput Analysis
- 7:00 am - 8:10 am
- San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, USA
- Room 30 E
Build faster, more reliable DoA/NPS workflows: covering chromatography‑free DART‑TQ‑MS for unknowns and strategies to keep MS screening ahead of emerging compounds.
Introduction
- Artem Filipenko, Ph.D., Director of Applied Markets, Bruker
DART-TQ-MS Applications in Forensic Chemistry: Unknown Identification and Rapid Screening of NPS and related Drugs of Abuse
- Nicholas Khorozov, Forensic Toxicologist/Chemist, Horsham, PA, USA
The Age of the Cat and Mouse Game - Keeping MS-Screening Approaches up to Date
- Jürgen Kempf, Deputy Head of the Forensic Toxicology Laboratory, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Tuesday Breakfast Workshops, June 2, 2026
1. Advancing Structural Analysis with the Omnitrap Technology
- 7:00 am - 8:10 am
- San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, USA
- Room 32 AB
Explore innovative applications of trapped EXD MSn on timsOmni™ for deeper sequence and structural insights into protein complexes, antibodies and RNA.
Introduction
- Michael Greig, Executive Director of Global MRMS Market, Bruker
Optimizing Native Electron Detachment Dissociation on the timsOmni™ Platform to Reveal Structural Footprints along RNA Sequences
- Rim Chiba, Ph.D. Student, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Advanced Characterization of Antibodies Using Top-Down Mass Spectrometry on the timsOmni™ Platform
- Iuliia Stroganova, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
2. timsMRMS - The Next Generation in MRMS Technology
- 7:00 am - 8:10 am
- San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, USA
- Room 30 E
Join us to explore how the new timsMRMS is advancing complex mixture analysis. Discover groundbreaking applications in tissue imaging, environmental studies, and lipidomics and hear directly from scientists about their new user experiences.
Introduction
Paul Speir, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations, Bruker
Tissue Imaging on the timsMRMS
- Madeline E. Colley, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
Trapped Ion Mobility Spectrometry Enables Electron-Activated FT-ICR Tandem Mass Spectrometry of Lipid Isobars in Complex Matrices
- Stephen DeFiglia, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Research Associate
Ion Mobility Constrained Non-Targeted Screening of PFAS in Complex Matrices Using gTIMS Coupled to 18 T FTICR Mass Spectrometry
- Carlos Afonso, Professor, University of Rouen, Rouen, France
Wednesday Breakfast Workshops, June 3, 2026
1. 4D Metabolomics & 4D Lipidomics: Confident Discovery at Speed, Depth and Scale
- 7:00 am - 8:10 am
- San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, USA
- Room 32 AB
Boost identification confidence and speed with timsMetabo™, isotope‑based filtering and MassQL, plus hands‑on tactics for robust, reproducible 4D‑Lipidomics™.
Introduction
- Erica Forsberg, Ph.D., Vice President Metabolomics, Bruker
Matthew Lewis, Ph.D., Vice President Metabolomics & Lipidomics, Bruker
Metabolite Annotation Using Multiple Dimensions on the timsMetabo™
- Michael Witting, Deputy Head Metabolomics and Proteomics Core & Executive Manager Metabolomics, Helmholtz Munich, Munich, Germany
From Chaos to Clarity: Isotope Filtering and MassQL in Xenobiotic Metabolism
- Chris Brown, Senior Research Scientist, Corteva Agrisciences, USA
4D-Lipidomics™ in Action: Robust Extractions, Normalization Tricks, and Compelling Case Studies
- Kari Basso, Ph.D., Director of Mass Spectrometry Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
2. Advanced Mass Spectrometry Strategies for Contaminants, POPs & PFAS
- 7:00 am - 8:10 am
- San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, USA
- Room 30 E
Explore end‑to‑end solutions for environmental analysis - from sensitive PFAS and POPs quantitation to rapid real‑time screening - covering contaminants from trace to toxic levels.
Introduction
- Jeffrey Zonderman, Senior Vice President, Bruker
LC-HESI/GC-APCI-TIMS HRMS with timsMetabo™ for Sensitive Analysis of Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants such as PFAS and Dioxins in Food
- Gauthier Eppe, Full Professor, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Real-time PFAS Screening, Regulatory PFAS testing, or Two-in-One?
- Artem Filipenko, Ph.D., Director of Applied Markets, Bruker
