LIPID MAPS

LIPID MAPS® Training School

Monday 12th - Friday 16th October 2026

Programme

Explore the full programme for the upcoming LIPID MAPS Training School, including session schedules, speaker details, and talk titles. All times listed below are in BST (British Summer Time).
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Timetable

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Day 1

Time

Speakers

Title

12:00 - 12:15

Daily Introduction

12:15 - 13:15

Stephen Blanksby

The development and application of ozone-induced dissociation and other alternative ion activation methods for characterization of double bond positions in lipid acyl chains and sn-1/sn-2 isomers

13:15 - 14:15

Yu Xia

Structural characterization of lipids: pinpointing C=C locations and beyond

14:15 - 14:35

BREAK

14:35 - 15:25

Evelyn Rampler

Beyond Lipid Species Level: Achieving Structural Resolution with High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry

15:25 - 15:45

Emily Armitage

Application of Oxygen Attachment Dissociation to the Structural Characterisation of Lipids

15:45 - 16:00

BREAK

16:00 - 16:20

Amy Druschitz

Lipid Standards as the Foundation for Confident Quantitation in Lipidomics

16:20 - 17:10

Jürgen Hartler

From routine RPLC-MS/MS data to ω-resolved lipid annotation using LC=CL

17:10 - 18:00

Sven Heiles

TBC

Day 2

Time

Speakers

Title

12:00 - 12:10

Daily Introduction

12:10 - 13:00

Shane Ellis

Development of novel analytical workflows and the application of mass spectrometry imaging in lipidomics research

13:00 - 13:50

Haibo Jiang

Visualization of lipids at the subcellular resolution with NanoSIMS imaging.

13:50 - 14:25

Jakub Idkowiak

Standard-Based Workflows for Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Lipids: The LipidQMap Platform

14:25 - 14:40

BREAK

14:40 - 15:30

Jens Soltwisch

Towards single cell lipid analysis using MALDI-MS imaging – considerations for hardware, software, and sample preparation

15:30 - 16:20

Ingela Lanekoff

The development and application of nanoDESI for spatial lipidomics

16:20 - 16:25

BREAK

16:25 - 18:00

Flash Presentations

Day 3

Time

Speakers

Title

12:00 - 12:15

Daily Introduction

12:15 - 13:45

Flash Presentations

13:45 - 14:05

BREAK

14:05 - 14:45

Palina Nepachalovich

The application of click chemistry in LC-MS lipidomics to study lipid metabolism

14:45 - 15:25

Kasparas Petkevicius

Structural analysis of BMP, and it's biosynthesis and metabolism

15:25 - 15:45

Stefano Bonciarelli

Unifying Chemical Biology and Lipidomics: A Universal Platform for Mono- and Bifunctional Lipid Tracing in Lipostar2

15:45 - 15:25

Kasparas Petkevicius

Using stable-isotope tracing to investigate bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate biosynthesis

15:45 - 16:00

BREAK

16:00 - 17:00

Carsten Schultz

The development of chemical tools to study lipid cell biology including “caged” lipids and click chemistry applications

17:00 - 18:00

Christian Metallo

The development and application of stable isotope-based tracing of lipid metabolism

Day 4

Time

Speakers

Title

12:00 - 12:15

Daily Introduction

12:15 - 13:15

Anne Bendt

When Good LC-MS Is Not Enough: Lessons from Moving a Research Assay Toward Clinical Diagnostics

13:15 - 13:55

Federico Torta

Ceramides as cardiometabolic disease markers and clinical translation of ceramide mass spectrometry-based testing

13:55 - 14:10

BREAK

14:10 - 14:30

Christian Klose

Genetic windows into the plasma lipidome: from presymptomatic signatures to causal disease targets

14:30 - 15:10

Aswin Verhoeven

Beyond “Good” and “Bad” Cholesterol: What NMR Reveals About Plasma Lipoproteins

15:10 - 15:30

Miguel Gijón

Quantitation in lipidomics using LC-MS

15:30 - 15:45

BREAK

15:45 - 16:25

Randall Julian

Analysis of lipids/small molecules in a clinical setting

16:25 - 17:25

Judith Simcox

The application of lipidomics human population studies to predict lipid biomarkers and how these vary in different populations

17:25 - 17:45

Natasa Giallourou

Complex lipids in health, disease and therapeutic development

Day 5

Time

Speakers

Title

12:00 - 12:15

Daily Introduction

12:15 - 12:55

Zhixu Ni

PartialDB database: community-driven resource to support annotation of novel and partially characterized lipids

12:55 - 13:35

Nathalie Poupin

The challenge of functional lipidomics interpretation: can metabolic networks bridge the gap?

13:35 - 13:50

BREAK

13:50 - 14:50

Martin Giera

The Neurolipid Atlas: a lipidomics data commons for neurodegeneration

14:50 - 15:50

Matthew Conroy & Chetin Baloglu

LIPID MAPS databases and tools

15:50 - 16:05

BREAK

16:05 - 16:45

Eoin Fahy

Metabolomics Workbench and the National Metabolomics Data Repository

16:45 - 18:00

Pieter Dorrestein & Helena Russo

Billions of Spectra Reveal Drug Hijacking of Lipid and Bile Acid Metabolism

17:45 - 18:00

Summary & Close