19th Montreal Post-ASMS Symposium
Free-to-Attend Mass Spectrometry Users' Meeting
October 20, 2026 (Tuesday), from 3:00pm to 9:30pm
DoubleTree by Hilton Pointe Claire
Program Agenda
03:00 pm -
04:00 pm:
Registration & Welcome Refreshment Dinner Coffee and Tea and Cookies and Fruits
Parallel Session Before Dinner

Session 1A Chaired by Prof. Jeff Smith
(Champagne Ballroom C)
Session 1B Chaired by Prof. Christoph Borchers
(Champagne Ballroom B)
04:00 pm -
04:20 pm:
Prof. Ian Lewis, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
"LC-MS platform for metabolic epidemiology: Opening the door to large cohort studies via harmonized sample preparation, sample processing, data analysis"
Prof. René Zahedi, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
"In <40 minutes from sample to result: PRM-based absolute quantitation after rapid thermolysin digestion, exemplified by rituximab in human plasma"
04:20 pm -
04:40 pm:
Prof. Derek Wilson, York University, Toronto, ON
"Study confirms: Mass Spectrometry is now infinitely better than NMR (for Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange, but probably other things too)"
Prof. Maxim Berezovski, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
"Proteomics and Metabolomics of Extracellular Vesicles"
04:40 pm -
05:00 pm:
Prof. Amy Rand, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
"Targeted and non-targeted analysis of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) leached from fluorinated high density polyethylene plastic"
Prof. Pierre Thibault, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC
"Time-resolved mass spectrometry reveals SUMO-regulated intronic HLA-I antigens in acute myeloid leukemia"
05:00 pm -
05:20 pm:
Prof. Lekha Sleno, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, QC
"Nanoparticle enrichment and isotope-enabled quantitation of plasma proteins applied to liver disease by LC-HRMS/MS"
Prof. Jean-François Trempe, McGill University, Montreal, QC
"Integrated proteomics and metabolomics reveal a novel regulatory mechanism of the mitochondrial processing peptidase"
05:20 pm -
06:20 pm:
Networking Buffet DinnerDinner Good Food & Good Science!
Parallel Session After Dinner

Session 2A Chaired by Dr. Alexandra Furtos
(Champagne Ballroom C)
Session 2B Chaired by Prof. Lekha Sleno
(Champagne Ballroom B)
06:20 pm -
06:40 pm:
Prof. David Goodlett, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.
"Library-Assisted Mass Defect Analysis (LAMDA): A Universal Method for Structure Analysis"
Prof. Leonard Foster, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
"Measurement and interpretation of multi-omic single-cell data"
06:40 pm -
07:00 pm:
Prof. Jeff Smith, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
"Advancing Biotherapeutic Lipidomics with Innovative Sample Preparation and Data Analysis"
Prof. Nicolas Bisson, Laval University, Quebec City, QC
"Proteomic analysis of tyrosine kinase receptors (RTKs) signalling networks: new regulation mechanisms"
07:00 pm -
07:20 pm:
Prof. Yaxi Hu, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
"Spectral Stitching Improves the Performance of Flow Injection-Nano-ESI-Mass Spectrometry for Food Authentication: An Example of Pomegranate Juice"
Prof. David Schriemer, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
"Optoproteomics: a new strategy for high resolution spatial analysis of cells and tissue"
07:20 pm -
07:40 pm:
Prof. Liang Li, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
"From Analytical Fundamentals to LC-MS Method Development for Deep Metabolomics"
Prof. John Klassen, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
"Sugar Matters: How Protein Glycosylation Shapes Ligand Binding"
07:40 pm -
08:10 pm:
Networking Dessert Break Desserts Time for something sweet...
Plenary Session Finale

Session 3 Chaired by Prof. Dajana Vuckovic
(Champagne Ballroom C)
08:10 pm -
08:30 pm:
Prof. Mathieu Lavallée-Adam, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
"A novel supervised learning approach for the real-time optimization of mass"
08:30 pm -
08:50 pm:
Prof. Karen Waldron, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC
"Digestion of dried proteins by glutaraldehyde-crosslinked trypsin particles"
08:50 pm -
09:10 pm:
Dr. Mingluan Chen, Altasciences, Laval, QC
"Bioanalysis of siRNA-Based Therapeutics by Hybridization LC-MS/MS: Practical Challenges and Solutions"
09:10 pm -
09:30 pm:
Prof. Christoph Borchers, McGill University, Montreal, QC
"SysQuan: tissue-specific absolute quantitation of the mouse and human proteome, most comprehensive and affordable"
 
09:30 pm:
Raffle TimeGiftCard3 Winners will be Drawn - Each Winner will Receive a VISA Gift Card of $100
Please make sure you drop your name card in the bowl at the registration desk.