24th Toronto Post-ASMS Symposium
Free-to-Attend Mass Spectrometry Users' Meeting
October 19, 2026 (Monday), from 3:00pm to 9:30pm
Four Points by Sheraton Toronto Airport
Program Agenda
03:00 pm -
04:00 pm:
Registration & Welcome Refreshment Dinner Coffee and Tea and Cookies and Fruits
Parallel Sessions Before Dinner

Session 1A Chaired by Prof. Jeff Smith
(Georgian)
Session 1B Chaired by Prof. Christoph Borchers
(Windsor C)
04:00 pm -
04:20 pm:
Prof. Scott Hopkins, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
"New Adventures in Ion Mobility"
Prof. Christoph Borchers, McGill University, Montreal, QC
"SysQuan: tissue-specific absolute quantitation of the mouse and human proteome, most comprehensive and affordable"
04:20 pm -
04:40 pm:
Dr. Mingluan Chen, Altasciences, Laval, QC
"Bioanalysis of siRNA-Based Therapeutics by Hybridization LC-MS/MS: Practical Challenges and Solutions"
Prof. John Klassen, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
"Sugar Matters: How Protein Glycosylation Shapes Ligand Binding"
04:40 pm -
05:00 pm:
Prof. Rafa Montenegro Burke, University of Toronto, Toronto ON
"Maximizing lipidomics coverage using targeted approaches"
Prof. Leonard Foster, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
"Measurement and interpretation of multi-omic single-cell data"
05:00 pm -
05:20 pm:
Prof. Lars Konermann, Western University, London, ON
"Molecular Insights into Ion and Solvent Dynamics within an ESI Capillary: Electrophoretic Formation of Highly Charged Droplets"
Prof. Denina Simmons, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON
"The Fish Epidermal Mucus Proteome: a New Approach Method for Environmental Effects Monitoring"
05:20 pm -
06:20 pm:
Networking Buffet DinnerDinner Good Food & Good Science!
Parallel Sessions After Dinner

Session 2A (Georgian) Session 2B Chaired by Prof. Gerold Schmitt-Ulms
(Windsor C)
06:20 pm -
06:40 pm:
Prof. Mathieu Lavallée-Adam, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
"A novel supervised learning approach for the real-time optimization of mass"
Prof. David Schriemer, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
"Optoproteomics: a new strategy for high resolution spatial analysis of cells and tissue"
06:40 pm -
07:00 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. Siavash Vahidi, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
"Charge detection mass spectrometry of biological macromolecules"
07:00 pm -
07:20 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. Ji-Young Youn, The Hospital for Sick Children’s Research Institute, Toronto, ON
"Understanding condensate functions and dysregulation in disease using BioID profiling"
07:20 pm -
07:40 pm:
Prof. Richard Oleschuk, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
"HistoProbe: A Dual-Mode Thermally Assisted Microfluidic Platform for Rapid, Solvent-Minimal Mass Spectrometric Analysis of FFPE Tissues"
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"
07:40 pm -
08:10 pm:
Networking Dessert Break Desserts Time for something sweet...
Plenary Session Finale

Session 3 (Georgian)
08:10 pm -
08:30 pm:
Prof. Jeff Smith, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
"Advancing Biotherapeutic Lipidomics with Innovative Sample Preparation and Data Analysis"
08:30 pm -
08:50 pm:
Prof. Liang Li, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
"From Analytical Fundamentals to LC-MS Method Development for Deep Metabolomics"
08:50 pm -
09:10 pm:
Prof. David Goodlett, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.
"Library-Assisted Mass Defect Analysis (LAMDA): A Universal Method for Structure Analysis"
09:10 pm -
09:30 pm:
Dr. Maggy Lépine, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, QC
"Proteome Characterization of Vitreous Humor and Tear Biofluids"
 
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.