14th Vancouver Post-ASMS Symposium
Free-to-Attend Mass Spectrometry Users' Meeting
October 22, 2026 (Thursday), from 3:00pm to 9:30pm
Hilton Vancouver Metrotown
Program Agenda
03:00 pm -
04:00 pm:
Registration & Welcome Refreshment Dinner Coffee and Tea and Cookies and Fruits
Oral Session 1 - Chair: Prof. Lekha Sleno

04:00 pm -
04:20 pm:
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:
Prof. Liang Li, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
"From Analytical Fundamentals to LC-MS Method Development for Deep Metabolomics"
04:40 pm -
05:00 pm:
Prof. David Schriemer, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
"Optoproteomics: a new strategy for high resolution spatial analysis of cells and tissue"
05:00 pm -
05:20 pm:
Prof. David Goodlett, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.
"Library-Assisted Mass Defect Analysis (LAMDA): A Universal Method for Structure Analysis"
05:20 pm -
05:40 pm:
Prof. Thomas Velenosi, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
"LipidTraceR: A computational tool for automated identification of stable isotope labelled lipids"
05:40 pm -
06:40 pm:
Networking Buffet DinnerDinner Good Food & Good Science!
Oral Session 2 - Chair: Prof. Christoph Borchers

06:40 pm -
07:00 pm:
Prof. Bingyun Sun, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
"Absolute Quantification of Human Cardiac Ion Channels"
07:00 pm -
07:20 pm:
Prof. David Chen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
"Boundary-Defined Excited-State Molecular Beam Ionization (BEMBi) High Resolution Mass Spectrometry for High Throughput Analysis"
07:20 pm -
07:40 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"
07:40 pm -
08:00 pm:
Prof. Mathieu Lavallée-Adam, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
"A novel supervised learning approach for the real-time optimization of mass"
08:00 pm -
08:30 pm:
Networking Dessert Break Desserts Time for something sweet...
Oral Session 3 - Chair: Prof. Tao Huan

08:30 pm -
08:50 pm:
Prof. Leonard Foster, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
"Measurement and interpretation of multi-omic single-cell data"
08:50 pm -
09:10 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"
09:10 pm -
09:30 pm:
Prof. Roger Linington, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
"Developments in ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry for natural products-based metabolomics"
09:30 pm -
09:50 pm:
Prof. John Klassen, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
"Sugar Matters: How Protein Glycosylation Shapes Ligand Binding"
 
09:50 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.