21st Toronto Post-ASMS Symposium
Free-to-Attend Mass Spectrometry Users' Meeting
October 16, 2023 (Monday), from 3:00pm to 9:30pm
Four Points by Sheraton Toronto Airport
Parallel Oral Sessions and Exhibition
Confirmed Speaker List

In Order of Speaker Last Name Alphabetically

  • "Non-targeted identification of chemical markers to authenticate honey botanical origin using LC-QTOF-MS" - Presented by Prof. Stephane Bayen, McGill University, Montreal, QC

  • "The mleN enzyme in ceftriaxone-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae impacts fitness through a putative lysine transport-mediated mechanism" - Presented by Prof. Stephanie Bishop, Western University, London, ON

  • "Absolute Quantitative Proteomics - Today and the Future" - Presented by Prof. Christoph Borchers, McGill University, Montreal, QC

  • "High throughput screening of urinary nicotine metabolites for verification of tobacco smoking and secondhand smoke exposures in population health" - Presented by Prof. Phil Britz-McKibbin, McMaster Universit, Toronto, ON

  • "Spinal cord remodeling across six mouse mutant strains monitored by mass spectrometry imaging" - Presented by Prof. Pierre Chaurand, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC

  • "Charging mechanisms of macromolecules in droplet-based ionization methods by linking electrostatic properties of parent solution, microscopic and nanoscopic droplets" - Presented by Prof. Styliani Consta, University of Western Ontario, London, ON

  • "An effective, deep, yet inexpensive mass spectrometry-based fingerprinting system for detecting fraudulent honey" - Presented by Prof. Leonard Foster, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.

  • "Single-cell proteomics and lipidomics to understand sex dimorphism in astrocyte responses to viral infection" - Presented by Prof. Leonard Foster, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

  • "DDA- and DIA-PASEF profiling of cross-kingdom infections reveals new mechanisms driving disease" - Presented by Prof. Jennifer Geddes-McAliste, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON

  • "Targeted Metabolite Quantification in Trace Cancer Cell Samples" - Presented by Prof. David Goodlett , University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.

  • "Structural Elucidation of Lipopolysaccharides using Field Asymmetric Ion Mobility Spectrometry and Kendrick Mass Defect Plots" - Presented by Prof. David Goodlett , University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.

  • "Pregnancy-associated protein isoforms identified through peptide-level quantification of serum: a tractable model system for cancer biomarker discovery?" - Presented by Dr. Jennifer Hill, National Research Council, Ottawa, ON

  • "Coupling Ion Mobility Separation with Ion Trap Spectroscopy" - Presented by Prof. W. Scott Hopkins, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

  • "From RP to HILIC: Graph Transformers Power Method-Independent Prediction of Retention Times for Metabolomics Annotation" - Presented by Prof. Scott Hopkins, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

  • "Comparative Analysis of Single-Phase and Dual-Phase Extraction Methods for Metabolomics" - Presented by Prof. Tao Huan, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

  • "Prostate Cancer Reshapes the Secreted and Extracellular Vesicle Urinary Proteomes" - Presented by Prof. Thomas Kislinger, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

  • "Absolute Affinities from Quantitative Shotgun Glycomics Using Concentration-Independent (COIN) Native Mass Spectrometry" - Presented by Prof. John Klassen, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

  • "Integrating Charge Detection with Slow Mixing Mode (SLOMO) Native Mass Spectrometry to Quantify Biomolecular Interactions" - Presented by Prof. John Klassen, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

  • "Cluster Formation During ESI" - Presented by Prof. Lars Konermann, University of Western Ontario, London, ON

  • "Mass spectrometry enabling studies of arsenic metabolites and biomarkers of susceptibility to arsenic-induced diseases" - Presented by Prof. Chris Le, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

  • "Harnessing LC-MS as a tool for understanding the dynamics of bloodstream pathogens on a city-wide scale" - Presented by Prof. Ian Lewis, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB

  • "Enhancing discovery of unknown disinfection byproducts using nontargeted analysis and machine learning" - Presented by Prof. Xing-Fang Li, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

  • "Mapping the human metabolome for functional metabolomics" - Presented by Prof. J. Rafael Montenegro Burke, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

  • "Cancer metabolism insights through mass spectrometry" - Presented by Prof. Michael Moran, University of Toronto, Toronto ON

  • "Tackling Cannabinoids Ion Suppression Issues in Biological Matrices Using Chromatographic Tools" - Presented by Ms. Stephanie Savard, Laboratory of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine, Montreal, QC

  • "What makes a good CAR? Probing the functional significance of clinically relevant CAR-T epitopes using structural MS" - Presented by Dr. Joey Sheff, National Research Council, Ottawa, ON

  • "Multi-omics for biomarker discovery in Hirschsprung’s disease models" - Presented by Prof. Lekha Sleno, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, QC

  • "Electrospray ionization forms alkylated ammonium species that interfere with lipidomics analyses" - Presented by Prof. Jeff Smith, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON

  • "Fluorinated ethylamines as ESI-friendly neutral pH buffers for native mass spectrometry" - Presented by Prof. Siavash Vahidi, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON

  • "High throughput dynamic structural biology in therapeutics development and manufacturing" - Presented by Prof. Derek Wilson, York University, Toronto, ON

  • "MALDI MS Imaging of Small Neurochemicals in Rodent Brain Tissues with Two Complementary Matrices" - Presented by Prof. Ken Yeung, Western University, London, ON

  • "Integrated morphometric and molecular classification of central nervous system cancers using a unified platform with picosecond infrared laser mass spectrometry" - Presented by Prof. Arash Zarrine-Afsar, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON