International Mass Spectrometry Conference 2024

AUGUST 17-23, 2024 MELBOURNE CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTRE MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA The conference’s scientific program covered all aspects of mass spectrometry, including fundamentals, instrumentation, and applications in chemical, environmental, earth, space, forensic, and biological sciences.

Speakers
Plenary Speakers PROFESSOR DAME CAROL ROBINSON – University of Oxford, United Kingdom PROFESSOR YU-JU CHEN Academia Sinica, Taiwan PROFESSOR JANA ROITHOVÁ Radboud University Netherlands​ Closing Plenary Speaker PROFESSOR VEENA SAHAJWALLA University of New South Wales Australia Distinguished Keynote Speaker KOICHI TANAKA Executive Research Fellow, Shimadzu Corporation Japan Keynote Speakers – Life Sciences, Pharma, Health and Disease PROFESSOR LISA JONES University of California San Diego USA PROFESSOR YU XIA Tsinghua University China PROFESSOR MAKOTO ARITA Keio University Japan PROFESSOR JESPER VELGAARD OLSEN University of Copenha PROFESSOR RENÃ A. S. ROBINSON Vanderbilt University USA PROFESSOR DAVID WISHART University of Alberta Canada DR ANNE K. BENDT National University of Singapore Singapore DR LJILJANA PAŠA-TOLIĆ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory USA PROFESSOR YING GE University of Wisconsin USA PROFESSOR RUIJUN TIAN Southern University of Science and Technology China DR DA REN BioTherapeutics Solutions USA DR ALAIN BECK Laboratoires Pierre Fabre France DR BIRGIT SCHILLING University of California San Francisco USA DR JOACHIM KOPKA Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (MPIMP) Germany PROFESSOR BERND WOLLSCHEID Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Switzerland PROFESSOR ZONGWEI CAI Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong PROFESSOR NICKI PACKER Macquarie University Australia PROFESSOR LAN HUANG University of California USA ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RONDA GREAVES Victorian Clinical Genetics Services Australia PROFESSOR THOMAS KISLINGER University of Toronto Canada PROFESSOR YU BAI Peking University China PROFESSOR MICHAL SHARON Weizmann Institute Of Science Israel Keynote Speakers – Fundamentals, Instrumentation and Methods DR VAUGHAN LANGFORD Syft Technologies Limited New Zealand PROFESSOR DR KEVIN PAGEL Freie Universität Berlin Germany PROFESSOR XINXING ZHANG Nankai University China PROFESSOR KRISTINE GLUNDE Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions USA PROFESSOR SHABAZ MOHAMMED Rosalind Franklin Institute University of Oxford United Kingdom PROFESSOR YASUSHI ISHIHAMA Kyoto University Japan PROFESSOR JIN-MING LIN Tsinghua University China PROFESSOR VICKI WYSOCKI Ohio State University USA PROFESSOR YUJIA QING University of Oxford UK PROFESSOR EVAN WILLIAMS University of California, Berkeley USA PROFESSOR PERDITA BARRAN The University of Manchester UK PROFESSOR EVAN BIESKE University of Melbourne Australia ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MAGNUS PALMBLAD Leiden University Medical Center Netherlands PROFESSOR ZHENG OUYANG Tsinghua University China PROFESSOR HELEN COOPER University of Birmingham UK Keynote Speakers – Environmental, Earth, Space, Forensics & Cultural DR G. ASHER NEWSOME Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute USA PROFESSOR KEVIN THOMAS University of Queensland Australia PROFESSOR CHRIS GILL Vancouver Island University Canada PROFESSOR ROGER SUMMONS Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA DR JEAN ARMENGAUD CEA France PROFESSOR HAOFEI ZHANG University of California, Riverside USA Keynote Speakers – Food, polymers & Materials DR MELANIE DOWNS University of Nebraska-Lincoln USA PROFESSOR XIAOPENG LI Shenzhen University China PROFESSOR BRUNO FEDRIZZI The University of Auckland New Zealand
Organisers
The local organising committee for IMSC2024 was comprised of close-knit members of the Australian and New Zealand mass spectrometry community from universities, research institutes, and industries located within Melbourne and throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Conference Chair – Professor Gavin E. Reid, University of Melbourne Conference Chair – Professor Tara Pukala, University of Melbourne Dr. Sarah E. Hancock – IMSC2024 Secretary Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute / UNSW Sydney Dr. Shane Ellis – ANZSMS Treasurer, University Of Wollongong Associate Professor W. Alex Donald, University of New South Wales Dr. Nichollas E. Scott, ANZSMS Secretary Peter Doherty Institute / University of Melbourne Professor Michelle Colgrave, Edith Cowan University/CSIRO Professor Stephen Blanksby, Queensland University of Technology Associate Professor Berin Boughton, La Trobe University Dr. Melanie White, University of Sydney Michael Sinden, Industry Advisory IonOpticks Dr. Farhana Pinu, Plant & Food Research Dr. Nicola Gray, Murdoch University

Sponsors
Conference Partners Business Events Australia Melbourne Australia Melbourne Convention Bureau Platinum Sponsors Bruker Waters Gold Sponsors Thermo Fisher Scientific Shimadzu Silver Sponsors Syft Agilent Bronze Sponsors IonOpticks Sciex Trajan

IMSF Awards

Thomson Medal

“For outstanding achievements in and distinguished service to international mass spectrometry”.

PROFESSOR JENNIFER BRODBELT

The University Of Texas In Austin USA

PROFESSOR RICK YOST

University of Florida USA

Curt Brunnée Award

“For outstanding contributions to the development of instrumentation for mass spectrometry by a person under the age of 45 at the time of the award”

DR JENS SOLTWISCH

University of Münster Germany

Jochen Franzen Award

“For outstanding contributions to innovations in structural, spatial and/or separation analysis with mass spectrometry”.

DR LJILJANA PAŠA-TOLIĆ

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory USA

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