Nordic Conference in Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics 2025

The conference will host plenary and keynote lectures from leading international mass spectrometry scientists covering fundamentals, environmental, pharma, bioimaging, metabolomics, proteomics and much more.

The conference also features several thematic workshops.

The NordicMSP2025 conference will strengthen the Nordic mass spectrometry and proteomics communities across academia, hospitals, pharma and the biotech industry, and is also an excellent recruiting ground for companies.

Registration

Register HERE

Final registration deadline: 15 August

Registration fees

• Regular: 3.999 DKK (535 EUR) incl. VAT
• Student / Technician: 2.099 DKK (281 EUR) incl. VAT

Abstract Submission

All abstracts must be submitted in Microsoft Word format (.docx or .doc) and must follow the official abstract template.

Submit your Abstract HERE

Program at glance

Monday, 1 September

12:00 Registration Opens

Opening Plenary

13:40 Official Opening of Nordic MSP2025

14:00 Opening Lecture - Mass Spectrometry in Spatial Biology: Imaging Across the Omics

• Ron Heeren (Maastricht University, Netherlands)

14:40 – Exhibition & Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions Begin – 15:10

Track A: Metabolomics

15:10 From Exposure to Effect: Omics-Based Insights into Endocrine Disruptors and Metabolic Health

• Tuulia Hyötyläinen (University of Örebro, Sweden)

15:35 Global Metabolomics in a Clinical Setting

• Katja B. P. Elgstøen (Oslo University Hospital, Norway)

15:55 Challenges in Sample Preparation of Different Plant Tissues for MALDI-MSI

• Nikola Micic (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

16:15 Untargeted Analysis and Recovery of Pharmaceutically Significant Phytochemicals from Blueberry Leaves

• Roosa-Maria Liimatainen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

16:35 – End of Metabolomics Session

Track B: Functional Proteomics

15:10 Deep Human Proteome Profiling with Very High Throughput

• Jesper V. Olsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

15:35 Structural and Functional Characterization of Host-Pathogen Interactions

• Lotta Happonen (Lund University, Sweden)

15:55 Automated MagNet Enrichment Unlocks Deep and Cost-Effective LC-MS Plasma Proteomics

• Salla Keskitalo (University of Helsinki, Finland)

16:15 Pathways to Parkinson’s Disease: Using Proteomics/PTMomics to Understand Disease Development in Patient iPSC-Derived Neurons

• Helle Bogetofte (University of Southern Denmark)

16:35 End of Proteomics Session

Late Afternoon Program

16:45 Chemical Proteomics Springs Eternal

• Roman Zubarev (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)

17:15 Poster Pitch – Flash Talks

17:40 Poster Session & Exhibition

19:00 Opening Reception (Tapas and Wine)

22:00 End of Day 1

Tuesday, 2 September

08:50 TBA

• Sarah Cianferani (University of Strasbourg, France)

Forensics & Structural Proteomics (Parallel Tracks)

09:25 TBA

• Kim Frisch (Aarhus University, Denmark)

09:25 In-cell protein proximity labeling and structural proteomics identifies novel subunits of the TTLL1 tubulin polyglutamylase complex and reveals a structure-function model of the complex

• Jens S. Andersen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

09:50 Submerged Crime Scenes: Analysis of Post-Blast Explosive Traces and Forensic Requirements

• Hans Önnerud (Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden)

09:50 Probing Protein Dynamics with Stable Isotope Labeling and Crosslinking Mass Spectrometry

• Guðrún Rútsdóttir (University of Iceland)

10:10 TraceAge: A Machine Learning Approach to Estimating Blood Sample Time-since-Deposition

• Frederik Skovbo (Aarhus University, Denmark)

10:10 Neuroretina Protein Networks Involved in Bird Magnetoreception and Navigation

• Jingjing Xu (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

10:30 Exhibition with Coffee

Environment & MS Data Science (Parallel Tracks)

11:00 PFAS and Child Brain Development

• Alex Dickens (University of Turku, Finland)

11:00 Multiomics Analysis to Reveal the Molecular Lifespan of Cancer

• Guro F. Giskeødegård (NTNU, Norway)

11:25 Untargeted Profiling of Organic Valuables from Cabbage Stem Using UHPLC-Orbitrap-MS and GC-MS: A Circular Economy Approach

• Pius Kairigo (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

11:25 De Novo Sequencing of MS2s and Cryo-EM Maps

• Lukas Käll (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

11:45 Simultaneous MIMS and UV Absorption for Online Kinetic Investigations of Toxic Disinfection Byproduct Formation During Disinfection of Drinking Water

• Frants R. Lauritsen (University of Southern Denmark)

11:45 OmicsQ: A User-Friendly Platform for Interactive Quantitative Omics Data Analysis

• Veit Schwämmle (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

12:05 Leveraging Metabolomics to Enhance Defence in Cereal–Legume Co-Cropping

• Jawameer Hama (Aarhus University, Denmark)

12:05 Leveraging Insights on Experimental Heterogeneity for Charge State Prediction Generalisation Using a Transformer-Based Model

• Ayla Schröder (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

12:25 Lunch, Posters & Exhibition

Keynote & Special Sessions

13:30 Fifty Years Forward: From Peptide Sequencing to Spatial Proteomics at Single-Cell Resolution

• Matthias Mann (Max Planck Institute, Germany)

14:00 Prosit-PTM: Zero-Shot Deep Learning Enables Confident Detection and Localization of Unseen Post-Translational Modifications

• Mathias Wilhelm (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

14:25 Poster Pitch – Flash Talks

14:45 Exhibition & Coffee

Clinical / Pharma (Parallel Talks)

15:15 Smart Samplers: Next-Generation Sampling for LC-MS-Based Bioanalysis of Proteins

• Trine Grønhaug Halvorsen (University of Oslo, Norway)

15:15 New Strategy for Identification of Various Lipid Modified PTMs from Complex Peptide Solutions

• Martin R. Larsen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

15:35 New Possibilities in Drug Development with Targeted DESI Mass Spectrometry Imaging

• Christian Janfelt (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

15:35 Proteome-Wide Mechanistic Analysis of Substrate Specificity in Human Protein Arginine Deiminases

• Chien-Yun Lee (TU Munich)

15:55 Liquid Biomarkers Across Ethnicity, Geography and Age – An hPOP Substudy

• Allan Stensballe (Aalborg University, Denmark)

15:55 Glycoproteomic Characterization of Chondroitin Sulfate-Glycopeptides of Endogenously Cleaved Aggrecan

• Jonas Nielsson (University of Gothenburg)

16:15 Decoding the Heart Failure Peptidome

• Christian Madsen (Novo Nordisk A/S)

16:15 Insights into the Fragmentation Behavior of Disulfide-Bridged Cyclic Peptides by ETD/HCD-MS

• Ileana Leon (Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Denmark)

16:35 Proteomics of Neuroinflammatory Signalling: Illuminating Cellular Mechanisms Driving Neurodegenerative Diseases

• Katrin Stuber (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Evening Events

17:00 Workshop

18:45 Exhibition with Bubbles

19:30 Gala Dinner

01:00 End of Day 2

Wednesday, 3 September

09:00 Advances in Hardware Design and Function of the timsOmni Platform

• Dimitris Papanastasiou (Fasmatech, Greece)

09:30 Selected Oral / Invited Speaker

09:50 The Healing Catch: Biochemical Insights into Fish Skin–Mediated Burn Healing

• Ottar Rolfsson (University of Iceland, Iceland)

10:10 Ion Mobility Spectrometry for Top-Down Proteoform Analysis

• Ole Nørregaard Jensen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

10:30 Exhibition & Coffee

11:00 Seeing Ions Shine

• Steen Brønsted Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)

11:25 Single-Cell Multi-Omics Identifies Growth Signaling and Survival Mechanisms Underlying Resistance in BRAF-Mutant Melanoma

• Iris Purma (University of Turku, Finland)

11:45 Selected Oral / Invited Speaker

12:05 Lunch, Posters & Exhibition

13:15 Award Ceremony

13:30 Atomic Resolution Molecular Imaging Based on Soft-Landing Electrospray Ion Beam Deposition

• Stephan Rauschenbach (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)

14:00 Structural Chemistry of Noncovalent Complexes in Nanocontainers and Their Chemoselective Properties Studied by Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry

• Elina Kalenius (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

14:20 Exhibition & Coffee

14:50 Chemical Exposures and Microbiome-Derived Bile Acids During Early Life: Insights into the Progression to Islet Autoimmunity

• Matej Oresic (University of Turku, Finland)

15:10 MALDI-2 and t-MALDI-2 Mass Spectrometry Imaging: Molecular Insights into Tissues and Cell Cultures at the Micrometer Scale

• Klaus Dreisewerd (University of Münster, Germany)

15:35 Closing of Conference

15:45–16:30 Farewell Drink

🎤 List of Speakers – Nordic MSP 2025

• Prof. Ron Heeren – Maastricht University, Netherlands
• Prof. Trine Grønhaug Halvorsen – University of Oslo, Norway
• Prof. Matthias Mann – Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Germany
• Prof. Roman Zubarev – Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
• Dr. Sarah Cianferani – University of Strasbourg, France
• Prof. Stephan Rauschenbach – University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• Assoc. Prof. Lotta Happonen – Lund University, Sweden
• Prof. Tuulia Hyötyläinen – University of Örebro, Sweden
• Prof. Jesper Velgaard Olsen – University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Dr. Katja B. P. Elgstøen – Oslo University Hospital, Norway
• Prof. Lukas Käll – Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
• Prof. Guro F. Giskeødegård – NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Prof. Steen Brønsted Nielsen – Aarhus University, Denmark
• Director Dimitris Papanastasiou – Fasmatech, Greece
• Assoc. Prof. Christian Janfelt – University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Lab Chief Salla Keskitalo – University of Helsinki, Finland
• Prof. Óttar Rolfsson – University of Iceland
• Prof. Mathias Wilhelm – Technical University of Munich, Germany
• Ph.D. Kim Frisch – Aarhus University, Denmark

Sponsors

Platinum

• Bruker

Gold

• Thermo Fisher Scientific

Silver

• ionopticks
• SCIEX
• Shimadzu
• Standard BioTools
• Waters

Exhibitors

Nordic Conference in Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics 2025: Exhibitors