Program Schedule

DateTimeDescriptionLocation

Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025

Opening Day

09:00 – 12:00 and 13:00 – 15:00

Workshops

Faculty of Chemistry

Währinger Str. 38,
1090 Vienna

Workshops 1 – LIFS Tools

Seminar Room 2 (SR2)

Faculty of Chemistry

Workshops 2 – LDA2

Dean office conference room

Faculty of Chemistry

15:00 – 16:00

Registration

Registration Area

University Main Building

Universitätsring 1,
1010 Vienna

16:00 – 16:15

Conference welcome

Manuela Baccarini, Vice rector, University of Vienna

Main ceremonial hall

University Main Building

16:15 – 17:00

Opening Lecture – Cellular Membrane Dynamics and Lipid Composition

Kirsten Sandvig, University of Oslo, Norway

Main ceremonial hall

University Main Building

17:15 – 21:00

Get together 🍴

Arkadenhof

University Main Building

Monday, Sept. 15, 2025

Lipid metabolism and membranes

Faculty of Chemistry

Währinger Str. 38,
1090 Vienna

08:00 – 09:00

Registration

Entrance

Faculty of Chemistry

Währinger Str. 38,
1090 Vienna

09:00 – 09:45

Tutorial: Biomembrane

Tore Skotland, University of Oslo, Norway

09:45 – 10:30

Keynote 1: Harnessing diverse human populations to explore the function and regulation of plasma lipids

Judith Simcox, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break ☕

11:00 – 11:45

Keynote 2: Profiling the metabolic fates of dairy lipids in health and disease

Christer Stenby Ejsing, SDU, Denmark

11:45 – 12:45

Talks from abstracts – Session 1: Metabolism

Investigating the effects of a novel ceramide synthase inhibitor on the localisation of subcellular ceramides

Laura L. Y. Choong, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia

Mitochondrial phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) synthesis essentially regulates whole body lipid metabolism and metabolic health

Sarah Brunner, University Hospital Regensburg, Germany

Plasma hexocylceramide and ether lipid enrichment as hallmark of human extreme longevity

Mariona Jové, University of Lleida – IRBLleida, Spain

12:45 – 13:45

Lunch Break🍴

Sciex Lunch seminar

13:45 – 14:30

Keynote 3: Beyond the gut: How the microbiome regulates whole-body lipid metabolism

Josef Ecker, University Hospital Regensburg, Germany

14:30 – 15:30

Talks from abstracts – Session 2: Metabolism

Beyond alpha-fetoprotein: Development of a targeted lipidomics assay for accurate discrimination of HCC from other liver diseases

Fabrizio Merciai, University of Salerno, Italy

The circulating bioenergetic lipotype as a distinctive signature in Centenarians

Natalia Mota-Martorell, University of Lleida – IRBLleida, Spain

Shotgun lipidomic workflow for single cell analysis using single and multipass cyclic ion mobility

Nyasha Munjoma, Waters, United Kingdom

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee Break ☕

16:00 – 16:45

Keynote 4: Revealing cancer vulnerabilities in stress adaptation and ferroptosis through functional lipidomics

ILS Ring Trial Presentation

Andreas Koeberle, University of Graz, Austria

16:45 – 18:45

Poster Session I (ODD POSTER NUMBERS)

19:30 – 22:00

Heurigen Evening 🍴

Feuerwehr Wagner

For all participants – Sponsored by the ILS & EuroFed

Weingut Feuerwehr Wagner
Grinzinger Straße 53
1190 Vienna

Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025

Neurolipidomics

Faculty of Chemistry

Währinger Str. 38,
1090 Vienna

09:00 – 09:45

Keynote 5: Lysosomal Lipid Metabolism and Neurodegeneration

Monther Abu-Remaileh, Stanford University

09:45 – 10:30

Keynote 6: Lipid Metabolic Defects Underlie Parkinson’s Disease Pathology

Nathan Hatcher, Discovery Neuroscience, Merck & Co. Inc., United States of America

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break ☕

11:00 – 12:40

Talks from abstracts – Session 3: Neurolipidomics

Pathway strength score computation and utilization as a lipid metabolic index to assess novel transglycosidase function in GBA1-PD patients

Thao Nguyen-Tran, Neural Regeneration Laboratory and India Taylor Lipidomic Research Platform, Ottawa, Canada

Region-Specific Lipid Remodeling in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Spotlight on White Matte

Elia Obis, University of Lleida – IRBLleida, Spain

The metabolic cost of the lipidomic network-level response to ASAH1 mutation differentiates and provides new therapeutic options for Spinal Muscular Atrophy with Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy from Farber’s Disease

Steffany Bennett, Neural Regeneration Laboratory and India Taylor Lipidomic Research Platform, Ottawa, Canada

LC-MS based analysis of phosphoinositides (PIPs) in metabolic, cardiovascular and degenerative disease

Laxmikanth Kollipara, Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS – e.V., Germany

A Highly Sensitive and Selective Targeted Method for Single Cell Lipidomics

Rahul Ravi Deshpande, Thermo Fisher Scientific, United States of America

12:40 – 13:40

Lunch Break🍴

13:40 – 14:25

Keynote 7: Disentangling Complex Brain Lipid Phenotypes in Parkinson’s Disease

Kim Ekroos, Lipidomics Consulting Ltd., Finland

14:25 – 15:25

Talks from abstracts – Session 4: Technology

Lipidomics at the Single-Cell Level: Workflow Optimisation for Live Cell Analysis

Anastasia Kontiza, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Identification of double bond location in unsaturated free fatty acids of human sebum

Alice Telle, San Gallicano Dermatological Institute – IRCCS, Italy

Investigating the analytical response of triglycerides by flow-injection-analysis high-resolution mass spectrometry

Gerhard Liebisch, University Hospital Regensburg, Germany

15:25 – 15:55

Coffee Break ☕

15:55 – 17:55

Poster Session II (EVEN POSTER NUMBERS)

19:00 – 22:00

Conference Dinner 🍴

Fuhrgassl-Huber

Exclusively for participants who have registered for it.

Weingut und Buschenschank
Fuhrgassl-Huber
Neustift am Walde 68
1190 Vienna

Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025

Lipid Signaling / Oxylipins

Faculty of Chemistry

Währinger Str. 38,
1090 Vienna

09:00 – 09:45

Keynote 8: Technical recommendation for the quantitative analysis of oxylipins and new ideas for targeting them in oxidized phospholipids

Nils H. Schebb, University of Wuppertal, Germany

09:45 – 10:30

Keynote 9: Targeted multimodal analyses to spatially map octadecanoid metabolism in the lung

Craig Wheelock, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

10:30 – 10:40

International lipidomics society

10:40 – 11:20

Talks from abstracts – Session 5.1: Technology / Oxylipins / Bioinformatics

Design-Optimized Extraction Unlocks Comprehensive Lipidome of Fucus vesiculosus

Cong Ding, University of Turku, Finland

Quantification of Lipids in Human Plasma using MS-DIAL: A Comparison of HILIC and RP Chromatography in Untargeted LC-HRMS Lipidomics

Luca Marcel Wende, University of Wuppertal, Germany

11:20 – 11:50

Coffee Break ☕

11:50 – 13:10

Talks from abstracts – Session 5.2: Technology / Oxylipins / Bioinformatics

Correlating abundance levels of lipid mediators with tissue proteomics data suggests pro-resolving functions of polyunsaturated fatty acids

Christopher Gerner, University of Vienna, Austria

LC=CL: A software tool for unmasking C=C positions in complex lipids by routine LC-MS/MS lipidomics

Leonida M. Lamp, University of Graz, Austria

MetaboLights - Open Access Metabolomics and Lipidomics Data Repository

Noemi Tejera, EMBL/EBI, United Kingdom

Metabolomics Hub: International Data Exchange and Data Representation Standards for Metabolomics & Lipidomics

Jonathan E. Hunter, EMBL/EBI, United Kingdom

Quo vadis shotgun lipidomics

13:10 – 13:55

Keynote 10: New frontiers in shotgun lipidomics

Andrej Shevchenko, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

13:55 – 14:25

Closing Session & Prizes sponsored by Lipotype

14:25

Pickup Lunch Packages 🍴

14:25 - 15:45

DGMS interest group meeting "Lipid Analysis and Lipidomics"

Dominik Schwudke & Robert Ahrends

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