From the 4th to the 7th of March, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Massenspektrometrie held its annual meeting. This year, the conference took place in the picturesque old town of Göttingen, Germany.
I was delighted to participate and present our recent work in a keynote talk titled “Detection and Identification of Toxic and High-Risk Chemicals with LC/HRMS and Machine Learning,” as part of the Isotope & Environmental Analysis session. The session covered a wide range of topics, from quantitative nanoparticle analyses to isotopologue analysis for identity confirmation.
It was also a fantastic opportunity to catch up with Arina Ivanova, who completed her MSc thesis with us two years ago. Arina presented a poster on some of her recent work in Jena.
The three-day conference was filled with fascinating talks across three parallel sessions. One of the highlights for me was a plenary lecture by Lars Konermann, who took us into the fascinating chemistry of electrospray. A significant portion of his presentation focused on solvent effects. The work of Konermann’s group is crucial for understanding the processes within electrospray droplets, which is also essential for predicting ionization efficiency in our own group’s work.
I was also greatly fascinated by the single-cell metabolomics studies presented by Sarah O’Connor. The quantitative metabolomics work by her group revealed striking differences between individual cells. Furthermore, she demonstrated how complex multiomics data can be simplified and clearly presented for non-experts.