From the 1st to the 5th of June, Helen and Eliise attended the 73rd ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics in Baltimore, Maryland, US.
Helen presented the work combining MS2-based toxicity and concentration predictions in the Exposomics, Toxicology and Health Outcomes session. During the conference, numerous intriguing studies were presented this year across a variety of topics, especially in the Environmental and AI in MS sessions. For example, Susan Richardson presented her group’s recent work investigating pollutants originating from man-made structures that end up in the water due to urban wildfires. Another engaging presentation was given by Cailum Stienstra on simultaneous HILIC and RP retention time predictions using graph transformers. The PDF of Helen’s presentation titled “’Experimental Validation of MS2-based Mixture Toxicity Predictions: a Case Study on Synthetic Mixtures” can be found here.
Eliise presented the recent update on the project Unravelling lignin structure with mass spectrometry and generative modelling in the Plants and Natural Products session. She especially enjoyed discussing with the presenters during the poster session and meeting the researchers behind mzMine and SIRIUS, software that are extensively used by our group for MS data processing and tentative identification. Also noteworthy were the evening workshops, especially the interactive Environmental Applications: you are what you eat and breathe, organised by Erin Baker and Carrie McDonough, where recent non-targeted analysis developments and computational workflows were presented. The PDF of Eliise’s presentation can be found here.
