Summer School

22 Sept 2025, 11:30 → 25 Sept 2025, 12:30 Europe/Berlin

Mainz

Mass Spectrometry meets Systems Medicine

22^nd – 25^th September 2025

📍 Mainz, Germany
The DIASyM Research Core is pleased to announce the second "Mass Spectrometry meets Systems Medicine" Summer School. This intensive four-day course targets students from M.Sc. to post-doctoral level with either biological, computational or medical sciences backgrounds, who wish to acquire skills in Mass Spectrometry, Multiomics Data Analysis and Computational Medicine. 
The Summer School will encompass advanced lectures and related workshops which are hosted by MSCoreSys (https://www.mscoresys.de/) principal investigators and PostDocs. In addition, there will be four keynote lectures highlighting important aspects in systems medicine, advances in mass spectrometric applications and (bio)informatics.

How to Apply:
To register, click the registration button at the top right of this page.
For any inquiries, please contact roodbarf@uni-mainz.de.
Registration Deadline: 30th August 2025

Monday 22 September

11:30 → 12:30 Registration/ Coffee and Snacks

12:30 → 13:00 Welcome and Introduction

13:00 → 13:45 Session I: Lecture 1 - Sample Preparation and MS Measurement: Basics of high-throughput proteomics - Sample preparation and LC-MS Analysis

Convener: Prof. Stefan Tenzer (University Medical Center Mainz)

13:45 → 14:45 Keynote Speaker 1: Prof. Carsten Hopf, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences

Title: MALDI MS Imaging for spatial analysis of tissues and for single cell metabolomics

14:45 → 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 → 16:30 Parallel Workshops: Multiomics Data Analysis - supervised-AG Lu and AG ten Cate

15:00 → 16:30 Parallel Workshops:Mass Spectrometry - AG Ralser and AG Tenzer

15:00 → 16:30 Parallel workshops: Proteomics data analysis - AG Tenzer

16:30 → 17:30 Session II: Multiomics Data Analysis - Keynote Speaker

Titel: Multiomics data integration

Convener: Prof. Wolfgang Huber (EMBL Heidelberg)

17:30 → 18:00 Science Slam - Poster Presentation (2 min Flash Talk)

18:00 → 19:00 Dinner

19:00 → 22:00 Poster Session

Tuesday 23 September

09:00 → 10:30 Career Roundtable 1: Prof. Ursula Klingmüller (DKFZ), Dr. Tanja Pies (University Medical Center Mainz) and Prof. Thierry Schmidlin (University Medical Center Mainz)

10:30 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 11:30 Lecture 2: Junyan Lu, University Hospital Heidelberg

Title: Integrative multi-omics analysis for precision oncology

12:00 → 12:30 Lunch

12:30 → 14:00 Parallel Workshops: Repetition of Mass Spectrometry (AG Tenzer and AG Ralser)

12:30 → 14:00 Parallel Workshops: Repetition of Proteomics Data Analysis (AG Tenzer)

12:30 → 14:00 Parallel Workshops: Computation Medicine by AG Lu & AG tenCate

14:00 → 14:45 Session III: Computational Medicine- Lecture 3

Convener: Dr Vincent Ten Cate (University Medical Center Mainz)

14:45 → 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 → 16:00 Keynote Speaker 3: Prof. Heiko Runz, Neuroscience at insitro Inc

Title: Leveraging muli-omics data in population biobanks to enhance drug discovery

16:00 → 17:30 Parallel Workshops: Multiomics Data Analysis (AG Wild & AG ten Cate)

16:00 → 17:30 Parallel Workshops: Ring Trials (AG Bindila)

16:00 → 17:30 Parallel Worshops: Metabolomics (AG Schmidlin)

17:30 → 18:00 Science Slam: Poster Presentation (2 min Flash Talk)

18:00 → 19:00 Dinner

19:00 → 22:00 Poster Session & Get together

Wednesday 24 September

09:00 → 09:45 Session IV: Ring Trials

Imaging in MS: Spatial Mass Spectrometry: Tissue Assessment in a Clinical Setting – A Ring Trial for Clinical Implementation

Convener: Dr Oliver Klein (Charité - University Medicine Berlin)

09:45 → 10:45 Keynote Speaker 4 : Dr. Stefanie Hauck, Helmholtz Center Munich

Titel: Plasma proteomics - Insights from two ring trials, comparison with proximity extension assays (Olink) and the impact of blood matrices

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Test Your Knowledge: Mass Spectrometry & Systems Medicine Quiz

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:30 Parallel Workshops: Immunopeptidomics (AG Tenzer & AG Gomez)

13:00 → 14:30 Parallel Workshops: Repetition of Computation Medicine (AG Wild & AG tenCate)

13:00 → 14:30 Parallel Workshops: Repetition of Metabolomics (AG Schmidlin)

14:30 → 18:00 Social Activities

Suggestions:
a. Virtual Mainz (free Mainz app): VR/AR features with 3D reconstructions of important sights and buildings, virtual Gutenberg tour (hologram guided), insider tips with places, cafes, and bars, Mainz quiz, city map
b. Schwarzlichtminigolf

18:00 → 19:00 Dinner

19:00 → 22:00 Social Event

Suggestions:
a. Pub quiz at Q-Kaff will be started from 6:00 p.m.
b. Pub quiz at Nolan's Pub will be start from 8:00 p.m.
c. Karaoke at the Irish Pub from 9:30 p.m.
d. Wine bar

Thursday 25 September

09:00 → 10:30 Career Roundtable 2: Dr. Stefanie Wernisch (Bruker), Dr Bernhard Müller(BioNTech), Dr. Stefanie Hauck (Helmholtz Center Munich)

10:30 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 11:45 Closing Lecture: Prof. Michael Roehrl -Department of Pathology- Harvard university

Titel: Bringing Proteomics to Patients

11:45 → 12:00 Wrap up and Closing

12:00 → 12:30 Lunch