Plenary lecturers:
Prof. Gabriel Mazzucchelli, Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, University of Liège, Belgium
Gabriel Mazzucchelli holds the position of Associate Professor and serves as the Chief Research Logistician within the management team at the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory of the University of Liège. In this capacity, he oversees scientific collaborations related to the advancement of mass spectrometry techniques for "Omics" applications. His involvement in this field dates back to 2001 when he initiated the development of mass spectrometry-based methods for biomolecule characterization and proteomic approaches aimed at analyzing complex biological samples.
In 2008, he assumed the role of Scientific and Quality Control Manager for the GIGA Proteomic Platform and the Omics Academic Research Unit of the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (MSLab-OMICS). Subsequently, in 2015, he was appointed as an Associate Professor, and in 2016, he took on the responsibility of Internal QC Auditor at the University of Liège (RQlab). Currently, he holds the position of President of the Council of the Scientists Group at the University of Liège.
Furthermore, he is one of the co-founders of MSExpertise SRL, a consultancy firm specializing in Mass Spectrometry and Quality Assurance. His ongoing research projects are centered on the comprehensive characterization of proteins and proteomes within biological systems, utilizing advanced mass spectrometry techniques at the University of Liège's Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, under the direction of Professor Gauthier Eppe. More specifically, Gabriel's research projects focus on single-cell proteomics and downscaled analyses, MALDI imaging combined with laser capture microdissection of tissue sections followed by shotgun proteomics for spatial omics studies and human sweat proteomics in the context of personalized medicine.
He has authored 89 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals, with an H-index of 29 and a total of 2523 citations (as of Mai 2024, based on the Scopus database).
Dr. Philipp Spät recently joined Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH in Tübingen as a scientist for Immunopeptidomics & Proteomics with a focus on absolute peptide quantification methods. After his master studies at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, he started his research career in the field of mass spectrometry based proteomics in 2012 as a research assistant in the group of Prof. Maček, Department of Quantitative Proteomics, University of Tübingen. After he obtained his PhD on the dynamic response of the cyanobacterial phosphoproteome in 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Forchhammer at the University of Tübingen, he returned to Prof. Maček's group as a post-doc. During this time, he also filled the position of scientific program coordinator of the DFG Research Unit FOR2816 “The Heterotrophy-Autotrophy Switch in Cyanobacterial Metabolism” (12/2018 - 11/2021) and was recipient of the Young Investigator Grant of the Cluster of Excellence “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections” for the project “Characterization of the contact-mediated cellular response of co-cultured bacterial species” EXC 2124: 1-09.016_0.