We are delighted to welcome you to the 8th Munich Metabolomics Meeting at the TUM Institute of Advanced Study (TUM-IAS) in Garching. The meeting will bring together researchers and experts from across the metabolomics community for two days of scientific exchange, discussion, and networking.

One Platform, Many Modalities: Interactive Metabolomics and Lipidomics Workflows in mzmine

Presenter: Dr. Ansgar Korf  

mzmine is a comprehensive, open-source platform for processing multimodal mass spectrometry data within a single software environment. This hands-on workshop guides participants through a complete LC-MS² metabolomics and lipidomics pipeline, from raw data to scientific insights.

We will walk through the core tools of an untargeted analysis: spectral processing, feature detection, compound grouping, lipid and metabolite annotation, molecular networking, and integrated statistics. Along the way we will also touch on how the same platform extends to other modalities, including GC-MS and imaging data. The session concludes with mzmine's interactive compound and lipid dashboards, which bring annotation, spectral evidence, and quantitative data together in one view for rapid, confident interpretation of complex datasets.

This is a hands-on workshop, and participants are invited to bring their own laptop to follow along. Attendees will leave with a practical, end-to-end workflow they can apply to their own studies.

12:30 - 13:00 Lunch seminar (Sponsor Thermo Fisher Scientific)

Michał Kaczmarek
End-to-End Workflow for Confident Metabolite Annotation

13:00 - 13:30 Poster session

From metabolites to mechanisms: metabolomics in nutrition and gut microbiome research 

Dr. Jia Li

We are delighted to welcome Dr Jia Li as a keynote speaker at the 8th Munich Metabolomics Meeting 2026. Dr Li is an Associate Professor in Biological Chemistry and a co-lead of the Section of Nutrition in the Department of Metabolism, Digestion, and Reproduction at Imperial College London. 

Her research explores the complex interactions between diet, the gut microbiome, and host metabolism. By combining NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry-based metabolomics, and multi-omics approaches, her work seeks to uncover the roles of metabolites in health and disease.

14:20 - 14:50 Dr. Yuya Kakumu – Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Sponsored by cmc Instruments)
Genomics- and metabolomics-guided discovery of bacterial natural products 

14:50 - 15:10 Dr. Jamie Afghani - University of Augsburg
Current status of skin metabolomics: Study Considerations and New Directions

15:10 - 15:25 (Young Scientist) Philipp Otzen – University Münster & mzio GmbH                       

Integrating auxiliary detectors into untargeted MS analysis: A unified workflow in mzmine for analysis of microbial rhamnolipids

16:00 - 16:20 Dr. Nikolai Köhler – Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology, TUM

Graph-Based Methods for Interpreting Lipidome and Metabolome Data

16:20 - 16:40 Assoc. Prof. Tomas Cajka – Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences

From 60 to 5 Minutes: How Fast Can We Go in LC–MS Lipidomics Without Losing Biological Insight?

16:40 - 16:55 (Young Scientist) Marie C. Kersten – Marburg University

From Enzyme Upregulation to Metabolic Output: Development of an LC-MS Approach for Thymidine Phosphorylase-Driven Metabolism in the TME

9:00 - 9:20 PD Dr. Katharina Habler – LMU Klinikum

A Structured Productivity Challenge Study of a Fully Automated Mass Spectrometry System

9:20 - 9:40  Dr. Gabi Kastenmüller -  Helmholtz Munich 
What Shapes the Metabolome of Brain Health?

9:40 - 9:55 (Young Scientist) Gabriel Horkovics-Kováts – University of Regensburg

Clinically Adapted Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Ex Vivo and In Vivo Tumor–Healthy Tissue Discrimination in Head and Neck Cancer

9:55- 10:10 (Young Scientist) Susanne Nguyen - University Medical Center Mainz
Metabolic Genome Wide Association Study Using DIA Based Metabolomics Data from a Human Heart Failure Cohort

10:45 - 11:15 Dr. Alex Dickens – University of Turku 

What about the lipids in microsampling kits? Initial results from the EpiLipidNET multi lab study

11:15 - 11:35 (Young Scientist) Daniel Marques – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Multi-center & multi-platform characterisation of dried blood microsamples metabolome  

11:35 - 11:55 Maros Mastrak – Physikit UG

Accuracy and precision in dried blood sample preparation: the devil is in the details

12:30 - 13:00 Lunch seminar (Sponsor Waters)

Gunnar Weibchen & David Heywood
Metabolomics in Transition: Emerging Trends and Waters Solutions for the Next Generation of Discovery

13:00 - 13:30 Lunch seminar (Sponsor Agilent)

Filling the Gaps: Identification Beyond the Spectral Library 

13:30 - 14:00 Poster Session

14:00 - 14:20 Prof. Dr. Philipp Weller - TH Mannheim

The Gas-Phase Goldmine: Volatilomics from Cutting Edge Platforms to Real World Use

14:20 - 14:40 Dr. Billy Toussie Tchegnitegni - Bielefeld University

Feature-Based Molecular Networking as Innovative Strategy for Target Isolation of Potent Bioactive Compounds from Justicia depauperata (Acanthaceae)

14:40 - 14:55 (Young Scientist) Serena Del Seppia - Technical University of Munich
Sensomics characterization of tomato and tomato-based products 

15:40 - 16:00 Dr. Christoph Trautwein - University of Tübingen

Elucidating the chameleon of gynaecology: Multimodal metabolomics of human endometriosis biofluids and tissue by NMR, timsTOF LC-MS and MALDI Imaging

16:00 - 16:20 Dr. Karl Smith – Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISASe.V.
SIMO – Single Section Integrative Multi-Omics – spatial mapping of metabolites and lipids combined with region-specific proteomics in a single tissue slice

16:20 - 16:40 Dr. Lieby Zborovsky – Technical University of Munich

Tracking Carnitine Metabolism and Glycolysis in Non-small cell Lung Cancer Models with Mass Spectrometry Imaging and PET