Aug. 14–18, 2022 | Cambridge, Mass.
Mass Spectrometry in the Health and Life Sciences
The 14th International Symposium on Mass Spectrometry in the Health and Life Sciences
Aug. 14–18, 2022 | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.
This five-day hybrid symposium will be held at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., and provides the option to register for in-person attendance or virtual participation. The symposium will be an international forum for discussion of the remarkable advances in cell and human protein biology revealed by ever-more-innovative and powerful mass spectrometric technologies.
The presenters we’ve invited are pioneers in the field: Some have made major contributions to the development of methodologies, while others have applied proteomic techniques to solve major problems facing cell biology and medicine.
The symposium will juxtapose sessions about methodological advances with sessions about the roles those advances play in solving problems and seizing opportunities to understand the composition, dynamics and function of cellular machinery in numerous biological contexts. In addition to celebrating these successes, we also intend to articulate urgent, unmet needs and unsolved problems that will drive the field in the future.
In addition to talks by invited plenary and session speakers, short talks will be selected from submitted abstracts.
All talks and posters will be presented in person. Participants can register to attend the symposium in person or virtually — virtual registration provides access to the talks only.
Sessions
Minisymposium (Sunday): Toward single cell investigations
Main symposium (Monday–Thursday)
- Emerging technologies: Sample preparation and automation
- Emerging technologies: Instrumentation and data generation methods
- Proteomics in structural biology and integration with other high resolution methods
- Interactomics: Understanding pathways, networks and molecular machines
- Chemical biology and chemoproteomics: toward functional understanding of drugs and their targets
- Cell, organellar and tissue biology: signaling, cross talk and communication
- Impact of clinical and translational proteomics in human health and treatment
- Multiomics integrative analysis and the emerging roles of machine learning and neural models
Important dates
July 1 | In-person registration deadline |
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Aug. 12 | Virtual registration deadline |
Organizers
A hybrid symposium on mass spec
Co-organizer Bernhard Küster talked to ASBMB Today about the symposium and what participants can expect.
Plenary speakers

Wah Chiu
Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Ryan Kelly
Brigham Young University

Dave Pagliarini
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Stuart Schreiber
Harvard University

Catherine Wu
Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
Speakers
- Marcus Bantscheff, GlaxoSmithKline
- Pierre-Jean Beltran, Broad Institute
- Hannah Boekweg, Brigham Young University
- Claudia Ctortecka, Broad Institute
- Katherine Donovan, Harvard University
- Michael Fainzilber, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Nicole Gay, Stanford University
- Anne-Claude Gingras, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
- Lan Huang, University of California, Irvine
- Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego
- Jeroen Krijgsveld, German Cancer Center
- Matthias Mann, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
- Ana Martinez Del Val, University of Copenhagen
- Philipp Mertins, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
- Matthew Rasband, Baylor College of Medicine
- Julio Saez–Rodriguez, University of Heidelberg
- Yardena Samuels, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Erwin Schoof, Danish Technical University
- Devin Schweppe, University of Washington
- Nikolai Slavov, Northeastern University
- Alice Ting, Stanford University
- Henning Urlaub, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
- James Wells, University of California, San Francisco
- Forest White, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mathias Wilhelm, Technical University of Munich
- Jana Zecha, AstraZeneca
- Aleksej Zelezniak, Chalmers University of Technology
- Bing Zhang, Baylor College of Medicine
- Ying Zhu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Sponsors
Sponsorship opportunities
The symposium will offer a variety of sponsorship opportunities for your organization to optimize their visibility to attendees. Learn about sponsorship opportunities
What’s included
The symposium package includes:
In-person registration:
- All scientific sessions and meeting materials for both the minisymposium and the main symposium
- Access to poster session
- Networking refreshment breaks
Virtual registration:
- Access to session talks only
Presentation requirements
All speakers and poster presenters are required to present in person at the scheduled date and time of their session.
Registration changes
Registration changes (including changing registration type from virtual to in-person) will be accepted as space allows until July 1, and can be made by contacting meetings@asbmb.org or calling the ASBMB accounting department at 240-283-6600.
Cancellation policy
Cancellations received in writing on or before July 1 are subject to a $100 processing fee. No refunds will be issued for cancellations after July 1, due to final guarantee commitments. To cancel, email meetings@asbmb.org and attach a copy of your meeting registration receipt/paid invoice.
COVID-19 vaccine requirement
For the health and safety of attendees, ASBMB/Mass spectrometry in the health and life sciences is requiring COVID-19 vaccines for anyone attending this symposium. Mask wearing and other requirements will be taken into consideration based on state and local guidelines and will be communicated with attendees before the start of the event.
Access the latest COVID-19 guidelines from:
Hotel accommodation
Boston Marriott Cambridge
50 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02142
Instructions on reserving hotel accommodation will be provided during the symposium registration process.
Program schedule
All sessions and activities will be held at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, unless noted otherwise.
Sunday agenda
Minisymposium on advances in single cell proteomics
Organizers
- A.L. Burlingame, University of California, San Francisco
- Steven Carr, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- Bernhard Küster, Technical University of Munich
Opening remarks
A.L. Burlingame, Steven Carr, and Bernhard Küster
Plenary session
Chair: Steven Carr, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Morning session
Chair: Steven Carr, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Afternoon session
Chair: Jeroen Krijgsveld, German Cancer Research Center
Poster session A
Opening reception
Monday agenda
Opening remarks
A.L. Burlingame, Steven Carr, and Bernhard Küster
Plenary session
Chair: Jana Zecha, AstraZeneca
Morning session
Chair: Jana Zecha, AstraZeneca
Afternoon session
Chair: Philipp Mertins, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine
Poster session A
Tuesday agenda
Plenary session
Morning session
Chair: Bernhard Küster, Technical University of Munich
Afternoon session
Chair: Lan Huang, University of California, Irvine
Poster session B
Wednesday agenda
Plenary session
Chair: A.L. Burlingame, University of California, San Francisco
Morning session
Chair: Namrata Udeshi, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Afternoon session
Chair: Michael Fainzilber, Weizmann Institute of Science
Nicole Gay, Stanford University
Poster session B
Conference reception at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Advance ticket purchase required, transportation provided.
Thursday agenda
Plenary session
Chair: Jenn Abelin, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Morning session
Chair: Michael Gillette, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard & Massachusetts General Hospital
Afternoon session
Chair: Natalie Clark, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Closing remarks and discussion
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