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28 October

Tuesday

29 October

Wednesday

30 October

Thursday

31 October

Friday

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

Aula Magna | Universidad San Pablo CEU

Conference Opening

28 October

Aula Magna | Universidad San Pablo CEU

18:00 - 18:10

Speakers

Coral Barbas

Group Leader. Centro de Metabolómica y Bioanálisis. Universidad San Pablo CEU

Óscar Pastor

Conference Chair, Clinical Biochemistry Department. Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal-IRYCIS. Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.

Kim Ekross

Founder & CEO. President International Lipidomics Society. Lipidomics Consulting

Opening Lecture - Organellar lipid codes

28 October

Aula Magna | Universidad San Pablo CEU

18:10 - 19:00

Moderate

Óscar Pastor

Conference Chair, Clinical Biochemistry Department. Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal-IRYCIS. Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.

Organellar lipid codes

Joost Holthuis

ILS Early Carreer Travel Awards

28 October

Aula Magna | Universidad San Pablo CEU

19:00 - 19:40

Moderate

Kim Ekross

Founder & CEO. President International Lipidomics Society. Lipidomics Consulting

Óscar Pastor

Conference Chair, Clinical Biochemistry Department. Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal-IRYCIS. Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.

Speakers

Carlos R. Canez

Chemistry

Johanna Schubarth

Detection Limits of Oxidized Bulk Phospholipids in Biological Samples Using Conventional Matrices and 1-Pyrenebutyric Hydrazide in MALDI-TOF MS

Yasmin Kadyrbekova

Quantitative Analysis of Monohydroxy Sterols and Vitamin E in Human Plasma Combining Derivatization and RP-UHPLC/MS/MS in Negative Ion Mode

Welcome Hospital Ramón y Cajal

29 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

9:00 - 9:20

Speakers

Carlos Mingo Rodríguez

General Manager, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

Laura García Bermejo

Scientific Director, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigacion Sanitaria (IRYCIS).

Óscar Pastor

Conference Chair, Clinical Biochemistry Department. Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal-IRYCIS. Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.

Kim Ekross

Founder & CEO. President International Lipidomics Society. Lipidomics Consulting

Oral Session 1 - Sphingolipidomics

29 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

9:30 - 10:30

Moderate

Gerhard Liebisch

Team Leader Institute of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital Regensburg

Challenges involved in sphingolipid analysis: from free bases to complex gangliosides

Roger Sandhoff

Research Group Lipid Pathobiochemistry German Cancer Research Center

Short-Talk 1

29 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

11:00 - 11:20

Towards global glycosphingolipidomics using advanced high-resolution mass spectrometry and automated annotation workflows

Evelyn Rampler

Short-Talk 2

29 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

11:20 - 11:40

ω-hydroxylation - a yet undescribed novel hepatic pathway for the detoxification of 1-deoxysphingolipids

Thorsten Hornemann

Clinical Chemistry Universtiy Zurich

Short-Talk 3

29 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

11:40 - 12:00

Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of a New Dihydroceramide Desaturase Inhibitor for the Treatment of MASLD

Óscar Pastor

Conference Chair, Clinical Biochemistry Department. Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal-IRYCIS. Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.

Vendor Talk - Waters Talk

29 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

12:10 - 12:40

From Cell to Spectrum: New Perspectives in Single Cell Lipidomics, Throughput and Sensitivity with the Xevo MRT

Christopher Titman

Business Development Manager Waters Corporation

Oral Session 2 - Possitional Isomers

29 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

14:00 - 14:30

Moderate

Kim Ekross

Founder & CEO. President International Lipidomics Society. Lipidomics Consulting

New Strategies for Multiplexed Quantitation of Lipids and Lipid Isomers

Yu Xia

Department of Chemistry Tsinghua University

Short-Talk 4

29 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

14:30 - 14:50

Quantitative tracing of fatty acid metabolism in primary hepatocytes

Theja Sajeevan

Short-Talk 5

29 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

14:50 - 15:10

Dynamic Remodeling of Anti-Inflammatory Palmitoleic Acid and Its Isomers in Activated Monocytes and Macrophages

Miguel A. Bermúdez Arias

Short-Talk 6

29 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

15:10 - 15:30

Enhancing Lipid Annotation Confidence in NIST® SRM® 1950 with C=C Double Bond Position Determination via EIEIO-MS

Sara Martínez López

Oral Session 3 - Lipid Imaging

29 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

16:00 - 16:30

Moderate

Gwendolyn Barceló - Coblijn

MALDI imaging mass spectrometry for the in situ analysis of lipids at cellular and sub-cellular resolving power

Jens Soltwisch

Group Leader Institute of Hygiene. University of Münster

Short-Talk 7

29 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

16:30 - 16:50

Brain-Region-Specific Lipid Dysregulation in L-DOPA-Induced Dyskinesia in a Primate Model of Parkinson’s Disease

Ibrahim Kaya

Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences Uppsala University

Short-Talk 8

29 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

16:50 - 17:10

Enabling the spatial visualization of brain endocannobinoidome by MALDI-2 Mass Spectrometry Imaging

Eduardo Sommella

Short-Talk 9

29 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

17:10 - 17:30

Integrated DESI-MS Imaging and SFC-QTOF Analysis for Spatial Lipid Characterization in Drosophila melanogaster Larvae

Pauline Le Faouder

Oral Session 4 - Clinical Lipidomics (I) - Ring Trials, Preanalytics

30 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

9:00 - 9:30

Moderate

Coral Barbas

Group Leader. Centro de Metabolómica y Bioanálisis. Universidad San Pablo CEU

Harmonization of Lipidomic Analysis of Human Plasma: Insights from CLIG Interlaboratory Ring Trial

Michal Holčapek

Group Leader University of Pardubiche

Short-Talk 10

30 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

9:30 - 9:50

Untargeted Metabolomics and Lipidomics Using Blood Microsamples: Insights from Stability, Exercise, and Dietary Intervention Studies

Dennisse J. Avella Estupiñan

Short-Talk 11

30 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

9:50 - 10:10

Shotgun mass spectrometry-based lipid profiling of early atherosclerosis: The AWHS Study

Alessia Ferrarini

Short-Talk 12

30 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

10:10 - 10:30

Screening Method for Pancreatic Cancer Using Lipidomic Profiling of Plasma or Serum: A Pilot Study

Ondrej Peterka

Oral Session 5 - Clinical Lipidomics (II) - Studies

30 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

11:00 - 11:30

Moderate

Michal Holčapek

Group Leader University of Pardubiche

Unleashing the Potential of Lipidomics for Population Health Research

Julijana Ivanisevic

Short-Talk 13

30 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

11:30 - 11:50

Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis: 13-Year Follow-Up of LDL-Apheresis Therapy with Plasma 7α-Hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one Monitoring

Silke Matysik

Short-Talk 14

30 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

11:50 - 12:10

Development of a Serum-Based lipid-protein Diagnostic Assay for the Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer

Kim Ekroos

Founder & CEO Lipidomics Consulting Ltd

Vendor Talk - Sciex

30 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

12:10 - 12:40

Quantitative and qualitative analysis of oxylipins using high-resolution mass spectrometry

Paul Baker

SCIEX

Oral Session 6 - Microbial Lipids

30 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

14:00 - 14:30

Moderate

Yu Xia

Department of Chemistry Tsinghua University

Mycobacterial derived lipids as diagnostic marker

Dominik Schwudke

Principal Investigator, Group Leader Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center

Short-Talk 15

30 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

14:30 - 14:50

ECOLIPID DH5: a highly curated lipidome characterization of Escherichia coli DH5α strain generated by multiplatform deep lipidomic profiling

Miguel Fernández García

Short-Talk 16

30 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

14:50 - 15:10

Lipidomic Profiling of SARS-CoV-2-Infected Mice: Viral Dose-Dependent and Organ-Specific Alterations

Myeong Hee Moon

Short-Talk 17

30 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

15:10 - 15:30

Characterization of lipid biomass derived from (precision) fermentation through high-resolution mass spectrometry

Francesca Giuffrida

Societes des Produits Nestlé

Oral Session 7 - Plant lipidomics & Nutritional Lipids

30 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

16:00 - 16:30

Moderate

Baoru Yang

Towards comprehensive lipid quantification in plants: a community ring trial

Katharina Gutbrod

Short-Talk 18

30 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

16:30 - 16:50

Lipidomic Analysis Reveals Suaeda maritima as a Sustainable Source of Food Lipids through Aquaponic Cultivation

Rosário Domingues

Departemnt of Chemistry University of Aveiro

Short-Talk 19

30 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

16:50 - 17:10

Human Milk Extracellular Vesicles: a lipid shuttle to the preterm infant’s gut?

Julia Kuligowski

Short-Talk 20

30 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

17:10 - 17:30

Oxylipin Profiles in Aggressive versus Suppressed Neuroblastoma: Effects of Highly Unsaturated Fatty Acids in a Mouse Model

Tom Brenna

Oral Session 8 - Lipidomics tools and standarization

31 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

9:00 - 9:30

Moderate

Harald Köfeler

Core Facility Mass Spectrometry Medizinische Universität Graz

Extending gene ontology (GO) term analyses for lipidomics-centered multi-omics applications

Dominik Kopczynski

Senior Scientist University of Vienna

Short-Talk 21

31 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

9:30 - 9:50

Instrument QC for shotgun lipidomics

Silvia Radrezza

Short-Talk 22

31 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

9:50 - 10:30

A Mammalian Tissue Standard Reference Material for Improved Lipidomic and Metabolomic Interoperability

Justine Bertrand-Michel

Short-Talk 23

31 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

10:10 - 10:30

Investigating the analytical response of triglycerides by flow-injection-analysis high-resolution mass spectrometry

Gerhard Liebisch

Team Leader Institute of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital Regensburg

Oral Session 9 - Quo Vadis Lipidomics?

31 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

11:00 - 11:45

Moderate

Óscar Pastor

Conference Chair, Clinical Biochemistry Department. Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal-IRYCIS. Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.

Michal Holčapek

Group Leader University of Pardubiche

Speakers

Group Discussion Session

Short-Talk 24

31 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

11:45 - 12:10

Towards a Next-Generation Comprehensive Lipid Analysis Platform and the Standardization of Lipidomics in Japan

Takeshi Bamba

Short-Talk 25

31 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

12:10 - 12:30

Integrative Lipidomics and Transcriptomics Identify Distinct Tumor Cell Subtypes in Human Colon Cancer

Gwendolyn Barceló - Coblijn

Short-Talk 26

31 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

12:30 - 12:50

FAMetA: a mass-isototopogue-based tool for the comprehensive analysis of fatty acid metabolism

Juan Carlos Garcia Cañaveras

Clousure lecture - Deciphering Lipid Codes in Cardiometabolic Disease

31 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

13:00 - 13:45

Moderate

Óscar Pastor

Conference Chair, Clinical Biochemistry Department. Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal-IRYCIS. Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.

The crosstalk between lipid metabolism and inflammation in cardiometabolic disease.

Carlos Fernández - Hernando

Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program, Departments of Comparative Medicine and Pathology Yale University School of Medicine

5th Lipidomics Conference 2026 + Award Ceremony + closing remarks

31 October

Salón de Actos - Main Hall | Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

13:45 - 14:15

Speakers

Maria Luisa Palacios Romero

Associate Medical Director Ramón y Cajal University Hospital

Óscar Pastor

Conference Chair, Clinical Biochemistry Department. Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal-IRYCIS. Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.

Kim Ekross

Founder & CEO. President International Lipidomics Society. Lipidomics Consulting

SPEAKERS
Joost Holthuis	Roger Sandhoff	Yu Xia
Dominik Kopczynski	Dominik Schwudke	Jens Soltwisch
Michal Holcapek	Katharina Gutbrod	Carlos Fernández-Hernándo
Julijana Ivanisevic

MAIN TOPICS
Clinical Lipidomics	Analytical Lipidomics	Imaging - Single Cell Lipidomics
Lipidomic Tools - Standarization	Microbial & Plant Lipidomics