Mass Spectrometry at Dresdner Campus: A Road Map

MS Community Dresden:

The MS Community provides support to biological and clinical research projects carried at the Campus. It comprises MS-Facilities and MS-research groups from the MPI CBG, UKD, CMCB (TUD), CRTD and NCT, and Lipotype GmbH. The sites host more than 20 high-end MS instruments and have expertise in MS-based Lipidomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics. We work on service base and open for research collaborations. To our activities belong regular meetings, organization of ms-events, MS journal club and scientific consulting.

Events schedule

2025

*Lab Shevchenko traditional Omics Flash Talk Symposium*

VIII XMASS Updates
Date: December 9th 2025, Hybrid Format, live streaming of talks 2-5pm CET
Zoom: https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/63361875761?pwd=fJHFdowhACl4RuS7JYXCwoc6GRz8Re.1
Meeting ID: 633 6187 5761; Passcode: 946656
In-person location: Dresden Uniklinikum Johanstadter Campus, CSBD bldg, Top Floor auditorium
Program is here => https://tinyurl.com/OurXMass Everybody is welcome!

Technology Seminar (in-person)
Host: Lab Shevchenko
Topic: Biomek i3 - benchtop liquid handling station for ms-sample preparation 
Speaker: Dr. Friederike Jantzen (Beckman Coulter Life Sciences)
Date: November 25th 2025, 11:00 am CET
Location: MPI-CBG, Seminar Room 3
Everybody is welcome!

MS Community Journal Club
Host: Marc Gentzel (TUD)
Topic: ZenoTOF presented by Sciex 
Date: November 4th 2025, 2:00 pm CET, Zoom
Zoom: https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/62744016205?pwd=hJfcBDcaJSFZHc9bHJWwvVAt0vmp1e.1
Meeting ID: 27 4401 6205 Passcode: 4370586
Everybody is welcome!

The Lipidomics Webinar #14
Speaker: Dr.Alessia Trimingo (Lipotype, Dresden)
Titles: Lipidomics of lipid droplets in health and diseaces
Date: Oct 23rd 2025, 5:00 pm CET
Duration: 30 min + Q&A after the talk

www.lipotype.com/lipidomics-webinars/lipidomics-of-lipid-droplets-in-health-and-disease/

MS Community Journal Club
Moderator: Andrej Shevchenko
Topic: Astral Collection - discussion of the selected publications. Bring the one of your choice!
Date: October 21st 2025, 2:00 pm CET, Zoom
Zoom: https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/63074052737?pwd=lCU5waST6rHLJJxqEAaBoX4Yb7ZJOy.1
Meeting ID: 630 7405 2737 Passcode: 691057
Everybody is welcome!   

MS Community Journal Club
Speaker: Dr.Josch Konstantin Pauling (IKL TUD)
Topic: Practical Bioinformatics
Date: April 15th 2025, 2:00 pm CET, Zoom
Zoom: https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/67882952244?pwd=ibOCyT8nlrqmtb6FbkbMbVNd5b256g.1
Meeting ID: 678 8295 2244 Passcode: 475558
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlr.2021.100104 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2118210119

MS Community Journal Club
Speaker: Dr.Olga Vvedenskaya (Lipotype GmbH, Dresden)
Topic: How bioacive vitamin A derivatives improve the appearance of human skin
Date: Feb 4th 2025, 2:00 pm CET, Zoom
Zoom: https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/67418198039?pwd=0U9NSaaB8h7USCbz2zTrdcJfXxe2nC.1
Meeting ID: 674 1819 8039 Passcode: 249051
Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/exd.14219

MS Community Journal Club
Speaker: Ezgi Senoglu (Albert AG, CRTD, TU Dresden)
Topic: Epigenome profiling by Epi-CyTOF approach identifies H3K27me3 regulation of extra-cellular matrix composition in human corticogenesis
Date: Jan 28th 2025, 2:00 pm CET, Zoom
Zoom: https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/66715892489?pwd=1rSDnrh5qUwSnjakdgzbUGfUhaf480.1
Meeting ID:  667 1589 2489, Passcode: 615632
Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.01.616076v1

News

December 2025

  • December 1-3rd. Inserm Workshop "Lipidomics: principles and applications in the field of health. (Bordeaux, France).  Prof. Dr. M. Fedorova (Fedorova Lab, ZML) and Dr. A. Shevchenko (MPI-CBG) are taking part as invited speakers https://ateliersinserm.dakini-pco.comhttps://ateliersinserm.dakini-pco.com/img/affiches.ateliers/1756889903.affiche.287.v2.jpg

May 2025

May 5-7th. Annual Meeting of C4L Proteomics Group, EMBL/DKFZ, Heidelberg. Dresden Proteomics was presented by Lab Shevchenko (MPI CBG) and Marc Gentzel (Head of Proteomics Faciity, TU CMCB TUD) .

April 2025

  • April 7-9th. LiSyM-Cancer Status Seminar 2025, Düsseldorf. Dresden MS Community (Fedorova Lab, ZML and Lab Shevchenko, MPI-CBG) took part in the first meeing of the new funding period of the Liver System Medicine Cancer consorcium. https://www.lisym-cancer.org/


 

Regular Activities

XMass Updates - Annual Omics Flash Talks Symposium ❄️

It is the place to hear the news!

XMass Updates is an informal get-together for the Dresden Mass Spectrometry Community and invited guests organized by Shevchenko Lab (MPI-CBG). It was launched in 2018 to recall on exciting developments in Omics sciences throughout the year. The event comprises 14-15 flash talks interrupted by two short breaks. XMass Updates is held in hybrid format and is open to other participants via Zoom with no registration required.

More info is available on our XMass Updates page.

XMass Updates Flash Talk Rules:
- each speaker has an 8-minute flash talk followed by a 2-minute Q&A, time enforced
- flash the news, thoughts, concerns, concepts and ideas. No strings attached. Make it short, interesting and (in good sense) entertaining
- nothing in-depth, no long intro, no details
- pointed questions, pointed answers
- diverse scientific topics. Again no strings attached
- no recording

MS Journal Club for Users (MS4U)

MS4U was launched in 2020 to build a bridge between MS Community and scientists working in biological and clinical research at Dresdner campus. Here we discuss articles selected by YOU. You found a hot paper related to your scientific topic but... - do not understand ms-method? - unsure if it fosters YOUR project? - unclear if this is routine or only runs in a single lab? - and, how it practically works? Once you suggest an article or topic, we will look for complementary articles published by leading practitioners in this field and then analyze them together with you. MS-Lipidomics, MS-proteomics, MS-metabolomics, MS-imaging, any MS - let's discuss it with MS-Profis from the entire Dresden campus! Contact us and share YOUR HOT PAPER suggestion!

The JC rules are the following:

  1. The assigned person choses the paper in advance and sends it around, but does not present it.
  2. Most importantly, Everyone Reads the Paper!
  3. Starting person (randomly chosen) describes (questiones, criticizes) the first figure/paragraph/topic, and all together we try to figure out what authors wanted to say. The second person (randomly chosen) describes the second figure and so on.
  4. Please come if you read the paper.
  5. If you bring your colleagues or friends, make sure that they are aware of the rules.