6th ESCP 2025

Alejandro Brenes, Cantrell and Lamond Labs, Division of Cell Signalling & Immunology, University of Dundee

Alejandro received his PhD in 2022 from the University of Dundee, where he focused on the proteomic characterisation of immune cells including T cells and neutrophils. He is the creator and maintainer of the Immunological Proteome Resource. He is now a post-doctoral researcher within the Centre for Inflammation Research at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on leveraging ultra-sensitive proteomics to characterise rare human leukocyte populations, with an emphasis on neutrophils, in both health as well as under inflammatory disease

Bogdan Budnik, Principal Scientist, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Boston, MA, USA; BD HPP Chair and EC member at HUPO

Bogdan has over 20 years of extensive experience in mass spectrometry-based proteomics analysis in the characterization of peptides and proteins utilizing a broad range of biological samples. At the Wyss Institute he helps to lead the Multi-omics Discovery Engine (MoDE) under the Diagnostics Accelerator (Wyss DxA) with the goal of catalyzing innovation in the fields of therapeutics and diagnostics. During the last 15 years, prior to this role at the Wyss, he was the Director of the Proteomics Laboratory at Harvard University supporting a variety of scientific projects for the larger Harvard community and its associated researchers.

Vadim Demichev, MSTARS Group Leader at Charité, Berlin, Germany

Expert for high-throughput proteomics and author of DIA-NN

Laurent Gatto, Institut de Duve, Brussels, Belgium

Since September 2018, Laurent Gatto heads the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Unit the de Duve Institute and is Associate Professor at the UCLouvain. He teaches data science and bioinformatics in the faculty of pharmacy and biomedical sciences. Laurent Gatto is an avid open research advocate, making the research in his lab reproducible and openly available. He is a Software Sustainability Institute fellow, a Data and Software Carpentry instructor, and an affiliated member of the Bioconductor project. Before joining the UCLouvain, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Biochemistry and Cambridge Centre for Systems Biology, at the University of Cambridge (UK) from 2010 to 2013. Until 2018, he ran the Computational Proteomics Unit as senior post-doctoral researcher. Laurent Gatto obtained his Master’s degree in Biology and his PhD in Sciences (2006) from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium), and worked for three years in industry, as a bioinformatics and project manager.

Tami Geiger, Associate Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Tami develops novel single cell proteomic approaches, and combines them with tumor analyses and bioinformatics to characterize cellular interactions within the tumor microenvironment, and how these interactions associate with response to immunotherapy. Her lab further investigates the association between the proteomic level and the genomic and transcriptomic levels aiming to elucidate gene-expression regulatory mechanisms and the functional proteomic output of cancer somatic mutations.

Alexander Ivanov, Associate Professor at Northeastern University – Boston, MA, USA

Alexander earned his Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry at the Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow in 2000 before starting a postdoc at Northeastern University. He later joined Harvard University and became Director of the HSPH Proteomic Resource in 2008, before rejoining Northeastern, where he is currently working as Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Alexander’s research interests include characterization of PTMs and protein isoforms, deep proteomics profiling of limited biological samples, ultra-low flow separation techniques such as capillary electrophoresis and extracellular vesicle analysis.

Ryan T. Kelly, Full Professor at Brigham Young University – Provo, UT, USA

Ryan received his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from BYU in 2005 before spending the next 13 years at PNNL, ultimately serving as Senior Research Scientist, Manager and Chief Technologist for EMSL, a national scientific user facility at PNNL, where he developed the popular nanoPOTS platform. Ryan is (co-)author of >100 publications, has won several awards and is named inventor on a number of licensed and commercialized patents. He focuses on technological improvements for ultrasensitive proteomic analyses and is currently Associate Professor at BYU.

Mikaela Koutrouli, Postdoctoral researcher at Genentech, San Francisco, CA

Mikaela Koutrouli earned her Ph.D. at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, where she developed tools to navigate and interpret the complexity of single-cell omics data. Her expertise includes network biology, predictive modeling, and the integration of deep learning in the analysis of high-dimensional single-cell data. As a core manager of the scverse ecosystem, she is playing a key role in developing and maintaining community-driven software frameworks tailored for single-cell analysis, as well as fostering a collaborative and supportive community around these tools.

She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Computational Biology at Genentech, supervised by Dr. John Marioni. Mikaela is deeply passionate about advancing single-cell biology through computational innovations, focusing on single-cell and spatial omics, as well as leveraging deep learning for biological data analysis.

Adriana F. Paes Leme, Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory, Campinas, Brasil

Adriana F. Paes Leme received her Ph.D. from the State University of Campinas, Brazil, before conducting postdoctoral research at the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, and the University of Virginia School of Medicine, VA, USA. Since 2009, she has been a Principal Investigator and Head of the Mass Spectrometry Facility at the Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio), part of the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM). Her research focuses on advancing mass spectrometry-based proteomics to understand diverse microenvironments, primarily in head and neck cancer, with a particular emphasis on biofluid proteomics, spatial proteomics, and, more recently, single-cell proteomics. 

Aline Martins, Department of Regenerative Medicine at UCSD and Associate Director of Integrated Space Stem Cell Orbital Research (ISSCOR) Center at UCSD, San Diego, CA

Biologist with a PhD in Translational Medicine in experimental problems translated from the clinic to the benchside (from downstream services to upstream technologies). Graduated in Biological Sciences with PhD in Biotechnology in the area of Functional Cancer Proteomics (GD/ CNPq grant). The doctoral thesis was developed in the Department of Surgery (Liver Transplantation of the University Hospital HUWC/UFC) and the experimental work was carried out at the University of Siena (UNISI) Italy (PDEE grant/Capes). From 2022 -2024, she was a staff scientist at The Scripps Research Institute in Dr. John Yates lab developing methods in Single Cell Proteomics (SCP) that could be translated to clinics and applied to biological questions. Nowadays, she is a faculty at the Department of Regenerative Medicine at UCSD and Associate Director of Integrated Space Stem Cell Orbital Research (ISSCOR) Center at UCSD.  Engaging proteomics knowledge to inspire science in space medicine and biology!

Florian Rosenberger, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Florian Rosenberger is an incoming Assistant Professor at the Karolinska Institute. Before he was working with Prof. Matthias Mann as EMBO postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany. He holds a PhD in mitochondrial biology from the Karolinska Institute. Florian’s research in the field of MS-based single cell proteomics centers around understanding the metabolic niches in both healthy and diseased contexts. His work primarily focuses on liver biology, encompassing the development of a single-cell proteomics map to unravel the spatially dependent proteome of hepatocytes.