APMRS 2025

APMRS 2025

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Christopher Chang, Princeton University

Chris Chang studied at the California Institute of Technology and earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry in 1997, after which he worked in the laboratory of Jean-Pierre Sauvage at the Université Louis Pasteur as a Fulbright Fellow. In 1998, he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a NSF/Merck Graduate Fellow. During his doctoral studies, Chris worked in the laboratory of Daniel G. Nocera. After earning his PhD in inorganic chemistry in 2002, Chris remained at MIT, working with Stephen J. Lippard as a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow. He currently holds the position of Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry at Princeton. The main focus of his work is activity-based sensing as a general platform to identify transition metals, reactive oxygen species, and one-carbon units as new classes of single-atom signals for allosteric regulation of protein function.

Matej Orešič, University of Turku

(SFB Lipid hydrolysis invited lecture)

Matej Orešič holds a PhD in Biophysics from Cornell University. He is Professor of Medicine with Specialization in Systems Medicine at Örebro University (Sweden) and Group Leader in Systems Medicine at Turku Bioscience Centre (Finland). As of 2016, he was made a Lifetime Honorary Fellow of the Metabolomics Society. He is one of the founders of the Nordic Metabolomics Society and currently its Chair of the Board. Dr. Orešič currently also serves in the Board of Directors of the Metabolomics Society. Prof. Orešič’s main research areas include metabolomics applications in biomedical research and systems medicine. He is particularly interested in the identification of disease processes, with a central focus on both type 1 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Prof. Orešič also initiated the popular MZmine open-source project.

Ilaria Piazza, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

Ilaria did her PhD studies at EMBL in Heidelberg, where she embarked on a project studying the molecular machines regulating chromatin structure and gene expression during the cell cycle using yeast genetics, cell and structural biology. During her PhD, Ilaria started her venture into crosslinking mass spectrometry in the Beck laboratory. This brought her to study protein structures with a -omics perspective in at ETH Zurich and later at Biognosys. Her current research goal as a group leader at MDC Berlin is to study how metabolism regulates chromatin architecture and its impact on gene expression using proteomics, genomics and metabolomics.