Symposium Schedule ESCP 2026
preliminary schedule
09:00 – 15:00
Deep Visual Proteomics (DVP) Workshop
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
09:00 – 09:05
Speaker intro round
09:05 – 09:20
Workshop overview
Fabian Coscia
09:20 – 09:50
From Staining to Imaging: Best Practices for Membrane Slides
Sonja Fritzsche
09:50 – 10:45
Considerations for Image Acquisition and Analysis incl. QuPath Tutorial
Jose Nimo
10:45 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 11:50
Image Analysis Use Cases with BIAS
Ede Migh, Andras Kriston
11:50 – 12:35
From Shape to Data – Closing the Loop: LC-MS, Data Analysis Strategies and Image Integration
Marvin Thielert, Melissa Klingeberg
12:35 – 12:45
Short Q&A
12:45 – 13:30
Lunch break
📍 IMP Cafeteria
13:30 – 14:00
Which Cells to Pick from a Heterogeneous Tissue?
Florian Rosenberger
14:00 – 14:30
From Pixels to Proteome – AI-guided Spatial Profiling at Scale
Lisa Schweizer
14:30 – 14:50
Short participant pitches
14:50 – 15:00
Final wrap-up and Q&A
15:15 – 17:30
Session 1
Chair: Manuel Matzinger
09:00 – 09:10
Opening Remarks
Karl Mechtler & Manuel Matzinger
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
09:10 – 09:45
Such a Mess! Embracing single-cell heterogeneity to construct disease trajectories
Florian Rosenberger
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
09:45 – 10:20
High-Throughput Label-free Single-Cell Proteomics Enabled by Multicolumn NanoLC with a 3-min Cycle Time
Ryan T. Kelly
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
10:20 – 10:55
Development and Application of High-Throughput and Ultra-Sensitive Single-Cell Proteomics
Zilu Ye
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
10:55 – 11:10
Scalable same-cell deep profiling of the proteome and transcriptome across cell cycle and development
Marvin Thielert
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
11:10 – 11:40
Coffee Break
📍 Foyer
Sesison 2
Chair: Fabian Coscia
11:40 – 12:15
Dissecting the origins of quantitative errors in DIA proteomics.
Vadim Demichev
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
12:15 – 12:50
Beyond the packed bed: open-tubular formats for high-sensitivity omic and multi-omic profiling
Alexander Ivanov
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
12:50 – 13:05
Aggregate Deep Visual Proteomics: spatial proteomics below the single cell, from culture to human tissue
Marc Oeller
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
13:05 – 14:05
Lunch
📍 IMP Cafeteria
Session 3
Chair: Rupert Mayer
14:05 – 14:40
Microfluidics-Based Single-Cell Proteomic and Multi-Omics Analysis
Qun Fang
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
14:40 – 14:55
Cohort-scale deep spatial proteomics with single-cell resolution
Sonja Fritzsche
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
14:55 – 15:05
MaSSProt: A Microfluidic Probe-Based Spatial Proteomics Workflow with near Single-Cell-Scale Sensitivity
Sharvari Somayaji
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
15:05 – 17:10
Poster Session with refreshments
📍 Bridge IMBA
Session 4
Chair: Erwin Schoof
17:10 – 17:45
From the bedside to the bench: single-cell proteomics reveals potential circulating immune remodeling in head and neck cancer
Adriana F. Paes Leme
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
17:45 – 18:00
Ultra-Deep Label-Free and pSILAC-SCP Decodes KRAS Inhibitor Resistance
Azmal Syed Ali
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
18:00 – 18:30
Updates Proteomics Technology Hub
Anna Cusa, Dennis Dannecker, Tim Thierer
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
18:30 – 22:00
Conference Dinner
📍 IMP Cafeteria
Session 5
Chair: Isabella Burger
09:00 – 09:35
The cell is not alone: public data and AI-models for single-cell proteomics
Tine Claeys
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
09:35 – 10:10
Creating and using a single cell proteomics atlas
Samuel Payne
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
10:10 – 10:25
Bridging Tissue and Single-Cell Proteoform Analysis to Assess Kidney Donor Quality
Claudia Ctortecka
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
10:25 – 10:40
scTAP for Label-Free Single-Cell Proteomics on the Nanolitre Scale
David Hartlmayr
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
10:40 – 10:55
Single-cell phenotypic analysis and multiplet detection through incorporation of microscopy data into cellenONE-based single-cell proteomic data analysis
Markella Loi
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
10:55 – 11:30
Coffee Break
📍 Foyer
Session 6
Chair: Tim Thierer
11:30 – 12:05
Single Cell Proteomics Identifies Drug Resistant Pancreatic Cancer Cell Populations
Tamar Geiger
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
12:05 – 12:40
Analysis of the spatial distribution of brain cells using the LIGHT-SCOPE method
Bogdan Budnik
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
12:40 – 12:55
Global quantification of mammalian gene expression noise
Anna Welter, Florian Mutschler
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
12:55 – 14:00
Lunch
📍 IMP Cafeteria
Session 7
Chair: Anna Cusa
14:00 – 14:35
The Single Cell Proteomic blueprint, navigating platforms, software tools and sample boosters
Alejandro Brenes
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
14:35 – 15:10
Methods for ROI Transfer into the LMD – Enabling DVP and multiplexed workflows
Falk Schlaudraff
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
15:10 – 15:40
Coffee Break
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
Session 8
Chair: Evelyn Rampler
15:40 – 16:15
Single cell proteomics to elucidate targeted molecular glues drug-dose responses in Multiple Myeloma
Charline Keller
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
16:15 – 16:30
Announcement EuPA Spatial and Single-Cell Proteomics Initiative
Fabian Coscia
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
16:30 – 16:50
Closing Remarks & Awards Ceremony
Evelyn Rampler, Manuel Matzinger, Karl Mechtler
📍 IMP Lecture Hall
09:00 – 18:00