PROGRAMME TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2014 15:30-17:00 Registration 17:00-17:15 Opening Remarks 1st Session 17:15-18:00 Advancing Lipidomics and Membrane-Protein Interactions with Novel Mass Spectrometric Approaches Prof. Edward A. Dennis (University of California San Diego, USA) 18:00-18:30 Intuitive High-Resolution Workflows in Drug Development, Healthcare and Safety Dr. Volker Kruft (AB Sciex, Germany) 18:30-18:45 JAGN1-deficiency Causes Congenital Neutropenia and is Associated with Neutrophils Aberrant Glycosylation Dr Aristotelis Antonopoulos (Imperial College, UK) 18:45-19:00 Mass Spectrometry Studies on the Fragmentation of Fluoroketone PLA2 Inhibitors and Applications of their Determination in Serum by LC/MS/MS Dr Victoria Magrioti (University of Athens, Greece) 19:00-19:30 High Resolution Mass Spectrometry in Health Dr. Martin Hornshow (Thermo Fisher Scientific) 19:30 Cocktail 1 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2014 2nd Session 09:00-09:30 Quality Safety and Origin of Aliments Prof. Giovanni Sindona (University of Calambria, Italy) 09:30-10:00 Recent Technological Advances Towards Better Understanding of Sample Complexity and Improving Method Development in High-Acquisition-Rate, Extended Dynamic Range UPLC-MS/MS in Health as well as Food & Environmental Safety Applications Dr. Matthias Rietdorf (Waters Corp.) 10:00-10:20 Proteomic Applications in Cancer Research Dr. George Panayotou (Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”, Greece) 10:20-10:50 Proteomics for Clinics in a Matter of Minutes Prof. Goran Mitulovic (Medical University of Vienna, Austria) 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 3rd Session 11:30-12:15 Arachidonic Acid Biochemistry: From Transcellular Biosynthesis of Leukotrienes to Imaging Mass Spectrometry Prof. Robert Murphy (University of Colorado Denver, USA) 12:15-12:35 Anticancer Drugs and Biomarkers: Mass Spectrometry Based Approaches for the Evaluation of Peptide Drug Conjugates Dr. Constantin Tamvakopoulos (Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece) 12:35-12:50 MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry for Direct Tissue Analysis Assoc. Prof. Irene Panderi (University of Athens, Greece) 12:50-13:05 Detection of Sulfo-conjugated Anabolic Steroids Metabolites for Doping Control Analysis Dr. Emmanuil Lyris (Doping Control Laboratory of Athens, Greece) 13:05-14:30 Lunch Break - Poster Session 2 4th Session 14:30-14:50 Experimental and Numerical Methods for the Design and Characterization of Novel Ion Optical Systems Immersed in Fast Gas Flows Dr. Dimitris Papanastasiou (Fasmatech Sci & Tech, Greece) 14:50-15:05 Analysis of Cyanotoxins and their Transformation Products Using Mass Spectrometry Dr Anastasia Hiskia (NCSR “Demokritos”, Greece) 15:05-15:20 Exposure to the Persistent Perfluorinated Compounds PFCs in Greece Dr. Danae Costopoulou (NCSR “Demokritos”, Greece) 15:20-15:35 Μass Spectrometry in Pesticide Residues Analysis Dr. Eleni Botitsi (General Chemical State Laboratory, Greece) 15:35-15:50 Determination of Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Ambient Air & Stationary Sources Using Gas Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry Dr. Thomas Maggos (NCSR “Demokritos”, Greece) 15:50-16:05 LC/MS-based Metabolomic Analysis of Red Algae of the Genus Laurencia: Screening for Bioactive Compounds and New Natural Products Katerina Kokkotou (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece) 3