Program Overview
Program Overview

Time

CEST

Day 1

14 October
Wednesday

Day 2

15 October
Thursday

Day 3

16 October

Friday

Morning

9:00-12:00

Chair Welcome Speech
Session 5. Advances in Metabolomics Technologies


Session 1. Lipid and Nutrition Metabolomics


Session 3. Advanced Data Analysis and Integration in Metabolomics

 

 


Break


Break


Break
 

 

14 October 
Wednesday

15 October
Thursday

16 October
Friday

Afternoon

14:00-17:00

Session 2. Ecological and Environmental Metabolomics

Session 4. Clinical Metabolomics and Drug Metabolism
(15:00-18:00 CEST)

Session 6. Plant and Animal Metabolism and Modeling

Chair Closing Speech

IECM 2026 – Program Day 1

Session 5. Advances in Metabolomics Technologies (Morning Session)

Day 1 - 14 October 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 09:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST, Beijing)

Time (CEST)

Speaker

Title

09:00–09:05

Prof. Dr. Leonardo Tenori

Session Chair

Opening remarks

09:05–09:30

Dr. Stefano Cacciatore

Keynote Speaker

Title to be announced

09:30–09:50

Dr. Michele Costanzo

Invited Speaker

Metabolomics as a Lens into Sex Differences

09:50–10:10

Prof. Dr. Quan-Fei Zhu

Invited Speaker

Emerging Analytical Strategies for FAHFA Characterization in Metabolomics

10:10–10:25

Desta Gebremedhin Gebrehiwot

Selected Speaker

Valorization of Rugulopteryx okamurae through the elaboration of bioactive-rich and functional extracts: Optimization of extraction conditions and comprehensive characterization by complementary spectrophotometric and metabolomics tools

10:25–10:40

Marlene Nyambura Thaitumu

Selected Speaker

Volumetric Absorptive Microsampling in Biomarker Analysis: Insights from Targeted and Rapid Microbore Metabolic Profiling Approaches

10:40–10:55

Valentina Giraldi

Selected Speaker

Lyophilization-based protocol for human plasma and serum metabolomics by benchtop NMR spectroscopy: optimization and validation

10:55–11:10

Gaia Meoni

Selected Speaker

Fluorine-Tagging Strategies for Amino Acid Detection by Low-Field ¹⁹F NMR Spectroscopy

11:10–11:25

Monica Trif

Selected Speaker

Integrating Metabolomics into the Development of Functional Bee-Based Foods for Healthy Ageing

11:25–11:40

Pinky Kain

Selected Speaker

High-resolution spatiometabolomics in Drosophila: Advancing tissue-specific metabolomics via DESI-Mass Spectrometry Imaging

11:40–12:00

Dr. Sonali Mishra

Invited Speaker

The Role of Metabolomics in Advancing Rare Disease Research

Break (12:00–14:00)

Session 2. Ecological and Environmental Metabolomics 
(Afternoon Session)

Day 1: 14 October 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 08:00 (EDT, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing
)

 

Time (CEST)

Speaker

Title

14:00–14:05

Dr. Bei Gao

Session Chair

Opening remarks

14:05–14:30

Dr. David Beale

Keynote Speaker

From Molecules to Ecosystems: The Power of Environmental Metabolomics

14:30–14:55

Prof. Dr. Sanjay Swarup

Keynote Speaker

Title to be announced

14:55–15:20

Prof. Dr. Kun Lu

Keynote Speaker

Title to be announced

15:20–15:40

Dr. Min Liu

Invited Speaker

Functional Exposomics: Decoding Mechanisms and Drivers of Human-Relevant Chemical Mixture Effects.

15:40–16:00

Dr. Yanqiu Zhou

Invited Speaker

Prenatal Exposome of Tire-Derived Chemical Mixtures: Integrating Metabolomics to Identify Key Environmental Drivers of Early-Life Health

16:00–16:20

Dr. Bo Peng

Invited Speaker

Human Exposome Biomonitoring: Biofluid Matrix Selection and Exposure Biomarker Discovery

16:20–16:35

Luciana de Jesus Jatoba

Selected Speaker

Comparative Analysis of Sample Preservation Techniques for Plant Ecometabolomic Studies

16:35–16:50

Willian Garcia Birolli

Selected Speaker

Metabolite identification of alpha-cypermethrin biodegradation by citrus bacteria.

IECM 2026 – Program Day 2

Session 1. Lipid and Nutrition Metabolomics Technologies (Morning Session)

Day 2: 15 October 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 09:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST, Beijing)

Time (CEST)

Speaker

Title

09:00–09:10

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Paglia

Session Chair

Dr. Beate Fuchs

Session Chair



Opening remarks

09:10–09:35

Dr. Laura Righetti

Keynote Speaker

The Good and the Bad: Non-Targeted approaches for unraveling the complexity of food metabolome

09:35–09:50

Yongting Luo

Speaker

Breast Milk Oxylipin Signature Predicts Infant Gut Microbiota Maturation: A Prospective Lipidomics–Metagenomics Cohort Study

09:50–10:05

Sadaqat Ali

Speaker

Astaxanthin Supplementation Mitigates Chronic Heat Stress-Induced Dysregulation of Glycerophospholipids and Sphingolipids in Broiler Thigh Muscle: Untargeted LC-MS Lipidomics Evidence

10:05–10:20

Rajesh Babu Komaragiri

Speaker

Integrated Metabolomics, Network Pharmacology, and Cell-Based Validation of Indigenous Rice Bran Cultivars against Colorectal Cancer Chemoprevention

10:20–10:35

Cheetra Bhajan

Speaker

Metabolite Profiling of Selected Mauritian Endemic Fruits

10:35–10:50

Simone Serrao

Speaker

Immune-cell metabolomics in frailty reveals mitochondrial dysregulation potentially linked to functional vitamin B12 deficiency

10:50–11:05

Marina Hernández Martín

Speaker

Dietary Grape Pomace Polyphenols Modulate Hepatic Fatty Acid Metabolism in Early Diet-Induced MASLD

11:05–11:20

Marta Nobile

Speaker

Personal Urinary Metabotypes and Sex Differences Dominate Seasonal and Dietary Effects in a Four-Season Longitudinal Urine Metabolomics Study

11:20–11:35

Rúben J. Moreira

Speaker

"The testis remembers”: lifestyle-based weight loss partially rescues fertility despite testicular metabolic memory of early-life obesity

11:35–11:50

Ujjalkumar Das

Speaker

The EV–Oxylipin Axis in Atherosclerosis: Characterization of oxylipin cargo in plasma-derived extracellular vesicles from Ldlr-/- mice

Break (12:00–15:00)


Session 4. Clinical Metabolomics and Drug Metabolism (Afternoon Session)

Day 2: 15 October 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 15:00 (CEST, Basel) | 09:00 (EDT, New York) | 21:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
 

Time (CEST)

Speaker

Title

15:00–15:05

Dr. Yunping Qiu

Session Chair

Opening remarks

15:05–15:30

Dr. Cecília R.C. Calado

Keynote Speaker

Metabolomics fingerprinting based on FTIR spectroscopy for biomarkers discovery

15:30–15:45

Xinhui Wang

Selected Speaker

From Plasma Metabolites to Therapeutic Targets: Translational Prioritization of Metabolic Pathways in Intervertebral Disc Degeneration

15:45–16:00

Ashwini V Rao

Selected Speaker

Cord Blood Metabolomic Profiling Reveals Fetal Reprogramming in Intrauterine Growth Restriction

16:00–16:15

Amrita Sahu

Selected Speaker

Investigation of Metabolic Dysregulation in Advanced-Stage Chronic Kidney Disease Using NMR-Based Urinary Metabolomics.

16:15–16:30

Elizaveta Yakunina

Selected Speaker

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia and Aromatic Microbial Metabolites in Patients After Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke

16:30–16:45

Maria Bora Salobehaj

Selected Speaker

Characterization of Intra- and Extracellular Metabolic Profiles by ¹H NMR in Aβ1-42-Treated Human Astrocytes from Healthy and Alzheimer's Disease Subjects

16:45–17:00

Monique Opperman

Selected Speaker

Post-therapy metabolic profiles of tuberculosis patients with treatment-cured and treatment-failed outcomes

17:00–17:15

Alexia K Lo

Selected Speaker

Development and Validation of a Comprehensive LC-MS/MS Targeted Assay for Uremic Solute Profiling in Chronic Kidney Disease

17:15–17:30

Arjun Sengupta

Selected Speaker

Neurobehavioral Sensitization to Sleep Deprivation is Associated with Re-organization of Circadian Metabolic Rhythm

17:30–17:45

Mariana Duarte

Selected Speaker

Quality control of the culture media during early stages of NK-cell expansion process

IECM 2026 – Program Day 3

Session 3. Advanced Data Analysis and Integration in Metabolomics (Morning Session)

Day 3: 16 October 2026 (Friday)
Time: 09:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST, Beijing)

Time (CEST)

Speaker

Title

09:00–09:10

Prof. Dr. Oliver Fiehn

Session Chair

Dr. Reza Salek

Session Chair




Opening remarks

09:10–09:35

Prof. Dr. Jianguo (Jeff) Xia

Keynote Speaker

Multi-Modal and Multi-Omics in MetaboAnalyst: From Static Statistics to Context-Aware Interpretation

09:35–10:00

Prof. Dr. Peter D. Karp

Keynote Speaker

Title to be announced

10:00–10:15

Huaxu Yu

Selected Speaker

MassCube: a Python framework for end-to-end metabolomics data processing from raw files to phenotype classifiers

10:15–10:30

Hao Xu

Selected Speaker

A structure-aware platform for comprehensive lipidomics annotation and quantification

10:30–10:45

Joe Lomax

Selected Speaker

Penalised Mixed Effects Modelling of Longitudinal Metabolomics Data

10:45–11:00

Parisa Shahnazari

Selected Speaker

Toward Interpretable Multi-Omics Biomarker Discovery in Breast Cancer: A Meta-Analytic Framework Integrating Attention-Based Deep Learning, Deep Transfer Learning, and Contrastive Learning

11:00–11:15

Paula Barciela Álvarez

Selected Speaker

Mapping phytochemicals and neuroprotective mechanisms in five medicinal plants: a knowledgebase-driven approach

11:15–11:30

Daniel Boehmler

Selected Speaker

Enabling subcellular DESI-MSI for broad adoption: Acquisition through to analysis

11:30–11:45

Robert M Flight

Selected Speaker

Quality-Control and Quality-Assessment of Metabolomics Workbench

11:45–12:00

Mario A Flores

Selected Speaker

TG-ME-Met: An Integrative Transformer-Graph Variational Autoencoder Framework for Multi-Modal Characterization of Tumor Microenvironments through Spatial Transcriptomics and Metabolomics

Break (12:00–14:00)

Session 6. Plant and Animal Metabolism and Modeling (Afternoon Session)

Day 3: 16 October 2026 (Friday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 08:00 (EDT, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing
) 

Time (CEST)

Speaker

Title

14:00–14:10

Prof. Dr. Chi Chen

Session Chair

Dr. Fidele Tugizimana

Session Chair



Opening remarks

14:10–14:35

Prof. Dr. Junsong Wang

Keynote Speaker

Title to be announced

14:35–14:50

Yan Cheng

Selected Speaker

A multifunctional ANL superfamily gene OsACS couples oxylipin and phenylpropanoid metabolism

14:50–15:05

Aleena Parvez

Selected Speaker

Metabolic Profiling and Biochemical Diversity of the Cucurbitaceae Family: Implications for Agricultural and Nutritional Optimization

15:05–15:20

Ashruti Fulmali

Selected Speaker

Metabolomic profiling reveals Hydrogen sulfide-induced alterations in the secondary metabolite production of Trigonella foenum-graecum (Fenugreek).

15:20–15:35

Maria Almeida-Santos

Selected Speaker

Metabolomic characterisation of the testis in Lysosomal Acid Lipase–deficient mice highlights age‑dependent changes in energy‑ and lipid‑associated metabolites

15:35–15:50

Alfred O. Onefeli

Selected Speaker

Comparative Secondary Metabolite Profiles and FTIR-Based Chemical Fingerprinting of Three Vernonia Species in Nigeria

15:50–16:05

Karliane Pinto Viana

Selected Speaker

LC-MS/MS-Based Metabolomic Profiling and Antioxidant Potential of Combretum mellifluum Flower Extracts

16:05–16:20

Juan José Romero-Tovar

Selected Speaker

Untargeted metabolomics reveals phenology and cultivation-dependent signatures of vasodilatory activity in Heliopsis longipes leaves

16:20–16:30

Prof. Dr. Hunter Moseley

Conference Chair

Closing remarks

 


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