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2026
Young Scientist Meme Contest Winner 2025 ED: Wiebke Günter Life Cycle of a Scientist
2025
Agilent Young Scientist Award: Dana Wehner Acid-Modulated Glycosylation: Structural Insights into Glycosyl Cations via IM-MS and DFT
Lipotype Talk Award: Johanna Sternberg Unintentional Doping via Intimate Contact: Chemical and Analytical Insights into Seminal Fluid–Based Contamination Scenarios
Lipotype Poster Award: Anna Ploner The stability of RNA G-quadruplexes in the gas phase
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2024
Agilent Young Scientist Award: Tim Steinwachs Method development for printing nanoparticle-embedded inks for counterfeit detection and imaging using a modified inkjet printer and laser ablation single particle ICP-MS
Lipotype Talk Award: Lei Ye Formation and Stability of Host-Guest Complexes between Cycloparaphenylenes and Crown Ethers
Lipotype Poster Award: Dana Wehner In-depth Analysis of Glycosyl Cations using Computational Calculation
2023
Agilent Young Scientist Award: Maximilian Horstmann Breaking the ‘ppq(uint.)-barrier’ – Offline SPE paired with automated online SPE-IC-ICP-MS for trace determination of 99-technetium in aqueous samples
Wiley Talk Award: Marc Safferthal Glycosaminoglycan structure prediction: Joining the Power of Random Forest and Mass-Spectrometry-Aided Cryogenic Infrared Spectroscopy
& Steffen Heuckeroth On-tissue dataset-dependent MALDI-TIMS-MS2 bioimaging
Shimadzu Poster Award: Stefan Pfister An orthogonal proteomic ATLAS of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with Zika virus (ZIKV)
Wiley Poster Award: Wiebke Günther Studying the Molecular Mechanisms of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of α- Synuclein by Mass Spectrometry
& Christian Faist Dual-HPLC-MS for accelerated determination of metabolites in human serum samples
2022
Agilent Young Scientist Award: Johannes Scholz Quantification of Sphingomyelins in Caenorhabditis elegans via SFC-TIMS-MS
Wiley Talk Award: Steffen Heuckeroth Alignment of ion mobility-based Imaging and LC-MS analyses for increased annotation confidence
& Jerome Riedel Glycosaminoglycan structure prediction: Joining the Power of Random Forest and Mass-Spectrometry-Aided Cryogenic Infrared Spectroscopy
Shimadzu & Springer Poster Award: Wiebke Günther Application of the Protease Nepenthesin for Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry
Springer Poster Award: Carla Kirschbaum Shedding Infrared Light on Lipid Fragmentation
& Michael Götze 3D Printed Offline Nanoelectrospray Ionization Source for Bruker Mass Spectrometers
2021
Agilent Young Scientist Award: Carla Kirschbaum Formation of dioxolane structures – a universal phenomenon in glycerolipid fragmentation unveiled by gas-phase IR spectroscopy
Talk Awards: Sabrina Funke Laser ablation-ICP-MS for the investigation of long-term gadolinium retention in healthy rats after administration of MRI contrast agents
& Matti Froning Analysis of Lipid A from Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas putida and Pseudomonas taiwanensis using LC-MS/MS
