DGMet Annual Meeting 2026

The 6th annual meeting of the DGMet will be held at the Julius Kühn-Institut in Berlin-Dahlem on 8–9 October 2026.

The meeting is organised by Karin Gorzolka, Nicole van Dam and Jennifer Kirwan, with the Julius Kühn-Institut, the Leibniz-Institut für Gemüse- und Zierpflanzenbau (IGZ) and the Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin.

The programme is final. It is reproduced below and also available as a PDF.

Thursday, 8 October

11:00–12:30 Welcome and registration

12:30–12:45 Opening of the meeting

12:45–14:30 · Session 1: Plant metabolomics

12:45–13:15 · Keynote — Mustafa Balut: Investigating the Metabolic Landscape of an Arabidopsis thaliana Population under Simulated UV Conditions

13:15–13:45

Paula C. P. Bueno: Metabolomics and Elemental Profiling for Quality and Geographic Origin Assessment of Specialty Green Coffee Beans
Nadine Austel: Unlocking Metabolite Diversity in Brassica napus × Eruca sativa Hybrids for Breeding Pollen Beetle-resistant Oilseed Rape

13:45–14:00 DGMet working group presentation by the group leaders

14:00–15:45 · Poster session with coffee

15:45–16:30 · Session 2: Bioinformatics

Janine Wiebach: Beyond Feature Filtering: Using MSlineaR to Interpret Longitudinal Metabolomics Data
Laurenz Engel: Development of a Multi-Omics AI Toolbox for Wet-Lab and Data Science Researchers
Nils Hoffmann: Enabling FAIR Comparative Lipidomics with LipidCompass

16:30 – open end · Working group meetings

19:00 · Dinner

EßKultur Berlin, Takustraße 38/40, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem — ten minutes’ walk from the JKI.

Friday, 9 October

8:30–10:00 · Session 3: Clinical and human metabolomics

8:30–9:00 · Keynote — Marc Dumas

9:00–10:00

Thierry Schmidlin: High-throughput Plasma Metabolomics: from LC-MS to Population-scale Reference Distributions
Hannah S. Lüschen: Distributed in Plasma, Marker-driven in Urine: Label-free Metabotyping of Inborn Errors of Metabolism
Lea Woyciechowski: COVID Dogolomics: Integrating Canine Olfaction and GC–MS Volatilomics to Identify Urinary VOC Signatures of Post COVID Syndrome
Dirk Weber: N-acetylated amino acids: an overlooked layer of metabolic regulation

10:00–11:30 · Session 4: Methods, applications and MS imaging

10:00–10:30 · Keynote — Sarela Garcia-Santamarina: Drug-gut Microbiota Interactions: From Single Species to Communities

10:30–11:30

Marie Kersten: From Enzyme Upregulation to Metabolic Output: Development of an LC-MS Approach for Thymidine Phosphorylase-Driven Metabolism in the TME
Birte Dowerg: Influenza A Virus Hijacks Mitochondrial Metabolism to Promote Substrate Dependency
Min Qiu: Spatial Metabolic Insights into Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Treatments Using Stable Isotope Labeling with Mass Spectrometry Imaging
Ulrike Brüning: DESI-targeted Metabolic Imaging Approach for Drug Toxicity Testing of Multiple Murine Organs in Ichthyosis Skin Disease Treatment