Shevchenko Lab

We say goodbye to our colleague Dr. Vannur @garikapativs.bsky.social who is leaving the lab to start a new chapter in his scientific career. It was great to meet up with families and friends, and try delicious south Indian food! Good luck and keep in touch with your lab!

Our visit to High Throughput Proteomics Facility at Charite Berlin is the absolute highlight of this week! We looked at Beckman Biomek robotic station and learnt how much automation of lab routine changes research. Will bring this experience @mpi-cbg.de!
Big thanks to the hosts Michael and Manuela

LiSyM Status Seminar-2026 is hold right now in Dresden! We are happy to share our latest results in liver #lipidomics and #proteomics with colleagues @mpi-cbg.de and other researches from Liver System Medicine Consortium @lisymcancer.bsky.social. Together we are a very strong team!💪

Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Vannur Garikapati on new step in career development! Following successful postdoctoral research in lipidomics @mpi-cbg.de he'll be building new mass spectrometry Facility at the Medical School Uni Bielefeld. We are very proud of you, Vannur! Stay in touch❤️

2026 marks the 25th Anniversary of @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. We invite all Alumni to reconnect and celebrate 25 years of science together August 24-25. Sign up, if you would like to receive further updates, formal registration will follow: www.mpi-cbg.de/25th-anniver...

Laser Capture Microdissection for Quantitative Shotgun Lipidomics In tissues or organs, lipids are not distributed uniformly. While staining with dyes or antibodies locates histological features at cryosections of tissues, it does not elucidate their molecular compo...

Our chapter "Laser Capture Microdissection for Quantitative Shotgun Lipidomics" is out in Methods in Molecular Biology @springernature.com ! We're delighted to share expertise and protocols in lipid analysis by mass spectrometry @mpi-cbg.de with the broad scientific community.

📣 Attention PhD students and postdocs in #massspec and #omics! The tradition-rich Mass Spectrometry Summer School in Dubrovnik (Croatia), on the Adriatic coast will take place 5-10 July. Fantastic tutors' team!
Registration deadline: 12th June 2026
msbm.org

If your research is focused on #lipids - check the new workshop on lipidomics SLING, National University of Singapore. Well known scientific location and excellent speakers 👍
Registration deadline Thursday 12th February :
uvents.nus.edu.sg/event/lsildaw

🔥 For all Mass Spec friends: don't miss IMSC2026 - big vibrant international get together, this year in France. It's jointly organized by the French, German and Swiss MS Societies & Young Scientists Groups.
DEADLINE abstract submission: Feb 13th
It's always great fun!
imsc26.com

🎓 Congratulations to Jonas Pöhls on successful PhD thesis defense . “The Dark Proteome: The extent and impact of phenotypic mutations in prokaryotes” is a challenging interlaboratory work between @tothpetroczylab.bsky.social & Shevchenko lab @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social Proud of you, Jonas!

VIII XMass Updates 2025 YouTube video by Shevchenko Lab

Real science is great fun! Check out the new video on our YouTube channel for the highlights of the XMass Updates-2025 Symposium! This is our traditional Omics Flash event, which took place in Dresden in December.
tinyurl.com/OurXMass
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RZ1...

Infographic titled “Snowflakes: Classifications & Shapes” showing how snowflakes are categorized by crystal form. Sections illustrate column crystals, plane crystals, combinations of column and plane crystals, rimed snow crystals, aggregation, germs of ice crystals, irregular particles, and other solid precipitation. Each category uses simple blue icons with codes (e.g., C1, P3). A key explains three classification levels: 8 general, 39 intermediate, and 121 elementary categories, highlighting the wide variety of snowflake shapes found in nature.

Getting snow where you are? Did you know that there are 121 categories of snowflake? ❄️

This graphic is an old favourite which gives an overview of the 39 intermediate categories: www.compoundchem.com/2014/12/10/s... 🧪

Snowy day @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. ❄️❄️❄️

🎆 What a great way to end the turbulent scientific year!!! Congratulations to @merihuchlab.bsky.social and all co-authors on their outstanding work @nature.com. We are happy to be a part of the team!

Patient-specific human liver model to understand disease mechanisms Dresden research team develops human modular “LEGO-like” model that lays foundation for a new era in liver research.

Researchers from @merihuchlab.bsky.social, together with colleagues from @labshevchenko.bsky.social and clinicians from Dresden and Leipzig developed a patient-specific human periportal liver assembloid. Publication in @nature.com. Full news: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Want to learn about the theoretical aspects of proteins/peptides analysis by mass spectrometry?

Then join the #EMBLProteomics course where you will get hands-on experience in sample preparation and perform tandem mass tag labelling.

Apply by 3 March:https://s.embl.org/sdp26-01-bl 🔬💻

🍬It's our old lab tradition – every year on St. Nicklas Day, we go around the @mpi-cbg.de labs to share sweets with our institute colleagues and staff. Viditha & Jonas, our PhD students, were in charge of the heavy candy baskets this year. Have you been on the straight and narrow?🙃

We are happy to invite you to our traditional #Omics Flash Symposium VIII XMass Updates! It'll take place on 9 December in hybrid format: in Dresden and on-line, no registration
❄️Curious about? Check the XMass homepage - history, programs and video memories of the last events
tinyurl.com/OurXMass

📣 Attention #massspec #omics community & friends! Don't miss the DGMS Abstract submission deadline 30th November @dgms2025.bsky.social. Its unusually early but promised no printed poster😮 Imaging - no last minute printing, no tube to carry, no lost posters... A new level scientific meeting!

An interesting new TOF instrument! We were lucky to learn details from the first hand on our XMass Updates symposium last year, presented by Anatoly Verenchikov. Curious about AbsQuant and #lipidomics applications - let's keep an eye on the development! 😉
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

🤖 Automation in life science academic research is not a trend, it's a necessity. There are only a few realistically affordable options to facilitate laborious routine in omics labs. Together with Dr. Friederike Jantzen (Beckman Coulter) we looked at the new Biomec i3 robot. Very interesting option!

🎅Join us on VIII XMass Updates - our traditional Omics Flash Symposium 9th Dec 2pm CET (Dresden @mpi-cbg.de
and on-line)! We'll have fantastic speakers this year - motivated newcomers and well-known guests with hot topics all around #massspec & #omics🔥
Info: tinyurl.com/MSDRESDEN

A card showing James Watson on one side, and the headline "DNA pioneer James Watson has died ― colleagues wrestle with his legacy" on the other

Watson – who won the Nobel Prize for his role in divining the structure of DNA; was instrumental in initiating and propelling the Human Genome Project; and who became notorious for his history of racist and sexist comments – has died at 97

Read the full story: go.nature.com/47NJ6wy

Black-and-white portrait of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, 1903. She is seated in a chair, wearing a dark dress with a light, patterned collar, resting her head on one hand and looking directly at the camera. public domain

Lise Meitner around 1906 in Vienna. She is wearing a long dress and a hat, standing among large plants and looking to the side. public domain

Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨

Join us at the annual DGMS conference in Leipzig!
👉Abstract submission deadline - November 30th
dgms-conference.com

🎓New in the lab! Meet Anna Kristin - the 11th grade secondary school student from manos-dresden.de, who will be learning about #protein analysis and proteomics in our lab @mpi-cbg.de . We are happy to support the interest of young people in analytical and biological sciences!

How to turn toxic waste into fuel?

A #tungsten-containing #enzyme plays a key role in the production of #ethanol from #carbonmonoxide, a long-awaited piece of the #metabolic puzzle of #Clostridium autoethanogenum
@natureportfolio.nature.com @mpi-cbg.de @maxplanck.de
Pic by @sc-eye-nce.bsky.social

If you ❤️new techniques - learn about it from the first hand! Dresden MS Community discovered new ZenoTof 8600 mass spectrometer explained by @sciex.bsky.social specialists! Thnx Dr. Marc Gentzel @crtd-tud.bsky.social for organizing this very informative seminar🙂
tinyurl.com/MSDRESDEN

Making a "fat" step toward high-quality reproducible #omics science! "QC Shotgun" - an automated QC workflow for shotgun #lipidomics experiments was just presented by Silvia Radrezza at the 4th iLS Conference in Madrid. Very strong community effort!
ilsconf2025madrid.com/programa

MS community

📢Do not miss! Dresden #Massspec Community Journal Club session:
Date: November 4th, 2pm CET, Zoom
Guest: @sciex.bsky.social
Topic: ZenoTOF ms instrument
Host: Marc Gentzel (@cmcb-tud.bsky.social)
Info: tinyurl.com/MSDRESDEN
Everybody is welcome!