The MSBM Committee
Prof David Goodlett
MSBM Chair and Faculty MemberProf Goodlett has over 30 years experience in the field of mass spectrometry as an academic, industrial scientist and scientific journal editor. He has been active in a variety of fields publishing ~300 papers with an h-index of ~90. Since 2020 he has been a Professor of Biochemistry and Microbiology at the University of Victoria where he holds the Don and Eleanor Rix BC Leadership Chair in Biomedical and Environmental Proteomics.
Dr Laura Bindila
MSBM Committee Member and FacultyDr. Bindila is Head of Lipidomics/Mass Spectrometry Facility at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center Mainz, where her scientific interest is unravelling the lipid signals involved in various neurobiological processes, and more generally in physiological and pathophysiological states. She serves as advisory and editorial board member for several peer-review journals and published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles.
Prof Garry Corthals
MSBM Committee Member and FacultyProf. Corthals is Professor and Chair of the Analytical Chemistry Group at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and a guest professor at both the Amsterdam UMC and M4I. Prof. Corthals has been a passionate advocate for mass spectrometry education since 1997, contributing to education, training, and promotion of proteomics and MS methods. A founder of the European Proteomics Association (EuPA), and active in the HUPO, he has has aided the development of national and international research facilities.
Prof Ron Heeren
MSBM Treasurer and FacultyProf Heeren is Distinguished Professor and Limburg Chair at Maastricht University where he is the founder and scientific director of M4I, the Maastricht MultiModal Molecular Imaging institute. He was awarded the prestigious 2019 Physics Valorization prize by the Dutch organization for scientific Research, NWO and the 2020 Thomson medal of the international mass spectrometry foundation. In 2021 he was elected as a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, KNAW.
Dr David Kilgour
MSBM Program CoordinatorDr Kilgour is currently Head of Research for Vibrat-Ion Ltd, in the UK, developing the Beacon ion source range and AutoVectis, a suite of data processing software for mass spectrometry. During a varied career, he has also been a Principal Scientist for the UK government, a scientific advisor to NATO, and an academic in both the UK and US. He has worked on prototype quadrupole, ion trap, ToF and Orbitrap and FT-ICR systems and has developed data processing systems for all of them. He has also developed a range of different ion sources.
Dr Lili Pasa-Tolic
MSBM Committee Member and FacultyDr. Paša-Tolić is a Staff Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the Capability Steward for Mass Spectrometry at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a national scientific user facility operated by PNNL for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Her research centers on developing sophisticated analytical methods with emphasis on Fourier transform (FT) mass spectrometry (MS) and micro-separations,
Working Committee
Željana Mikovčić
MSBM Administration ManagerŽeljana Mikovčić is Head of the Office for Projects and International Collaboration, for the Faculty of Biotechnology and Drug Development, at the University of Rijeka and is also an experienced and expert manager of international scientific meetings, for which she has built a formidable reputation for excellence and efficiency. She has been at the heart of the MSBM Organization for over a decade.
Dr Harry Taylor
MSBM Committee Member and FacultyDr. Harry Taylor working i undustry before completting a PhD. Currently, he is a Business Science Fellow at the University of Nottingham in the UK and is leading the development of a spin-out company, called Photene, that specializes in advanced protein footprinting capabilities. Harry is also a committee member for the EMSG and is on the organizing committee for the Ardgour Symposium.
Dr Iirena Dapic
MSBM Committee MemberDr Dapic has a decade of experience as a mass spectrometrist and has worked in Croatia, the Netherlands and Poland, research in the areas of biomarker discover and quantitative proteomics of the human tissues, the development and translation of the methods for mass spectrometry based quantitative protein analysis from human biopsy materials and biofluids and collaboration with medical and pathological research. Since 2024 she has been a Senior Research Associate at the Ruder Boskovic Institute in Zagreb.
Guest Faculty
Prof Joe Loo
MSBM FacultyProf Loo is a Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, and in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and he is the Faculty Director of the UCLA Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Technology Center. He is an expert in the mass spectrometry characterization of proteins and their post-translational modifications, and is the author of over 180 scientific publications. In 2000-2002, he served on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. He has been on the Editorial Boards of the journals Bioconjugate Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (JASMS), and Chemical & Engineering News and currently he serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry and as an Associate Editor for JASMS. He has taught at MSBM multiple times and is always a valuable and well liked faculty member.
Dr Rachel Loo
MSBM FacultyDr Loo is a hugely experienced research scientist in the Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is a member of UCLA/DOE Laboratory for Genomics and Proteomics and an Associate Member of the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute.
Her research interests include the development of bioanalytical mass spectrometry methods for the structural characterization of proteins and the elucidation of ionization mechanisms for mass spectrometry. She is also interested in developing the Virtual 2D Gel method, MALDI analysis directly from polyacrylamide gels. She is an author of over 85 scientific publications and currently serves as secretary for the American Society of Mass Spectrometry. Before joining UCLA, she was Director of Mass Spectrometry for the University of Michigan Protein and Carbohydrate Structure Facility, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), and later moved to Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical (Pfizer Global Research, Ann Arbor, MI) as a Research Associate. The MSMB Summer School is delighted to have Dr Loo back on the faculty once again.
Dr Yury Tsybin
MSBM FacultyDr. Yury O. Tsybin received his PhD degree in ion physics in 2004 from Uppsala University. For the next 2 years Yury was a postdoctoral research associate with Prof. Alan G. Marshall at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in the USA. From 2006 to 2014 Yury was an assistant professor of physical and bioanalytical chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland where he established and headed the Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry Laboratory and served as a Director of the Mass Spectrometry Service Facility. In 2014 he founded an EPFL spin-off company, Spectroswiss Sàrl, which he has directed since then. Dr Tsybin’s research focus involves FTMS fundamentals, ion motion and ion detection, electron injection systems for ion fragmentation in the gas phase, data acquisition and signal processing. Application interests are in structural analysis of monoclonal antibodies and their mixtures for improving drug discovery and quality control technologies; middle-down and top-down proteomics development.
Carolina Sanchez
MSBM FacultyCarolina Sanchez is a Senior Scientist at the Separation Science Laboratory, AstraZeneca Gothenburg. As a chemical engineer focused on biotechnology, she has a keen interest in data science. Her career began in 2015 at a biotechnology research center in Ecuador, studying bioproducts and their metabolomics profiles. She later pursued a master’s in bioinformatics at Chalmers University of Technology, specializing in biomarker discovery. For the past five years, Carolina has been a key member of AstraZeneca, applying her expertise as a separation scientist in preparative chromatography of small molecules using liquid and supercritical fluid chromatography methods.
Dr Ian Anthony
MSBM FacultyDr Anthony is an assistant professor at the M4i institute at Maastricht University. His research addresses the growing need for chemical imaging tools that deliver rapid, high-quality, and clinically interpretable data. His group focuses on advancing mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) by improving throughput, spatial resolution, detection, sample preparation, and data processing.
Prof Oliver Fiehn
MSBM FacultyProf. Oliver Fiehn has pioneered developments and applications in metabolomics with over 470 publications to date with a current h-index 127, i10 index 438. He started his career as group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany. Since 2004 he is faculty member in the College of Biological Sciences (MCB department) and Professor at the UC Davis Genome Center, overseeing his research laboratory and the satellite core service laboratory in metabolomics research. In 2012 he became the Director of the UC Davis West Coast Metabolomics Center, supervising 35 staff operating 17 mass spectrometers. To focus on large cohort studies and translational metabolomics, he has added the ThermoFisher Center of Excellence in Clinical Metabolomics at the UC Davis clinical campus in Sacramento, CA since 2021. In public outreach, the West Coast Metabolomics Center holds monthly public webinars, has a YouTube channel, a newsletter, invites international scholars to research visits and organizes three metabolomics professional courses per year.
Former Committee
Dr Mario Cindric
Former MSBM committee memberDr. Cindric has more than 20 years of experience in two different fields: Chemistry and Proteomics. He was Professor of Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Science from 2008 to 2024. After moving from industry (Teva Ltd.) to academia in 2008, he holds a position as a senior scientist at the Rudjer Boskovic Institute. Dr. Cindric has authored over 70 publications, 10 patents and 5 EU projects. He was a member of the MSBM organizing committee from 2008 to 2013. He resigned to focus on the management of the Croatian Biophysical Society.
Dr Yury Tsybin
MSBM FacultyDr. Yury O. Tsybin received his PhD degree in ion physics in 2004 from Uppsala University. For the next 2 years Yury was a postdoctoral research associate with Prof. Alan G. Marshall at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in the USA. From 2006 to 2014 Yury was an assistant professor of physical and bioanalytical chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland where he established and headed the Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry Laboratory and served as a Director of the Mass Spectrometry Service Facility. In 2014 he founded an EPFL spin-off company, Spectroswiss Sàrl, which he has directed since then. Dr Tsybin’s research focus involves FTMS fundamentals, ion motion and ion detection, electron injection systems for ion fragmentation in the gas phase, data acquisition and signal processing. Application interests are in structural analysis of monoclonal antibodies and their mixtures for improving drug discovery and quality control technologies; middle-down and top-down proteomics development.