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,
Dr Harry Taylor
MSBM Committee Member and FacultyDr. Harry Taylor began working in industry before completing a PhD in Novel Ambient Ionisation Sources for Mass Spectrometry. Currently, he is a Senior Project Manager at the University of Nottingham in the UK and leads Nottingham Analytical, an analytical services department working with industry, using a wide variety of analytical techniques to solve complex problems for industrial clients, including LC-MS/MS and GC-MS. In addition, he leads the development of Photene, an advanced protein footprinting service which is working towards forming a spin-out company. Harry is also a committee member for the Exploratory Measurement Science Group and is on the organizing committee for the Ardgour Symposium.
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 Irena 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. Ryan Kelly
MSBM FacultyRyan Kelly is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Brigham Young University. His recent research efforts have focused on single-cell and spatial proteomics, which have involved tailoring sample preparation, separations, ionization and mass spectrometry acquisition for low-input samples. His group’s efforts have enabled thousands of proteins to be rapidly profiled from single cells. He is now working to dramatically lower the cost of proteomics, with the ultimate goal of profiling any biological sample for just ~$10.
Prof. Saer Samanipour
MSBM FacultyProf. Saer Samanipour is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and a Principal Investigator at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS). His research focuses on developing and applying high-resolution mass spectrometry and data analysis tools to study complex mixtures of organic compounds in environmental and biological systems. Before joining UvA, he held postdoctoral positions at Northeastern University (USA) and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (Germany) and earned his PhD in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Queensland (Australia). 2026 will be Dr, Samanipour’s first visit to MSBM, and he will be a valuable addition to the faculty team.
Prof. Lekha Sleno
MSBM FacultyLekha Sleno received her PhD in 2006 from Dalhousie University with Dietrich Volmer at NRC in Halifax, NS, Canada on the elucidation of small molecules using high resolution and tandem mass spectrometry. She then completed two post-doctoral stays, at the University of Geneva in pharmaceutical analytical mass spectrometry and the University of Toronto in proteomics, before starting her independent research career in the chemistry department at UQAM in 2008. She is currently a Full Professor and Strategic Research Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry. Her group’s interests include developing novel analytical workflows for biomarker discovery and exposomics research using mass spectrometry. She is currently co-director of the CERMO-FC, a multi-institutional research network on orphan diseases (Centre d’Excellence de Recherche sur les Maladies Orphelines – Fondation Courtois) and is the director of their metabolomics and proteomics platform.
Victor Spelling
MSBM FacultyVictor Spelling is a separation scientist at AstraZeneca in Gothenburg and holds a master’s degree in pharmaceutical engineering from Uppsala University. He began his career at AstraZeneca in 2019, working to extend the use of supercritical fluid chromatography for the analysis of amino acids and peptides. He now works in the Separation Science Laboratory, primarily supporting early drug discovery for small molecules. His day-to-day responsibilities include chiral and achiral separations at both analytical and preparative scale, using reversed-phase, normal-phase, and supercritical fluid chromatography. The purifications are carried out in milligram to kilogram scale. Recent projects have focused on evaporative light scattering and charged aerosol detectors, including signal characterization and modelling.
Dr. Yury Tsybin
MSBM Faculty & Former OC MemberDr. 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. Yury is a former member of the MSBM Organising Committee, serving from 2008 to 2017.
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.