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...

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!

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

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

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

📢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!

AI chatbots are worse at retrieving accurate information and reasoning when trained on large amounts of low-quality content, particularly if the content is popular on social media go.nature.com/4hBqDrB

What’s hot in mass spectrometry this month? 🔬 Explore the most-read @jasms.bsky.social articles — the research everyone’s talking about. https://bit.ly/42Mr6B3

🎃👻🐈‍⬛Happy Scary Halloween!🐈‍⬛👻🎃

📢Congratulations to all co-authors and our collaborators @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social with the freshly published story @nature.com. It was a pleasure to be a part of the team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🙃This happy autumn picture of our group was taken two years ago. We haven't changed much since then, we just got a lot more paper published now!😉

Mass spec friends: 3 #ASMS short courses drop this December! Save $50 if you register by Nov 14—because your brain deserves a year-end upgrade that doesn’t cost extra! Choose your course ➡️ https://bit.ly/4nNVqUe #ASMSnews #MassSpecEducation #STEMEducation

❤️We are very grateful to the very supportive ThermoFisher team - Jan and Michal - who made the installation and introduction of the new Astral mass spectrometer in our lab a breeze! Big thanks also to Elisa for the delicious Astra-themed cake🥞

🫅Meet the newly enrolled members of the prestigious "Astral Club"! Our Vanquish Neo-Astral instrumental setup has been successfully installed and is ready for exciting new #Omics discoveries 😉

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

👋😢We just said goodbye to our three old trusty mass spec instruments (LTQ Velos, TSQ Vantage and QTof Xevo), seven LC and eight PC workstations.They did a really great job but now it's time for some big changes in the lab!!

📢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!

📢First Announcement!! Dear MS Omics fans and friends! The traditional #Omics symposium VIII XMass Updates will take place Dec 9th 2025! 😍Join us on-site in beautiful Dresden or in Zoom😍 👉Info and updates: tinyurl.com/MSDRESDEN