PLATO symposium at SDU, April 8, 2026
The PLATO inauguration symposium will take place on Wednesday, April 8 at SDU, Odense.
Its aims are to:
- provide an overview of ongoing projects, expertise and instrumentation within the PLATO research infrastructure
- exchange ideas and know-how between researchers and staff associated with PLATO institutions
- disseminate the activities of PLATO with the aim to increase knowledge and catalyze new collaborations and projects
Date and venue
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 10:00 - 15:45
Venue: BMB Seminar Room (SDU Entrance O), University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Registration & deadline
Registration is required for catering purposes.
Deadline for registration is March 26, 2026.
Program
| 9:30 | Registration |
| 10:00 | Welcome and overview of PLATO |
| 10:30 | Scientific presentations |
| 12:00 | Lunch and networking |
| 13:00 | Scientific presentations |
| 15:15 | Refreshments and networking |
Confirmed speakers
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Ole Nørregaard jensen | SDU | The national PLATO research infrastructure |
| Francis Berthias | SDU | Top-down protein sequencing and PTM mapping using a novel timsOmni platform |
| Allan Stensballe | AaU | SMART IMMUNOLOGY – Precision Health and multiOmics for research in Autoimmune Disorders |
| Kai Bester | AU | Indications for cooperation of microbes in biofilms in metabolising organic micropollutants |
| Prasad Phapale | AU | Resolving bacterial-plant interaction by mass spectrometric imaging |
| Sara Charlotte Buch-Larsen |
KU | Bent trap pre-accumulation enables fast EThcD-based site-specific analysis of thousands of labile PTMs on the Orbitrap Excedion Pro mass spectrometer |
| Christian Janfelt | KU | Highly sensitive imaging of drugs in biological tissues by targeted DESI-MSI |
| Signe F. Frederiksen |
SDU | Spatial single-cell lipidomics by MALDI-2 MS imaging reveals molecular perturbations in Niemann-Pick disease |
| Hans Christian Beck |
OUH | MS-Based Clinical Proteomics: From Technology to Application |
| Thilo Samson Chillon |
OUH | Enhancing the clinical diagnostics of a rare autoimmune disease |