BSPR Annual Meeting 2025, Liverpool

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We are delighted to invite you to attend the BSPR Annual Scientific Meeting in the historic and exciting city of Liverpool on 7-9th July 2025.

The scientific programme includes:

Bioinformatics
Structural & Functional Proteomics
Celebrating the Career of Rob Beynon
Clinical Proteomics
Spatial and Single Cell Proteomics
Non-human Proteomics
Proteoforms
Disruptive Technologies
BMSS session

BSPR 2025 Speaker Line-up

Plenary speakers:
Nikolai Slavov | Single cell proteomics | Northeastern University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Evangelia Petsalaki | Computational biology | EMBL, Cambridge

Vadim Demichev | High-throughput proteomics and developer of DIA-NN | Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Session speakers:
Georg Kustatscher | Bioinformatics | University of Edinburgh

Richard Scheltema | Structural & functional proteomics | University of Liverpool

Manuel Mayr | Clinical proteomics | Imperial College, London

Fabian Coscia | Single cell/spatial proteomics | Max Delbrück Centre, Berlin

Freddie Theodoulou | Non-human proteomics | Rothamsted Research, Harpenden

Jyoti Choudhary | Functional proteomics | Institute of Cancer Research, London

Melanie Bailey | Health and food technologies (BMSS session) | University of Surrey

Thank to all our amazing sponsors who make this meeting possible. In particular our platinum (Covaris), gold (Thermo), silver (SomaLogic) and bronze (IonOpticks) sponsors.

BSPR 2025 Programme

Monday

09:00-10:10 | Registration, Lobby of The Guild of Students

09:00-10:10 | Poster set up, Mountford Hall Exhibition Space

10:10-10:30 | Welcome, Rainer Cramer, Ed Emmott and Roz Jenkins, Lecture Theatre 3

10:30-11:30 | Session 1 (Bioinformatics), Lecture Theatre 3
10:30-11:00 | Invited | Georg Kustatscher, Protein covariation advances functional annotation of the human proteome
11:00-11:15 | Mohammed Akbor, Integrative -Omics reveals a dynamic posttranslational modification (PTM) landscape associated with neutrophil differentiation
11:15-11:30 | Andy Jones, The PTMeXchangeproject –Making PTM data FAIR and AI-ready for community reuse

11:30-12:00 | Coffee/Exhibition, Mountford Hall

12:00-13:00 | Plenary: Nikolai Slavov, Biological & technological frontiers for single-cell proteomics, Lecture Theatre 3

13:00-14:30 | Lunch/Posters/Exhibition, Mountford Hall

13:30-14:00 | Sponsored Lunchtime Seminar (ThermoFisher Scientific) James Cobley – AdiProPlus: Redox Proteomic Analysis of Human Adipose Tissue from Twins

14:30-15:30 | Session 2 (Structural and Functional Proteomics), Lecture Theatre 3
14:30-15:00 | Invited | Richard Scheltema, Crosslinking for the masses
15:00-15:15 | Yi Sui, Multi-omics Analysis of a Zika-viral Based Oncolytic Virotherapy for Neuroblastoma and Brain Tumours
15:15-15:30 | Antonio Calabrese, Design and Characterisation of Photoactivatable and Lysine Reactive Crosslinkers

15:30-16:15 | Coffee, Communal area by Lecture Theatre 1

16:15-18:00 | Session 3 (Rob Beynon Session), Lecture Theatre 1

18:00-20:00 | The Axis at The Spine –Evening Networking/Drinks Reception

Tuesday

09:00-10:30 | Session 4 (Clinical Proteomics), Lecture Theatre 3

09:00-09:30 | Invited | Manuel Mayr, Precision Medicine Requires Precision Proteomics

09:30-09:45 | Hannah Ging, Urine and Serum Proteomics for Paediatric IgA Vasculitis Nephritis

09:45-10:00 | Kish Adoni, Probing Mechanisms for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Driven Hepatic Fibrosis

10:00-10:15 | Lily Adair, LAP-MALDI MS Biotypingfor Bacterial and Fungal Identification and Rapid Multiplex Antimicrobial Resistance Profiling

10:15-11:00 | Coffee/Exhibition, Mountford Hall

11:00-12:30 | Session 5 (Spatial & Single-Cell Proteomics), Lecture Theatre 3

11:00-11:30 | Invited | Fabian Coscia, Spatial tissue proteomics across scales and diseases

11:30-11:45 | Markella Loi, scpImaging: a workflow for single-cell multipletdetection and cell phenotyping for cellenONE-based single-cell proteomics

11:45-12:00 | Charlotte Hutchings, High-throughput proteomics to identify novel engineering targets for enhanced Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) gene therapy production

12:00-12:30 | Christophe Vanderaa, Understanding single-cell proteomics data through linear modelling

12:30-14:00 | Lunch/Posters/Exhibition, Mountford Hall

13:00-13:30 | Sponsored Lunchtime Seminar (Covaris), Anna Shanshan Li –Tissue Proteomic Profiling in Glomerular Kidney Diseases

13:30-14:00 | BSPR AGM

14:00-15:00 | Plenary: Evangelia Petsalaki, Making better use of (phospho)proteomics datasets –Data-driven approaches for studying cell signalling, Lecture Theatre 3

15:00-15:30 | Session 6 (Non-human Proteomics), Lecture Theatre 3

15:00-15:30 | Invited | Freddie Theodoulou, What determines protein abundance in plants and why does it matter?

15:30-16:15 | Coffee/Trade, Mountford Hall

16:15-17:00 | Session 6 (Non-human Proteomics cont.), Lecture Theatre 3

16:15-16:30 | Yong-In Kim, Strategic Proteomics for Multi-Omics Integration in the Study of Arabidopsis Natural Variants

16:30-16:45 | Guadalupe Gómez Baena, Proteomics applied to the conservation of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus)

16:45-17:00 | Cecile Frampas, Serum proteomics for the prediction of porcine respiratory virus infections

17:00-18:30 | Posters/Exhibition

19:00-23:30 | Ticketed Event | Conference Dinner @ The Victoria Gallery & Museum

Wednesday

09:00-10:15 | Session 7 (Proteoforms), Lecture Theatre 3

09:00-09:30 | Invited | Jyoti Choudhary, Detection of unannotated proteins by mass spectrometry-based proteomics

09:30-09:45 | Andrew Frey, Multifaceted Approach to Ubiquitylomicsin Macrophages and their Phagosomes

09:45-10:00 | Rosamund Clifford, Measuring the Mouse Complementome

10:00-10:45 | Coffee/Exhibition, Mountford Hall

10:45-11:45 | Session 8 (Disruptive Technologies), Lecture Theatre 3

10:45-11:15 | Invited | Adam Butterworth, Lessons learned from genomic studies of high-throughput proteomic assays

11:15-11:30 | Floriana Capuano, A Robust Immunopeptidomics Workflow for Clinically Relevant Target Discovery to Enable Broad-Coverage Cancer Vaccine Design

11:30-11:45 | Jo Kirkpatrick, Enhanced sensitivity of a modified Orbitrap Astral mass spectrometer for deeper proteome coverage in single-cell proteomics applications

11:45-12:45 | Session 9 (BMSS session)

11:45-12:15 | Invited | Melanie Bailey, The SEISMIC facility for spatially resolved single and sub-cellular omics

12:15-12:30 | Pavel Shliaha, Optimization of microflow chromatography for deep and sensitive proteome coverage

12:30-12:45 | Yana Demyanenko, Biocompatible ‘ligand balancing’ in transition metal coordination allows benign in-cell protein arylation

12:45-14:00 | Lunch/Posters/Exhibition, Mountford Hall

14:00-15:00 | Plenary: Vadim Demichev, How accurate quantitative proteomics really is?, Lecture Theatre 3

15:00-15:30 | Prizes & Conference Close, Lecture Theatre 3

Location and logistical information

ADDRESS:

Liverpool University Mountford Hall
160 Mount Pleasant
Liverpool
L3 5TR

Finding your way to the event is easy; the venue is accessible via road, rail and air. For details on how to get to the venue, please see below.

BY TRAIN
For all train journeys please check your train times and specific routes by visiting National Rail Enquiries. There are direct rail links between Liverpool and many UK cities.
Alternatively, please refer to the instructions below for Liverpool Lime Street Station, or for arrival by taxi or bus.
Liverpool Lime Street
The train station is a 20-minute walk to Mountford Hall, with a bit of a hill. A no.79 bus may also be taken from the bottom of Brownlow Hill to just across the road from the Crown Place halls of residence (3 stops).

BY TAXI
The University is just under a 1-mile drive from Liverpool Lime Street Station and should take around 5-minutes in a taxi. The taxi rank for Liverpool city black cabs is by the Skelhorne Street entrance (turn left after you exit the platforms). Black cabs may also be hailed on the street.

If you require a taxi, you can use one of the following numbers:

Alpha Taxis: 0151 722 8888
ComCab: 0151 298 2222
Britannia Taxi: 0151 708 7080

BY ROAD
The University of Liverpool asks that campus visitors use public transport wherever possible. If you do bring a vehicle to campus, please find a space on the visitor car parks (located at Brownlow Street, Grid reference C9/marked P28 and Mount Pleasant, Grid reference D5/car park 15 on the campus map) or local car parks.

The visitor car parks are pay on exit, and you receive a ticket at the barrier upon entrance to the car park, then when you are prepared to leave the car park you pay at the pay station.

The charge tariff for your visit will be as follows:

Peak (Weekdays from 7.30am until 5.30pm)

Up to 1 hour - £2.00

Up to 2 hours - £3.00
Up to 3 hours – £4.00
Up to 4 hours - £5.00
Over 4 hours - £6.00

Off Peak (Weekdays from 5.30pm until 7.30am and all-day weekends)

Up to 1 hour - £1.00
Up to 3 hours - £2.00
Over 3 hours - £3.00 MAX

Pay stations accept various methods of payment including card, note and coin readers.

Visitors can also use the city council car park found at the bottom of Mount Pleasant towards the city centre or the Paddington car park just off Smithdown Lane (Grid reference H6 on campus map).

There are no height restrictions driving on and off the campus.

BY AIR
Liverpool John Lennon Airport – take a taxi or express bus directly outside the entrance to the airport. You can get buses 500, 86, 80A and 82A into the city centre.

Telephone: +44(0)871 521 8484
Website: www.liverpoolairport.com/from-airport/by-bus.html

Manchester Airport - take a train from the airport to Liverpool Lime Street. There is also a direct coach service which takes about 1 hour.

Telephone: +44(0) 871 271 0711
Website: www.manchesterairport.co.uk

Further details on public transport can be found Merseytravel | Liverpool City Region Travel Information

REGISTRATION
Registration opens at 09.00 on Monday 7th July. Please come to the registration desk in The Liverpool Guild of Students (501 on the campus map) – there will be banners and volunteers showing you where to go.

Upon registration, delegates will be issued with their conference badge, wi-fi information, a pad and pen, and a conference booklet.

ACCOMMODATION
A separate guide has been provided for those of you staying at Crown Place hall of residence.

LOCAL AMENITIES
All refreshments are provided on-site. However, if you would like to venture out for food, there is ample choice. In the direct vicinity of the venue, there is a Subway, Nero, Union Brew, Costa, Greggs, Waterhouse Café at the Victoria Gallery and Museum, and Tesco Local. The Augustus John pub (750 on the campus map) may also be found just off University Square. A little further afield, you will find The Pen Factory (tapas), Free State Kitchen (American Classics), 1931 Pizza, The London Carriage Works (posh British), The Quarter (Italian), Buyers Club (pizza and pasta), Frederiks (pizza and cocktails) and many more. If you venture to Liverpool One (approx. 25 minute walk) there is even more choice.

We hope you enjoy your stay in this fabulous city