Registration for The International School on Mass Spectrometry (IntSMS) 2026

The 3rd Course is devoted to MASS SPECTROMETRY and TANDEM MS of MACROMOLECULES

Fundamentals, Advances, and Applications

The school joins together participants from academia, public and private research centers and industry, and it is an useful occasion for allowing meeting of students and tutors coming from different countries and for creating new links and networking.

Each year at the end of the school participants are invited to fill out a school survey questionnaire. Responses to the questionnaire have been proven invaluable in helping to improve the logistics as well as the course organization.

All those wishing to improve their knowledge and culture in mass spectrometry are kindly invited to attend IntSMS.

• 📍Place: Erice, Italy
• 📆Date: 9. - 14. September 2026

Important Dates

• Registration Starts: November 2025
• Registration Ends: June 15, 2026
• Receiving Payment Deadline: June 30, 2026
• Cancellation and Refund Deadline: July 15, 2026

Registration

👉REGISTRATION FORM

Registration fee: € 725,00

The registration fee includes:

• Participation to the school
• Copy of the slides presented in the lectures
• Certificate of attendance
• Full board accommodation in a double room (5 nights, Wed.-Sun. included)
• All meals (Breakfasts, lunches, dinners) and coffee breaks
• Excursion and gala dinner (Saturday)
• Free shuttle service from airports in Trapani and Palermo to Erice and back.

Drinks, beverages, and after-dinner coffee at the restaurants, telephone calls, personal laundry, etc. are not covered by the fee.

Abstract submission

Participants are encouraged to present an abstract for a poster communication on their own research activity. Abstract submission is optional, not mandatory.

• Details for abstract submission will be given to confirmed participants in June 2026.
• Selected posters will be presented as flash oral communications.

Topics

• Fundamentals and history of mass spectrometry of intact nucleic acids, proteins, and their complexes
• Fundamentals, history, and applications of top-down MS
• Fundamentals, history, and applications of native MS
• Sample preparation strategies
• On-line separations: chromatography, electrophoresis, ion mobility
• Instrumentation: MS and fragmentation strategies (collision-, electron-, and photon-based)
• Data analysis and bioinformatics for top-down and native MS
• MS and middle-/top-down MS of therapeutic proteins
• Imaging MS
• Native MS and native top-down MS of proteins from tissues
• MS of microbes and viruses
• MS and top-down MS of nucleic acids
• Integrating MS with structural biology
• Recent technological developments (including charge detection-MS, coupling MS with cryogenic microscopy)