2024 Speakers and Preliminary Program

Preliminary Intention 

The program is subject to change. The final version will be posted by May 27, 2024.

Registration Details: 
Registered attendees can check in to the Breath Summit on Sunday, June 2 from 17:00 to 19:00, as well as Monday-Thursday from 07:30 to 16:00. The registration location in the Crowne Plaza Downtown Union Station will be in the foyer outside of the Illinois Street Ballroom on the second floor of the hotel.

Poster Session Details:
Posters should be hung at the beginning of the day and can be visited throughout the day during breaks. Poster presenters should attend their poster during their assigned poster session from 16:00 to 17:30 on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Please click within each session below to find additional details. 

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Sunday, June 2

  • 17:00-19:00 — Check-in and welcome reception
    17:00-19:00 — Hotel check-in, conference registration and a brief welcome reception with light hors d’oeuvres will take place in the Crowne Plaza Downtown Union Station. 

Monday, June 3

  • 09:00-12:00 — Morning presentation session

    09:00-12:00 — Morning presentation session

    09:00-09:10  Welcome presentation Mike Davis  
    09:10-09:40 Anton Amman award
    		  TBD
    09:40-10:00
    		 “Best practice in breath analysis” Jonathan Beauchamp
    10:00-10:20  “Building a Metabolomic Database for Comprehensive Analysis of Exhaled Breath Composition and Biomarker Identification”
    		 Eva Borras
    10:20-10:40
    		 “From research to routine: Meeting the evolving demands of clinical breath analysis with advancements in thermal desorption” Laura Miles
    10:40-11:00 Coffee break  
    11:00-11:20 “Constrained-volume solid phase micro extraction with a reserve volume breath sampler”
    		 Rebecca Cordell
    11:20-11:40
    		 “Assessment of exhaled breath VOC stability on TENAX® GR thermal desorption tubes” Trenton Davis 
    11:40-12:00
    		 “Canine-Inspired Identification of Volatile Organic Compound Biomarkers for Noninvasive Health Monitoring: Opportunities in the 21st Century for Biotechnology”
    		 Mark Woollam 

  • 12:00-13:00 — Lunch buffet and exhibit hall session
    12:00-13:00 — Lunch buffet and exhibit hall session
  • 13:00-15:00 — Afternoon presentation session

    13:00-15:00 — Afternoon presentation session

    13:00-13:20  “Making an IMPACT: The results look promising for a P. aeruginosa breath test” Jane Hill
    13:20-13:40  “Diagnosing Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Children through Breath Analysis: An Emerging Method” Ning Sonja Sun
    13:40-14:00
    		 “Selectivity to diagnose COVID-19 infection from exhaled breath volatiles (EBV) against other common upper respiratory infections” Mitchell McCartney
    14:00-14:20
    		 Coffee Break  
    14:20-14:40
    		 “Developing a Breath Test for Valley Fever using GC×GC Untargeted Volatilomics” Heather Bean
    14:40-15:00
    		 “Identifying putative volatile biomarkers for S. aureus methicillin-resistant and small-colony variant subtypes”  Daniela Gutierrez-Munoz

  • 15:00-15:30 — Break
    15:00-15:30 — Break
  • 15:30-16:00 — Rapid podium presentations

    15:30-16:00 — Rapid podium presentations (Each 2 minutes, one slide, 2 minutes for questions, timed)

    “Assessment of exhaled breath VOC reproducibility on TENAX® GR thermal desorption tubes” Darakshan Zabin 
    “ONELAB: applications of breath volatile analysis to rapidly screen for pathogenic infections”
    		 Anesu Chawaguta
    “Quality control framework for exhaled breath VOC analysis using thermal desorption”
    		 Trenton Davis
    “Quantitative analysis of a broad range of carbonyl compounds in exhaled breath for detection of COVID-19 during the periods of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Delta variants”
    		 Xiao-An Fu
    “Assessing response to phage therapy of M. abscessus using breath”
    		 Antao Gao
    “Human breath volatilome: a comparison of sampling and mass spectrometry methods for biomarker discovery in clinical research”
    		 Elodie Lamy

  • 16:00-17:30 — Poster session

    16:00-17:30 — Poster session

    Volatilomic profiling reveals altered wild-type Pseudmonas aeruginosa metabolism compared to quorum sensing loss-of-function mutant strains  Waqar Ahmed 
    Are we throwing the biomarkers out with the bath water? Scott Borden
    ONELAB: applications of breath volatile analysis to rapidly screen for pathogenic infections
    		 Anesu Chawaguta
    QUALITY CONTROL FRAMEWORK FOR EXHALED BREATH VOC ANALYSIS USING THERMAL DESORPTION
    		 Trenton Davis
    Quantitative analysis of a broad range of carbonyl compounds in exhaled breath for detection of COVID-19 during the periods of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Delta variants
    		 Xiao-An Fu
    Assessing response to phage therapy of M. abscessus using breath
    		 Antao Gao
    Analysis of volatile aldehydes using secondary electrospray ionization mass spectrometry.
    		 Stamatios Giannoukos
    Determing volatile organic compound baselines in healthy breath with tin oxide sensors: a framework for non-invasive health monitoring.
    		 Shivaum Heranjal
    TD-GC-EI-PTR-MS for Exhaled Breath Analysis
    		 Anne Jung
    Micro-thermal Desorption Coupled to Gas Chromatography-Ion Mobility Spectrometry: Peppermint Protocol Standardization and Benchmarking
    		 Kristian Kiland
    Human breath volatilome: a comparison of sampling and mass spectrometry methods for biomarker discovery in clinical research
    		 Elodie Lamy
    A state-of-the-art laser technology for detecting breath molecules
    		 Qizhong Liang
    Peptides and nanotubes - a machine learning and biological approach to VOC sensing
    		 Oliver Nakano-Baker
    Interest of Soft Ionization by Chemical Reaction in Transfer (SICRIT) – high resolution mass spectrometry for exhaled breath analysis in clinical studies
    		 Camille Roquencourt
    Extending Laser Absorption Spectroscopy towards Detection of Larger Volatile Organic Compounds in Breath
    		 Miloš Selaković
    ASSESSMENT OF EXHALED BREATH VOC REPRODUCIBILITY ON TENAX® GR THERMAL DESORPTION TUBES
    		 Darakshan Zabin

  • 18:00-20:00 — Dinner and reception
    18:00-20:00 — Dinner will be provided and reception will occur in the Crowne Plaza Downtown Union Station.

Tuesday, June 4

  • 09:00-12:00 — Morning presentation session

    09:00-12:00 — Morning presentation session

    09:00-09:20  TBD  Ben Gaston
    09:20-09:40
    		 “Utilizing Exhaled Breath for Monitoring Treatment in People with Cystic Fibrosis”
    		 Josephine Ackah-Cudjoe
    09:40-10:00
    		 “Identification of heart failure patients at high prognostic risk by breath analysis during cardiopulmonary exercise tests”
    		 Fabio Di Francesco
    10:00-10:20
    		 “Clinical Applications of Exhaled Volatile Organic Compounds: from bench-to-bed”
    		 Chris Mayhew
    10:20-10:40
    		 “Going to the Source- Identifying VOCs from tumor microenvironment of patients with early lung cancer in-vivo”
    		 Renelle Myers
    10:40-11:00
    		 Coffee break
    		  
    11:00-11:20
    		 “Dynamic measurement of VOC profiles is a prerequisite towards clinical application”
    		 Wolfram Miekisch
    11:20-11:40
    		  TBD Stephen Fowler
    11:40-12:00
    		  “Searching for exhaled breath volatile biomarkers: how can we correct for environmental contamination?” Ran Wang

  • 12:00-13:00 — Lunch and exhibit hall session
    12:00-13:00 — Lunch and exhibit hall session
  • 13:00-15:20 — Afternoon presentation session

    13:00-15:20 — Afternoon presentation session

    13:00-13:20  TBD  Patricia McMahon
    13:20-13:40
    		 “Strategies to Determine Recent Cannabis Use by Breath Analysis: Towards Standardized Sampling and Calibration Protocols”
    		 Kavita Jeerage
    13:40-14:00
    		 TBD Leah Croucher
    14:00-14:20
    		 Coffee break  
    14:20-14:40
    		 “Potential and challenges of exhaled breath condensate (EBC) analyses in disease diagnosis”
    		 Makoto Sawano
    14:40-15:00
    		 “COVID-19 oxidative stress and inflammation modulates the exhaled breath condensate (EBC) metabolome”
    		 Cristina Davis
    15:00-15:20
    		 “Impacts of vaping and marijuana use on airway health determined by exhaled breath condensate (EBC) and exhaled breath vapor (EBV) metabolites”
    		 Dante Rojas

  • 15:20-15:30 — Break
    15:20-15:30 — Break
  • 15:30-16:00 — Rapid podium presentations

    15:30-16:00 — Rapid podium presentations

    “Use of breath analysis to determine the washout characteristics of the inhalation anaesthetic sevoflurane from the human body” Anesu Chawaguta
    “Protein composition of the exhaled breath from hospitalized COVID-19 patients”
    		 Inger Lise Gade
    “VOCS-BOX breathomics: 2D TO 3D translational volatile biomarkers for early detection and diagnosis or mesothelioma”
    		 Theo Issitt
    “Metabolite Mapping of Volatile Organic Compounds in Exhaled Breath Condensate from People Cystic Fibrosis with Clinical Isolates of Bacterial Pathogens”
    		 Hansani Karunarathne
    “Developing an Electrochemical Sensing Platform for the Detection of Ammonia as a Surrogate for Chronic Kidney Disease Screening”
    		 Nikini Subawickrama Mallika Widanaarachchige
    “Volatile organic compound (VOC) profiling in cirrhotic patients with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS)”
    		 Helena Wessel
    “Pushing the frontiers of breath: unraveling tuberculosis in non-human primates”
    		 Ning Sonja Sun

  • 16:00-17:30 — Poster session 

    16:00-17:30 — Poster session 

    Improving Detection of Early Lung Cancer in a Diverse Population (IDEAL): A Breath Discovery and Validation Study  Crista Bartolomeu 
    Developing a Breath Test for Valley Fever using GC×GC Untargeted Volatilomics
    		 Heather Bean
    Breath Discriminators of MIS-C at Emergency Room Presentation Amalia Berna
    Use of breath analysis to determine the washout characteristics of the inhalation anaesthetic sevoflurane from the human body
    		 Anesu Chawaguta
    A portable breath collection tool for breath analysis to screen for infectious diseases
    		 Xiao-An Fu
    Protein composition of the exhaled breath from hospitalized COVID-19 patients
    		 Inger Lise Gade
    Lactobreath: A pilot study to diagnose lactose intolerance based on the exhaled breath metabolome
    		 Stamatios Giannoukos
    An evaluation of breath collection modalities in children
    		 Mostafa Hashemi
    Can volatile molecules from bronchioalveolar lavage predict chronic cough cause?
    		 Mostafa Hashemi
    VOCS-BOX BREATHOMICS: 2D TO 3D TRANSLATIONAL VOLATILE BIOMARKERS FOR EARLY DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS OF MESOTHELIOMA
    		 Theo Issitt
    Metabolite Mapping of Volatile Organic Compounds in Exhaled Breath Condensate from People Cystic Fibrosis with Clinical Isolates of Bacterial Pathogens
    		 Hansani Karunarathne
    COVID-19 variant impacts accuracy when screening for infection using exhaled breath vapor (EBV)
    		 Enrique Lopez
    Breath is no longer just a one-shot sample: A feasibility study of breath recollection
    		 Nina Nouri
    Real-Time SESI-HRMS Breath Analysis in Lung Cancer Patients: A case-control study (LUCAbreath)
    		 Felix Schmidt
    Exhaled breath-based monitoring of physical activity
    		 Gitte Slingers
    Pushing the Frontiers of Breath: Unraveling Tuberculosis in Non-human Primates
    		 Ning Sonja Sun
    Developing an Electrochemical Sensing Platform for the Detection of Ammonia as a Surrogate for Chronic Kidney Disease Screening
    		 Nikini Subawickrama Mallika Widanaarachchige
    Evaluating Lung Injury Through Exhaled Volatile Compounds to Predict Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and its Trajectory in Children
    		 Ali Tabartehfarahani
    Volatile organic compound (VOC) profiling in cirrhotic patients with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS)
    		 Helena Wessel

  • 17:30-19:00 — Reception
    17:30-19:00 — Reception with heavy hors d’oeuvres will take place at the Crowne Plaza Downtown Union Station.

Wednesday, June 5

  • 09:00-10:00 — JBR Board meeting
    09:00-10:00 — JBR Board meeting
  • 10:00-12:00 — Morning presentation session

    10:00-12:00 — Morning presentation session

    10:00-10:20  TBD Joachim Pleil
    10:20-10:40
    		 “BreathDraw: standardised reproducible, rapid, reliable, and affordable breath sampling at point of need”
    		 Dahlia Salman
    10:40-11:00
    		 “Biomarker discovery in controlled normobaric hypoxia exposures”
    		 Sean Harshman
    11:00-11:20
    		 Coffee break  
    11:20-11:40
    		 “Engineering Hand-held and Wearable Sensing Platforms: Towards Point-of-Care Noninvasive Health Monitoring”
    		 Mangi Agarwal
    11:40-12:00
    		 “IABR Breath Summit 2025”
    		 Chris Mayhew

  • 12:00-13:00 — Lunch and exhibit hall session
    12:00-13:00 — Lunch and exhibit hall session
  • 13:00-15:30 — Afternoon presentation session

    13:00-15:30 — Afternoon presentation session

    13:00-13:20  “Methodological development for differentiating breath and ruminal exhaled VOC in the application of breathomics for metabolic assessment in dairy cows”  Stamatios Giannoukos
    13:20-13:40
    		 “The in vitro effects of different bread types on fecal microbiome composition and volatile metabolic activity in healthy and Non-Coeliac Wheat Sensitive subjects”
    		 Michal Skawinksi
    13:45-14:45
    		 IABR Board Position Elections
    		  
    14:45-15:30
    		 IABR Board Meeting (Break for non-Board members)
    		  

  • 15:30-16:00 — Rapid podium presentations

    15:30-16:00 — Rapid podium presentations (Each 2 minutes, one slide, 2 minutes for questions, timed)

    “Headspace Analysis of Asbestos Exposed Mesothelioma Cell Lines”  Sam Bonsall
    “Predicting chronological age using skin volatile profiles”
    		 Melissa Finnegan
    “Skin VOCs emission from 20 healthy volunteer patients”
    		 Flore Herve
    “From Lab to Lungs: Development of Photoacoustic Systems for Isoprene and Acetone Breath Analysis”
    		 Jonas Pangerl
    “Establishing a standard operating procedure for the collection of exhaled breath using the Bio-VOC 2 sampler”
    		 Y Lan Pham
    “Exploring exhaled mono and di-carbonyl analysis with on-sorbent derivatization / thermal desorption gas chromatography”
    		 Maria Chiara 
    Magnano
    “Streamlining quality control in breathomics with high throughput TD-GC workflows”
    		 Laura Miles 

  • 16:00-17:30 — Poster session

    16:00-17:30 — Poster session

    Development of a new breath collection method for analysing volatile organic compounds from intubated mouse models  Madeleine Ball
    Potential and challenges of a non-invasive monitoring for infections – from punctual measurements to dynamic in vitro and in vivo VOC profiling
    		 Julia Bartels
    Headspace Analysis of Asbestos Exposed Mesothelioma Cell Lines
    		 Sam Bonsall
    Exploring exhaled mono and di-carbonyl analysis with on-sorbent derivatization / thermal desorption gas chromatography
    		 Maria Chiara
    Magnano
    Predicting chronological age using skin volatile profiles
    		 Melissa Finnegan
    Identification of Burkholderia pseudomallei using volatile biomarkers in patients’ exhaled breath
    		 Antao Gao
    Skin VOCs emission from 20 healthy volunteer patients
    		 Flore Herve
    Defining VOC Signatures of Airway Epithelial Cells After Environmental Exposures
    		 Angela Linderholm
    Streamlining quality control in breathomics with high throughput TD-GC workflows. 
    		 Laura Miles
    Volatilomic profiling of chronic wound swabs– a potential rapid diagnostic support for infection
    		 Aoife Morrin
    Cow Breath: Exploring Bovine Respiratory Disease in Beef Cattle
    		 Miza Mwanza
    From Lab to Lungs: Development of Photoacoustic Systems for Isoprene and Acetone Breath Analysis
    		 Jonas Pangerl
    Establishing a standard operating procedure for the collection of exhaled breath using the Bio-VOC 2 sampler
    		 Y Lan Pham 
    Wearable Micro-GC Device for Non-Invasive Monitoring of Sweat VOC Patterns: Advancements in Disease Diagnosis
    		 Ruchi Sharma
    Characterising the healthy human skin volatilome: understanding the influence of skin barrier properties and environmental conditions
    		 Dominik Walkowiak

Thursday, June 6

  • 09:00-11:00 — Morning presentation session

    09:00-11:00 — Morning presentation session

    09:00-09:30  Human Breath Atlas Discussion  Jane Hill
    09:30-09:50
    		 “What breath research can learn from the Corona pandemic”
    		 Jochen Schubert
    09:50-10:10
    		 TBD Mike Davis
    10:10-10:30
    		 “From dynamic nature to human origin of breath isoprene - an investigative story”
    		 Pritam Sukul
    10:30-11:00
    		 Closeout presentation  

  • 11:00 – End of conference
    11:00 – End of conference