Assoz. Prof. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Biol. Dr. Robert Ahrends, Privatdoz.
T: +43-1-4277-52304
Summer term 2024
270103 PR Bachelor Laboratory Course B - Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry
301620 VO Analytical Chemistry 2 for Biologists - Biophysical Methods for Biological Macromolecules
Winter term 2023
270103 PR Bachelor Laboratory Course B - Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry
270243 VO Lipidomics
530020 SE Seminar in Analytical Chemistry - Lecture and discussion forum of diverse topics in Analytical Chemistry
Summer term 2023
270103 PR Bachelor Laboratory Course B - Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry
301620 VO Analytical Chemistry 2 for Biologists - Biophysical Methods for Biological Macromolecules
530020 SE Seminar in Analytical Chemistry - Lecture and discussion forum of diverse topics in Analytical Chemistry





Wang, Q., Hoene, M., Hu, C., Fritsche, L., Ahrends, R., Liebisch, G., Ekroos, K., Fritsche, A., Birkenfeld, A. L., Liu, X., Zhao, X., Li, Q., Su, B., Peter, A., Xu, G., & Lehmann, R. (2023). Ex vivo instability of lipids in whole blood: preanalytical recommendations for clinical lipidomics studies. Journal of Lipid Research, 64(6), [100378]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlr.2023.100378

Cheung, H. Y. F., Zou, J., Tantiwong, C., Fernandez, D. I., Huang, J., Ahrends, R., Roest, M., Cavill, R., Gibbins, J., & Heemskerk, J. W. M. (2023). High-throughput assessment identifying major platelet Ca2+ entry pathways via tyrosine kinase-linked and G protein-coupled receptors. Cell Calcium, 112, [102738]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceca.2023.102738

Ni, Z., Wolk, M., Jukes, G., Espinosa, K. M., Ahrends, R., Aimo, L., Alvarez-Jarreta, J., Andrews, S., Andrews, R., Bridge, A., Clair, G. C., Conroy, M. J., Fahy, E., Gaud, C., Goracci, L., Hartler, J., Hoffmann, N., Kopczynski, D., Korf, A., ... Fedorova, M. (2023). Guiding the choice of informatics software and tools for lipidomics research applications. Nature Methods, 20(2), 193-204. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01710-0

Kopczynski, D., Krause, D., Al Machot, F., Schwudke, D., Hoffmann, N., & Ahrends, R. (2023). The Past and Future of Lipidomics Bioinformatics. In Mass Spectrometry for Lipidomics: Methods and Applications (pp. 271-290). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527836512.ch10

Kumar, M., Has, C., Lam-Kamath, K., Ayciriex, S., Dewett, D., Bashir, M., Poupault, C., Schuhmann, K., Thomas, H., Knittelfelder, O., Raghuraman, B. K., Ahrends, R., Rister, J., & Shevchenko, A. (2023). Eye proteome of Drosophila melanogaster. Proteomics. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.202300330


McDonald, J. G., Ejsing, C. S., Kopczynski, D., Holcapek, M., Aoki, J., Arita, M., Arita, M., Baker, E. S., Bertrand-Michel, J., Bowden, J. A., Brugger, B., Ellis, S. R., Fedorova, M., Griffiths, W. J., Han, X., Hartler, J., Hoffmann, N., Koelmel, J. P., Kofeler, H. C., ... Ekroos, K. (2022). Introducing the Lipidomics Minimal Reporting Checklist. Nature Metabolism, 4(9), 1086-1088. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-022-00628-3

Kumar, M., Has, C., Lam-Kamath, K., Ayciriex, S., Dewett, D., Bashir, M., Poupault, C., Schuhmann, K., Knittelfelder, O., Raghuraman, B. K., Ahrends, R., Rister, J., & Shevchenko, A. (2022). Vitamin A Deficiency Alters the Phototransduction Machinery and Distinct Non-Vision-Specific Pathways in the Drosophila Eye Proteome. Biomolecules, 12(8), [1083]. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom12081083

Hoffmann, N., Mayer, G., Has, C., Kopczynski, D., Al Machot, F., Schwudke, D., Ahrends, R., Marcus, K., Eisenacher, M., & Turewicz, M. (2022). A Current Encyclopedia of Bioinformatics Tools, Data Formats and Resources for Mass Spectrometry Lipidomics. Metabolites, 12(7), [584]. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo12070584

Ariens, R. A., Hunt, B. J., Agbani, E. O., Ahnstrom, J., Ahrends, R., Alikhan, R., Assinger, A., Bagoly, Z., Balduini, A., Barbon, E., Barrett, C. D., Batty, P., Carneiro, J. D. A., Chan, W. S., de Maat, M., de Wit, K., Denis, C., Ellis, M. H., Eslick, R., ... Zhou, J. (2022). Illustrated State-of-the-Art Capsules of the ISTH 2022 Congress. Research and practice in thrombosis and haemostasis, 6(5), [e12747]. https://doi.org/10.1002/rth2.12747



Michel, L., Helfrich, I., Hendgen-Cotta, U. B., Mincu, R-I., Korste, S., Mrotzek, S. M., Spomer, A., Odersky, A., Rischpler, C., Herrmann, K., Umutlu, L., Coman, C., Ahrends, R., Sickmann, A., Löffek, S., Livingstone, E., Ugurel, S., Zimmer, L., Gunzer, M., ... Rassaf, T. (2022). Targeting early stages of cardiotoxicity from anti-PD1 immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy. European Heart Journal, 43(4), 316-329. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehab430

Wolrab, D., Jirasko, R., Cifkova, E., Horing, M., Mei, D., Chocholouskova, M., Peterka, O., Idkowiak, J., Hrnciarova, T., Kuchar, L., Ahrends, R., Brumarova, R., Friedecky, D., Vivo-Truyols, G., Skrha, P., Skrha, J., Kucera, R., Melichar, B., Liebisch, G., ... Holcapek, M. (2022). Lipidomic profiling of human serum enables detection of pancreatic cancer. Nature Communications, 13(1), [124]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27765-9

Confettura, A. D., Cuboni, E., Ammar, M. R., Jia, S., Gomes, G. M., Yuanxiang, P., Raman, R., Li, T., Grochowska, K. M., Ahrends, R., Karpova, A., Dityatev, A., & Kreutz, M. R. (2022). Neddylation-dependent protein degradation is a nexus between synaptic insulin resistance, neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's disease. Translational neurodegeneration, 11(1), [2]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40035-021-00277-8

Lipid Space

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker)

5 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Critical shifts in lipid metabolism promote megakaryocyte differentiation

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker)

21 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Critical shifts in lipid metabolism promote megakaryocyte differentiation

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker)

21 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipidomics: The checklist online portal

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker)

29 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipidomics: From Lipid structure to lipid function

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker)

11 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


LipidSpace and LIFS-Tools

Robert Ahrends (Speaker)

6 Dec 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Linking platelet lipidomics and functions

Robert Ahrends (Speaker)

24 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Mass spectrometric analysis; QQQ, HRMS, Type-II overlap, annotation, MS, MSMS, MSn, Imaging

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker) & Harald C. Köfeler (Contributor)

9 Sep 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Probing Membranes & Identifying Key Lipids Critical for Platelet Activation by Lipidomics

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker)

9 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Probing Membranes & Identifying Key Lipids Critical for Platelet Activation by Lipidomics

Robert Ahrends (Speaker)

5 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Probing the Membrane Landscape and Identifying Key Lipids Critical for Platelet Activation by Lipidomics

Robert Ahrends (Speaker)

5 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Probing the Platelet Lipidome From Lipid Structure to Function

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker)

21 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A synaptoneurolipidomics view on neuronal plasticity

Cristina Coman (Invited speaker), Maximilian Borgmeyer (Contributor), Marina Mikhaylova (Contributor), M.R. Kreutz (Contributor) & Robert Ahrends (Contributor)

13 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Dissecting the Platelet Lipidome

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker)

12 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A lipid-centric multiomics approach

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker)

27 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Beyond good lipidomics practice

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker), Dominik Kopczynski (Contributor) & Gerhard Liebisch (Contributor)

8 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A Lipid-centric Multiomics Approach for Complex Systems

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker)

30 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The LIFS tools and workflows for mass-spectrometry based lipidomics

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker)

8 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipidomics: From Lipid structure to lipid function

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker)

6 Jan 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Probing the platelet lipidome from lipid structure to function

Robert Ahrends (Speaker)

9 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipidomics from structure to function new frontiers in lipid research

Cristina Coman (Speaker), Maximilian Borgmeyer (Contributor), Michael R. Kreutz (Contributor) & Robert Ahrends (Contributor)

26 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Multiomics reveals altered lipid metabolism and signaling upon environmental enrichment in synaptic junctions

Cristina Coman (Speaker), Maximilian Borgmeyer (Contributor), Canan Has (Contributor), Hans-Frieder Schott (Contributor), Tingting Li (Contributor), Philipp Westhoff (Contributor), Hilaire Yam Fung Cheung (Contributor), Nils Hoffmann (Contributor), Michaela Schweizer (Contributor), Michal Holcapek (Contributor), Marina Mikhaylova (Contributor), Michael R. Kreutz (Contributor) & Robert Ahrends (Contributor)

9 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A comprehensive and quantitative multiomics analysis of murine megakaryocytes during maturation

Bianca de Jonckheere (Speaker) & Robert Ahrends (Contributor)

20 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A targeted lipidomics workflow to dissect sphingolipid metabolism in adipogenesis

Nina Nicole Troppmair (Speaker) & Robert Ahrends (Contributor)

20 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Development and Application of Chromatographic Methods for Lipidomic Analyses

Stefanie Rubenzucker (Speaker) & Robert Ahrends (Contributor)

20 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


LipidCreator workbench to probe the lipidomics landscape

Bing Peng (Contributor), Dominik Kopczynski (Speaker), Cristina Coman (Contributor), Nils Hoffmann (Contributor) & Robert Ahrends (Contributor)

7 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Multiomics of synaptic junctions reveals altered lipid metabolism and signaling upon environmental enrichment

Cristina Coman (Speaker), Maximilian Borgmeyer (Contributor), Canan Has (Contributor), Hans-Frieder Schott (Contributor), Tingting Li (Contributor), Philipp Westhoff (Contributor), Hilaire Yam Fung Cheung (Contributor), Nils Hoffmann (Contributor), Michaela Schweizer (Contributor), Michal Holcapek (Contributor), Marina Mikhaylova (Contributor), Michael R. Kreutz (Contributor) & Robert Ahrends (Contributor)

5 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Probing the platelet lipidome and identifying key lipids critical for platelet activation by comprehensive lipidomics

Robert Ahrends (Speaker) & Oliver Borst (Contributor)

5 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The LIFS tools and workflows for mass-spectrometry based lipidomics

Nils Hoffmann (Speaker) & Robert Ahrends (Contributor)

5 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The lipid crosstalk of thrombo-inflammatory cells and its modulating effect on thrombus formation

Robert Ahrends (Speaker) & Patrick Münzer (Contributor)

27 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Multiomics of synaptic junctions reveals altered lipid metabolism and signaling following environmental enrichment

Robert Ahrends (Speaker)

20 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A KNIME workflow for processing data from targeted lipidomics approaches

Nina Nicole Troppmair (Speaker) & Robert Ahrends (Contributor)

11 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipidomic analysis of murine megakaryocytes during maturation

Bianca de Jonckheere (Speaker) & Robert Ahrends (Contributor)

11 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


LipidCreator

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker)

12 Apr 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipid Compass probing the lipidomics landscape

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker)

1 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


LIFS Bioinformatics / Data Integration and Applications

Robert Ahrends (Speaker)

29 Sep 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


LipidCreator workbench to probe the lipidomic landscape

Robert Ahrends (Speaker)

13 Jul 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipid Creator

Robert Ahrends (Speaker)

17 Apr 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipid Compass

Nils Hoffmann (Speaker) & Robert Ahrends (Contributor)

1 Mar 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipidomics Bioinformatics for Life Sciences

Robert Ahrends (Invited speaker)

1 Mar 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


LipidCreator: A workbench to probe the lipidomic landscape

Robert Ahrends (Speaker)

25 Feb 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


LILY-Lipidome Isotope Labeling of Yeast: In vivo synthesis of 13C labeled reference lipids for quantification by mass spectrometry

Evelyn Rampler (Speaker), Cristina Coman (Contributor), Gerrit Hermann (Contributor), Kristaps Klavins (Contributor), Robert Ahrends (Contributor) & Gunda Köllensperger (Contributor)

13 Nov 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Production of 13C labeled reference lipids for absolute quantification by mass spectrometry

Evelyn Rampler (Speaker), Cristina Coman (Contributor), Gerrit Hermann (Contributor), Kristaps Klavins (Contributor), Robert Ahrends (Contributor) & Gunda Köllensperger (Contributor)

5 Sep 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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