Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Ahrends
T: +43-1-4277-52304
Winter term 2025
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 2025
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 2024
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
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Cheung, H. Y. F., Tantiwong, C., Kale, D., Gibbins, J. M., Watson, S. P., Heemskerk, J. W. M., Sickmann, A., Ahrends, R., & Dunster, J. L. (2025). A computational framework for the investigation of phosphoinositide regulation. PLoS Computational Biology, 21(9), Article e1013477. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013477

De Backer, J. F., Karges, T., Papst, J., Pınar, Z. N., Coman, C., Ahrends, R., Xu, Y., García-Cáceres, C., & Grunwald Kadow, I. C. (2025). Adenosine signaling in glia modulates metabolic state-dependent behavior in Drosophila. Cell Reports, 44(6), Article 115765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115765

Mourikis, P., Benkhoff, M., Wildeis, L., Barcik, M., Helten, C., Coman, C., Solari, F. A., Krahn, D., Dannenberg, L., Ahlbrecht, S., Zikeli, D., Utz, A., Trojovsky, K., Richter, H., Al Kassis, G., M'Pembele, R., Zako, S., Huckenbeck, T., Bauer, S., ... Polzin, A. (2025). Icosapent ethyl reduces arterial thrombosis by inhibition of cyclooxygenase-1-induced platelet reactivity. Science Translational Medicine, 17(799). https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.ado0610

Karolinska Institute, Schebb, N. H., Kampschulte, N., Hagn, G., Plitzko, K., Meckelmann, S. W., Ghosh, S., Joshi, R., Kuligowski, J., Vuckovic, D., Botana, M. T., Sánchez-Illana, Á., Zandkarimi, F., Das, A., Yang, J., Schmidt, L., Checa, A., Roche, H. M., Armando, A. M., ... O’Donnell, V. B. (2025). Technical recommendations for analyzing oxylipins by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Science Signaling, 18(887), eadw1245. https://doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.adw1245

Hackenbroch, C., Cimen, T., Gross, C., Rubenzucker, S., Burkard, P., Groß, N., Ahrends, R., Girbl, T., & Stegner, D. (2025). Neutrophil recruitment depends on platelet-derived leukotriene B4. Blood Advances, 9(9), 2226-2230. https://doi.org/10.1182/bloodadvances.2024014947

Ahrends, R., Ellis, S. R., Verhelst, S. H. L., & Kreutz, M. R. (2025). Synaptoneurolipidomics: lipidomics in the study of synaptic function. Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 50(2), 156-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibs.2024.12.004

Benkhoff, M., Barcik, M., Mourikis, P., Dahlmanns, J., Kahmann, P., Wollnitzke, P., Hering, M., Huckenbeck, T., Hoppe, J., Semleit, N., Deister-Jonas, J., Zako, S., Seel, J., Coman, C., Barth, M., Cramer, M., Helten, C., Wildeis, L., Hu, H., ... Polzin, A. (2025). Targeting Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Signaling to Prevent the Progression of Aortic Valve Disease. Circulation, 151(4), 333-347. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.067270

Sandforth, A., Arreola, E. V., Hanson, R. L., Wewer Albrechtsen, N. J., Holst, J. J., Ahrends, R., Coman, C., Gerst, F., Lorza-Gil, E., Cheng, Y., Sandforth, L., Katzenstein, S., Ganslmeier, M., Seissler, J., Hauner, H., Perakakis, N., Wagner, R., Machann, J., Schick, F., ... Jumpertz von Schwartzenberg, R. (2025). Prevention of type 2 diabetes through prediabetes remission without weight loss. Nature Medicine. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03944-9

Li, T., Wenger, A., Coman, C., Borutzki, C., Kreutz, M. R., & Ahrends, R. (2025). SIMPLEX Enriches Hydrophobic and Lipidated Proteins in Membrane Proteomics Experiments. Proteomics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.70016

National Institute of Standards and Technology, Torta, F., Hoffmann, N., Burla, B., Alecu, I., Arita, M., Bamba, T., Bennett, S. A. L., Bertrand-Michel, J., Brügger, B., Cala, M. P., Camacho-Muñoz, D., Checa, A., Chen, M., Chocholoušková, M., Cinel, M., Chu-Van, E., Colsch, B., Coman, C., ... Wenk, M. R. (2024). Concordant inter-laboratory derived concentrations of ceramides in human plasma reference materials via authentic standards. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 8562. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52087-x

Skotland, T., Ekroos, K., McDonald, J., Ahrends, R., Liebisch, G., & Sandvig, K. (2024). Pitfalls in lipid mass spectrometry of mammalian samples — a brief guide for biologists. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 25(10), 759-760. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41580-024-00758-4

Kopczynski, D., Ejsing, C. S., McDonald, J. G., Bamba, T., Baker, E. S., Bertrand-Michel, J., Brügger, B., Coman, C., Ellis, S. R., Garrett, T. J., Griffiths, W. J., Guan, X. L., Han, X., Höring, M., Holčapek, M., Hoffmann, N., Huynh, K., Lehmann, R., Jones, J. W., ... Liebisch, G. (2024). The lipidomics reporting checklist a framework for transparency of lipidomic experiments and repurposing resource data. Journal of Lipid Research, 65(9), Article 100621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlr.2024.100621


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. (2024). Eye proteome of Drosophila melanogaster. Proteomics, 24(10), Article 2300330. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.202300330

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. (2024). Lipidome Unsaturation Affects the Morphology and Proteome of the Drosophila Eye. Journal of Proteome Research, 23(4), 1188-1199. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.3c00570

Heimerl, S., Höring, M., Kopczynski, D., Sigruener, A., Hart, C., Burkhardt, R., Black, A., Ahrends, R., & Liebisch, G. (2023). Quantification of bulk lipid species in human platelets and their thrombin-induced release. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 6154. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33076-4



de Jonckheere, B., Kollotzek, F., Münzer, P., Göb, V., Fischer, M., Mott, K., Coman, C., Troppmair, N. N., Manke, M. C., Zdanyte, M., Harm, T., Sigle, M., Kopczynski, D., Bileck, A., Gerner, C., Hoffmann, N., Heinzmann, D., Assinger, A., Gawaz, M., ... Ahrends, R. (2023). Critical shifts in lipid metabolism promote megakaryocyte differentiation and proplatelet formation. Nature Cardiovascular Research, 2(9), 835-852. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44161-023-00325-8


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Critical Shifts In Lipid Metabolism Promote Megakaryocyte Differentiation And Proplatelet Formation

Ahrends, R. (Speaker) & de Jonckheere, B. (Contributor)

6 Apr 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Status and Perspectives of the Lipidomics Reporting Checklist

Kopczynski, D. (Invited speaker) & Ahrends, R. (Contributor)

24 Feb 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A Targeted, Bioinert LC–MS/MS Method for Sensitive, Comprehensive Analysis of Signaling Lipids

Rubenzucker, S. (Invited speaker), Manke, M.-C. (Contributor), Lehmann, R. (Contributor), Assinger, A. (Contributor), Borst, O. (Contributor) & Ahrends, R. (Contributor)

23 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Status and Perspectives of the Lipidomics Reporting Checklist

Kopczynski, D. (Speaker) & Ahrends, R. (Contributor)

1 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Status and Perspectives of the Lipidomics Reporting Checklist

Kopczynski, D. (Speaker) & Ahrends, R. (Contributor)

5 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Decoding Blood Platelet Production: The Intricate Role of Lipids

de Jonckheere, B. (Speaker), Kollotzek, F. (Contributor), Borst, O. (Contributor) & Ahrends, R. (Contributor)

27 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Analyzing bioactive lipids in complex biological matrices using LC‐MS/MS

Rubenzucker, S. (Speaker) & Ahrends, R. (Contributor)

21 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipid Space

Ahrends, R. (Invited speaker)

5 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Critical shifts in lipid metabolism promote megakaryocyte differentiation

Ahrends, R. (Invited speaker)

21 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Critical shifts in lipid metabolism promote megakaryocyte differentiation

Ahrends, R. (Invited speaker)

21 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipidomics: The checklist online portal

Ahrends, R. (Invited speaker)

29 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipidomics: From Lipid structure to lipid function

Ahrends, R. (Invited speaker)

11 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


LipidSpace and LIFS-Tools

Ahrends, R. (Speaker)

6 Dec 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Linking platelet lipidomics and functions

Ahrends, R. (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

Ahrends, R. (Invited speaker) & Köfeler, H. C. (Contributor)

9 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Ahrends, R. (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

Ahrends, R. (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

Ahrends, R. (Speaker)

5 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Probing the Platelet Lipidome From Lipid Structure to Function

Ahrends, R. (Invited speaker)

21 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A synaptoneurolipidomics view on neuronal plasticity

Coman, C. (Invited speaker), Borgmeyer, M. (Contributor), Mikhaylova, M. (Contributor), Kreutz, M. R. (Contributor) & Ahrends, R. (Contributor)

13 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Dissecting the Platelet Lipidome

Ahrends, R. (Invited speaker)

12 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A lipid-centric multiomics approach

Ahrends, R. (Invited speaker)

27 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Beyond good lipidomics practice

Ahrends, R. (Invited speaker), Kopczynski, D. (Contributor) & Liebisch, G. (Contributor)

8 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A Lipid-centric Multiomics Approach for Complex Systems

Ahrends, R. (Invited speaker)

30 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The LIFS tools and workflows for mass-spectrometry based lipidomics

Ahrends, R. (Invited speaker)

8 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipidomics: From Lipid structure to lipid function

Ahrends, R. (Invited speaker)

6 Jan 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Probing the platelet lipidome from lipid structure to function

Ahrends, R. (Speaker)

9 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipidomics from structure to function new frontiers in lipid research

Coman, C. (Speaker), Borgmeyer, M. (Contributor), Kreutz, M. R. (Contributor) & Ahrends, R. (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

Coman, C. (Speaker), Borgmeyer, M. (Contributor), Has, C. (Contributor), Schott, H.-F. (Contributor), Li, T. (Contributor), Westhoff, P. (Contributor), Cheung, H. Y. F. (Contributor), Hoffmann, N. (Contributor), Schweizer, M. (Contributor), Holcapek, M. (Contributor), Mikhaylova, M. (Contributor), Kreutz, M. R. (Contributor) & Ahrends, R. (Contributor)

9 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A comprehensive and quantitative multiomics analysis of murine megakaryocytes during maturation

de Jonckheere, B. (Speaker) & Ahrends, R. (Contributor)

20 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A targeted lipidomics workflow to dissect sphingolipid metabolism in adipogenesis

Troppmair, N. N. (Speaker) & Ahrends, R. (Contributor)

20 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Development and Application of Chromatographic Methods for Lipidomic Analyses

Rubenzucker, S. (Speaker) & Ahrends, R. (Contributor)

20 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


LipidCreator workbench to probe the lipidomics landscape

Peng, B. (Contributor), Kopczynski, D. (Speaker), Coman, C. (Contributor), Hoffmann, N. (Contributor) & Ahrends, R. (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

Coman, C. (Speaker), Borgmeyer, M. (Contributor), Has, C. (Contributor), Schott, H.-F. (Contributor), Li, T. (Contributor), Westhoff, P. (Contributor), Cheung, H. Y. F. (Contributor), Hoffmann, N. (Contributor), Schweizer, M. (Contributor), Holcapek, M. (Contributor), Mikhaylova, M. (Contributor), Kreutz, M. R. (Contributor) & Ahrends, R. (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

Ahrends, R. (Speaker) & Borst, O. (Contributor)

5 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The LIFS tools and workflows for mass-spectrometry based lipidomics

Hoffmann, N. (Speaker) & Ahrends, R. (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

Ahrends, R. (Speaker) & Münzer, P. (Contributor)

27 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Ahrends, R. (Speaker)

20 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A KNIME workflow for processing data from targeted lipidomics approaches

Troppmair, N. N. (Speaker) & Ahrends, R. (Contributor)

11 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipidomic analysis of murine megakaryocytes during maturation

de Jonckheere, B. (Speaker) & Ahrends, R. (Contributor)

11 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


LipidCreator

Ahrends, R. (Invited speaker)

12 Apr 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipid Compass probing the lipidomics landscape

Ahrends, R. (Invited speaker)

1 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


LIFS Bioinformatics / Data Integration and Applications

Ahrends, R. (Speaker)

29 Sept 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


LipidCreator workbench to probe the lipidomic landscape

Ahrends, R. (Speaker)

13 Jul 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipid Creator

Ahrends, R. (Speaker)

17 Apr 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipid Compass

Hoffmann, N. (Speaker) & Ahrends, R. (Contributor)

1 Mar 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lipidomics Bioinformatics for Life Sciences

Ahrends, R. (Invited speaker)

1 Mar 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


LipidCreator: A workbench to probe the lipidomic landscape

Ahrends, R. (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

Rampler, E. (Speaker), Coman, C. (Contributor), Hermann, G. (Contributor), Klavins, K. (Contributor), Ahrends, R. (Contributor) & Köllensperger, G. (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

Rampler, E. (Speaker), Coman, C. (Contributor), Hermann, G. (Contributor), Klavins, K. (Contributor), Ahrends, R. (Contributor) & Köllensperger, G. (Contributor)

5 Sept 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



The lipid crosstalk in thrombo-inflammation

Ahrends, R. (Project Lead)

15/06/2414/06/27

Project: Research funding


Rückkoppelungsschleifen der Fettzelldifferenzierung im Visier

Ahrends, R. (Project Lead)

1/03/2028/02/23

Project: Research funding


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