Cunyu Yan Cunyu mass specswas invited to attend the ion mobility mass spectrometry workshop in Shanghai/Beijing, China from 26th to 29th of April. His talk “When ion mobility mass spectrometry meets synthetic biology” simply outlined two major new cutting-edge technologies that have arisen in the past ten years; highlighted the mass spectrometry application challenges of dealing with synthetic biology samples and raised potential solutions for this specific research area. He also visited the Interdisciplinary Research Centre of Biology and Chemistry (IRCBC), Chinese Academy of Sciences and headquarters of Agilent (China). Image: The Interdisciplinary Research Centre of Biology and Chemistry (IRCBC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghi, Pudong Campus).