LIPID MAPS Annual Meeting 2012:
Lipidomics Impact on Cell Biology, Metabolomics and Translational Medicine

Topics: Biochemistry, Keywords: Bioinformatics, Mass Spectrometry, Lipidomics, Lipid

Date: /7/8/ May 2012, La Jolla (CA), USA, North America

Web Site, Contact: mdisenhouse [at] ucsd.edu (Masada Disenhouse)

  

Official Information:

This is an exciting time for the emerging field of lipidomics. With the development and evolution of sophisticated mass spectrometers linked to highly efficient liquid chromatography systems, individual molecular species of lipids can now be isolated and identified, allowing us to begin to understand lipid metabolism and the treatment of lipid-based diseases (atherosclerosis and inflammatory disease as well as arthritis, cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease). Recent awareness that each category of lipid consists of thousands if not tens of thousands of individual molecular species requires sophisticated informatics to ensure consistent databasing and annotation of the numerous lipid molecular species and analysis of tremendous quantities of experimental data. The goal of this meeting is to bring together biological and biomedical scientists in a wide range of fields to share new findings and methods in the broader lipidomics field and to explore joint efforts to extend the use of these powerful new methods to new applications.

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