Archive for June, 2007

Metabolics Society 2007 Wrap-Up

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

We just returned from an exciting (but rainy) week in Manchester, England, where the Chenomx-sponsored Metabolomics Society 2007 meeting just wrapped up. The meeting was a huge success with over 500 participants.

Here are some of the highlights from what was a busy and exciting conference:

  • Chenomx announced a relationship with GeneGo - metabolomics information generated by Chenomx NMR Suite can now be integrated directly into GeneGo’s software for metabolic pathway visualization and analysis.
  • The following researchers presented work which used Chenomx software for metabolite identification and quantification:
    • The Human Metabolome Project: An Update for 2007
      David Wishart
      (University of Alberta, Canada)
    • Characterization of Multi-age Rodent Pediatric Models of Toxicity
      Laura Schnackenberg (FDA, USA) .
    • Can the Etiology of Pneumonia be Determined using Metabolomics?
      Carolyn Slupsky (University of Alberta, Canada)
    • Metabolomics and `Non-model´ Organisms – Earthworms as a Case Study
      Jake Bundy (Imperial College London, UK)
    • Metabolomics in Small Fish Toxicology and Ecological Risk Assessments
      Tim Collette (Environmental Protection Agency, USA)
    • Can Metabolomics be used for Environmental Monitoring in Free Living Aquatic Wildlife? - Building the Weight of Evidence
      Mark Viant (University of Birmingham, UK)
    • Wine, Soils and Complex Community Interactions
      Simone Rochfort (The Department of Primary Industries, Australia)
    • Metabolite Biomarkers of Scleroderma Elucidated using 1H NMR Metabolomics
      Aalim Weljie (University of Calgary, Canada)
    • The OPLS and O2PLS Approach in Metabolomics and Metabonomics
      Johan Trygg (University of Umeå, Sweden)
  • More posters than we could count used Chenomx’s software as part of the research presented!
  • Chenomx and Umetrics held the first joint “Chenomx-Umetrics Metabolomics Workshop” on June 15, following the meeting. The workshop was sold out and, based on feedback from attendees, a great success.