Chenomx Blog

Yes, that was the tongue twister we were wrestling with all of last week in Chamonix, France at SMASH 2007. Chenomx is a proud sponsor of SMASH, which is always one of the best NMR meetings of the year. This year was no exception, and the location couldn’t have been better - congratulations to the organizing committee on pulling off an excellent conference and a perfect venue.

The last big metabolomics conference of 2007 will be the Advances in Metabolic Profiling meeting, November 14-15 in Boston, MA. Chenomx will be there, so be sure to attend!

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.

Chenomx will be sponsoring and attending Advances in Metabolic Profiling 2006 (October 18 - 19, 2006.  London, UK). If you plan on attending and you’re interested in meeting with us, let us know.

Chenomx will be attending and sponsoring CBI’s 6th Forum on Predictive ADME/Tox (September 27 - 29, 2006. Washington, DC). If you plan on attending and you’re interested in meeting with us, let us know.

The Metabolomics Society 2006 meeting just wrapped up in Boston, and the meeting was a huge sucess. Chenomx hosted a workshop that was attended by over 150 people - twice as many as we were anticipating!

Chenomx was also a primary sponsor of the main conference program, where attendance was well over expectations with over 500+ people attending the plenary sessions.

Thanks to the organizers for a well-organized meeting, and thanks to all the attendees that made our workshop such a success.