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Written on 07 February 2019. Posted in News.

The 52nd annual conference of the DGMS will take place from the 10th to the 13th of March, 2019, in Rostock, Germany.

Members of LIFS will be present at the event, presenting software tools and applications for lipidomics.

The following table gives an overview of the timetable of LIFS-related events at the venue.

Day	Time	Session	What	Who	Affiliation
March 10th	14:00 - 17:00	I. Workshops	Targeted lipidomics-beyond the spreadsheet, new ways for assay development and data evaluation. The workshop will offer a presentation of current tools developed in the LIFS consortium (de.NBI). The user will be guided how to develop a targeted assay for lipidomics. Therefore, different strategies for MS workflows such as SRM or PRM will be presented. The attendee will also get a brief overview about the dos and don’ts using these strategies. We are looking forward to your attendance! Please note that the last hour of the workshop time will be dedicated to the inaugural meeting of the Lipid Analysis and Lipidomics Integerest Group within DGMS, led by Dr. Dominik Schwudke and Dr. Robert Ahrends.	Robert Ahrends, Nils Hoffmann, Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences – ISAS, Dortmund, Germany Dominik Schwudke, Fadi Al Machot, Research Center Borstel - Leibniz-Lung-Center, Borstel, Germany	Lipidomics Informatics for Life Sciences

The following table gives an overview of the timetable of LIFS related posters at the venue.

Day	Time	Session	No.	What	Who
March 11th	17:15 - 19:00	N.A.	162	A Web-Tool to Compute Lipidomes Homologies based on Template SMILES	Al Machot, Fadi (1); Hoffmann, Nils (2); Krause, Daniel (1); Schwudke, Dominik (1) Organization(s): 1: Research Center Borstel - Leibniz Lung Center; 2: Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences
March 11th	17:15 - 19:00	N.A.	206	LipidCompass	Hoffmann, Nils (1); Al Machot, Fadi (2); Schwudke, Dominik (2); Haug, Kenneth (3); O'Donovan, Claire (3); Ahrends, Robert (1) Organization(s): 1: Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS – e.V., Otto-Hahn-Straße 6b, 44227 Dortmund, Germany; 2: Bioanalytical Chemistry, Research Center Borstel – Leibniz Lung Center, Parkallee 1-40, 23845 Borstel; 3: EMBL-EBI Hinxton, Metabolomics, Wellcome Genome Campus, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
March 11th	17:15 - 19:00	N.A.	210	LipidCreator: A workbench to probe the lipidomic landscape	Peng, Bing (1); Kopczynski, Dominik (1); Pratt, Brian S (2); Ejsing, Christer S (3,4); Hermansson, Martin (3); Schwudke, Dominik (5); Meckelmann, Sven (6); Schmitz, Oliver J (6); MacLean, Brendan (2); Borst, Oliver (7); Hoffmann, Nils (1); Ahrends, Robert (1) Organization(s): 1: Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS – e.V., Germany; 2: University of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences, Seattle, USA; 3: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; 4: Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany; 5: Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany; 6: Institute of Applied Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany; 7: Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
March 11th	17:15 - 19:00	N.A.	218	SIMPLEX: A multi-omics approach for screening of modified hippocampal lipid signaling pathways triggered by lifestyle condition	Schött, Hans-Frieder (1); Westhoff, Philipp (1); Coman, Cristina (1); Li, Tingting (1); Borgmeyer, Maximillian (2); Borutzki, Corinna (3); Confettura, Alessandro-Dario (3); Has, Canan (1); Kreutz, Michael R (2,3); Ahrends, Robert (1) Organization(s): 1: Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften-ISAS e .V, Otto-Hahn-Str. 6b, 44227 Dortmund, Germany; 2: Leibniz Group 'Dendritic Organelles and Synaptic Function', Center for Molecular Neurobiology (ZMNH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Hamburg, Germany.; 3: RG Neuroplasticity, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology Magdeburg, Germany.

Written on 18 January 2019. Posted in News.

LIFS is co-organizing the Summer school on Integration of Large Scale Lipidomics Data in Systems Medicine Research (LipoSysMed) in Leipzig will introduce young researchers into the field of lipidomics data acquisition and analysis strategies with the focus of Omics data integration into the systems medicine research.

LipoSysMed is planned as an educational and training event based on the interdisciplinary exchange between biochemists, clinicians, analytical chemists, and computer scientists to provide the participants with the full overview of the current status of lipidome analysis strategies and data integration solutions.

The main aims of the summer school are to introduce early stage researches into the field of lipidomics with the focus on understanding the nature of clinical data and associated mass spectrometry derived datasets as well as bioinformatics solutions for lipidomics data analysis and further integration into multi-dimensional datasets.

The goal of LipoSysMed is to provide to all participants the training necessary to work with raw lipidomics datasets aiming its integration in systems medicine workflows via intensive interdisciplinary knowledge exchange and networking between young scientists, advanced PhD students, postdoctoral trainers and a panel of outstanding international experts.

Application deadline has been extended till: 25, January, 2019

>>> Apply here ! <<<

Written on 18 September 2018. Posted in News.

The 7th European Lipidomics Meeting will take place from 26-29 September 2018 in Leipzig, Germany.

Members of LIFS and the lipidomics standards initiative will be present at the event, giving various keynote presentations and presenting software tools and standardization guidelines for lipidomics.

The following table gives an overview of the timetable of LIFS and LSI related talks and workshop at the venue.

Day	Time	Session	What	Who	Affiliation
September 26th	16:15 - 18:00	Satellite workshop	Satellite workshop organized by Lipidomics Standards Initiative	Kim Ekroos, Lipidomics Consulting Ltd, Finland Gerhard Liebisch, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany	Lipidomics Standards Initiative (LSI)
September 27th	9:10 - 9:40	Session 1: Analytical Methods Development for Lipidomics	Ultra-high-resolution mass spectrometry and what it brings to shotgun lipidomics	Andrej Shevchenko, MPI-CBG Dresden, Dresden, Germany	Lipidomics Informatics for Life Sciences
September 28th	13:30 – 14:30	Lipidomics Software Demo	PeakStrainer and LipidXplorer	Eduardo Jacobo Miranda Ackerman, MPI-CBG Dresden, Dresden, Germany	Lipidomics Informatics for Life Sciences
September 28th	8:30 - 9:00	Session 3: Bioinformatics solutions for Lipidomics	LIFS: Lipidomics informatics for life-science	Robert Ahrends, Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences – ISAS, Dortmund, Germany	Lipidomics Informatics for Life Sciences
September 28th	15:10 - 15:40	Session 5: Clinical Lipidomics	Tissue lipidomics: about the challenge to correlate clinical data and histological phenotypes with lipid metabolic snapshots	Dominik Schwudke, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany	Lipidomics Informatics for Life Sciences
September 29th	11:50 - 12:10	Session 6: Integration of Lipidomics into Systems Medicine Research	Guidelines for lipidomics analysis and reporting – the Lipidomics Standards Initiative (LSI)	Gerhard Liebisch, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany	Lipidomics Standards Initiative (LSI)

The following table gives an overview of the timetable of LIFS related posters at the venue.

Day	Time	Session	What	Who	Abstract
September 27th	17:40 - 19:00	Poster Session (odd numbers)	P3.3: Peakstrainer and LipidXplorerWeb for Online Shotgun Lipidomics Processing Pipeline	Jacobo Miranda Ackermann, MPI CBG, Dresden, Germany	LipidXplorerWeb is an enhanced online version of the free and open-source software kit LipidXplorer. It supports the identification and quantification of molecular species of any lipid class detected by shotgun experiments performed on any mass spectrometry platform. In contrast to the local installation, the internet version provides continuous enhancements and corrections to simplify the lipid identification routines based on users experience and requirement. For example users can select predefined collections of MFQL files (molecular fragmentation query language), or create their own and share them with other. Automated configuration generation, as well as warning for unexpected setting, make it easier for the user to implement the workflow. The major drawback of online processing is the large file sizes that need to be transferred, to mitigate this issue PeakStrainer can be run on a local installation and generate files where noise peaks are filtered out (without loosing low intensity signals) and the data is efficiently packed to minimize upload time, this allows batch processing of multiple shotgun acquisitions by high-resolution mass mapping, precursor and neutral-loss scanning, and data-dependent MS/MS. While the internet version is suitable for a variety of lipidomics applications in cell biology and molecular medicine, the flexible nature of MFQL and potential for collaboration and interaction lends itself to diverse applications of small molecule identification in experiments where molecules are consistently processed on a mass spectrometry platform.

Written on 06 September 2018. Posted in News.

Early bird registration and abstract submission have been extended until September 15^th 2018. Applications for student travel grants will still be possible after the deadline.

We are very happy to announce the 4^th International Lipidomics Forum in Dortmund (ISAS) between 11^th and 13^th of November 2018 (lipidomics-forum.isas.de/ lipidomics-forum.fz-borstel.de). This symposium is the 4^th meeting of an annual series of conferences on lipid biology and lipidomics. The forum provides a platform for interaction of international acknowledged scientists, students and young researchers. Specifically, we encourage young researchers to participate by poster presentations and short talks allowing them to receive advice from experts in the field. This symposium series will not only cover research highlights but also will offer tutorials on selected medical and methodical topics, which are in the focus of the Special Interest Group Lipid Analytics and Lipidomics of the DGMS. Students will be financially supported by travel grants of the DGMS. We are very excited to present this meeting and looking forward to lively discussions and many interactions.

The registration is open; we warmly welcome you to the ISAS Dortmund and looking forward to your visit and contribution.

The Organizers

Robert Ahrends (ISAS), Nils Hoffmann (ISAS), Dominik Kopczynski (ISAS), Nicolas Gisch (RCB) and Dominik Schwudke (RCB)

Written on 28 August 2018. Posted in News.

Early bird registration and abstract submission will close on August 30^th 2018. Applications for student travel grants will still be possible after the deadline.

The registration is open; we warmly welcome you to the ISAS Dortmund and looking forward to your visit and contribution.

The Organizers

Robert Ahrends (ISAS), Nils Hoffmann (ISAS), Dominik Kopczynski (ISAS), Nicolas Gisch (RCB) and Dominik Schwudke (RCB)

LIFS @ DGMS 2019 in Rostock

LipoSysMed Summer school on Integration of Large Scale Lipidomics Data in Systems Medicine Research 2019

LIFS and LSI @ European Lipidomics Meeting 2018 in Leipzig

Extended Deadlines for Lipidomics Forum 2018

Abstract Submission and Early Bird Registration Deadlines for Lipidomics Forum 2018

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