When: August 19- 29, 2024
Where: UC Davis Genome Center (Davis, CA)
Registration and payment: here
Email: Jeannette Martins jmartins@ucdavis.edu
Phone: +1-530-754-5357
Time Commitment: 8 hours per day
Pace: Instructor-led
Level: No experience in metabolomics needed. Ideal for participants who receive, acquire, or analyze metabolomics data.
Price: $5,000 Early Bird (until July 31, 2024) then $5,500 (from August 1, 2024)
Exclusive Offer: Housing & Meals included for graduates students & postdocs, register by May 31, 2024, to get this first time offer.
Mastering Metabolomics: How to Generate and Validate Chemical Data on Foods, Blood, and Organs in Complex Studies
Why should you join?
This is the most comprehensive training course, worldwide!
- Use metabolomics data to understand biochemistry and metabolism.
- Evaluate and choose the most appropriate techniques for sample preparation and data acquisition.
- Consider study design and quality control factors, including power analysis, quality, and confidence metrics.
- Gain expertise in LC-MS raw data, including challenges like in-source fragmentation and adducts
- Implement data curation best practices through hands-on exercises with metabolomics and exposome datasets.
- Develop skills in univariate and multivariate statistics, including regression analysis and Bayesian statistics.
- Mine biological information from chemical identifiers, perform pathway mapping, and conduct enrichment analysis for comprehensive data interpretation.
- Learn current compound identification methods in metabolomics, lipidomics, and exposome analyses, including MS/MS and retention time matching, in-silico tools such as MS-FINDER and SIRIUS+CSIFingerID, and utilize new resources like MassWiki.
- Understand the significance of quantification in nontargeted studies and multiomics data integration.
- Re-use existing datasets reported in Metabolomics Workbench to integrate or compare your data with prior studies.
Course Schedule:
Day 1: Prospects and choices in large-scale untargeted analyses
Day 2: Measuring the Metabolome: Study Design & Quality Control
Day 3-4: LC-MS raw data processing for untargeted analyses
Day 5: Confidence in compound identification in metabolomics, lipidomics & exposome analyses
Day 6: Electives, choose from 4 new electives that'll cover hands-on lab portion to data processing
Day 7: Chemical identifiers to map data against compound databases & pathways
Day 8-9: Statistics for untargeted metabolomics analyses
Day 10: Use what you have learned: assessing metabolomics reports
New this year: Electives!
On Saturday, August 24, 2024 (9 am-5 pm), you will select electives tailored to your interests to get more in-depth learning including hands-on experience with 16 different mass spectrometers.
Options:
- Elective 1: Instrument Hands-on - Use different mass spectrometers, including ThermoFisher Orbitrap, Agilent QTOFs, Sciex TripleTOF, Bruker timsTOF, and Leco GC-TOF instrumentation.
- Elective 1A: Hands-on training on either a Q-TOF or a TripleTOF mass spectrometer
- Elective 1B: Hands-on training on either a Q-Exactive or an Exploris mass spectrometer
- Elective 1C: Hands-on training GC-TOF MS for primary metabolism and volatiles
- Elective 2: Sample Preparation Hands-on - Explore targeted analyses (QTRAP, triple quadrupole MS/MS) including hands-on sample preparation for Biocrates kits.
- Elective 2A: Hands-on training with the Biocrates Kit + QTRAP or Altis mass spectrometer
- Elective 2B: Hands-on training for combined extraction for HILIC and Lipidomics method, comparing in-vial vs. 96-well plate extraction with internal standards
- Elective 3: Data processing on additional tools for untargeted metabolomics data
- Elective 4: Planning and steering and metabolomics core lab - Strategies on budgeting, assay development, reporting, and milestone tracking
- To select an elective, participants must register and complete payment for the course beforehand. Secure your spot early as spots are limited!
- Participants are allowed to select up to 2 electives.
New this year: Stay at UC Davis to continue working on your own research projects!
Extend the time for your work trip to work on your data, as long as you like!
Private Consultations: Get personalized advice and recommendations.
New this year: Personalize your experience to your needs!
Different datasets (food composition and natural products, exposome, metabolomics, and lipidomics) for your hands-on learning experience!
New this year: Get direct exposure to innovations from vendors.
Lunch-and-Learn seminars with ThermoFisher, Bruker, Agilent, and SCIEX scientists!
Cancellation policy
Requests for refunds will be honored when received 2 months prior to the program. Refund requests can be only accepted in written form. However, another person may be substituted at any time for this program, unless it requires issuing a new travel visa for international scholars. A $150 administrative fee and the credit card fee will be deducted for cancellations. In the unlikely event that this program is canceled or postponed due to insufficient enrollments or unforeseen circumstances, the WCMC will fully refund registration fees but cannot be held responsible for any other expenses, including cancellation or change charges assessed by airlines, hotels, travel agencies, or other organizations.