Egon WillighagenI am attending the #epilipidnet meeting this week, about #lipidomics Yesterday we had the young researcher session, the first half of the poster session, and three keynotes: about the Maillard reactions in beer brewing (and we tasted the synthesized chemicals), tips for making good figures, and a lot about how the lipidome seems to do great to diagnose (early) obesity and diabetes. Even the organ origin of lipids in blood was discussed.
the second #epilipidnet meeting day just started. WG1 now presents. Lots about sharing protocols, the model system workshop last September, and the importance of identifier mapping
#epilipidnet WG2 showed their work, with lots of joint articles between participants.
I have to say, the #bioinformatics and #cheminformatics of all this knew knowledge gives me the right levels of excitement and challenge
WG3 is now presenting. One of the things shown by Alex Dickens (Turku) is results for validation of a mass scale device to measure blood lipids (#bileAcids).
Are we going to see a new era of diagnostics in human health? #epilipidnet
WG5 is the dissemination WG. Again, plenty of papers, but the games are particularly interesting. Lipodrome, Burn Your Fats! are two of them. #epilipidnet
if you wonder why #epilipidnet WG4 was missing, that's the WG where we're involved. Florian Gruber (the chair) presented some recent work on lipids in our skins and how cholesterol modulates restructuring of the membranes and the tissue structure. I (co-chair) presented the @wikipathways work (tho I see I should not have left out the @bridgedb slide) and the state of the #lipids portal (https://lipids.wikipathways.org/).
after the coffee break we continue with the #epilipidnet session on #lipidomics in health and disease (well, we say a lot of that already, but then again, human health does involve a lot of research funding). Here ceramides, like Cer(16:0) though not the class but a specific instance was shown on the slide (basically, wrong identifier; but this only stresses that we rather have some redundant/overlapping info than too little, leaving us to guessing).