• Currently the conference has sixteen excellent keynote speakers who have agreed to talk across the full range of topics covered by metabolomics. The list of speakers is as follows: Douglas Kell, Wolfram Wekwerth, Jacqueline Shanks, Julian Dow, Jean Charles Portais, Eyal Gottlieb, Paul Fraser, Graham Cooks, Roy Goodacre, Oliver Fiehn, Dan Rujescu, Georg Jenna, Uwe Saur, Christopher Newgard, GuowangXu, Mike Barrett.

  • The provisional programme is being regularly updated and can be viewed at the conference website: www.metabolomics2013.org.

  • The sessions cover the following topics: Fluxomics, model organisms, cancer, crop improvement, plant physiology, new developments in instrumentation, neuroscience, environmental, drug discovery, data extraction and interpretation, heart disease and diabetes, fermentation, sports science and nutrition and parasitology.

  • In addition, we have two parallel sessions for young scientists to present their work and we are able to provide partial sponsorship, provided by Strathclyde and Glasgow Polyomics and SULSA, for twelve young scientists to present in these sessions. On top of this, partial sponsorship will be provided by the Metabolomics Society for 10 students to attend the meeting. Details of these schemes will be posted soon on the web-site.

  • On day 1 of the conference there will also be four, two hour workshop sessions. The topics are: separation techniques; mass spectrometry and NMR; data processing and experimental design. In addition, the conference will organize a fourth workshop and has put out a call to members to submit ideas for a ‘hot’ topic of interest and urgency which could be covered. The workshops will involve, in part, panel discussions and we have invited delegates to submit questions and case studies in advance of the workshops. Should delegates have any questions please submit these via our Linkedin Page or by emailing Lotte Kerr at Lotte@in-conference.org.uk.

  • Registration for the conference already opened on January 16th and everyone is encouraged to register early and make use of the Early Bird rates.

  • The following sponsors have confirmed their support for the conference:

Platinum

Shimadzu (they have also sponsored the mini-programme); BrukerDaltonic/BrukerPhysik.

Silver

Nonlinear.

Other sponsorship

Spectral works—Lanyards sponsorship

  • We are currently in discussion with four other potential platinum sponsors and one gold and two silver sponsors. All sponsors are welcome and are asked to contact the conference organisers immediately.

  • The progress of the conference can be followed at: http://www.metabolomics2013.org/page/speakers/10.

We hope to see you all in Glasgow In July—and plan your holidays in the Scottish Highlands!

Dave Watson, Conference Organiser