Tracer Metabolomics Course
General context
Tracer metabolomics is a powerful technology to study and understand metabolic alterations underlying disease, treatment, mutations, etc. However, the interpretation of tracer metabolomics results is highly technical, as the metabolites’ abundances, tracer incorporation and positions on the metabolic map all have to be jointly interpreted. This one-day course will introduce researchers to the concepts needed to understand the results of a tracer metabolomics analysis, and then show how to interpret them.
This training will be a combination of lectures and hands-on training. There will be a guided tour in the Metabolomics Core after lunch. The participants will need to bring their own laptop and will be informed on which software needs to be installed about one week before the start of the course.
This course is aimed at any scientific VIB personnel that is interested in learning the basics of metabolomics, or those who have experience with regular metabolomics but wish to know more about tracer metabolomics.
Freeware El-Maven
- Participation is free for VIB staff.
- This training is not open for external participants
- Note that upon no-show without valid justification you will be blacklisted for the VIB training program for 1 year and for VIB participants the reimbursement of the catering costs (€ 50) will be charged to the research group. Click here for more information.
Trainers
Bart Ghesquière
Sam De Craemer
Camila Takeno Cologna
Program
Morning: introduce theoretical concepts
- mass spectrometry and chromatography: an overview of most common methodologies
- Regular metabolomics
- Tracer metabolomics
Afternoon: application to real data
- What does raw tracer data look like, and how do we process it
- How to interpret processed tracer data
- How to visualize processed tracer data
Practical info
22 April 2022
Leuven - Campus Gasthuisberg
Herestraat 49
3000 Leuven
Belgium
22 April 2022
Leuven - Campus Gasthuisberg
Please use Parking West - Follow 'Dagcentrum Onco' to get to the O&N buildings. Take the stairs on you left after exiting Parking West. You are now in front of buidling O&N4 and on the left you find O&N5.
22 April 2022
Leuven - Campus Gasthuisberg
Auditorium ON5