Evening Events

Welcome Reception

Monday 26 June 17:15–18:45

The Welcome Reception takes place along with Poster Session 1 in the Exhibit Hall. Please join us for light refreshments and beverages while greeting your fellow Metabolomics colleagues and meeting the sponsors for the first time. Make your way through the Hall to visit with the Poster Session 1 presenters. You will need a badge to enter the Exhibit Hall, available at the Registration Desk.

 

Asia-Oceania Delegates Reception

Monday 26 June 19:00–19:45

To improve networks within the region, a reception for all Asia-Oceania delegates of the conference will be held following the Welcome Reception/Poster Session 1 on the Mezzanine Level in M4. One of the objectives of the 13th International Conference of the Metabolomics Society is to strengthen the relationship between scientists and students working in metabolomics within the Asia-Oceania region, with the long-term view of exploring the possibility of forming an Asia-Oceania Chapter of the Metabolomics Society.

Our aim is to provide a platform for discussions between Asia-Oceania delegates (Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand) at the beginning of the conference so that linkages can be made early, and strengthened in the ensuing days.

 

Early-Career Members Network Reception

Tuesday 27 June 19:00–20:30

The EMN Reception will take place at the BCEC on Tuesday evening following Poster Session 2. All Students and Early-Career Researchers (latest degree not counting Ph D is within 5 years) are invited to attend. This will be an interactive gathering in which the EMN outlines the aims and outreach events that the network offers alongside a short introduction to the Board of Directors and the EMN Committee Members. The University of Queensland has sponsored the event and light refreshments will be provided! Stick around for the Quiz Trivia fun following the short presentation.

 

Conference Dinner

Wednesday 28 June 19:30–22:30

The Conference Dinner will take place at the BCEC in the iconic Plaza Ballroom, located on the Plaza Level. Join us for an Australian themed evening with live music, light entertainment, and a locally-sourced Queensland dinner menu! The cost to attend the dinner is included with your full-access conference registration. If you have an Exhibit Hall Only or Single Day pass, the dinner is not included in your registration. There are a limited number of guest passes available for purchase if you wish to bring a guest. Purchase your guest ticket in advance by clicking below.

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Conference Photos

Workshops

EMN Reception

Oral Presentations

Poster Breaks

Plenary Sessions

Conference Dinner

Closing Ceremony

Registration

If you are a member of the Society, please ensure that your membership is current in order to receive the discounted “Member” rate. You should use the same e-mail address on your membership to complete the online conference registration form.

If you register as a Non-Member for the conference, part of your registration cost covers the membership fee to the Society for the rest of the year. After you complete the conference registration you will receive a confirmation e-mail that has a link for you to complete your Metabolomics Society membership. You will receive Society membership benefits through December 31, 2017.

 

Registration fees are in USD. The AUD pricing is provided as an estimate only.

  Member
 Non-Member
 Single-Day Pass
EARLY
January 15 - April 10, 2017
Student Attendee $385 ($515 AU) $435 ($580 AU) NA
Regular Attendee $560 ($750 AU) $685 ($915 AU) Member $350 ($470 AU)
Non-Member $450 ($600 AU)
REGULAR
April 11 - May 31, 2017
Student Attendee $485 ($650 AU) $535 ($715 AU) NA
Regular Attendee $670 ($895 AU) $785 ($1050 AU) Member $350 ($470 AU)
Non-Member $450 ($600 AU)
LATE
June 1 - On-site
Student Attendee $535 ($715 AU) $585 ($785 AU) NA
Regular Attendee $760 ($1015 AU) $885 ($1185) Member $350 ($470 AU)
Non-Member $450 ($600 AU)

 

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★★ Only checks from United States institutions can be accepted. No International checks please.

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What is included in my registration?
  • A box lunch will be provided for you on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
  • Entrance into the Conference Dinner on Wednesday evening.
  • Light morning and afternoon coffee breaks will be available on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
  • During the evening events: Monday Welcome Reception, Tuesday Poster Session and Wednesday Poster Session,  there will be light canapé items and a bar. Join your colleagues for a beverage and discuss the events from the day!
  • Full-access to the Exhibit Hall featuring conference sponsors and academic posters on display.
  • If you registered for full-access to the conference then your registration includes access to 2 days of Workshops,  Plenary Sessions as well as all Concurrent Breakout Sessions.

 

Cancellation Information

If you are unable to attend and need to cancel your registration, please send an e-mail to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Registration fees are non-refundable.

 

Agenda

Abstract Submission will open in February. Scientists in academia, government, industry and others working in the field of Metabolomics are invited to submit abstracts in the following scientific themes:

  • Building Bridges – Metabolic Modelling
    • Systems Biology
    • Genome-scale Modelling
    • Microbiomics
    • Human Phenomics
    • Multi-omics
    • Model organisms
    • Modelling interactions of gut microbiota & the host
  • Building Bridges – Natural Products/Metabolite Identification
    • Nature’s Apothecary
    • Traditional Medicine
    • Metabolite identification/ Metabolic dark matter
    • New Approaches for Identification of Metabolites Applying MS and NMR
    • Plants
  • Metabolomics in Food Research – Edibilomics
    • Metabolomics in Nutrition
    • Foodomics and Food Quality
    • Crop Quality Improvement
    • Food Sustainability
    • Traditional foods
    • Food safety
    • Contaminant metabolomics
  • Metabolomics in Health and Medicine
    • Chronic disease
    • Infectious disease
    • Nutritional disease
    • Metabolite-Gene Axis
    • Gut microbiota & disease
    • Metabolomics Profiling in Cancer
    • Translating Metabolomics Discoveries in Clinical Practice
    • Exposome
  • Advancing the Field
    • Network and Pathway Analysis for Metabolomics
    • New Matrices for Metabolomics
    • Advances in Statistical Tools
    • Data Analysis
    • New Development in Instruments and Techniques
    • Computational MS
    • Spatial Imaging
  • Environmental, Plant and Model Organisms
    • Environmental Metabolomics
    • Model Organisms
    • Green Systems Biology - From Single Genomes, Proteomes and Metabolomes to Ecosystems Research and Biotechnology
    • Abiotic and Biotic Stresses in Plants
    • Plant Databases

 

The conference abstract booklet is now available! Click below to download the PDF.

Conference Abstracts

New to Metabolomics 2017, two days of Pre-Conference Workshops are available on Sunday, June 25 and Monday, June 26. Note: Sunday Workshops will take place at the University of Queensland St. Lucia and the Monday Workshops will be at the Brisbane Convention & Exposition Centre (BCEC).

 

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Review the full conference agenda below:

 

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Plenary Speakers

The organizers of Metabolomics 2017 are pleased to announce the confirmed plenary speakers below.
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Krishna Mahadevan

Krishna Mahadevan

Opening Plenary Session
Monday, June 26 13:30

Krishna Mahadevan is a Professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, and Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. He obtained his B. Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in Chemical Engineering in 1997 and then obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Delaware in Chemical Engineering in 2002. He was a research scientist at Genomatica Inc., San Diego from 2002–06 and has also held appointments as a visiting scholar and a guest lecturer at the Department of Bioengineering in the University of California, San Diego, and in the Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research interests are in the area of modeling, analysis and optimization of metabolism for applications in bioremediation, biochemicals production and medicine. He has received David W. Smith Jr. Best Paper Award in 2006, the Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award in Metabolic Engineering in 2010, the Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnologys’ Young Investigator Award in 2012, University of Toronto FASE Research Leaders Award in 2013, the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 2014 and the Syncrude Innovation Award in 2014.

Prof Krishna Mahadevan
University of Toronto, Canada
Building Bridges – Metabolic Modelling
Hanne Bertram

Hanne Bertram

Plenary Session 2
Tuesday, June 27 8:45

Hanne Christine Bertram is professor in food metabolomics at Department of Food Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. Over two decades, Hanne Christine Bertram has worked with implementation of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques in food science emphasizing both technological, biofunctional, and health-related aspects of foods, and Hanne Christine Bertram has been pioneering in the introduction of NMR-based metabolomics in nutrition research. Her recent research is focused on the use of metabolomics to gain mechanistic insight in nutrition with emphasis on animal-derived proteins. Hanne Christine Bertram has authored more than 140 peer-reviewed papers in the food science area and her work is cited more than 2500 times (H-index=28).

Hanne Christine Bertram is actively engaged in industrial collaboration and participates in numerous cross-disciplinary research projects with industry partners. Hanne Christine Bertram has acted as Associate editor for the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry from 2010 and until 2015, and she has participated in the evaluation of research proposals for several international research panels.

Hanne Christine Bertram is educated from the former Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Denmark, and in 2003 she received a PhD degree in food science and technology.

In 2006 Hanne Christine Bertram was awarded ‘Young Elite Researcher’ by the Danish Research Council, and in 2009 she was awarded Danisco’s ‘Food Research Prize’.

Prof Hanne Bertram
Aarhus University, Denmark
Edibilomics
Anthony Carroll

Anthony Carroll

Plenary Session 3
Wednesday, June 28 8:45

Anthony Carroll obtained his PhD from the University of Sydney (1989) and subsequently worked as a postdoc in marine natural product chemistry with Prof Paul Scheuer at University of Hawaii and Prof John Coll at James Cook University. Between 1993 and 2007 he held a senior research position as Program Leader (Deputy Director) in Natural Product Chemistry (13 FTE staff) at GU’s Natural Product Discovery. His research focused on NP drug discovery in collaboration with the industry partner, AstraZeneca and he played a leading role which was pivotal to the success of the AZ/GU collaboration resulting in over 0M in investments by AZ at GU. In 2008 Tony moved to the Gold Coast campus of GU to take up a position within the Griffith School of Environment. In 2010 he was appointed Deputy Head of School and in 2012 he was promoted to full Professor. Professor Carroll has extensive expertise in the fields of natural product chemistry, NMR spectroscopy, biodiscovery, chemical ecology, chemotaxonomy and organic synthesis. His current research activities are focused on chemical aspects of microbe/marine invertebrate symbiosis, chemical diversity in relation to marine invertebrate biodiversity, infectious diseases (prion, bacterial and protozoan) and cancer drug discovery, chemotaxonomic relationships within the phyla Porifera, Bryozoa, the Class Ascidiaceae and within the plant families Myrtaceae, Proteaceae, cyanobacteria toxin identification, insect/plant chemical ecology and marine invertebrate chemical ecology.

Professor Carroll has published 140 refereed research papers in high ranking international journals (3656 citations), one book chapter and gained 2 world-wide patents. His current h-index is 36. He has trained 11 research fellows, 16 research assistants, graduated 14 PhD and 24 honours students and currently supervises 14 PhD students, one Masters Student and 4 honours students.

In the past 5 years, Professor Carroll has been awarded over $ 1 600 000 from national and international competitive grants for fundamental research and over $ 600 000 for consultancy research.

Prof Anthony Carroll
Griffith University, Australia
Building Bridges – Natural Products
Roy Goodacre

Roy Goodacre

Plenary Session 4
Thursday, June 29 8:45

Roy Goodacre is Professor of Biological Chemistry at the University of Manchester. His research interests are broadly within analytical biotechnology and systems and synthetic biology. He has over 20 years experience of advanced bioanalytical measurements including MS-based metabolomics and has pioneered the application of a variety of Raman spectroscopy methods for the direct analysis of bacteria and human biofluids. Details of the research work his group undertake can be found here: www.biospec.net. He has published >350 scientific papers and if you believe in such metrics has reasonably healthy H-indices (60, Web of Science; 72, Google Scholar).

He helped established the Metabolomics Society, is a director of the Metabolic Profiling Forum, and is founding Editor-in-Chief of Metabolomics (established 2005) as well as being on the Editorial Advisory Boards of four other analytical journals. He is founding director of a novel microbial resistance typing diagnostics company Spectromics. Finally, he was awarded the RSC Industrially-Sponsored Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry in 2005, made a Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy in 2015, and an Honorary Fellow of the Metabolomics Society in 2016.

Prof Roy Goodacre
University of Manchester, UK
Advancing the Field
Debra Meyer

Debra Meyer

Plenary Session 5
Thursday, June 29 15:30

Debra Meyer is a Professor of Biochemistry and the Executive Dean of Science at the University of Johannesburg. She was formerly Head of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Pretoria. Prof Meyer holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of California, Davis in the United States, and a Master’s degree from the Rand Afrikaans University (South Africa) and also completed Executive Leadership training at Harvard University and the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science. She is currently a director or trustee of 4 national/multi-national organisations/trusts.

Her research approach involves applying analytical methodologies for an improved understanding of HIV/AIDS and associated opportunistic diseases. In this regard she works on metabolomics-profiling of HIV/AIDS biofluids and novel treatment options using synthetic (metallodrugs) and natural sources (plants, soft coral).

Prof Meyer is actively involved in social issues, focusing on HIV/AIDS and multilingualism in South Africa and has been the recipient of various awards for science expertise and community service.

Prof Debra Meyer
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Health and Medicine