Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Genetics

The annual Metabolomics Society Conference is the world's largest scientific meeting dedicated to the field of metabolomics. It is expected that between 300 and 350 scientists, students, engineers and technicians from at least 20 different countries will attend this conference -- which is being held in Canada for the first time. Previous conferences were held in Keio, Japan (2005), Boston, USA (2006), Manchester UK (2007), and Cambridge, USA (2008). The metabolomics society conference is intended to be a forum for the free and open exchange of ideas and the dissemination of latest or most pertinent findings in metabolomics research. The 2009 conference program has been designed to be an enlightening combination of basic and applied science with nearly 20 invited speakers, more than 20 selected podium speakers, at least 100 abstracts/posters and 4 satellite workshops. The conference itself will have 9 thematic sessions spanning such diverse areas as novel technology and imaging, metabolomics and nutrition, biomedical biomarkers, pharmacometabolomics and microbial metabolomics. The invited speakers include many of the world's top metabolomics researchers such as Jules Griffin (Cambridge UK), Thomas Hankemeier (Leiden, the Netherlands), Bruce German (UC Davis, USA), Philip Baker (Manchester/Alberta), and Risto Kauppinen (Dartmouth, USA). A substantial portion of today's metabolomics research is focused on medical or clinical applications and so we believe that this conference is highly relevant to the mandates of the CIHR, the Institute of Genetics and the Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes.