Dear all, We still have a limited number of places available on two upcoming courses at the Birmingham Metabolomics Training Centre. Please see the course details below, and don’t hesitate to contact our operations team if you have any questions at bmtc@contacts.bham.ac.uk. LC-MS based metabolomics and metabolite identification with the Q Exactive™ Plus and Orbitrap ID-X™ Tribrid™ Dates: 18th – 21st May 2026 Location: School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham Website: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/metabolomics-training-centre/courses/2026/metabolomics-lc-ms-data-processing-and-statistical-analysis Course topics • Introduction to QE+ and ID-X mass spectrometers and the metabolomics workflow • Experimental design and the importance of quality control (QC) samples • Sample preparation including extraction of polar metabolites and lipids from biofluids (urine and plasma) and tissue samples • Hands-on data acquisition for untargeted metabolomics and hybrid metabolomics, the latter combining targeted and untargeted measurements • Setting up the Vanquish UHPLC coupled to the QE+ • Types of data which can be collected on the QE+ and ID-X (m/z, retention time, MS/MS, MSn) • MS/MS and MSn experiments • Data processing workshop • Data analysis workshop (univariate and multivariate analysis) • Introduction to metabolite identification applying Data Dependent Analysis • Conversion of raw data to molecular formula and putative metabolite annotations • Mass spectral libraries (using mzCloud), and how to search them • Tools for mass spectral interpretation • Reporting standards for metabolite identification • Question and answer session with a panel of experts Further Information • Standard: £1,810 Untargeted Metabolomics LC/MS Data Processing and Statistical Analysis Dates: 15th – 17th June 2026 Location: Elm House, University of Birmingham Website: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/metabolomics-training-centre/courses/2026/metabolomics-lc-ms-data-processing-and-statistical-analysis Course topics • Introduction to metabolomics datasets and data processing in R • Raw data processing and generating peak tables using XCMS • Importing untargeted metabolomics datasets into R • Hands-on experience using PCB R packages for data processing and statistics including: o Data QA/QC, cleaning and filtering o Peak Matrix Processing (normalisation, imputation, scaling etc) o Univariate statistical analysis (t-statistics, ANOVA) o Multivariate analysis (PCA, PLS) • Annotation and annotation processing for untargeted metabolomics • An introduction to pathway analysis Further Information • Early-bird: £1,249 (until 15th May) • Standard: £1,449 I hope the above is of interest; please do get in touch if you have any questions or queries. Best regards, Eszter Voros (e.voros@bham.ac.uk) ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the UKPN list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=UKPN&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/UKPN, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
