Conference Themes

METABOLOMICS, LIPIDOMICS AND THE MICROBIOME IN HEALTH AND DISEASE

  • Skin metabolomics
  • Clinical metabolomics
  • Biomarker validation and clinical translation
  • Cancer
  • Cardiovascular diseases
  • Cellular metabolism
  • Endocrine and metabolic diseases
  • Epidemiology
  • Exposome research
  • Gastrointestinal diseases
  • Immunometabolism
  • Inborn errors of metabolism and neonatal screening
  • Infectious diseases
  • Microbiome research
  • Neurometabolism
  • Neurological disorders
  • Metabolomics of depression and other mental health conditions
  • Nutrimetabolomics & dietary biomarkers
  • Pharmacometabolomics
  • Precision health
  • Personalized medicine
  • Pregnancy, maternal and neonatal health
  • Respiratory diseases
  • Toxicology
  • Dementia, Alzheimer's disease
  • Traditional medicine
  • Sport and other physical exercises
  • Neglected tropical and infectious diseases
  • Parasitic infections
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Snake bite and envenoming
  • Metabolomics of smoking (weed, vaping, cigarettes, E-cigarettes)
  • Metabolomics of alcholism
  • Other

TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTS

  • At-home sample collection
  • Bioprocessing
  • Breath analysis/Volatolomics
  • Flux analysis
  • High-throughput metabolomics
  • Imaging MS (Spatial Omics)
  • Ion mobility spectrometry
  • New developments in instrumentation
  • New multi-omics workflows
  • NMR metabolomics
  • Targeted, Non-targeted and semi-targeted methods
  • Novel approaches in lipidomics
  • Novel samples/matrices
  • Quantitation in metabolomics
  • Single-cell metabolomics and lipidomics
  • Small volume metabolomics technologies
  • Standardization, Reproducibility, QA/QC and ring trials
  • Low-cost and field-deployable metabolomics platforms
  • Other

PLANTS, FOOD, ENVIRONMENT AND MICROBES

  • Crop quality research
  • Environmental exposures
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Fermented foods
  • Foodomics and food security
  • Marine metabolomics
  • Metabolic engineering
  • Microbial metabolomics / Metagenomics/ Microbiomics
  • Model and non-model organisms
  • Natural products (NPs), NPs applications
  • Non-targeted analysis in biomonitoring and environmental monitoring
  • Plant and soil microbiome
  • Plant defense, pathogens and interactions
  • Plant metabolomics
  • Viticulture & wine growing
  • Xenobiotics and nutrient metabolism
  • Metallomics
  • Agro-industrial crops and traditional foods
  • Biodiversity
  • Cannabanoids
  • Other

COMPUTATIONAL METABOLOMICS, STATISTICS, BIOINFORMATICS & AI

  • Biomarker discovery and predictive modelling
  • Cloud computing
  • Collaborative and open data science
  • Data processing & software tools
  • Data repositories
  • Data Visualization
  • Machine Learning, Deep Leraning, LLM, and AI
  • Metabolic modeling
  • Metabolic networks
  • Metabolite and mass spectral databases
  • Metabolite identification/annotation
  • Multi-omics/Integrative omics (genomics-transcriptomics-proteomics-metabolomics and beyond), various platforms, various matrices
  • Statistical methods
  • Systems biology
  • Biodiversity chemical space databases
  • Other

METABOLOMICS AND SOCIETAL IMPACT: SDGs & AFRICA'S AGENDA 2063

  • Healthy and well-nourished citizens
  • Transformed economies
  • Modern agriculture for increased productivity and production
  • Blue/ocean economy for accelerated economic growth
  • Environmentally sustainable and climate resilient economies and communities
  • Mining, water quality, and soil health
  • Zero hunger
  • Responsible Consumption and Production
  • Wild animal and conservation
  • Indigenous knowledge systems
  • Bioremediation
  • African flora and fauna
  • Other