I have recently participated in the Metabolomics workshop organized by EMBO at the Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands. This course has provided an overview of key issues that affect metabolomics studies, handling datasets and procedures for the analysis of metabolomics data using bioinformatics tools. It was delivered using a mixture of lectures, computer-based practical sessions and interactive discussions. The course provided a platform for discussion of the key questions and challenges in the field of metabolomics, from study design to metabolite identification. Special thanks to the organizers Reza Salek (Bruker GmbH, Germany), Jos Hageman (Wageningen University and Research), Ron Wehrens (Wageningen University and Research) and all the trainers.
I am very excited to share our recently published review article on “Integrative omics approaches for biosynthetic pathway discovery in plants” in Natural Product Reports. We have been working on this review for quite a while but I am very pleased to see how this work has shaped up. Design of the paper was conceived by all co-authors, which literally changed multiple times. Later we recived some constructive comments/feedback from the reviewers due to which it eventually turned out in a very good flow. With this work we have laid the foundation of plant-based integrative omics research to explore metabolic potential of plants and its regulation in the groups of Marnix Medema, Justin Van der Hooft & Saskia van Wees. So watch out for the new products that will be out soon under this research umbrella. Once again I would like to thank them for such an amazing support.
I have recently presented my work at the BioSB 2022 conference in Lunteren, the Netherlands, on the integrative omics using MEANtools (MEtabolite ANticipation tools) to discover biosynthetic pathways in plants.
We have presented a poster in the fourth edition of the X-omics festival “the future of multi-omics research is now!” on Monday April 11th 2022 https://x-omics.nl/festival/festival-2022. It was a great event and very well organized. Scientific poster session allowed us to network with others working with similar goals and our poster on MEANtools, Integrative omics for the discovery of biosynthetic pathways using MEANtools (MEtabolite ANticipation tools) was awarded the best poster prize of 2022.