Registration for the 6th Australian Cancer Metabolism Meeting closes this Wednesday 6th May at 5pm. Register today at www.acmm.au #Cancer #CancerMetabolism #Sydney

Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory@cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🔬 ACMM 2026 | Sydney | 20–22 May Join us for the 6th Australian Cancer Metabolism Meeting, featuring leading international & national speakers including Rushika Perera, Isaac Harris, Lisa Butler, Renea Taylor and more. 🧬 Abstracts close: 20 Apr 📝 Registration closes: 6 May 👉 www.acmm.au

Abstract submission for the 6th Australian Cancer Metabolism Meeting closes today. Don't miss this chance to showcase your work to the Australian Cancer Metabolism community. www.acmm.au #Cancer #Metabolism #CancerMetabolism #Sydney #Australia

Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory@cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🔬 ACMM 2026 | Sydney | 20–22 May Join us for the 6th Australian Cancer Metabolism Meeting, featuring leading international & national speakers including Rushika Perera, Isaac Harris, Lisa Butler, Renea Taylor and more. 🧬 Abstracts close: 20 Apr 📝 Registration closes: 6 May 👉 www.acmm.au

At an outdoor performance of Phantom of the Opera in Sydney Harbour tonight. Absolutely stunning location despite the weather.

Am I the only one who gets annoyed when the wrong picture of mass spec is used in a manuscript figure? e.g., an Orbitrap-based instrument was used for data acquisition, but the vector image shown in the figure is an Agilent QTOF (or worse, a QqQ). #TeamMassSpec #massspectrometry

I'm on holidays with the kids this week, and every morning when the moon is still out they've been waving to the astronauts #artermis #artemisIi 🌕

🔬 ACMM 2026 | Sydney | 20–22 May Join us for the 6th Australian Cancer Metabolism Meeting, featuring leading international & national speakers including Rushika Perera, Isaac Harris, Lisa Butler, Renea Taylor and more. 🧬 Abstracts close: 20 Apr 📝 Registration closes: 6 May 👉 www.acmm.au

🚀 The Lipid Network is now live! A new platform designed to connect researchers across all areas of lipid biology. Find collaborators, discover expertise, and help build a more connected lipid research community. Join the network: lipidnetwork.com

If you're working in the field of lipids, then be sure to follow my #LipidSky feed, which collects lipid-related skeets from the past 7 days. If you find it useful then please give it a like!

Lipids are everywhere in biology, but lipid researchers are often scattered across disciplines. Membranes, metabolism, infection, neuroscience, lipidomics… the field is huge, but the community isn’t always connected. Something new is coming to change that. Stay tuned. 🧬

Registration is open for the 6th Australian Cancer Metabolism Meeting (ACMM2026), taking place 20–22 May 2026 in Sydney. 🔬 🧪 www.acmm.au If you work in cancer biology, metabolism, oncology or translational research, we'd love to see you there!

When your research assistant is a massive trekkie you get awesome lab archives entries such as this

Registrations for the #Lipidomics #GRC close soon. Don't miss this chance to learn from and engage with leaders in the field #TeamMassSpec 🧪 www.grc.org/lipidomics-c...

Found on LinkedIn alongside text describing how PCR works. 😂. #TeamMassSpec #massspectrometry #science #badai

Turns out the Sydney beach poo balls we analysed in late 2024 might be baby poo balls birthed from a giant fatberg stuck in an accessible region of Sydney's waste water system. #TeamMassSpec www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Fatberg the size of four buses likely birthed poo balls that closed Sydney beaches – and it can’t be cleared

Exclusive: Secret report suggests fats, oils and grease accumulate in ‘inaccessible dead zone’ at Malabar plant, then dislodge when pumping pressure ‘rapidly increases’

theguardian.com

Super thrilled to have this one accepted at AnalChem last week. Nice way to see out the end of the year. 🎉 #lipidomics #TeamMassSpec

Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory@cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🎉 We are pleased to announce @sarahehancock.bsky.social's latest publication in Analytical Chemistry: "Epoxidation-Enhanced Charge-Switch Derivatization for Rapid Profiling of Monounsaturated Fatty Acid Isomers" Read the paper here 👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Celebrating Dr Banks (@jasmineleighb.bsky.social) and Dr Govindäraj (@hemnaphd.bsky.social) who graduated last Friday! 👩🏻‍🎓 🎉 Wishing you the very best for the many exciting adventures to come!

@phenylauraline.bsky.social is on 🔥🔥🔥 taking out the Paul Korner Seminar awards for two consecutive years. #TeamMassSpec #lipidomics

Cellular Bioenergetics Laboratory@cellbioenerglab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Congrats to our PhD student Laura Choong @phenylauraline.bsky.social for winning best student Paul Korner Seminar Series award for 2025! Even more impressive considering she won the People's Choice seminar award last year @victorchang.edu.au 🧪👩‍🔬

Gambling on the electricity market: summer heatwave edition

RIP James Watson. I'll always remember you as the dude berating the cafeteria staff at CSHL because they served turkey bacon on the open day.

Our very own newly minted PhD @jasmineleighb.bsky.social is the @victorchang.edu.au Star Scientist for November. Best of all, she's currently looking for postdoc opportunities for 2026. Hit her up if you think she might be a good fit for your lab. #teammassspec #obesity #nad 👩‍🔬🧪

Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute@victorchang.edu.au · 9mo ago

Star Scientist Dr @jasmineleighb.bsky.social is on a mission to prevent and reverse obesity by unlocking the power of NAD+ - a molecule that helps our cells turn food into energy. Her work could pave the way for new approaches to tackling metabolic and heart disease risk.:

I put this one up quietly on @chemrxiv.org before disappearing on annual leave for 3 weeks. It is a quick and useful technique for those of us who want to do isomer-resolved #lipidomics but don't have access to modified instruments. doi.org/10.26434/che... #teammassspec #massspec

Epoxidation-enhanced charge-switch derivatization for rapid profiling of monounsaturated fatty acid isomers

Structural isomerism in monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) presents a persistent challenge in lipidomics due to limited chromatographic resolution and indistinguishable mass spectral profiles. Moreover, many methods that overcome these limitations require specialized instruments or complex photochemistry typically not accessible in for those using standard lipidomics core facilities. We report a streamlined LC-MS/MS method that integrates N-(4-aminomethylphenyl)pyridinium (AMP)-based charge-switch derivatization with meta-chloroperoxybenzoic acid (mCPBA) epoxidation to enable rapid and sensitive profiling of MUFA double bond positional isomers. Charge-switching enables enhanced detection of fatty acids while epoxidation improves chromatographic resolution and produces diagnostic fragmentation patterns upon collision-induced dissociation (CID), enabling precise localization of double bond positions. The optimized workflow achieves baseline separation of 16:1, 18:1, and 20:1 MUFA isomers within a 20-minute gradient, with reproducible retention times and consistent epoxide yields. The method also supports partial resolution of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) and cis/trans isomers. Application to prostate cancer cell lines revealed distinct MUFA isomer profiles associated with aberrant fatty acid desaturase 2 (FADS2) activity, including elevated n-10 and n-12 isomers in tumorigenic lines. These results align with prior studies using other isomer-resolving techniques, validating the method’s analytical performance. This accessible and robust strategy expands the toolkit for lipidomics research, providing a method that is compatible with conventional LC-MS/MS workflows, positioning it as a practical solution for high-resolution isomer analysis in complex biological samples

doi.org

To be honest, when I see conferences announced that have a majority of male invited speakers, I think the organisers are not trying hard enough. We have so many excellent #FemalesinMS and resources available there is really no excuse for it anymore #massspec #teammassspec #lipidomics #metabolomics

Met this little fella at Hobart Beach National Park. Not shy at all.

How your email has found me this past week

My daughter asked for crocs today. I guess it's only a matter of time before she starts saying things like "water, like out the toilet?" and "it's got what plants crave".

Today I visited my kids preschool to talk about science for #nationalscienceweek2025. My mini-me and I talked about an experiment we did on germs 🦠. We talked about different kinds of scientists and asked the children what kind of scientist they would like to be

Does anyone in #lipid research know if Nu-check prep is still operating? Their website is down and I can't see anything on the wayback from the end of last year...

Gambling on the electricity market is paying off tonight

#Sydney CBD was super foggy this morning

Possibly the greatest compliment I'm going to receive today