Tony (Tiancheng) Hu, Ph.D. Student in the JGPT, was recently awarded the Supplemental Training for Education Program (STEP) Award from the Society of Toxicology (SOT). The STEP Award is designed to help students get additional scientific/professional training in concepts outside of their research. Tony chose to attend a lipidomics course run by UC Davis West Coast Metabolomics Center. UC Davis Bits and Bites is a course series discussing all aspects of metabolomics, from sample preparation to data analysis. The lipidomics course gives background of fundamental lipid biochemistry, emphasizing the role of different lipid species and selecting the appropriate method for different experiments. The course also walks through techniques for analyzing the large readout of lipids by mass spectrometry. This course will help supplement Tony’s initial research with lipids, while giving experience on how to interpret and analyze a high-throughput, large-scale dataset.
