Executive Summary

Hungary

Institute	Areas of Lipidomics Expertise	Lipid Class - Survey	Technology - Survey	Organisms and cellular Systems - Survey
Dept. Biophysics and Cell Biology University of Debrecen (Hungary)	Membrane Microdomains, Membrane Trafficking,		Atomic Force, Cell Sorting, Confocal Microscopy, Electron Microscopy, FLIM, Flow FRET, Fluorescence Microscopy, Fluorescence Phosphorescence Spectroscopy, Gel Electrophoresis, High Troughput Microscopy, Light Microscopy, Multicolor Analysis, Real Time PCR,	Biopsy, Blood, Human Cell Lines, Mouse, Urine, Yeast,
Laboratory of Molecular Stress Biology Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, HUng. Acad. Sci. (Hungary)	Analytical Tools in Lipidomics, Genomics of the Lipidome, Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Signalling, Lipids in Inflammation, Mapping of the Lipidome, Membrane Microdomains, Metabolomics of the Lipidome, Pharmacology and toxicology of the Lipidome, Proteomics of the Lipidome, Signalomics of the Lipidome,
Laboratory of Nutritional Bioactivation and Bioanalysis Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Debrecen (Hungary)	Analytical Tools in Lipidomics, Genomics of the Lipidome, Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Signalling, Lipid Standard Bank, Lipids and Nutrition, Lipids in Inflammation, Lipids in Skin Care, Metabolomics of the Lipidome, Nutrigenomics of the Lipidome,

Italy

Institute	Areas of Lipidomics Expertise	Lipid Class - Survey	Technology - Survey	Organisms and cellular Systems - Survey
Department of Cell Biology and Oncology Mario Negri Sud Institute (Italy)	Analytical Tools in Lipidomics, Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Signalling, Lipid Transport, Mapping of the Lipidome, Membrane Microdomains, Membrane Trafficking, Pharmacology and toxicology of the Lipidome, Proteomics of the Lipidome, Signalomics of the Lipidome,	Acidic glycosphingolipids [SP06], Bile acids and derivatives [ST04], Glycerophosphocholines [GP01], Glycerophosphoinositol bisphosphates [GP08], Glycerophosphoinositol monophosphates [GP07], Glycerophosphoinositol trisphosphates [GP09], Glycerophosphoinositolglycans [GP15], Glycerophosphoinositols [GP06], Isoprenoids [PR01], Neutral glycosphingolipids [SP05], Sterols [ST01],	Cell Sorting, Confocal Microscopy, Electron Microscopy, Enzymatic Assays, ESI, Fluorescence Microscopy, GC, Gel Electrophoresis, Immune Affinity, Immuno Assays, Ion Exchange, LC, LC-MS coupling, Light Microscopy, Liquid-Liquid Extraction, MALDI, Multicolor Analysis, Normal Phase, Real Time PCR, Reversed Phase, Size Exclusion, Solid Phase Extraction, Thin layer chromatography, Two dimensional Electrophoresis,	Human Cell Lines, Human Primary, Mice, Mouse, Rabbits, Rats, Yeast,
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Physiopathology, University School of Medicine University of Perugia (Italy)	Bioinformatics related to the Lipidome, Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Signalling, Lipid Standard Bank, Membrane Microdomains, Metabolomics of the Lipidome, Pharmacology and toxicology of the Lipidome, Signalomics of the Lipidome,			Blood, Human Cell Lines, Mouse, Rats,
Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Biochemistry University of Perugia (Italy)	Analytical Tools in Lipidomics, Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Signalling, Lipid Transport, Lipids in Inflammation, Mapping of the Lipidome, Membrane Microdomains, Membrane Trafficking, Metabolomics of the Lipidome, Pharmacology and toxicology of the Lipidome, Signalomics of the Lipidome,	Ceramides [SP02], Diradylglycerols [GL02], Eicosanoids [FA03], Fatty Acids and Conjugates [FA01], Fatty aldehydes [FA06], Fatty esters [FA07], Glycerophosphates [GP10], Glycerophosphocholines [GP01], Glycerophosphoethanolamines [GP02], Glycerophosphoglycerols [GP04], Glycerophosphoglycerophosphates [GP05], Glycerophosphoglycerophosphoglycerols (Cardiolipins) [GP12], Glycerophosphoinositols [GP06], Glycerophosphoserines [GP03],	Confocal Microscopy, Enzymatic Assays, Fluorescence Microscopy, GC, Gel Electrophoresis, Immuno Assays, LC, Light Microscopy, Liquid-Liquid Extraction, Multicolor Analysis, Normal Phase, Reversed Phase, Solid Phase Extraction, Thin layer chromatography,	Blood, Human Cell Lines, Rats,
ISOF/BioFreeRadicals Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)	Analytical Tools in Lipidomics, Chemical Synthesis of Lipids (Probes/Tools/Agents), Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Standard Bank, Lipids and Nutrition, Lipids in Inflammation, Mapping of the Lipidome, Nutrigenomics of the Lipidome,	Ceramides [SP02], Docosanoids [FA04], Eicosanoids [FA03], Fatty Acids and Conjugates [FA01], Fatty esters [FA07], Glycerophosphocholines [GP01], Octadecanoids [FA02], Phosphosphingolipids [SP03], Triradylglycerols [GL03],	Chemical Synthesis, EI, Electron Spin Resonance, Enzymatic Assays, ESI, Fluorescence Microscopy, GC, GC-MS coupling, Infrared Spectroscopy, LC, LC-MS coupling, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Raman Spectroscopy, Reversed Phase, Solid Phase Extraction, Thin layer chromatography, UV-Vis Spectroscopy,	Blood, erythrocyte membranes, Human Cell Lines, Tetrahymena,

Netherlands

Institute	Areas of Lipidomics Expertise	Lipid Class - Survey	Technology - Survey	Organisms and cellular Systems - Survey
Bijvoet Center Utrecht University (Netherlands)	Analytical Tools in Lipidomics, Chemical Synthesis of Lipids (Probes/Tools/Agents), Glycomics of the Lipidome, Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Signalling, Lipid Transport, Membrane Microdomains, Membrane Trafficking, Metabolomics of the Lipidome, Proteomics of the Lipidome, Signalomics of the Lipidome,
Institute of Biomembranes Utrecht University (Netherlands)	Analytical Tools in Lipidomics, Glycomics of the Lipidome, Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Signalling, Lipid Transport, Mapping of the Lipidome, Membrane Microdomains, Membrane Trafficking,	Acidic glycosphingolipids [SP06], Basic glycosphingolipids [SP07], Glycerophosphocholines [GP01], Glycerophosphoethanolamines [GP02], Glycerophosphoserines [GP03], Neutral glycosphingolipids [SP05],	Cell Sorting, LC, Multicolor Analysis, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Real Time PCR, Reversed Phase, Thin layer chromatography,	Arabidopsis, Blood, Eubacteria, Human Cell Lines, Mice, Yeast,
Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases Academic Medical Center (Netherlands)	Analytical Tools in Lipidomics, Lipid Metabolism, Membrane Trafficking, Metabolomics of the Lipidome,	Bile acids and derivatives [ST04], Ceramides [SP02], Fatty Acids and Conjugates [FA01], Glycerophosphocholines [GP01], Glycerophosphoethanolamines [GP02], Glycerophosphoglycerols [GP04], Glycerophosphoglycerophosphates [GP05], Glycerophosphoglycerophosphoglycerols (Cardiolipins) [GP12], Glycerophosphoinositols [GP06], Glycerophosphoserines [GP03], Isoprenoids [PR01],	CI, DNA Sequencing, EI, Enzymatic Assays, ESI, Fluorescence Microscopy, GC, GC-MS coupling, Immune Affinity, Immuno Assays, Ion Exchange, LC, LC-MS coupling, Light Microscopy, Liquid-Liquid Extraction, nano ESI, NCI, Normal Phase, Quadrupole, Real Time PCR, Reversed Phase, Size Exclusion, Solid Phase Extraction, Thin layer chromatography, Triple Quadrupole, UV-Vis Spectroscopy,	Biopsy, Blood, Human Cell Lines, Mice, Urine, Yeast,
Nutrition, metabolism and genomics group Wageningen University (Netherlands)	Analytical Tools in Lipidomics, Bioinformatics related to the Lipidome, Genomics of the Lipidome, Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Signalling, Lipids and Nutrition, Lipids in Inflammation, Nutrigenomics of the Lipidome,		Biostatistics, Cluster Analysis, Data Processing, Database Setup, Microarrays, Real Time PCR,

Institute	Areas of Lipidomics Expertise	Lipid Class - Survey	Technology - Survey	Organisms and cellular Systems - Survey
Institute of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)	Membrane Microdomains, Membrane Trafficking,	Glycerophosphocholines [GP01], Glycerophosphoserines [GP03], Phosphosphingolipids [SP03], Steroids [ST02],	Fluorescence Microscopy, Light Microscopy,	Human Cell Lines,

Spain

Institute	Areas of Lipidomics Expertise	Lipid Class - Survey	Technology - Survey	Organisms and cellular Systems - Survey
Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics Spanish Research Council & University of Valladolid School of Medicine (Spain)	Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Signalling, Lipids in Inflammation, Mapping of the Lipidome, Pharmacology and toxicology of the Lipidome, Signalomics of the Lipidome,	Diradylglycerols [GL02], Eicosanoids [FA03], Fatty Acids and Conjugates [FA01], Glycerophosphates [GP10], Glycerophosphocholines [GP01], Glycerophosphoethanolamines [GP02], Glycerophosphoglycerols [GP04], Glycerophosphoglycerophosphates [GP05], Glycerophosphoglycerophosphoglycerols (Cardiolipins) [GP12], Glycerophosphoinositol bisphosphates [GP08], Glycerophosphoinositol monophosphates [GP07], Glycerophosphoinositol trisphosphates [GP09], Glycerophosphoinositols [GP06], Glycerophosphoserines [GP03], Glyceropyrophosphates [GP11], Monoradylglycerols [GL01], Triradylglycerols [GL03],	Capillary Electrophoresis, Cell Sorting, Confocal Microscopy, DNA Sequencing, Enzymatic Assays, Fluorescence Microscopy, GC, Gel Electrophoresis, Immune Affinity, Immuno Assays, Ion Exchange, LC, Light Microscopy, Liquid-Liquid Extraction, Multicolor Analysis, Normal Phase, Real Time PCR, Reversed Phase, Size Exclusion, Solid Phase Extraction, Thin layer chromatography, Two dimensional Electrophoresis,	Blood, human, Human Cell Lines, Human Primary, Mice, Mouse, Rabbits, Rats,

Switzerland

Institute	Areas of Lipidomics Expertise	Lipid Class - Survey	Technology - Survey	Organisms and cellular Systems - Survey
Division of Biochemistry University of Fribourg (Switzerland)	Analytical Tools in Lipidomics, Genomics of the Lipidome, Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Signalling, Lipid Transport, Lipids in Microbiology, Mapping of the Lipidome, Membrane Microdomains, Membrane Trafficking, Proteomics of the Lipidome,	Ceramides [SP02], Fatty Acids and Conjugates [FA01], Glycerophosphoglucose lipids [GP14], Glycerophosphoglycerophosphoglycerols (Cardiolipins) [GP12], Glycerophosphoinositolglycans [GP15], Glycerophosphoinositols [GP06], Phosphosphingolipids [SP03], Sphingoid bases [SP01], Steroid conjugates [ST05], Steroids [ST02], Sterols [ST01],	Confocal Microscopy, ESI, Fluorescence Microscopy, GC, Gel Electrophoresis, Light Microscopy, Thin layer chromatography,	Yeast, yeast,

United Kingdom

Institute	Areas of Lipidomics Expertise	Lipid Class - Survey	Technology - Survey	Organisms and cellular Systems - Survey
European application laboratory Thermo Electron (United Kingdom)	Analytical Tools in Lipidomics,		APCI, APPI, Biostatistics, CI, Cluster Analysis, Data Processing, Database Setup, EI, Enzymatic Assays, ESI, FTICR, GC-MS coupling, Gel Electrophoresis, Infrared Spectroscopy, Ion Trap, LC, LC-MS coupling, MALDI, nano ESI, NCI, Orbitrap, Quadrupole, Raman Spectroscopy, Reversed Phase, Triple Quadrupole, UV-Vis Spectroscopy,
Glycobiology Institute Oxford University (United Kingdom)	Analytical Tools in Lipidomics, Bioinformatics related to the Lipidome, Chemical Synthesis of Lipids (Probes/Tools/Agents), Glycomics of the Lipidome, Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Signalling, Lipid Transport, Lipids in Inflammation, Lipids in Microbiology, Mapping of the Lipidome, Membrane Microdomains, Membrane Trafficking, Metabolomics of the Lipidome, Pharmacology and toxicology of the Lipidome, Proteomics of the Lipidome,		Cell Sorting, Chemical Synthesis, Enzymatic Assays, Fluorescence Microscopy, Ion Exchange, LC, LC-MS coupling, Light Microscopy, MALDI, Multicolor Analysis, Normal Phase, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, oligosaccharide profiling, QqTOF, Real Time PCR, Reversed Phase, Size Exclusion, Solid Phase Extraction, Thin layer chromatography, TOF,	Biopsy, Blood, Human Cell Lines, Human Primary, Mice, Mouse, Urine,
Institute for Cancer Studies University of Birmingham (United Kingdom)	Analytical Tools in Lipidomics, Bioinformatics related to the Lipidome, Genomics of the Lipidome, Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Signalling, Lipid Transport, Lipids in Inflammation, Mapping of the Lipidome, Membrane Microdomains, Membrane Trafficking, Metabolomics of the Lipidome, Pharmacology and toxicology of the Lipidome, Proteomics of the Lipidome, Signalomics of the Lipidome,	Ceramides [SP02], Diradylglycerols [GL02], Eicosanoids [FA03], Fatty Acids and Conjugates [FA01], Fatty alcohols [FA05], Glycerophosphates [GP10], Glycerophosphocholines [GP01], Glycerophosphoethanolamines [GP02], Glycerophosphoglycerols [GP04], Glycerophosphoglycerophosphates [GP05], Glycerophosphoinositol bisphosphates [GP08], Glycerophosphoinositol monophosphates [GP07], Glycerophosphoinositol trisphosphates [GP09], Glycerophosphoinositols [GP06], Glycerophosphoserines [GP03], Monoradylglycerols [GL01], Oxidized glycerophospholipids [GP20], Phosphosphingolipids [SP03], Sphingoid bases [SP01],	APCI, APPI, Capillary Electrophoresis, CI, Confocal Microscopy, dHPLC, DNA Sequencing, EI, Enzymatic Assays, ESI, Fluorescence Microscopy, FTICR, GC, GC-MS coupling, Gel Electrophoresis, Immuno Assays, Ion Exchange, Ion Trap, LC, LC-MS coupling, Light Microscopy, MALDI, Microarrays, nano ESI, NCI, Normal Phase, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Quadrupole, Real Time PCR, Reversed Phase, Size Exclusion, Solid Phase Extraction, Surface Plasmon Resonance, Thin layer chromatography, TOF, Triple Quadrupole, Two dimensional Electrophoresis, UV-Vis Spectroscopy,	Biopsy, Blood, Human Cell Lines, Human Primary, Mice, Mouse,
Mass Spectrometry Facility The School of Pharmacy (United Kingdom)	Analytical Tools in Lipidomics, Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Signalling, Lipids and Nutrition, Mapping of the Lipidome, Membrane Microdomains, Membrane Trafficking, Metabolomics of the Lipidome, Pharmacology and toxicology of the Lipidome, Proteomics of the Lipidome, Signalomics of the Lipidome,	Bile acids and derivatives [ST04], Isoprenoids [PR01], Polyprenols [PR03], Secosteroids [ST03], Steroid conjugates [ST05], Steroids [ST02], Sterols [ST01],	ESI, Gel Electrophoresis, Ion Exchange, Ion Trap, LC, LC-MS coupling, MALDI, nano ESI, Normal Phase, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, QqTOF, Quadrupole, Reversed Phase, Size Exclusion, Solid Phase Extraction, TOF, Triple Quadrupole,	Biopsy, Blood, Human Cell Lines, Mice, Mouse, Rats, Urine,
School of Chemistry University of Southampton (United Kingdom)	Analytical Tools in Lipidomics, Bioinformatics related to the Lipidome, Chemical Synthesis of Lipids (Probes/Tools/Agents), Glycomics of the Lipidome, Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Signalling, Lipid Transport, Lipids and Nutrition, Lipids in Inflammation, Mapping of the Lipidome, Membrane Microdomains, Membrane Trafficking, Metabolomics of the Lipidome, Nutrigenomics of the Lipidome, Pharmacology and toxicology of the Lipidome, Signalomics of the Lipidome,	CDP-Glycerols [GP13], Ceramides [SP02], Diradylglycerols [GL02], Docosanoids [FA04], Eicosanoids [FA03], Fatty aldehydes [FA06], Glycerophosphocholines [GP01], Glycerophosphoethanolamines [GP02], Glycerophosphoglycerols [GP04], Glycerophosphoglycerophosphates [GP05], Glycerophosphoglycerophosphoglycerols (Cardiolipins) [GP12], Glycerophosphoinositol bisphosphates [GP08], Glycerophosphoinositol monophosphates [GP07], Glycerophosphoinositols [GP06], Glycerophosphoserines [GP03], Oxidized glycerophospholipids [GP20], Oxygenated hydrocarbons [FA12], Phosphosphingolipids [SP03], Triradylglycerols [GL03],	Atomic Force, Biostatistics, Cell Sorting, Chemical Synthesis, Cluster Analysis, Confocal Microscopy, Data Processing, Database Setup, DNA Sequencing, Electron Microscopy, Electron Spin Resonance, Enzymatic Assays, ESI, Fluorescence Microscopy, FTICR, Gel Electrophoresis, Immuno Assays, Infrared Spectroscopy, LC, LC-MS coupling, Light Microscopy, Liquid-Liquid Extraction, Microarrays, Multicolor Analysis, nano ESI, Near Field, Normal Phase, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, QqTOF, Quadrupole, Raman Spectroscopy, Real Time PCR, Reversed Phase, SNP Analysis, Solid Phase Extraction, Surface Plasmon Resonance, Triple Quadrupole, UV-Vis Spectroscopy,	Biopsy, Blood, Human Cell Lines, Human Primary, Mice, Yeast,

United States

Institute	Areas of Lipidomics Expertise	Lipid Class - Survey	Technology - Survey	Organisms and cellular Systems - Survey
Department of Biochemistry Wake Forest University School of Medicine (United States)	Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Signalling, Lipids and Nutrition, Lipids in Inflammation, Lipids in Microbiology, Signalomics of the Lipidome,	Diradylglycerols [GL02], Docosanoids [FA04], Eicosanoids [FA03], Fatty Acids and Conjugates [FA01], Fatty ethers [FA10], Glycerophosphates [GP10], Glycerophosphoinositol bisphosphates [GP08], Glycerophosphoinositol monophosphates [GP07], Glycerophosphoinositol trisphosphates [GP09], Glycerophosphoinositols [GP06],	Biostatistics, Cell Sorting, Cluster Analysis, Confocal Microscopy, Data Processing, Database Setup, DNA Sequencing, Electron Microscopy, Electron Spin Resonance, Enzymatic Assays, Fluorescence Microscopy, GC, Gel Electrophoresis, Immune Affinity, Immuno Assays, Infrared Spectroscopy, Ion Exchange, LC, Light Microscopy, Liquid-Liquid Extraction, Microarrays, Multicolor Analysis, Normal Phase, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Raman Spectroscopy, Real Time PCR, Reversed Phase, Size Exclusion, SNP Analysis, Thin layer chromatography, Two dimensional Electrophoresis, UV-Vis Spectroscopy,	Archaebacteria, Biopsy, Blood, Eubacteria, Human Cell Lines, Human Primary, Mice, Mouse, Rabbits, Rats, Stool, Urine, Yeast,