Bruker Sponsors Inaugural OMICS Australasia Symposium in Australia and Partners with Professor Robert Trengove of Murdoch University

Bruker was a key sponsor of the inaugural OMICS Australasia 2012 Symposium, hosted by Murdoch University and supported by the Western Australian Department of Commerce and other industry sponsors. The symposium was held in Fremantle, Perth, Western Australia during 26-28 November, 2012. Satellite events were also held following the symposium at the University of Murdoch with the ‘Opening of the Advanced Mass Spectrometry Facility’, and specialised training courses run in conjunction with the Separation Science and Metabolomics Laboratory on ‘NMR and Mass Spectral Imaging’ and ‘Pesticide Residue Analysis in Food’.

OMICS Australasia Symposium topics inlcuded lipidomics, genomics, plant metabolomics, proteomics, epigenomics, human metabolomics, transcriptomics, and metagenomics. The symposium program included a diverse range of topics in clinical, animal health, environment, agriculture and ground-breaking enabling technologies.

The Symposium Chair, Associate Professor Robert Trengove, Head of the Separation Science and Metabolomics Laboratory at the University of Murdoch, commented on the objectives of the symposium as “The aim of this Symposium is to bring together, for the first time, a unique panel of Omics experts from both Western Australia and around the globe to discuss research advances, innovations and challenges with a focus on emerging opportunities and technology development.”

The new Advanced Mass Spectrometry Instrument Facility at Murdoch University, to be opened following the OMICS Symposium, houses some of the most advanced instruments for research in the life sciences, environmental and food testing fields. Collin D’Silva, President of Bruker’s Chemical and Applied Markets (CAM) division, commented; “We are pleased to support the inclusion of Bruker’s instruments, especially our latest EVOQ™ LC-MS triple quadrupole in the new Mass Spec Facility at Murdoch University and work closely with Professor Rob Trengove’s research team.”

The specialised training course that was run on ‘Residue Analysis in Food’ at Murdoch University the following week featured the SCION™ GC-TQ and EVOQ LC-TQ instruments from Bruker, both ideal for high sensitivity analysis of pesticide residues in food.