OUR LAB

Metabolomics is a powerful tool for understanding how plants adapt to environmental stressors by analyzing their metabolic profiles. Integrating metabolomics with other "omics" data (like genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics) helps pinpoint the biochemical changes associated with stress tolerance and identify potential biomarkers for crop improvement. This approach can reveal novel metabolic pathways and regulatory mechanisms involved in plant stress responses, leading to strategies for breeding more resilient crops.

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The Plant Metabolomics Lab offers a service for plant metabolomics projects, encompassing all stages — from sample preparation and metabolite extraction to data acquisition and analysis — using GC-TOF-MS primary metabolite profiling. We emphasize the importance of a robust experimental design with established standard operating procedures to ensure high-quality and reliable data interpretation. Our lab provides in-depth primary metabolite identification and statistical analysis, including descriptive, univariate, multivariate, and graphical visualizations of the data.

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Our core mission is to integrate GC-TOF-MS primary metabolite profiling with biological studies across diverse scientific fields like plant, agricultural, and marine sciences. This approach aims to deepen our understanding of how living systems function and interact with their environment, with a specific focus on expanding our metabolomics workflows to new areas like fish nutrition, sustainable aquaculture, and marine ecosystem dynamics. The ultimate goal is to gain a comprehensive understanding of complex biological systems in various environments.

 

​Keywords: sample preparation, primary metabolite extraction, GC-TOF-MS primary metabolite profiling, stress-responsive metabolites, statistical and data analysis, plant metabolism, fish nutrition, sustainable aquaculture, marine ecosystems, climate change.