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20 May, 2011 Richard Noragon

Professor Anna Nicolaou, Bradford School of Pharmacy I have an opening in my lab for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to work on skin lipids. The post is for 24 months, funded by industry and requires some experience in mass spectrometry and/or lipid biochemistry. More information can be found here.


19 May, 2011 Megi Sharikadze

As finally agreed during the Management Team phone conference on 18th of May, the abstract submission deadline for Cracow SC meeting (27-28 of June, 2011) is set to be 15th of June, 2011. Please take into consideration that deadlines of the 3rd periodic report (as well as of 2nd Amendment) and of SC meeting overlap (end of June)! it is for sure that project management will be very busy, so please send your abstracts and reports IN TIME accroding to set deadlines!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION (Megi Sharikadze, 18.05.2011)!!!

Dear LipidomicNet members,

I would like to remind you that the 3rd periodic report has to deliver to the EC. We have to separately deliver the Deliverables (to upload one file for each of the deliverables online) and the Scientific reports (using the given template available from here).

Please note that it is desirable to get the deliverables report as soon as you can to provide but no later that 15th of June, 2011 deadline (as each file has to uploaded online individually). For the sciectific report the deadline in 20th of June, 2011. Below is a short summary of what is needed for the scientific report:


Periodic report template summary

3.1 Publishable summary3.2 Core of the report for the period:Project objectives, work progress and achievements, project management 3.2.1 Project objectives for the period

Please provide an overview of the project objectives for the reporting period in question, as included in Annex I to the Grant Agreement. These objectives are required so that this report is a stand-alone document.

Please include a summary of the recommendations from the previous reviews (if any) and indicate how these have been taken into account.
3.2.2 Work progress and achievements during the period
For each work package, except project management, which will be reported in section 3.2.3, please provide the following information:

  • A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task; ·Highlight clearly significant results;
  • If applicable, explain the reasons for deviations from Annex I and their impact on other tasks as well as on available resources and planning;
  • If applicable, explain the reasons for failing to achieve critical objectives and/or not being on schedule and explain the impact on other tasks as well as on available resources and planning (the explanations should be coherent with the declaration by the project coordinator)
  • a statement on the use of resources, in particular highlighting and explaining deviations between actual and planned person-months per work package and per beneficiary in Annex 1 (Description of Work);

3.2.3 Project management during the period

3.3 Deliverables and milestones tables
3.4 Explanation of the use of the resources
3.5 Financial statements – Form C and Summary financial report


3.4 and 3.5 are parts of financial report.

3.4. Explanation of the use of the resources: so called tables 3.N (N is number of Beneficiary) have to be sent per email ASAP by financial officers or PIs of each partner to Megi Sharikadze.

3.5 Financial statements – Form C, have to be filled online by PIs/financial officers and after acceptance by project coordinator and submission to the EC, have to be printed out from the online financial reporting system as PDF, be signed and stamped have to be sent ASAP to Regensburg to Megi Sharikadze.

18 May 2011, Richard Noragon
Deliverables list has corrected and placed on the Deliverables page. The only difference between these two and the one from 12 May 2011 is the correction between P15A and P15B

12 May 2011, Richard Noragon

Recent changes in the LipidomicNet website:

  • Deliverables page has been updated, the lists also now reflect the changes of partners.

12 May 2011, Megi Sharikadze
As mentioned during Budapest workshop, LipidomicNet Project Manager, M. Sharikadze will participate in FP7 Fit for Health and Health-NCP-Net Partnering Day for "HEALTH". More information can be found here.

As the next Call of FP7 program is approaching in July 2011 ;with deadlines in autumn 2011, it is important to get more information in advance. On 9 June 2011, the European Commission organises an FP7 Health Open Information Day. More details are available online here. One can register online here.

FP7 Health - 2012 orientation paper is already published online and can be downloaded from here.

6 May 2011, Megi Sharikadze

52nd International Conference on the Bioscience of Lipids "Expanding the Horizons of Lipidomics" will be held in Warsaw, Poland from 30th August to 3rd September 2011. Please note that ICBL 2011 organizing committee has extended early registration date till May 15 2011. The deadline for submission of abstracts is May 15, 2011. The authors of posters selected for oral presentations will be notified by the end of June, 2011.

2 May 2011, Megi Sharikadze

Dear LipidomicNet partners, I would like to remind you that the 3rd period of LipidomicNet is finished at the end of April, 2011. Thus we have to provide scientific and financial reports.

1. Dear Principle investigators and WP leaders, please communicate with each other to write your parts of scientific and deliverables reports.

WP leaders should collect reports of their WP members to write scientific (WP) report and deliverables reports. See the actual deliverables list at http://www.lipidomicnet.org/index.php/Deliverables (LipidomicNet deliverables current and future sorted according to delivery date).

2. Dear financial administrators, please fill the FormC online and provide a Table 3.N (N is your Partner number), both samples are attached.

See financial guidelines in the project manager's "Reporting guidelines", §3.6 and §3.7 (p.12-14) for the 2nd period here http://www.lipidomicnet.org/index.php/Deliverables (login required).

Procedure: FormC you fill online at participants’ portal of FP7. After we proof and accept, you print the form out (pdf without watermark), stamp, sign and send to me per post. Table 3.N you fill in the file provided and return per email.

2 May 2011, Richard Noragon

Dear Participants, Please make your choice from the dinner menu list below and send your feedback about your preference by email until Thursday to baloghg@brc.hu. Hungarian specialties menu

  • Fish menu
  • Vegetarian menu

Thanks Gabor Balogh on behalf of the organising committee

24 March 2011, Richard Noragon

Bonn Protocol has been uploaded to the Bonn Meeting page.

16 Febraury 2011, Richard Noragon

Roger Sandhoff's presentation has been uploaded on to the Bonn meeting page

28 January 2011, Megi Sharikadze

Presentations of Bonn SC meeting are uploaded on Bonn meeting page.

28 January 2011, Megi Sharikadze

Here is an overview of interesting external events sorted according to abstract submission and registration deadlines. See the complete list under "External events" page: Abstract submission deadlines: February 1, 2011 - DEUEL Conference on Lipids, March 1-4, 2011 February 9, 2011 - ASBMB (The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Annual Meeting, April 9-13, 2011 February 15, 2011 - Keystone Symposium - Lipid Biology and Lipotoxicity, May 15-20, 2011 February 28, 2011 - DIABETES SPRING CONFERENCE 2011, April 15-16, 2011 February 28, 2011 - 18th European Congress of Obesity, May 25-28, 2011 March 18, 2011 - LIPID MAPS Annual Meeting, May 2-3, 2011 May 16, 2011 - The 12th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB), August 28 - September 1, 2011 May 22, 2011 - Gordon Research Conference - Atherosclerosis, June 19-24, 2011

Conference registration deadlines: From January 13, 2011: + 50 USD, Keystone Symposium - Lipid Biology and Lipotoxicity, May 15-20, 2011 January 28, 2011 (early) - 18th European Congress of Obesity, May 25-28, 2011 From January 22, 2011: $750 Academics - Congress on Steroid Research, March 27-29, 2011 February 9, 2011 - ASBMB (The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Annual Meeting, April 9-13, 2011 February 24, 2011 - DEUEL Conference on Lipids, March 1-4, 2011 February 28, 2011 - DALM (Drugs affecting Lipid Metabolism) XVII International Symposium - Diabetes, Obesity, and the Metabolic Syndrome, Doha, Qatar, March 14-16, 2011 March 13, 2011 - LIPID MAPS Annual Meeting, May 2-3, 2011 April 1, 2011 - DIABETES SPRING CONFERENCE 2011, April 15-16, 2011 To be defined - The 12th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB), August 28 - September 1, 2011.


25 November 2010, Richard Noragon

The tenitive date and location of the next Workshop (not SC meeting) is 9-10 May 2011 in Budapest, Hungary.

7 October 2010, Megi Sharikadze
Dear members of LipidomicNet, I am very glad to inform you that the second periodic (midterm) report of LipidomicNet was approved by the EU Commision and the research may continue as specified in the description of work.

6 October 2010, Richard Noragon

Dear Members, there are presently 123 orphaned (no or few links to other internal pages) and 275 dead-end pages (no links to other internal pages). I will be contacting the page authors in the near future to reduce these numbers considerably. If nay ideas on improvement, please contact me directly richard.noragon@klinik.uni-regensburg.de

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Please note that young scientists can apply for an young scientists exchange grant to visit another laboratory of the lipidomicNet consortium. Please address your enquires to A. Dembinska-Kiec or I. Wybranska.
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