Lipidomics, shotgun lipidomics and functional lipidomics for Alzheimer’s research

Speaker

Xianlin Han
Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center

Xianlin Han graduated from Zhejiang University, China, and did his graduate and postdoctoral training in the lab of Richard Gross at Washington University School of Medicine. He now is a chair Professor of Medicine at the Barshop Institute, University of Texas Health San Antonio. Han has published over 400 papers with more than 40,000 citations and wrote the book “Lipidomics: Comprehensive Mass Spectrometry of Lipids.” He is one of the pioneers in lipidomics, is an associate editor of the Journal of Lipid Research, has received many awards and served in NIH study sections, and has broad research interests in functional lipidomics.

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The ASBMB Breakthroughs webinar series offers a window into the cutting-edge biochemistry and molecular biology research driving discovery.

This month's webinar will be on lipidomics and functional lipidomics with a discussion of shotgun lipidomics focusing on the research Han's lab is conducting on the use of shotgun lipidomics on biological/biomedical research. Specifically, the research on sulfatide, which is a class of sphingolipids predominantly present in the extracellular leaflet of myelin sheath and is synthesized by cerebroside sulfotransferase (CST) in oligodendrocytes in the CNS. The concepts, technical developments, research strategies and findings by lipidomics will be extensively discussed.