Educators:
Oliver Kohlbacher, Samuel Wein, Tom Müller, Steffen Neumann, David Tabb (CIBI)

Date:
February 9 and 10, 2026

Location:
In person at University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

Contents:
This course highlights the technologies of metabolomics and proteomics for plant biotechnology. Equal time will be given to lectures and hands-on exercises. Topics include an introduction to biological liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), targeted and untargeted methods for metabolomics, metabolite identification, quantitation in LC-MS/MS, web resources for plant molecular biology, ontologies for plant research, and RNA-Seq for organisms lacking published genomes.

Learning goals:
Participants will improve their theoretical understanding of mass spectrometry for plant biology as well as their skills at using OpenMS and other bioinformatics resources.

Prerequisites:
Participants should bring laptops to be able to carry out this training on their own computers. Prior to the training, we recommend that students try to install the R statistical environment and OpenMS 3.5 on their laptops in case they need administrator passwords for this process.

Keywords:
Proteomics, Metabolomics, Bioinformatics, LC-MS/MS, Plant Biotechnology