UCSD Lipidomics Core

Responding to the outbreak of COVID-19, we are working to do our part to ensure the safety of our community. We are complying with all federal, state and local public health directives, including working remotely to the extent possible to minimize on-site presence. As a result, our work capacity is temporarily reduced and prioritized to maintain es... sential and critical research. For specific questions, please contact Milda Simonaitis at msimonaitis@health.ucsd.edu . The LIPID MAPS® Lipidomics Core is a service core at the University of California, San Diego that provides broad lipidomics analyses using gas or liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. The facility was established as a service core by Prof. Oswald Quehenberger and Prof. Edward A. Dennis in 2013. The Lipidomics Core builds on unique expertise acquired during the tenure of the NIH-funded LIPID Metabolites And Pathways Strategy (LIPID MAPS®) program . Dr. Dennis organized this multi-institutional effort in 2003 and served as its Director until 2013, when the program officially ended. LIPID MAPS® succeeded in its aim to identify and quantitate all of the major and many minor lipid species in mammalian systems, using a systems biology approach and sophisticated mass spectrometry techniques. The LIPID MAPS® Consortium developed and established protocols, standards and quantitative measurements for lipidomic analysis, including identification and quantification of over 600 lipid molecular species in human plasma, which represent the first comprehensive lipid profiling effort of human tissue. The instrumental infrastructure and all developed methodologies were migrated to the LIPID MAPS® Lipidomics Core. Since then, we have continued to improve the analytical processes and are offering our cumulative expertise in lipid analysis to the research community. Oswald Quehenberger directs and manages the LIPID MAPS® Lipidomics Core. Dr. Quehenberger is Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego. He received his M.S. in ...Read More