About – International Lipidomics Society

About us

Aims

The International Lipidomics Society (ILS) is a scientific non-profit organization representing and promoting lipidomics through worldwide cooperation.

ILS aims to foster the development of new technologies, techniques, resources, skills and training through international collaborations.

Objectives

The ILS strives to

Be the point of contact for lipidomics research, development and commercialization
Foster global collaboration and transparent communication in lipidomics projects by gathering leading international laboratories from a wide range of disciplines
Organize annual international meetings, workshops and training courses
Foster the translation of lipidomics data to biological meaning in all aspects
Support large-scale inter-lab lipidomics projects
Foster and coordinate communication among funding agencies and industry partners with the lipidomics community and coordinate the activities of groups and organizations interested in ILS’s scientific initiatives and Interest Groups

Diversity

As of June 18th, 2021, the ILS has the following dsitribution among its members:

Representatives from 26 countries
Gender balance; Females – 52 (42%), Males – 71 (57%), Unknown / not provided – 1 (<1%)
Students; 11 (9%)
Postdocs; 17 (14%)
Regular; 89 (72%)
Corporate Basic; 5 (4%)
Corporate Premium; 2 (2%)
Academic Basic; 1 (<1%)

The ILS as a society is committed to actively work towards becoming more diverse, equal and inclusive by proactively contacting and encouraging prospective and existing members at any level of their career to take an active part in shaping the society, its interest groups and interest group steering committees, its processes, as well as representing the society and contributing to it on every level.

We promote diversity and inclusivity among our members, interest groups and boards and both encourage and enable participation universally for all our members. This also means that ILS expects its members to follow and promote the same principles.

If you want to get involved more actively, please contact us or the interest group directly.

Please note that the above figures are only an approximation. ILS does not require its members to disclose their gender, their nationality, ethnicity or age. For registration purposes, we only request your name, E-Mail address, affiliation and professional status. For bookkeeping and tax purposes, we may store a billing address connected to your payment.

Benefits

If you join ILS, you will have access to the following benefits:

Participate actively in shaping the future of the Lipidomics Community
Expand your network and find new collaborators
Shape your own science by getting involved interest groups
Access to the latest guidelines and protocols
Free or reduced fees for our upcoming ILS conferences, workshops and seminars
Apply for our ILS Early Career Travel Awards to support young researchers to attend conferences
Get priority access to our Lipidomics IT Infrastructure (under development)
Get a seat in the steering committee of one of our interest groups (corporate or academic premium members only)

Participation

If you join ILS, you can shape the future of the field by engaging in one of our interest groups:

- individual IGs plan their activities and goals independently
- they report their activities and events on the ILS website
- they are coordinated by steering committees including at least 1 board member
- all IG members can actively participate and shape the future plans of their IGs
- ILS members are welcome to join any IG and participate according to their interest
- collaboration of different IGs is welcome and actively encouraged