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iDiv Annual Conference 2025

29 September 2025 to 1 October 2025
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Europe/Berlin timezone

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Current Status and Challenges of Ecometabolomics in Biodiversity Research

30 Sept 2025, 14:00

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Current Status and Challenges of Ecometabolomics in Biodiversity Research

  • Henriette Uthe (IPB Halle)

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  1. 53. Does herbicide exposure in oil palm plantations affect wild southern pig-tailed macaques?
    Anja Widdig
    30/09/2025, 14:00
    Current Status and Challenges of Ecometabolomics in Biodiversity Research
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    Agricultural expansion into natural habitats and unsustainable practices, like those caused by oil palm cultivation in Southeast Asia, harm biodiversity. Wildlife in these disturbed areas faces threats from humans, predators, and pesticides, but how these factors affect their health is less understood. We studied wild southern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) living at the interface...

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  2. 90. The Metabolic Inventory of Non-human Primates through Non-Invasive and Field-Friendly Fecal Analysis
    Anna Mascellani Bergo (Czech University of Life Sciences Prague)
    30/09/2025, 14:15
    Current Status and Challenges of Ecometabolomics in Biodiversity Research
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    Anthropogenic impacts such as deforestation, habitat fragmentation and hunting have a significant impact on wildlife, reducing biodiversity and affecting the physiological health of many endangered species. To monitor the welfare of wildlife, the use of non-invasively collected samples such as feces is becoming increasingly valuable for environmental and ecological research. Fecal metabolomics...

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  3. 93. Aliphatic Esters as Honest Signals in Fruit–Frugivore Interactions: An Ecometabolomic Approach in Malagasy Ficus
    Linh Nguyen (iDiv, FSU Jena and MPICE)
    30/09/2025, 14:30
    Current Status and Challenges of Ecometabolomics in Biodiversity Research
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    Fruits have evolved a range of traits to attract seed dispersers, in which chemical signals, such as scent, play a key role. Among these, aliphatic esters are notable for their consistent presence in ripe fruits of species that rely on frugivores for seed dispersal, yet their ecological role and evolutionary origin remain poorly understood. Emerging evidence suggests that these compounds may...

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  4. 105. One molecule, many signals?! Challenges and opportunities for the dark metabolome in ecometabolomics
    Redouan Adam Anaia (University of Groningen)
    30/09/2025, 14:45
    Current Status and Challenges of Ecometabolomics in Biodiversity Research
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    Untargeted metabolomics has transformed ecological research by revealing the extraordinary chemical diversity of organisms and their interactions. Yet most signals detected by LC-MS remain unannotated, forming the so-called ‘dark metabolome’. A contemporary and growing debate asks: does the dark metabolome reflect a vast unknown chemical space, or are we inflating chemical diversity through...

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  5. 115. Ecometabolomics at iDiv – lessons and perspectives
    Dr Henriette Uthe (IPB Halle)
    30/09/2025, 15:00
    Talk

    Ecometabolomics has long been a cornerstone of biodiversity research at iDiv. To strengthen this approach, the Ecometeor platform was established to integrate advanced metabolomics techniques and expertise into iDiv’s research, with the goal of uncovering the chemical mechanisms underlying ecological patterns and processes in plants, insects, soil, water, and even the atmosphere. Although the...

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