Updates to our web pages:

The major section of the AOCS Lipid Library dealing with Biochemistry and Nutrition is well underway. In the subsecton - Animal Lipid Biochemistry, recent articles deal with Phospholipases (Michelle Bamji-Mirza & Zemin Yao) and Glycerophosphate and acylglycerophosphate acyltransferases (Hei Sook Sul).

The topic of "Nutrition" is in the planning stage, and we would like to have a section dealing with "Biophysics" when a suitable editor can be found. The latest article in Plant Lipid Biochemistry is Triacylglycerol biosynthesis in eukaryotic microalgae (Yonghua Li-Beisson) - - February 9^th, 2012.

A subsection of the website dealing with Lipidomics, part of the Analysis section is now online. The second article by Robert Murphy deals with 'Lipidomic Analysis of Glycerolipids'. New articles are also being added to the Selected Topics in Analysis Section and the the most recent are Modifed AOCS method for oil content determination (by Keshun Liu) and Analysis of tocopherols and tocotrienols by HPLC (by Anna-Maija Lampi). Some of the article in this section now appear out of date and have been placed in an Archive section

In the section of the Lipid Library dealing with Edible Oil Processing, the latest contributions deal with Alkali refining (Robert Zeldenrust) and Enzymatic degumming (Flavio Galhardo and Chris Dayton) - - March 16th, 2012

New articles are now available in the Frying oil section, dealing with Separation and quantification of oxidized monomeric, dimeric and oligomeric fatty acids (Gloria Márquez-Ruiz) and Action of natural antioxidants during frying (M. Carmen Dobarganes).

Boryana Nikolova-Damyanova has contributed new articles to the Silver Ion Chromatography pages of the site, the most recent dealing with Multiple interactions in silver ion chromatography of lipids. - - April 3rd, 2012

In the 'history' section of the site, Gary List has been searching for photographs of Bailey Award winners to include in his webpage on this subject, and has filled all the gaps. However, we would be grateful for better quality photographs if anyone can make them available. A brief biography of Paul Stumpf (by Tom McKeon and Bob Moreau is now online).  - - Feb. 28th, 2012

Occasionally, papers catch my eye that I feel ought to receive wider notice, and you can find discussion of these in my LIPID BLOG page. All decisions to select papers are obviously highly personal, as are any comments I make on them. Items may be added at any time, and are removed to an Archive after about 2 to 3 months.

In the section - About Lipids, web pages continue to be updated as new information becomes available, and we have recently replaced all the figures with versions which are technically superior. The latest article deals with Arsenolipids - - March 19th, 2012

In the Mass spectrometry section, we have now reached the milestone of 1873 spectra archived here for your reference, and we continue to add spectra to the Archive pages as they become available to us (8 in February 2012). We have found a better method of reproducing mass spectra and other figures online, and these are being improved as time permits. For example, all those in the tutorial section have been redrawn as have those in the Archive of mass spectra of methyl esters, of DMOX derivatives and now of 3-pyridylcarbinol ('picolinyl') esters.

We have created a new sub-section of the Oils and Fats Section dealing with Lipid Chemistry. The latest article to go online deals with Guerbet compounds (by Gerhard Knothe).

Calendar of Forthcoming Conferences: Details here...