MANA Early Career Members
Mission Statement
To empower the next generation of scientists in the field of metabolomics in North America by supporting opportunities for mentorship, networking, training, and career development opportunities.
Goals
- Provide professional and career development for MANA early-career members, including training, mentorship, and networking opportunities
- Establish a community within the MANA early-career metabolomics network to encourage the exchange of metabolomics resources
- Strengthen the metabolomics connections between industry, government, and academia
- Promote metabolomics events/activities within North America
Eligibility
Anyone who has completed their most recent degree within the last 10 years is considered an Early Career Member within MANA!
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Early Career Member Council
Chair ![]() Arpana Vaniya, Ph.D.Academic Coordinator Areas of Expertise: LC-MS, Metabolomics, Compound Identification, Mass Spectral Reference Libraries, Professional Development in areas related to metabolomics, and Education in metabolomics |
Vice-Chair ![]() Yuan Li, Ph.D.Assistant Professor Areas of Expertise: Metabolomics, Lipidomics, Obesity and diabetes research, Pregnancy complications, Natural products, and traditional herbal medicine |
Financial Officer ![]() Brianna GarciaPostdoctoral Fellow Areas of Expertise: UHPLC-Mass spectrometry, FT-ICR-MS, C. elegans, Compound identification, and Method development |
Administrative Officer ![]() Candice Ulmer, Ph.D.Chemistry Branch Chief Areas of Expertise: Lipidomics, Metabolomics, Mass spectrometry, Standardization, and Harmonization |
Council Member ![]() David Crizer, Ph.D.Chemist Areas of Expertise: Mass spectrometry, Metabolomics in toxicology, environmental health applications, and Integration of metabolomics and transcriptomics data |
Council Member ![]() Fariba Tayyari, Ph.D.Lab Manager Areas of Expertise: Metabolomics, NMR spectroscopy, Mass spectrometry, and Quality assurance and quality control |
Council Member ![]() Brian C. DeFelice, Ph.D.Scientist Areas of Expertise: Gut-microbiome, infectious disease, pharmacology, unknown annotation, computation |
Council Member ![]() Gonçalo Jorge GouveiaPostdoctoral Fellow Areas of Expertise: NMR & LC-MS, Metabolomics, QA/QC, Reference Materials, Sample preparation, Experimental Design, Metabolite ID, Forensic Drugs/Toxicology, Model Organisms |
Council Member ![]() Raquel Cumeras, Ph.D.Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow Areas of Expertise: Clinical applications, Metabolomics, Volatilomics, MS, NMR, QA/QC, Ion mobility spectrometry, MEMS, Data learning, Meta-analysis, Ethics, ML, Scientific dissemination |
Previous ECM Council Members or Previous Positions:
- Kehau Hagiwara, Ph.D. (Chair) (Oct-2019 to Jul-2021)
- Arpana Vaniya, Ph.D. (Council Member) (May-2020 to Nov-2021)
- Christina M. Jones, Ph.D. (Council Member) (Oct-2019 to Oct-2021)
- Oana Zeleznik, Ph.D. (Council Member) (Oct-2019 to Oct-2021)
- Franklin Earl Leach III, Ph.D. (Council Member) (Oct-2019 to Oct-2020)
- Biswapriya Misra, Ph.D. (Council Member) (Oct-2019 to Mar-2020)