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
University of California, Davis - West Coast Metabolomics Center (WCMC)
Davis, CA, USA

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
Nutrition Research Institute
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Areas of Expertise: Metabolomics, Lipidomics, Obesity and diabetes research, Pregnancy complications, Natural products, and traditional herbal medicine

Financial Officer

Brianna Garcia

Ph.D. Candidate
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA

Areas of Expertise: UHPLC-Mass spectrometry, FT-ICR-MS, C. elegans, Compound identification, and Method development

Administrative Officer

Candice Ulmer, Ph.D.

Clinical Research Chemist
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Atlanta, GA, USA

Areas of Expertise: Lipidomics, Metabolomics, Mass spectrometry, Standardization, and Harmonization

Council Member

David Crizer, Ph.D.

Chemist
Division of the National Toxicology Program/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Durham, NC, USA

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
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, USA

Areas of Expertise: Metabolomics, NMR spectroscopy, Mass spectrometry, and Quality assurance and quality control

Council Member

Brian C. DeFelice, Ph.D.

Scientist
CZ Biohub
San Francisco, CA USA

Areas of Expertise: Gut-microbiome, infectious disease, pharmacology, unknown annotation, computation

Council Member

Gonçalo Jorge Gouveia

Ph.D. Candidate
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA

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
Institut d’Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili
Reus, Catalonia, Spain

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)