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 Nicole Prince, Ph.D.Postdoctoral Research Fellow Areas of Expertise: Metabolomic epidemiology, Biochemistry, Inflammatory response, Cell signaling |
Financial Officer Hanan Alwaseem, Ph.D.Manager, Metabolomics Platform Areas of Expertise: Analytical chemistry, Metabolomics, Lipidomics |
Administrative Officer ![]() Chathuri Mohottige, Ph.D.Scientist Areas of Expertise: Metabolomics |
Council Member ![]() Robin Joshi, Ph.D.Sr. Research Investigator Areas of Expertise: Metabolomics, proteomics, volatilomics, lipidomics, ion-mobility, QA/QC, LC-MS, MALDI-TOF-MS, mass spectrometry, data analysis, and visualization |
Council Member ![]() Brian C. DeFelice, Ph.D.Scientist Areas of Expertise: Gut-microbiome, infectious disease, pharmacology, unknown annotation, computation |
Council Member ![]() Maryam Tabatabaei , Ph.D.Postdoctoral Associate Areas of Expertise: NMR, LC-MS, GC-MS in vivo metabolomics, NMR-based metabolomics, Mass-based metabolomics, metabolomics, lipidomics |
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Council Member ![]() Gonçalo Jorge Gouveia, Ph.D.Postdoctoral 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:
- David Crizer, Ph.D. (Council Member) (Jan 2021 to Feb 2023)
- Brianna Garcia, Ph.D. (Inagural Financial Officer) (Oct 2019 to Jan 2023)
- Fariba Tayyari, Ph.D. (Council Member) (Oct 2019 to Dec 2022)
- Yuanyuan Li, Ph.D. (Inagural Vice Chair) (Oct 2019 to Nov 2022)
- Candice Ulmer, Ph.D. (Inagural Administrative Officer) (Oct 2019 to Oct 2022)
- Kehau Hagiwara, Ph.D. (Inagural Chair) (Oct 2019 to Jul 2021)
- Arpana Vaniya, Ph.D. (Council Member) (May 2020 to Oct 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)