- Message from MANA President, Tom Metz
- 4th Annual MANA Conference Update
- News & Updates from MANA Interest Groups
- Corporate Member Highlights
- Key Dates & Resources
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Message from MANA President, Tom Metz | | |
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The MANA 4th Annual Conference is right around the corner and will be held on September 16-18, 2022 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The conference organizers have developed an interactive and fun program that will showcase the diverse and innovative nature of our membership. The current agenda with Plenary Talks, Instructional Workshops, and Interactive Forums can be found here. Please be sure to select which Instructional Workshops or Interactive Forums you are interested in attending when you register. Over 200 abstracts have been submitted to date, and from these 19 oral presentations will be selected, in addition to a number of lightning talks. As with previous conferences, we will also have an array of awards available to our members, including childcare and travel awards. We look forward to seeing you in Edmonton! | |
4th Annual MANA Conference | |
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The 4th Annual MANA Conference will occur on Sept. 16th - 18th, 2022 in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. It will be hosted by the University of Alberta and The Metabolomics Innovation Centre.
The deadline to submit abstracts for consideration of a poster has been extended to Friday, Aug. 5 at 4 pm PT. Do not miss the opportunity to share your exciting metabolomics research with colleagues, and submit your abstract here. **Note that abstracts submitted now through Aug. 5 will not be eligible for consideration as a Lightning Talk.**
View the updated conference agenda here. Registration is still open and can be accessed here. **Note that if you registered early and before the Instructional Workshops and Interactive Forums were finalized, you may log back into the registration page and make your selections for which of these sessions you would like to attend.**
For more information, please visit the MANA 2022 website
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MANA 2022 Plenary Speakers | |
We're very excited to hear from our plenary speakers of MANA 2022, so don't forget to mark your calendars! | |
MANA 2022 Instructional Workshops | |
- Friday, Sept. 16, 2022 | 8:00 - 10:00 am
- Metaboanalyst
- Presented by Jianguo Xia
- Friday, Sept. 16, 2022 | 8:00 - 10:00 am
- How do we best teach metabolomics?
- Presented by Arpana Vaniya & MANA Educational Resources Committee
- Friday, Sept. 16, 2022 | 8:00 - 10:00 am
- Frontiers in NMR Metabolomics
- Presented by Leo L. Cheng
- Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022 | 8:00 - 10:00 am
- Metabolomics Workbench and the National Metabolomics Data Repository
- Presented by Eoin Fahy
- Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022 | 8:00 - 10:00 am
- National Microbiome Data Collaborative: Metabolomics Data Processing Workflows and Metadata Standards
- Presented by Yuri Corilo, Montana Smith, & Chris Mungall
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MANA 2022 Interactive Forums | |
MANA Interest Group Updates | |
WomiX: Womxn in Metabolomics | | |
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WomiX is committed to the advancement of Womxn in Metabolomics. Using “womxn” with an “x” in order to explicitly welcome trans women, transfeminine, genderfluid, and nonbinary participants. All MANA members and allies are welcome to our community! | |
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WomiX Mentorship Award Lecture
This award recognizes the extraordinary efforts of a womxn in metabolomics who has demonstrated strong mentorship and leadership skills and has made a large impact on other researchers in our field.
Join us on Saturday, Sept. 17 from 6:30 - 8:30 pm. Register in conference registration (see below). We'll be providing light refreshments and drinks!
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Make sure to interact with WomiX members at this year’s MANA Conference! Some events and workshops featuring WomiX members include:
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Do you have helpful tips, external events, job postings, etc you'd like to share with other WomiX members?
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Submit helpful information for the next WomiX RoundUP. The RoundUP helps members stay connected with other members. Send in content here!
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Check out the March RoundUP!
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MANA Early Career Members | | |
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ECM at MANA 2022:
Like we promised we really focused on making sure we have ample opportunity to network and meet people in person! Come join us at any of our events planned throughout MANA 2022! We are excited and hope that many of you will be joining us in Edmonton, Alberta Canada.
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ECM 2022 Elections are still open! - If are you interested in joining our team and helping the metabolomics community at large apply today! We have extended the deadline to 9/25/2022.
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The Metabolomics Association of North America (MANA) Early-Career Member's Council (ECM) is now accepting applications for the 2022 council. There are five open positions - 3 officer positions and 2 at-large council member positions. Applications will be accepted until COB on 9/25/2022. Applications will be compiled and voted on by the MANA ECM community.
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Time Commitment: During the 2-year term, council members of ECM shall commit to 2-3 hours per week on average to conduct the business and affairs of ECM. This includes 1-hour monthly meetings, meetings with subgroups to plan events and other activities, and participation in these events hosted by ECM. Time commitments will increase accordingly for the planning of these year-round activities and events.
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Eligibility: We welcome applications from MANA early-career members who are within 10 years of receiving their terminal degrees and graduate students conducting their PhDs. The successful applicants must be members of MANA. We look forward to receiving your nomination.
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If you’re not already part of the email list, please send us an email with your name, the year of the last degree, and what email address you would like to use. We can be reached at [email protected].
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NMR Interest Group is excited for MANA 2022, check out their workshop and interactive forum!
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During the upcoming MANA meeting in Edmonton, NMR group will present a workshop: “Frontiers in NMR Metabolomics” on Friday, Sept. 16th at 8 am. The workshop will cover topics including NMR metabolomics overview; NMR metabolomics at low fields; NMR metabolomics in medicine; Integration of NMR and MS metabolomics data; QA/QC Issues seen in current publications; and Metabolomics data analyses and presentations.
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Save the date for a special interactive forum titled "Urgent issues in NMR" presented by the MANA NMR Focus Group. Join us on Saturday, Sept. 17th from 3:30 - 4:30 pm.
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MANA MIG is looking forward to the MANA 2022 conference. If you are attending in person, please make sure you stop by our poster (details TBD) to network.
MANA MIG is also looking for volunteers to speak at our monthly seminar series, which will be in collaboration with NIST IMMSA. We are interested in a wide range of topics in microbiome-focused metabolomics research. Moving forward, we aim to bring the focus internally and highlight our own interest group members’ research. We especially encourage our early-career members to participate in this seminar series as well as in our main three initiatives: informatics and databases, standards and harmonization of QA/QC measures, and multi-omics data integration.
For more information email us at: [email protected] or visit our website.
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Interactive Forum - How do we best teach metabolomics?
Join the MANA Educational Resources Committee on Friday, Sept. 16th at 8-10 am to discuss such topics as:
- What is the best way to reach people?
- What kind of assessments are established to know that your teaching is effective?
- What do expect your students/participants to know before coming to the course?
- Do we need to teach multiple topics to get started in metabolomics?
- Where do you start and at what level do you need to start in metabolomics?
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Help US, Help YOU!
The MANA Educational Resources Committee is seeking some input from MANA members for resource topics! As a committee, we are dedicated to providing educational resources to the metabolomics community at large, so let us know what you'd like to see in this 1-question Google survey!
Our mission: Creation, collection, curation, and dissemination of online educational resources, with particular attention to videos useful for training and videos from MANA event lectures.
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The goal of SODA is to provide a community-driven resource of actively maintained software, test datasets used for software benchmarking, and results produced by software. | |
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Join us for our next MANA SODA Meet on Tuesday, Aug. 9th at 3 pm EST!
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Our speakers will be our new SODA Co-lead, Daniel Hitchcock (Broad Institute), and Andy Patt (NCATS/NIH)
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To get involved and to learn more, visit our SODA webpage! If you’re interested in giving a talk, please reach out to [email protected].
- SODA at #MANA2022
- Join us during our Interactive Forum during MANA 2022 on Saturday, Sept. 17th from 3:30 - 5:30 pm. The forum is presented by Ewy A. Mathé & SODA.
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One of the goals of The Brief is to create a network and build a stronger community!
For the MANA Member Highlights where we ask MANA members two questions:
1) What are some grand challenges you face in metabolomics?
2) Where do you see the field in 10 years?
In this issue, we are proud to highlight Sophie Alvarez, Ph.D. | Director, Proteomics & Metabolomics Facility & Research Associate Professor, Agronomy and Horticulture University of Nebraska–Lincoln - check out what Sophie has to say.
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If you are interested in being highlighted submit your content to our email [email protected]! | |
Corporate Member Highlights | |
Thank you to all of our corporate members! | |
We are excited to hear from our corporate members during the breakfast and lunch seminars at #MANA2022! Check out the list below and don't forget to save the date. Few of our corporate members have sent in some additional information on their seminars and what they offer! | |
| Sept. 16, 2022 | 7:15 - 8:00 am | Breakfast Seminar with AvantiLipids | | Sept. 16, 2022 | 12:15 - 1:00 pm | Lunch Seminar with Biocrates | | Sept. 16, 2022 | 12:15 - 1:00 pm | Lunch Seminar with Waters | | Sept. 17, 2022 | 7:15 - 8:00 am | Breakfast Seminar with LECO | | Sept. 17, 2022 | 12:15 - 1:00 pm | Lunch Seminar with Thermo Fisher | | Sept. 17, 2022 | 12:15 - 1:00 pm | Lunch Seminar with MetWare | | Sept. 18, 2022 | 7:15 - 8:00 am | Breakfast Seminar with Agilent | | Sept. 18, 2022 | 12:15 - 1:00 pm | Lunch Seminar with SCIEX | | | |
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LECO's GC-TOFMS and comprehensive GCxGC-TOFMS technologies excel in both target and non-target analysis of complex metabolomics samples, optimizing workflows with higher throughput and elevated data quality. Join us for breakfast on Saturday, September 17th at 7:00 am to hear Jane Hill (University of BC), present “The Role of GCxGC in Breath Analysis”.
During MANA, we will also share our work on automated Derivatization using our L-PAL3 Autosampler, as well as ChromaTOF Sync, our new data processing tool which facilities peak compilation, comparison, and characterization. Learn more here. We look forward to seeing you at the event!
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After years of virtual events, Waters is beyond excited to collaborate, in person, at this year’s MANA Conference. As a proud event sponsor, we encourage attendees to connect with us and discuss our new products, the Xevo TQ Absolute and Xevo G3 QTof. These robust, innovative technologies are already making sizable impacts in the metabolomics research field. We also encourage you to attend our lunch symposium and learn about the SELECT SERIES MRT, now enabling LC-MS workflows for the ultimate in discovery metabolomics. Register using the link below to secure your place.
Pre-register here: https://www.cvent.com/d/l9qn99
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Innovations and applications using Widely-Targeted Metabolomics presented by Dr. Shih-Chieh Chu
Metware Biotechnology continues to innovate in metabolomics processes using our Widely-Targeted Metabolomics technology, which performs global metabolite profiling, and our metabolite database, MWDB. MWDB now houses over 20,000 plant-associated metabolites and over 7,000 mammalian metabolites not yet incorporated in the public database. Since 2015, Metware has been helping researchers in agricultural and biomedical research. Contact us and see how we can help you identify and quantify more compounds from your samples. Website: www.metwarebio.com.
Join us for lunch on Saturday, September 17th at 12:15 pm.
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Turnkey Methodology for Targeted Lipidomics
Presenter: Mark Sartain, Ph.D., Scientist, Agilent
A major challenge facing translational metabolomics is the successful implementation and harmonization of targeted methodologies to measure large population cohorts and to improve inter-laboratory precision enough to enable cross-laboratory comparisons of measurements. Come join Agilent for breakfast on Sunday, September 18th at 7:15 am and learn about:
- A highly curated and proven robust plasma lipidomics LC/TQ method that balances depth of coverage with sample throughput across large population cohorts
- Performance results from an interlaboratory multiday study to assess variance and demonstrate transferability in method implementation
Agilent offers a range of reliable and innovative systems for discovery and targeted metabolomics analysis, including advanced software for processing, identifying, and interpreting complex metabolomics data—and the expertise to accelerate your metabolomics analysis workflows at every step, from sample preparation to data analysis. Let us help you to rapidly obtain reliable results to quickly answer your most challenging biological questions here.
Download our Metabolomics Solutions guide here.
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How do you obtain complete structural elucidation of lipids in one experiment?
Learn the secret on a new methodology for the complete characterization of lipids using electron activated dissociation (EAD) on the SCIEX ZenoTOF 7600 system. The rich MS/MS data produced with EAD contains unique fragment ions with patterns and intensities that can be used for complete structure elucidation. Additionally, the EAD experiment when combined with the Zeno trap is sensitive, reproducible and fast, enabling on-the-fly characterization of lipids from complex mixtures during LC separation.
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If you are interested in being our next corporate member to be highlighted submit your content to our email [email protected]! | |
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Register for the upcoming MANA Fall Symposium hosted by the UC Davis West Coast Metabolomics Center.
The symposium is titled, "We are what we eat - Metabolomics leading the way for Nutrition Research" will be online on Friday, Oct.14, 2022, from 9 am - 2:30 pm (PT).
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Interested in hosting MANA 2023? | |
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If you are interested in hosting MANA 2023 conference there's still time to place your bid proposals. MANA is seeking hosts and organizers for its 5th Annual MANA Conference, to be held during Fall 2023. Check out some key dates below:
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Deadline to express interest and complete Google form: Aug. 5, 2022
- Deadline to submit bid proposals: Aug. 15, 2022
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Metabolomics Related Events | |
Have instructional courses to offer?
If you are interested in submitting content regarding instructional courses email us at [email protected]!
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