PLENARY SPEAKERS
The organizers of Metabolomics 2023 are pleased to announce the following confirmed plenary speakers.
Lorraine Brennan
University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland
*Recipient of 2022 Metabolomics Society Honorary Fellowship
Professor Brennan is a full professor and a PI in the UCD Institute of Food & Health and Conway Institute. She leads a nutritional metabolomics group that are at the forefront of the application of metabolomics in nutrition research and the development of Personalized nutrition. Her group develops strategies for using metabolomics profiles to aid assessment of food intake and for delivering personalised nutrition. She served as Director of the European Nutrigenomics Organization for 5 years and led a number of important initiatives such as the development of an Early Career Network and expansion of membership of the organization. She leads a number of large-scale research initiatives including a US-Ireland tripartite grant on Cardiometabolic Health and an all Island project PROTEIN-I on diversification of Protein intake on the island of Ireland. She has a strong public engagement portfolio including an initiative with the journal Frontiers to make science more accessible to kids.
Caroline Johnson
Yale School of Public Health, USA
Dr. Caroline Johnson, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Yale School of Public Health. She obtained her PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Imperial College London in the UK and held Postdoctoral appointments at the National Cancer Institute/NIH and The Scripps Research Institute in the USA. Her lab’s research focus is to develop a deeper understanding of sex-specific differences in metabolism that influence colorectal cancer etiology, progression, and response to therapeutics. In addition, her research integrates metabolomics analysis with studies on environmental exposures, birth cohorts, early-onset cancers, and microbiome, to understand biological responses to exposures in various contexts. Her lab has developed several analytical and bioinformatic protocols to enable a comprehensive analysis of the metabolome using high resolution mass spectrometry. Dr. Johnson was a recent member on the Board of Directors of the Metabolomics Society and Chaired the Membership Committee. She has received numerous awards including the Wendy U. and Thomas C. Naratil Pioneer Award, the MANA young investigator award, and the American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award.
Marja Lamoree
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment, The Netherlands
Marja Lamoree is a professor of Analytical Chemistry for Environment and Health. She is an expert in the field of Effect-Directed Analysis (EDA), in which in vitro effect-based testing, chromatographic fractionation and high resolution mass spectrometry are used to identify Chemicals of Emerging Concern. To understand the relationship between the chemical exposome and the living environment, her research focuses on both human and environmental exposure assessment. For novel classes of compounds she develops high throughput analytical methods for quantitative analysis, including plastic additives and micro/nanoplastics in environmental as well as human samples such as blood, amniotic fluid and placenta tissues. She currently supervises 8 PhD students, funded by national and international funding organizations. In addition, she collaborates with 4 postdocs working on micro/nanoplastics analytical method development and application, EDA including suspect and nontarget screening and in vitro assay development for use in EDA focusing on specific classes of pharmaceuticals. To unravel the identity of chemical risk drivers in complex real-life mixtures, she works on the implementation of EDA on samples from the environment-food-human continuum, for final application in human cohort samples.
Susan J. Murch
The University of British Columbia, Canada
Susan Murch is a Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research investigates the chemicals produced by plants and how plant chemistry affects human health. Her metabolomics research began in 2003 with studies of plant diversity. Her current research develops metabolomics and hormonomics tools to understand how plants grow and to investigate the question “how many amino acids do plants actually have?”.
Gary Patti
Washington University, USA
Gary Patti is the Michael and Tana Powell Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where he holds appointments in the department of chemistry and the department of medicine. Dr. Patti is the Senior Director of the Center for Metabolomics and Isotope Tracing, Co-Director of the Metabolic Kinetics Core in the Nutrition Obesity Research Center, the Dean's Fellow of Advancement and Entrepreneurship, Director of Faculty Affairs in the Chemistry Department, a member of the Siteman Cancer Center, and the Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder of Panome Bio. Professor Patti’s research focuses on developing and applying both mass spectrometry-based and NMR-based metabolomics technologies to enhance our understanding of human metabolism. Applications of his work range from studies of molecular processes in cell culture to physiological regulation at the organ level in animal models and human patients. Professor Patti has been recognized with numerous awards including the Pew Biomedical Scholars Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Award, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Mallinckrodt Scholar Award, and the inaugural NIEHS award for revolutionizing, innovative, and visionary research.
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