the Committee
President
Horst Joachim Schirra
Affiliation: School of Environment & Science / Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Nathan, Qld, Australia.
Research interests: Metabolic regulation, C. elegans, insect metabolomics, food, environment, livestock and agriculture, genome-scale metabolic modelling, multi-omics integration.
Instruments of choice: High-field NMR
Specialisation in software: Simca, Chenomx, Matlab
Keen to collaborate with: Very happy to collaborate with anyone interested in the above-mentioned research areas and beyond!
Contact: h.schirra@griffith.edu.au
Vice president
Nicola Gray
Affiliation: Australian National Phenome Centre, Murdoch University, Perth, WA
Research interests: Mass spectrometry, LC-MS, method development, cardiometabolic health, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, exposome, endocrine disrupting chemicals.
Instruments of choice: Waters TQ-XS, Sciex QTRAP 6500+, Bruker Impact II QToF
Specialisation in software: Waters Mass Lynx, Sciex OS, Bruker Metaboscape, SIMCA
Keen to collaborate with: Anyone with similar interests
Contact: nicola.gray@murdoch.edu.au
Treasurer
Michael Gotsbacher
Affiliation: University of Sydney, NSW
Research interests: Drug Discovery, Neurodegeneration, Affinity Selection Mass Spectrometry
Instruments of choice: Thermo Orbitrap HFX, Thermo Eclipse Tribrid MS
Specialisation in software: Thermo XCalibur package, Compound Discoverer
Keen to collaborate with: experts in native mass spectrometry
Contact: michael.gotsbacher@sydney.edu.au
Secretary
Alexandra George
Affiliation: Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC
Research interests: Lipidomics, Early life metabolism, DOHaD, Lactation, Human milk, Infant nutrition
Instruments of choice: Agilent 1290 UHPLC and 6495C MS
Specialization in software: Masshunter and RStudio
Keen to collaborate with: Everyone, especially scientists working on ‘omics in early life
Contact: alexandra.george@baker.edu.au
ECR Leader
Monique Ryan
Affiliation: Australian National Phenome Centre, Murdoch University, Perth, WA
Research interests: Lipidomics, LC-MS, method development, burn trauma, clinical metabolomics
Instruments of choice: Frequently use Sciex QTRAP 6500+, but can use Waters TQ-XS, Bruker Impact II QToF, Bruker EVOQ elite
Specialization in software: Sciex OS, MassLynx, Bruker TASQ, Bruker tqControl, RStudio
Keen to collaborate with: Anyone, especially fellow ECRs!
Contact: monique.ryan@murdoche.edu.au
Early Career Researcher
Vinod Narayana
Affiliation: Metabolomics Australia, University of Melbourne, VIC
Research interests: Spatial metabolomics, lipidomics and Gut microbial metabolomics
Instruments of choice: QQQ, QToF, Orbitrap
Specialisation in software: Shimadzu software, Sciex software, Waters Software, Thermo softwares
Keen to collaborate with: Researchers under spatial metabolomics and lipidomics platforms
Contact: vinod.narayana@unimelb.edu.au
Dana Hicks
Affiliation: Australian National Phenome Centre, Murdoch University, WA
Research interests: Lipidomics, MALCI MS imaging, LC-MS, method development, cardiometabolic diseases
Instruments of choice: Sciex QTRAP 6500+, Bruker solariX, Waters TQ-XS
Specialisation in software: SciexOS, Bruker FlexImaging, SCiLS Lab, MassLynx, R Studio
Keen to collaborate with: Anyone, especially those involved in cardiometabolic lipidomics research and MALDI imaging
Contact: 33620704@student.murdoch.edu.au
Jayden Lee Roberts
Affiliation: Australian National Phenome Centre, Murdoch University, WA
Research interests: Patient-centric sampling, Microsampling, Lipidomics
Instruments of choice: Frequently use Bruker timsTOF Pro, Impact II QToF, but can also use SCIEX QTRAP and Waters TQ
Specialisation in software: Bruker MetaboScape and TASQ, Sciex OS, MassLynx, R Studio
Keen to collaborate with: Anyone, especially fellow ECRs - please feel free to send a message!
Contact: 33781426@student.murdoch.edu.au
Local Representatives
Chris Pook (NZ-NI)
Affiliation: Liggins Institute, University of Auckland
Research interests: LC-MS, GC-MS, clinical metabolomics, natural product discovery, biomarker discovery, computational metabolomics
Instruments of choice: my 10yr old Q-Exactive
Specialisation in software: Python, MS-DIAL
Keen to collaborate with: Anyone!
Contact: Chris.pook@auckland.ac.nz
Natoiya Lloyd (SA)
Affiliation: Metabolomics Australia, The Australian Wine Research Institute
Research interests: Polar metabolite profiling, multiomics, mass spectrometry, LC-MS/MS, GC-MS/MS, food, beverages, agriculture, health, livestock
Instruments of choice: LC-HRMS
Specialisation in software: Shimadzu Labsolutions, MS-DIAL, Masshunter, R based tools
Keen to collaborate with: Researchers, industry, other NCRIS facilities
Contact: natoiya.lloyd@awri.com.au
Nathan Lawler (WA)
Affiliation: Australian National Phenome Centre, Health Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Perth, WA
Research interests: High Resolution Mass Spectrometry, Human Physiology and Performance, Energetics/Fatigue and micro sampling techniques for metabolomics research.
Instruments of choice: Bruker timsTOF and Bruker Impact II QToF or an LC-HRMS
Secialisation in software: R based packages/open-source pipelines
Keen to collaborate with: Everyone!
Contact: nathan.lawler@murdoch.edu.au
Nadeem Elahee Doomun (VIC)
Affiliation: Metabolomics Australia, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne
Research interests: Polar metabolite profiling, Metabolic flux, Stable Isotope Labelling, Biomedical metabolomics, Algal metabolomics and lipidomics
Instruments of choice: GCMS (QQQ), LCMS (QQQ), LC-HRMS
Specialisation in software: Shimadzu LabSolutions Insight, DExSI (open source GC-MS stable isoptope labelling analysis), MAVEN, MA.NAC
Keen to collaborate with: Researchers and Industry
Contact: nadeem.elaheedoomun@unimelb.edu.au
Russell Pickford (NSW)
Affiliation: The University of New South Wales
Research interests: Small molecule mass spectrometry - lipidomics, metabolomics, pharmacokinetics, quantification, structural elucidation
Instruments of choice: and LC-MS, they’re all fabulous. Most frequently used are QE+, QE-HR, Altis+
Specialisation in software: metabolomics data analysis with Compound Discoverer, lipidomics data analysis with LipidSearch
Keen to collaborate with: Anyone
Contact: r.pickford@unsw.edu.au, https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-russell-pickford