MOB
We meet monthly in the Boston / Cambridge area to hear about innovations in metabolomics and mass spectrometry.
We strive to help each other and to push the boundaries of metabolite profiling together
Our upcoming Seminars
December 11th
"From Data to Discovery: Maximizing Insights with Metabolon’s Bioinformatics Platform"
by Heino Heyman
Metabolon
12:00
room 343
52 oxford
Harvard University
Cambridge MA
Lunch will be provided by Metabolon
Next Seminars:
January 28th 2026
"Unlocking the Brain’s Secrets: Lipotype Lipidomics in Neuroscience"
Lipotype Inc.
Whitehead Institute
12:00
February TBD academic
March
Waters
@Immerse
301 Binney St Suite 102, Cambridge, MA 02142
April
J. Will Thompson, Ph.D.
Founding Partner, Operations Lead
Move Analytical, LLC
https://moveanalytical.com
Want to give a talk? Great! email Naama naama.kanarek[at]childrens.harvard.edu
Previous seminars
November 2025
"Speed, Sensitivity & Scale:
A new era of metabolomics and lipidomics research with Thermo Scientific mass spectrometers and workflows"
Susan S. Bird, PhD
Sr. Manager Metabolomics Vertical Marketing
Thermo Fisher Scientific
October 2025
"An essential role for lipids in platelet production"
Kellie Machlus, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Principal Investigator, Boston Children's Hospital
Vascular Biology Program
September 2025
"Interactive Visualization of Metabolomics and Lipidomics data"
Presenters: Brendan Ryback, Duncan Holbrook-Smith, Katelyn Foppe
General Metabolics
July 2025
Atlas of Lysosomal Aging Reveals a Molecular Clock of Storage-Associated Metabolites
Ania Puszynska, PhD
Whitehead Institute
MIT
June 2025
(on July)
Trapped Ion Mobility Meets Metabolomics: A New Era in Small Molecule Analysis with TimsMetabo
Bruker team
May 2025
AI for metabolomics: opportunities and Challenges
Arzu Tugce Guler
EAI Institute, Northeastern University
April 2025
"Measuring metabolic fluxes with hyperpolarized MR probes"
March 2025
Data Deposition
Riley Brook / Kanarek lab & Eoin Fahy / Workench Metabolomics
BCH, Boston MA
February 2025
Waters Omics Solutions for Deep, Fast and Reproducible Metabolomics Research
Waters, Cambridge MA
January 2025
The Pathway To Precision Medicine Is Paved With Metabolites
Pro. Rachel S Kelly
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
December 2024
(Ended up in January 2025.... life sometimes happens)
LC columns utilization
(Millipore-Sigma with special guest Dr. Bory Petrova Med Uni Vienna)
November 2024
Dual seminar -
SQUID: Integrated transcriptional and metabolic signatures of mitochondrial stress - Liam Kelley / Marcia Haigis lab, HMS
AND
Development of LC-MS/MS Method for OAADPr Detection - Yutong Dai / Marcia Haigis lab, HMS
October 2024
A scalable approach to absolute quantitation in metabolomics"
Luke Ferro, MatterWorks, Somerville, MA
September 2024
Application of metabolomics workflow in cancer research
Carolina Noble, PhD, MGH, Boston, MA
August -summer time - no seminar
July 2024 High throughput metabolomics
General Metabolics Team,
Hosted by Birgitta at DFCI, Boston MA
June 2024 COMPASS: AI-based Metabolomics analysis
Dan Olsen @ Magellan Bioanalytics, Cambridge MA
May 2024 End-to-End LC/TQ and LC/Q-TOF Workflows
@ Agilent, Boston MA
April 2024 HILIC Chromatography Optimization by
Birgitta Ryback, PhD @ DFCI
March 2024 Field Trip @ Waters, Cambridge MA
February 2024 IROA Tech application in untargeted metabolomics
by Bory Petrova | BCH @ Northeastern University, EAI Institute
January 2024 IROA Technologies @ ZOOM
November 2023 Tugce Guller | Northeastern University @ BCH
October 2023 Bruker @ Harvard
September 2023 Regina Oliveira | MGH Harvard Medical School @ MGH
July 2023 MilliporeSigma @ BCH
June 2023 Sciex @ Whitehead Institute
May 2023 Boryana Petrova | BCH Harvard Medical School @ BCH
March 2023 Thermo with Charles Vidoudez | Harvard @ Harvard
February 2023 MOB establishment in Cambridge MA