MOB
We meet monthly in the Boston / Cambridge area to hear about innovations in metabolomics and mass spectrometry.
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We strive to help each other and to push the boundaries of metabolite profiling together
Our upcoming Seminars
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OUR UPCOMING SEMINAR​
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April 16 12:00
MSOne: An AI-powered platform for end-to-end analysis of metabolomics data.
by Pramod Wangikar
Chemical Engineering
IIT Bombay
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Seminar will take place in room 425
(Northwest Laboratory, 4th floor)
52 Oxford st.
main Harvard campus
Cambridge MA
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Pastries kindly by Waters
Next Seminars:
May 14 12:00
"Reducing Human Variability in Quantitative Metabolomics through Automated, Reproducible Workflows"
J. Will Thompson, Ph.D.
Founding Partner, Operations Lead
Move Analytical, LLC
https://moveanalytical.com
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Enders 10
Boston Children's Hospital
300 Longwood Ave
Boston MA 02115
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June 17 12:00​
Michal Weitman, PhD
Kanarek Lab
Enders 10
300 Longwood Ave
Boston MA 02115
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​July
Deep Metabolomic Signature-based Phenotyping to Unlock Biological Insights using a Mass Cytometry Platform
by Gary Ng, PhD, MBA
Co-founder & CEO
Strata Biolab Inc.
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Want to give a talk? Great! email Naama naama.kanarek[at]childrens.harvard.edu
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Previous seminars
March 2026​
"LC-MS, HRMS and MS Imaging for Investigation of PharmacoMetaboDynamics & Off Target Pharmacology"
Robert Plumb, Waters​​
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February 2026
"Dissecting flavin metabolism in acute leukemia through metabolomics-guided functional genomics"​
Stefan Bjelosevic, PhD
January 2026
"Unlocking the Brain’s Secrets: Lipotype Lipidomics in Neuroscience"
Lipotype Inc.
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December 2025
From Data to Discovery: Maximizing Insights with Metabolon’s Bioinformatics Platform
@ Heino Heyman, Metabolon
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November 2025​
Speed, Sensitivity & Scale:
A new era of metabolomics and lipidomics research with Thermo Scientific mass spectrometers and workflows​
@ Susan S. Bird, PhD, Thermo Fisher Scientific
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October 2025
An essential role for lipids in platelet production
@Kellie Machlus, PhD, Boston Children's Hospital and
Harvard Medical School
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September 2025
Interactive Visualization of Metabolomics and Lipidomics data
@ Brendan Ryback, Duncan Holbrook-Smith, Katelyn Foppe
General Metabolics
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July 2025
Atlas of Lysosomal Aging Reveals a Molecular Clock of Storage-Associated Metabolites
@Ania Puszynska, PhD, Whitehead Institute, MIT
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June 2025
(on July)
Trapped Ion Mobility Meets Metabolomics: A New Era in Small Molecule Analysis with TimsMetabo
@Bruker team​
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May 2025
AI for metabolomics: opportunities and Challenges
@Arzu Tugce Guler, EAI Institute, Northeastern University
April 2025
Measuring metabolic fluxes with hyperpolarized MR probes
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March 2025
Data Deposition
@Riley Brook / Kanarek lab &
Eoin Fahy / Workbench Metabolomics
BCH, Boston MA
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February 2025
Waters Omics Solutions for Deep, Fast and Reproducible Metabolomics Research
@Waters, Cambridge MA
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January 2025
The Pathway To Precision Medicine Is Paved With Metabolites​
@ Pro. Rachel S Kelly, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School​
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December 2024
(Ended up in January 2025.... life sometimes happens)
LC columns utilization
@Millipore-Sigma with special guest Dr. Bory Petrova Med Uni Vienna
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November 2024
Dual seminar -
SQUID: Integrated transcriptional and metabolic signatures of mitochondrial stress - Liam Kelley / Marcia Haigis lab, HMS
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Development of LC-MS/MS Method for OAADPr Detection - Yutong Dai / Marcia Haigis lab, HMS
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October 2024
A scalable approach to absolute quantitation in metabolomics"
@Luke Ferro, MatterWorks, Somerville, MA
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September 2024
Application of metabolomics workflow in cancer research
@ Carolina Noble, PhD, MGH, Boston, MA
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August -summer time - no seminar
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July 2024
High throughput metabolomics
@ General Metabolics Team,
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June 2024
COMPASS: AI-based Metabolomics analysis
Dan Olsen @ Magellan Bioanalytics, Cambridge MA
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May 2024
End-to-End LC/TQ and LC/Q-TOF Workflows
@ Agilent, Boston MA
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April 2024
HILIC Chromatography Optimization by
Birgitta Ryback, PhD @ DFCI
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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
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