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
OUR UPCOMING SEMINAR
Wednesday March 18 2026
"LC-MS, HRMS and MS Imaging for Investigation of PharmacoMetaboDynamics & Off Target Pharmacology"
By Robert Plumb
Scientific Advisor, Trace Quan LCMS Science
Waters Immerse Center
302 Binney Street
Cambridge, MA
Lunch and Raffles will be provided by Waters.
Please plan to stay afterwards for a lab tour and have a look at current products such as the Xevo MRT or untargeted metabolomics, as well as the TQ Absolute XR for sensitive quantitation of targeted metabolomics.
Next Seminars:
April 16 12:00
MSOne: An AI-powered platform for end-to-end analysis of metabolomics data.
by Pramod Wangikar
Chemical Engineering
IIT Bombay
Seminar will take place in room 425
(Northwest Laboratory, 4th floor)
52 Oxford st.
main Harvard campus
Cambridge MA
Pastries kindly by Waters
May
J. Will Thompson, Ph.D.
Founding Partner, Operations Lead
Move Analytical, LLC
https://moveanalytical.com
June 17 12:00
Michal Weitman, PhD
Kanarek Lab
Enders 10
300 Longwood Ave
Boston MA 02115
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.
Want to give a talk? Great! email Naama naama.kanarek[at]childrens.harvard.edu
Previous seminars
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.
December 2025
From Data to Discovery: Maximizing Insights with Metabolon’s Bioinformatics Platform
@ Heino Heyman, Metabolon
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
October 2025
An essential role for lipids in platelet production
@Kellie Machlus, PhD, Boston Children's Hospital and
Harvard Medical School
September 2025
Interactive Visualization of Metabolomics and Lipidomics data
@ 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 / Workbench 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,
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