Event: September 4, 2020

Host: Oliver Fiehn, Ph.D., Arpana Vaniya, Ph.D., & Jeannette Martins (UC Davis West Coast Metabolomics Center)

About: The MANA Summer Symposium 2020, “Biological and Computational Interpretation of Metabolomic Datasets,” brought together leading experts to explore approaches for extracting meaningful biological insights from complex metabolomics data. Through a series of expert presentations, the symposium highlighted advances in multi-omics integration, metabolic pathway analysis, and computational modeling of cellular systems. Topics included bioinformatics tools such as HMDB, MetaboAnalyst, and PathBank, as well as applications in systems medicine, environmental metabolomics, and microbial metabolism. Together, these discussions emphasized the critical role of computational and systems-level approaches in advancing metabolomics research and translating data into biological understanding.

Speakers:

• Keynote Speaker: David Wishart, Ph.D. (University of Edmonton)

• Jan Krumsiek, Ph.D. (Cornell University)

• Christopher Henry, Ph.D. (Argonne National Laboratory)

• Jennifer Kyle, Ph.D. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

• Nathan Price, Ph.D. (Institute for Systems Biology)

• Soha Hassoun, Ph.D. (Tufts University)

• Daniel Amador-Noguez, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin)