FeMS+ Team

Chair

Anne Bendt
Chair

Deputy Director, Singapore Lipidomics Incubator (SLING), National University of Singapore

Singapore

Treasurer

Amber Herold
Treasurer

Vice President, The Association for Mass Spectrometry & Advances in the Clinical Lab (MSACL)

California, USA

Secretary

Grace van der Gugten
Secretary

Laboratory Scientist, Newborn Screening and Biochemical Genetics, Alberta Precision Laboratories

Alberta, Canada

Fundraising Committee

Amber Herold
Treasurer
Vice President, The Association for Mass Spectrometry & Advances in the Clinical Lab (MSACL), California, USA
Jennifer Krone
Chair
Sr. Director of Sales and Strategic Partnerships, MOBILion Systems, Inc., Texas, USA
Iulia Macavei
EU Chair
Scientist at Evosep Biosystems, Odense, Denmark
Rowan Matney
Member
Graduate Student, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Mariana Santos
Member
Deputy Head of Metabolomics The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

Events Committee

fems.event@gmail.com

Denise Tran
Co-Chair

Application Specialist, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Sydney Australia

Ezgi Gurler
EU chair

PhD Candidate, Charles University, Czech Academy of Sciences.Univerzita Karlova, Czech  Republic

Veronika Popova
Member

Graduate student, Institute of Microstructure Technology, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany

http://www.linkedin.com/in/v-popova
Valentina Siino
Member

Principal Scientist, Acrivon AB, Sweden

Vinusha Wickramasinghe
Member

Graduate Research Assistant Kansas State UniversityKansas, USA

Yvonne Reinders
Member

Staff Scientist, ISAS e.V., Dortmund, Germany

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonne-reinders-2219a8110/
Sara Mandic
Member

PhD student, Okayama UniversityOkayama, Japan

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-mandic-76607481/
Alice Passoni
Member

Head of unit at the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory of the Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCSMilan, Italy

Iulia Macavei
Member

Scientist, Evosep Biosystems

Awards Committee

fems.awards@gmail.com

Yesim Er Oztas
Co-chair
Professor, Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey
Monique Opperman
Co-chair
Post-doctoral fellow, Centre for Human Metabolomics, North-West UniversityPotchefstroom, South Africa 
LinkedInEmail
Maia Kelly
Member
Graduate Student, Georgia Institute of TechnologySydney, Australia
Silvia Radenkovic
Member
Laboratory Clinical Geneticist in training, UMC Utrecht & Mayo Clinic (collaborator)Utrecht, The Netherlands
Yasaman Jami
Member
Proteomics Senior Scientist, PfizerMassachusetts, USA
Annalaura Mastrangelo
Member
Researcher, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) Madrid, Spain
Lucie Davidová
Member
PhD student, Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden
Chelsea Lin
Member
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington Seattle, Washington, USA
Mohammed Alhigaylan
Member
PhD Candidate, University of Toronto / Hannes Rost lab Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Stacy Malaker
Member
Assistant Professor, Yale UniversityConnecticut, USA
Esther Cheow
Member
Associate Principal Scientist, MSD International GmbHSingapore
Dayanne Mozaner Bordin
Member
Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney, UTSSydney, Australia
Nivedita Bhattacharya
Member
Scientist, MassTech, India
Shweta Chhajed
Member
Engineer III, Software, ThermoFisher Scientific, USA
Zhaojing Meng
Member
Associate Director, Meso Scale Diagnostics, Maryland, USA
Rosangela Devilla
Senior Experimental Scientist, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

Communications Committee

fems.communication@gmail.com

Ximena Sanchez
Chair
PhD Student, Brigham Young University Utah, USA
Diane Wallace
Member
Core Manager, UNC ChemistryNorth Carolina, USA
Kellye A Cupp-Sutton
Member
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of OklahomaOklahoma, USA
Barbora Pisklakova
Member
Specialized engineer and scientist, Oslo University HospitalOslo, Norway 
Gabriela Chango
Member
PhD candidate University of Salamanca Salamanca/Spain
Marie Yammine
Member
Scientist at Lesaffre Institute of Science and Technology, Lesaffre International Marcq-en-Baroeul, France
LinkedInEmail
Gabriella Gellen
Member
Postdoctoral researcher at CY Cergy Paris Université and Institut PasteurParis, France
LinkedinTwitter

Mentorship Committee

fems.mentoring@gmail.com

Dana Hicks
Chair

PhD Candidate at Murdoch University, WA, Australia

Kari Basso
Member

Director of Mass Spectrometry Research and Education at the University of Florida, Florida, USA

Sayantani Chatterjee
Member

Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Dijana  Vitko
Member

Business Development Specialist, Proteomics, Bruker Daltonics Inc. Austin, Texas

Nathaly Reyes Garcés
Member

Senior Scientist, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

Delia Serna
Member

LC/GC-MS Senior Research Scientist in Biotechnology Center from Tec de Monterrey 

Leadership Development Committee

fems.leadership@gmail.com

Anne Bendt

Deputy Director, Singapore Lipidomics Incubator (SLING), National University of SingaporeSingapore

Amber Herold

Vice President, The Association for Mass Spectrometry & Advances in the Clinical Lab (MSACL)California, USA

Maggie Tam

Senior Research Scientist, Canada Border Services AgencyOntario, Canada

Jennifer Krone

Sr. Director of Sales and Strategic Partnerships, MOBILion Systems, Inc., Texas, USA

Prasanna Kummar
Member

Scientific Advisory Board

Margret Thorsteinsdottir
Chair

Professor, University of Iceland

Reykjavík, Iceland

Industry Advisory Board

Christine Miller
Chair

Omics Market Manager, Agilent (Retired)

California, USA

Melissa Sherman
Member

Chief Executive Officer, MOBILion

Pennsylvania, USA

Alumni

NameCommittee
Hema KethaCo-Founder
Erin BakerEvents
Catherine BannonAwards
Susan EgbertMentoring
Khyati MehtaMentoring
Sarah HancockLeadership Development
Erin HumphriesCommunications
Jordan GilardiCommunications
Alanah Grant-St JamesFundraising
Nicola GrayFundraising, Leadership Development
Vera IgnjatovicLeadership Development
Kaylie KirkwoodCommunications
Mona KhoraniMentorship
Angela Mc ArdleEvents
Rosangela Silva SantosCommunications
Baljit UbhiLeadership Development
Heidi VitracFundraising
Caroline GehinAwards
 Catherine BanonthreeAwards
Karolina SulekAwards

Events and Communications Contributors

  • Emily Sekera – Postdoctoral Scholar, The Ohio State University
  • Rowan Matney – Research Professional, Stanford University
  • Liz Gordon – Application Scientist, Bruker
  • Guinevere Lageveen-Kammeijer – Postdoctoral Researcher, Leiden University
  • Susan Gelman – Sales Engineer, Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • Mackenzie Pearson – Senior Application Scientist, SCIEX
  • Aparna Baxi – PhD Candidate, George Washington University

Guest Award Assessors

  • Yu Xia – Professor of Chemistry, Tsinghua University
  • Marta Sans Escofet – CPRIT TRIUMPH Postdoctoral Fellow, MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • David Bradley – Academia & Collaborations Manager, Agilent Technologies
  • Lindsay Pino – Co-founder and CTO, Talus Bio
  • Isabell Bludau – Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry