September 2025
FeMS+ Pop-up Boston in partnership with Mass Dynamics
FeMS+ “Out of the Shadows” Leadership Development Program Cohort 8 was held in Montreal, Canada in partnership with MSACL and Thermo Fisher, and Carol Lempert Speaking.
The FeMS+ Networking & Mingle at Nordic MSP 2025 sponsored by Evosep
June 2025
The FeMS+ networking session at ASMS was an other huge success! We had over 300 attendees, 20 volunteers, and a wonderful keynote from Livia Eberlin.
May 2025
Bay Area Pop-up: Connections + Conversations
Networking event on 19 May for E/MCRs at AUS-oMicS organized by FeMS+ and generously sponsored by Mass Dynamics and Evosep.
March 2025
In partnership with the British Mass Spectrometry Society (BMSS), participated on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) meeting. Thanks to our sponsors: AstraZeneca, Royal Society of Chemistry, SCIEX, Shimadzu Corporation, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Waters Corporation
February 2025
FeMS+ “Out of the Shadows” Leadership Development Program Cohort 7 was held in Singapore, in partnership with Agilent, SCIEX, and Thermo Fisher.
September 2024
FeMS+ “Out of the Shadows” Leadership Development Program Cohort 6 was held in Rockville, MD, US, in partnership with CASSS and SCIEX.
August 2024
FeMS+ “Out of the Shadows” Leadership Development Program Cohort 5 was held in Melbourne, Australia, in partnership with Mass Dynamics, Peak Scientific, and SCIEX.
FeMS+ held a career workshop at IMSC, Melbourne, Australia sponsored by IonOpticks. Joined by the esteemed panelists—Prof. Joseph Loo (UCLA), Prof. Carol Robinson (Oxford), and Dr. Thusi Rupasinghe (Sciex)—they shared their career journeys and shared insights on professional growth pathways.
July 2024
FeMS+ held a career development workshop in Miami, FL, US, in partnership with ISIMS 2024 and sponsored by Florida International University. Participants learned how to deliver well-prepared persuasive communication with strategy, conciseness, and confidence, with panelists: Helen Cooper (University of Birmingham), Lauryn DeGreeff (Florida International University), Piero Gardinali (Florida International University), and Ansgar Kirk (ACKISION GmbH). The workshop covered self-introduction, elevator pitch, impact statement, networking, and oral briefing; and was organized by Fanny Caroline Liu (Florida State University), Natalia Soares Quinete (Florida International University), and Maggie Tam (FeMS+ Leadership Development Committee).
June 2024
The FeMS+ networking session at ASMS was a huge success! We had over 150 attendees and had a keynote from our celebrated guest speaker Jennifer Brodbelt (University of Texas).
April 2024
FeMS+ “Out of the Shadows” Leadership Development Program Cohort 4 was held in Hamburg, Germany, in partnership with Tecan, IBL.
March 2024
FeMS+ “Out of the Shadows” Leadership Development Program Cohort 3 was held in Singapore. Prior to the event, cohort participants completed several assignments, including the Wheel of Life and a practice in delivery an elevator pitch. Executive Coach Ping Yu led the group through identifying our own barriers, challenging the default coping mechanisms, and forging a path forward. The group was joined in the afternoon by four women leaders who shared their insights and wisdom in leadership: Nathalie Benzing (COO, Moneythor), Prof. Yunn Hwen Gan (Associate Professor, National University of Singapore), Thusi Rupasinghe (Senior Field Application and Market Development Specialist, SCIEX), and Prof. Yulan Wang (Professor, Nanyang Technological University). We are grateful for the support from the event partners: Bruker, National University of Singapore, SCIEX, and Singapore Phenome Centre. Special thanks to Lucy Woods and Xueli Guan for being the local driving force for this cohort!
November 2023
Angie Mc Ardle and Valentina Siino attended the Nordic Proteomics Meeting (NPS) in mid-November 2023, where they represented FeMS+ and were able to spread our values and goals!
September 2023
FeMS Transition Talks with Giulio Ferrario, Aisha Bibi, Kelly Conger. Click on the speakers’ names to check out their LinkedIn profiles! Also, congratulations to Andrea Knaust, the winner of the 2023 Bertha Condron award.
At the 43rd Annual Meeting of the British Mass Spectrometry Society (BMSS), the plenary lecture from Evelyn Rampler, University of Vienna, was titled “Diversity empowerment strategies in the field of mass
spectrometry”.
FeMS+ “Out of the Shadows” Leadership Development Program Cohort 2 was held in Munich, Germany, in partnership with Bruker Daltonics GmbH and Co. KG and Bruker Scientific.
June 2023
Alice Passoni and Lolita Piersimoni attended the Italian Mass Spectrometry Society (iMaSS) Network in Florence and FeMS+ was presented for the first time at an Italian conference.
March 2023
The inaugural cohort of “Out of the Shadows” Leadership Development Program was held in San Jose, CA, US, in partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific, Life Science Mass Spectrometry Business Unit.
January 2023
FeMS Transition Talks with Noelia Salgueiro, Cristina Contini and Alice Passoni. Click on the speakers’ names to check out their LinkedIn profiles!
November 2022
FeMS Transition Talks with Behnaz Akbari, Neena Susan Eappen, and Lisa David. Click on the speakers’ names to check out their LinkedIn profiles!
September 2022
FeMS Mentorship Program Mentee and Mentor Training
FeMS Event at the Nordic Metabolomics Conference 2022, with presentations by FeMS, Vanessa Hall (Chairwoman of the Danish Society for Women in Science DANWISE), Lucy Woods (Director of Multiomics Business Unit, Bruker), and by Sofina Begum, the Rosalind Franklin Clinical Metabolomics Award winner. The Rosalind Franklin Clinical Metabolomics Award was sponsored by Bruker. The event was sponsored by SCIEX, with reception, networking opportunities, and complimentary professional portrait session.
If you have taken a complimentary portrait at this FeMS event and have not received an individual email notification by the end of September, please contact Julie Courraud.
August 2022
FeMS Mentorship Program Pod Coordinator Informational Sessions (Virtual) to learn more about the responsibilities of a Pod Coordinator.
FeMS Event at the International Mass Spectrometry Conference 2022: An in-person FeMS evening workshop with Anne Bendt, Jennifer Van Eyk, Purva Kulkarni, Manfred Wuhrer, and Berta Cillero Pastor.
FeMS Mentorship Program Informational Sessions (Virtual) Introducing Round 3 of the Mentorship Program!
June 2022
FeMS Virtual Happy Hour on “Leadership: motivation and inspiration” from Professor Coral Barbas of Universidad CEU San Pablo, organized and hosted by Nicola Gray. Thank you to Agilent for sponsoring the Virtual Happy Hour!
In-person event at ASMS: Networking for Scientists: Celebrating Women Mass Spectrometrists
Panelists: Ceylan Bilgin, Erin Baker, Olga Vitek, Lisa Jones and Baljit Ubhi. Organized by organizers Molly Soper-Hopper, Komal Kedia and Aivett Bilbao. A big thank you to Ben Garcia for donating over 100 copies of Mass Spec Mommy for the workshop attendees!
In-person event at ASMS: FeMS Gap Hour Reception at ASMS, sponsored by Agilent
A networking reception where we toasted to our Events Committee Chair Erin Baker, in celebration of her receiving the Biemann Medal Award! We thank the speakers Kristin Burnum-Johnson and Becki Veeneman, and the Women at Agilent group for the attendee gifts!
FeMS Virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in Mass Spectrometry – creating and improving biographies of women mass spectrometrists from Hannes Röst’s list of notable mass spectrometrists. During the edit-a-thon, we made 180 edits on 29 articles, added 17.2k words & 211 references, created 7 new articles on women mass spectrometrists, removed all red links for ASMS women past and present Presidents, and there is now a list of female mass spectrometrists on Wikipedia!
We thank 500 Women Scientists for providing us with training, resources and support to launch our own edit-a-thon! In partnership with Wiki Education, 500 Women Scientists hosts free 6-week training course on Wikipedia editing for their members, with a focus on improving “biographies for women and gender minorities leading in science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine (STEMM)”. We also thank Nick Birse for sharing his Wikipedia expertise during the edit-a-thon!
April 2022
FeMS In-Person Networking Event at MSACL 2022. Special thanks to our sponsor, SCIEX, for making this event possible!
March 2022
2022 Agilent Darlene Solomon Award Ceremony
November 2021
FeMS In-Person Events at ASMS 2021
- Amina Woods Celebration Dinner, sponsored by MassTech and FeMS
- Workshop on Networking for Scientists: Celebrating Women Mass Spectrometrists, with panelists Lingjun Li, Jennifer Liddle, Lisa O’Callaghan, and Jessica Prenni; hosted by Komal Kedia, Anumita Saha, and Erin Baker
- FeMS Networking Dinner, sponsored by MOBILion Systems
- FeMS Virtual Social
October 2021
FeMS Virtual Happy Hour on imposter syndrome led by Dr. Devin Horton, the Graduate Diversity Officer for STEM disciplines at UC Davis.
FeMS Transition Talks with Azhar Orynbek, Carolina Rojas Ramirez, and Lyndsay Young. Click on the speakers’ names to check out their LinkedIn profiles!
September 2021
FeMS Virtual Happy Hour on leadership and career legacy from Professor Margaret Sheil AO, Vice Chancellor and President of Queensland University of Technology, organized and hosted by Sarah Hancock.
FeMS Mentorship Program Round 2 kick-off session, from the FeMS Mentoring Committee: Amber Herold, Michelle Reid, Mona Khorani, Susan Egbert, Nancy Lee Alexander, Khyati Mehta.
August 2021
FeMS Virtual Happy Hour discussion on working in industry versus academia led by Parnian Lak and Elizabeth Hecht, hosted by Mona Khorani.
July 2021
1st International Virtual Symposium of Female Scientists and Supporters in Mass Spectrometry (2021), co-organized by FeMS and www.instrument.com.cn. This session featured presentations from FeMS board members Erin Baker, John Yates, Anne Bendt and Hui Ye, as well as active FeMS members Lingjun Li, Ying Ge and Catherine Wong, and dditional presentations from Ying Zhang, Jianhui Li, Ling Fu, Qiaohong Lin and Jiawen Lyu.
FeMS Virtual Happy Hour on startup companies and technology transfer, with Megan Aanstoos, Laurie Parker and Yan Hu, led by Susan Gelman.
June 2021
FeMS Transition Talks with Kate Fell, Ksenia Kuznetsova, and Crystal Pace. Click on the speakers’ names to check out their LinkedIn profiles!
FeMS Virtual Happy Hour on motherhood and career challenges with Kari Basso, Sarah Hancock, Baljit Ubhi, and Catherine Wong.
May 2021
FeMS Virtual Happy Hour on job interviewing with Jessica Espino, Stacy Malaker, Devin Schweppe, and Hui Ye.
April 2021
FeMS Virtual Happy Hour on “The Journey to Discovering Your Worth”, led by Baljit Ubhi
FeMS Transition Talks with Bini Ramachandran and Habib Gholipour-Ranjbar. Click on the speakers’ names to check out their LinkedIn profiles!
March 2021
An excellent panel discussion on building an inclusive community, with Sasha Kosanic, Christina Jones, and Sam Sharpe, moderated by Rowan Matney.
First set of FeMS Transition Talks in 2021 with Cameron Naylor, Sanghamitra Majumdar and Wout Bittremieux. Click on the speakers’ names to check out their LinkedIn profiles! Click here to watch recording.
The Darlene Solomon Award Ceremony at iSLS9: congratulations to the 2021 award recipient, Noemi Jiménez-Rojo!
February 2021
Virtual screening and discussion of “Picture a Scientist” to celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11th. This screening was generously sponsored by MSACL.
January 2021
FeMS Happy Hour with Nirmala Gratton, LMFT – a discussion on mental health.
December 2020
FeMS Holiday Party
FeMS Transition Talks with Devin Swiner and Erin Panzyck. Click on the speakers’ names to check out their LinkedIn profiles!
November 2020
FeMS Transition Talks with Sitora Khodjaniyazova, Tessa Moyer and Olga Vvedenskaya. Click on the speakers’ names to check out their LinkedIn profiles!
October 2020
FeMS Transition Talks with Ritu Chaturvedi, Gayathree Karthikkeyan and Charles Mobley. Click on the speakers’ names to check out their LinkedIn profiles!
FeMS Happy Hour with Vicki Wysocki (Associate Editor, Analytical Chemistry), John R. Yates III (Editor-in-Chief, JPR), Julia Laskin (Co-Editor-in-Chief, IJMS) and Joseph A. Loo (Editor-in-Chief, JASMS) – a panel discussion on tips and tricks for successful manuscripts and helpful review.
September 2020
FeMS Transition Talks with Lauren Pepi, Vineeta Rai, and Hossein Shokri. If you are hiring new talent, click on the speakers’ names to check out their LinkedIn profiles!
Video coming soon!
FeMS Transition Talks with Michelle Reid and L. Tamina Hagemann. If you are part of a company looking to hire new talent, be sure to click on the speakers names to check out their LinkedIn profiles!
FeMS Happy Hour with Dr.Michelle Reid on mentorship! This video also features the launch of our mentor program and discussions on what the FeMS community is hoping to gain from the experience.
August 2020
FeMS Transition Talks with Ettore Gilardoni, Daniel Mouzo Calzadilla, and Alexandra Iakab. If you are looking for a new postdoc in your lab be sure to click their names to find them on LinkedIn!
FeMS Happy Hour with Professor Ute Roessner (University of Melbourne) on Resilience
July 2020
FeMS Mass Spec Mixers: Transition Talks with Jessica Espino, Nicholas Lesner, and Alyson Black. Be sure to click on each of the speakers names to check out their LinkedIn profiles!
FeMS Happy Hour with Merck Recruiter MJ Paulines on Tips, Tricks and Advice for Industry and Pharmaceutical Interviews
June 2020
FeMS Happy Hour with the Founders of Black Coalition of Mass Spectrometrists (Candice Ulmer, Christina Jones, Michelle Reid) on Systemic Racism in STEM
May 2020
FeMS Happy Hour with Yu Xia (Tsignhua University) on Mentoring Across Cultures
FeMS Happy Hour with SCIEX President Inese Lowenstein on Her Career Journey
April 2020
FeMS Happy Hour with Thermo Fischer Scientific Director of Global Commercial Operations Isa Cabruja on How to Build Great Teams
FeMS Happy Hour with Cathy Costello (Boston University) and Jennifer van Eyk (Cedars-Sinai) on the Inspiration Behind their Science
Catherine E. Costello Award for Females in Mass Spectrometry Ceremony at MSACL with Recipient Sarah B. Riley