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Read Matej Orešič's report on the 2nd international symposium on mass spectrometry in life sciences, Bangalore, India

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NIH announces funding for metabolomics

National Institutes of Health’s Common Fund programs provide a strategic and nimble approach to address key roadblocks in biomedical research that impede basic scientific discovery and its translation into improved human health. These programs are expected to transform the way a broad spectrum of health research is conducted. Initiatives that comprise Common Fund programs are intended to be catalytic in nature by providing limited term investments in strategic areas to stimulate further research through IC-funded mechanisms. For info on Common Funds check https://commonfund.nih.gov/about.aspx
 
To encourage and promote metabolomics research and to address the challenges of metabolomics research, the Common Fund’s Increasing Metabolomics Research Capacity program is developing various initiatives. The NIH Common Fund Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of 5 Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs)to support metabolomics research.  In addition an NIH Notice administrative supplements to support addition of a metabolomics approach to a funded research grant will be published soon.  Information on these FOAs can be found on the NIH Common Fund Metabolomics website (https://commonfund.nih.gov/metabolomics/ ).  Receipt dates begin 1/31/12.

Board of Directors Election 2011 Results

Following elections during the previous months we are pleased to annouce the election/re-election of five directors to the Society Board of Directors. These are Marta Cascante, Matej Oresic, Ute Roessner, Chris Steinbeck and Mark Viant.

Metabolomics Society Conference 2011 Proceedings Now Available

The conference proceedings for the 2011 Metabolomics Society Conference are available below.

The local organisers together with the International Advisory Board did an excellent job in preparing a diverse and stimulating programme of workshops, lectures, poster sessions with plenty of opportunities for socialising and interacting. We hope you enjoyed the experience and learned a lot during your time in Cairns!

New society officers elected

The phase II of the elections process has resulted in the selection of the following team to serve as our new officers:

President: Robert Hall (Plant Research International, Wageningen, Netherlands)
Treasurer: Lloyd W Sumner (Noble Foundation, USA)
Secretary: Julian Griffin (University Of Cambridge, UK)

The new officers will serve for two years (01 Oct 2010 - 31 Sep 2012), and they will work with the board and members to elevate the field of metabolomics and grow our Society. We thank all those who agreed to run in this election cycle, and we congratulate all those who were selected to serve. We look forward to a great meeting in Asia in 2011 which is the location where we took the first steps in establishing our society. We thank Joseph Cruz and Dr. David Wishart's group for coordinating the elections process.

Five new committee members

We welcome newly elected board members:

Dr. Thomas Hankemeier
Dr. Jules Griffin
Warwick Dunn
Donald Robertson
Kazuki Saito

We look forward to their leadership and efforts to elevate the society to new heights.

NIST introduces new standard reference material for human plasma

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Metabolomics receives high Impact Factor rating

The Metabolomics Society has announced that its Metabolomics journal has received its first Impact Factor of 3.25, a very high rating for a publication that launched just four years ago. Impact factors are a method of measuring the influence which a journal has on the scientific community. They are calculated by Thomson Reuters and are designed to indicate how many times the published articles of a journal are cited during the course of a year, providing insight into how much impact the journal is making on its audiences. "An impact factor of 3.254 for a new journal, such as Metabolomics, is fantastic", said Lloyd Sumner, president of the Metabolomics Society. "It is a true reflection on the quality of articles published by the journal and a mark of prominence for both the publication and the Society."

Sumner said much of the journal's success is attributed to the vision and diligence of Editor in Chief Royston Goodacre, professor, School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester.

Prof. Royston Goodacre

"I am absolutely delighted that our first IF is 3.25," Goodacre said. "This is a phenomenal milestone and the credit clearly goes to the authors who have sent the journal their best and most exciting metabolomics papers and reviews for consideration. The editorial board, along with the Metabolomics Society, aim to build on this excellent start, and Metabolomics looks forward to publishing even better scientific works in the future."

Metabolomics is the official journal of the Metabolomics Society and is published by Springer in both print and online. Metabolomics publishes the most significant current research in the areas of technology development for metabolomics, metabolite target analysis, metabolic profiling and metabolic fingerprinting; progress in data preparation, storage, curation and analyses; comparative integrated studies with transcriptomics and proteomics including within a systems biology context; and the application of metabolomics as it relates to man, animals and plants.

The peer-reviewed journal includes research papers and reviews; occasional special issues focusing on emerging subjects of high interest; comment section for responses from readers on articles published; conference announcements and reports; funding initiatives and other metabolomics topics.

"The mission of The Metabolomics Society is to promote the growth, use and understanding of metabolomics in the life sciences. Metabolomics is an integral component of this mission, and we look to build further upon the impact of this journal in the future," commented Sumner.

For media inquiries concerning Metabolomics contact:

Prof. Royston Goodacre
School of Chemistry and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre,
University of Manchester, 131
Princess Street, Manchester, M1 7ND, UK
T: +44 (0)161 3064480
F: +44 (0)161 3064519
E: roy.goodacre@manchester.ac.uk
W: http://www.biospec.net/

New Society officers elected

The Metabolomics Society is pleased to announce that a new executive council was unanimously elected on Dec. 9, 2008 by the Society's board.

Dr. Lloyd W Sumner has been elected as the Society president
Dr. Robert Hall has been elected as the Society secretary
Dr. Oliver Fiehn has been elected as the Society treasurer

Their appointments are immediate and their term of office will be for two years. Congratulations to all three. The Metabolomics Society would also like to extend its thanks to Drs. Rima Kaddurah-Daouk (past President), Bruce Kristal (past Secretary), and George Harrigan (founding treasurer), and Lloyd Sumner (interim treasurer) for their years of service and dedication to the Society. Drs. Kaddurah-Daouk and Kristal will continue to serve on the Society board.

Four new Committee Members are elected

The Metabolomics Society is pleased to announce the appointment of four new members to its Board of Directors. The new committee members were elected on Nov. 12, 2008 by the Society's members. The new committee members are:

Dr. Marta Cascante, (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Dr. Robert Hall, (Plant Research International, Wageningen, Netherlands)
Dr. Matej Oresic, (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland)
Dr. Mark Viant, (Environmental Metabolomics, Birmingham, UK)

The Metabolomics Society congratulate and welcome the new committee members. Their knowledge, experiance and vision will be an invaluable contribution to the Society and it's members. Thanks to all Society's memebers who put their name forward for election.