Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Metabolites 2022 Best Paper Awards” for research and review articles published in Metabolites from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020. One review and two research articles will each receive an award. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, and the winners will be announced in late February 2022.

Eligibility for the Awards:

• Papers published in Metabolites from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020;
• Open to all career levels;
• Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria (data source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)):

• Scientific merit and broad impact;
• Relevance to the journal’s field;
• Originality of the research objectives and/or the presented ideas;
• Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
• Clarity of presentation;
• Citation and download rates in 2021.

Prizes:

• One review award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Metabolites in 2022;
• Two research article awards: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Metabolites in 2022.
• Each winner will also receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in late February 2022.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Metabolites 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Metabolites Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by all of the reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Metabolites. It is thanks to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Remigiusz Bachor
Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wrocław, F. Joliot-Curie 14, 50-383 Wrocław, Poland
Research Interests: mass spectrometry; MS/MS; LC–MS; protein chemistry; proteomics; metabolomics; peptides; drug chemistry and metabolites; analytical chemistry; isotopic exchange; organic chemistry; bioorganic chemistry; qualitative and quantitative analysis by mass spectrometry;
chromatography

Dr. Nguyen Phuoc Long
Department of Pharmacology and PharmacoGenomics Research Center, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan 614-735, Korea
Research Interests: multi-omics; personalized medicine; pharmacology; toxicology; environmental health

Dr. Chi Chen
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
Research Interests: metabolomics; nutrient metabolism; animal nutrition; xenobiotic metabolism; nutritional biochemistry; pharmacometabolomics; animal nutrition; pharmacometabolomics; lipidomics; microbial metabolism

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Metabolites 2021 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Gabriele Rocchetti.

Dr. Gabriele Rocchetti is an Assistant Professor in Food Chemistry of the Department of Animal Science, Food and Nutrition at Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Piacenza, Italy. Dr. Gabriele Rocchetti’s research interests are in foodomics-based approaches (mainly metabolomics, peptidomics, and lipidomics) to evaluate food quality and traceability, application of metabolomics to evaluate the bioaccessibility, and transformation of the bioactive profiles in food matrix. Currently, his research work is based on the application of metabolomics and foodomics to food chemistry, meat science, dairy science, and plant science. Dr. Gabriele Rocchetti received his PhD in 2018 and has since developed an outstanding publication record, comprising 115 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Gabriele Rocchetti’s Scopus Scientific Citations number is 1575, and his Hirsch index is 23. He is clearly a rising star in the field of metabolomics/food science and technology. This is particularly impressive in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Gabriele Rocchetti for his outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Gabriele Rocchetti will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF and a certificate of award.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Metabolites 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Metabolites Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by all of the reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Metabolites. It is thanks to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

Dr. Nguyen Phuoc Long
Center for Personalized Precision Medicine of Tuberculosis and PharmacoGenomics Research Center, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan 614-735, Korea.
Research Interest: multi-omics; personalized medicine; translational research; pharmacology; environmental health.

Dr. Stanislaw Deja
Center for Human Nutrition, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Research Interest: stable isotope tracers; metabolic flux analysis (MFA); computational models of metabolism; obesity and diabetes; liver metabolism.

Dr. Xian Luo
Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 2G2, AB, Canada.
Research Interest: metabolomics; mass spectrometry; LC–MS; stable isotope labeling.

Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Peter Meikle, Metabolites

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Metabolites 2020 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro.

Dr. Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro is the Group leader at Imperial College London (Lecturer), Dept. Bioengineering and the Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology. He obtained his PhD at the University of Salamanca under the supervision of Prof. Jose Luis Revuelta. During his PhD, Rodrigo was a visiting researcher at Prof. Jens Nielsen’s group at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), at Prof. Jean-Marc Nicaud’s lab at INRA (France), and at Prof. Kamisaka’s group at AIST (Japan). After the PhD, he moved to France thanks to an Agreenskills Marie Curie Fellowship and he performed his postdoc in the group of Jean-Marc Nicaud. Most of his postdoctoral research work was done on the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. The research of Dr. Ledesma-Amaro has focused on the understanding and engineering of metabolism in industrial microorganisms and microbial communities with the aim of creating more sustainable bioproduction methods.

As the awardee, Dr. Ledesma-Amaro will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF and a certificate of award.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent nominations.

Metabolites 2020 Young Investigator Award Evaluation Committee

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Peter Meikle, we are pleased to announce the Metabolites 10th Anniversary Best Paper Award 2020.

Papers published in 2018 and 2019 were selected by the Metabolites Editorial Office. The winner nominations were made by a selection committee, which was chaired by the Editor-in-Chief and supported by ten Editorial Board Members. The two top-voted original research papers and one top-voted review paper have won the 2020 Metabolites 10th Anniversary Best Paper Award:

Mind the Gap: Mapping Mass Spectral Databases in Genome-Scale Metabolic Networks Reveals Poorly Covered Areas
Clément Frainay, Emma L. Schymanski, Steffen Neumann, Benjamin Merlet, Reza M. Salek, Fabien Jourdan and Oscar Yanes
Metabolites 2018, 8, 51; doi: 10.3390/metabo8030051
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/8/3/51

Population-Level Analysis to Determine Parameters That Drive Variation in the Plasma Metabolite Profiles
Mahmoud Al-Majdoub, Katharina Herzog, Bledar Daka, Martin Magnusson, Lennart Råstam, Ulf Lindblad and Peter Spégel
Metabolites 2018, 8, 78; doi: 10.3390/metabo8040078
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/8/4/78

Software Tools and Approaches for Compound Identification of LC-MS/MS Data in Metabolomics
Ivana Blaženović, Tobias Kind, Jian Ji and Oliver Fiehn
Metabolites 2018, 8, 31; doi: 10.3390/metabo8020031
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/8/2/31

We congratulate and thank the authors for having chosen Metabolites to publish their work.

In recognition of their accomplishment, the authors will collectively receive a cash award of 500 CHF, and the privilege of publishing an additional research article or review paper free of charge in open access format in Metabolites after the usual peer-review procedure.

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Metabolites, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Metabolites Travel Award on behalf of the Evaluation Committee:

FREDD VERGARA, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) whose research is centered on the topic of chemical ecology with emphasis on analytical chemistry. He is planning to present his work “Water Availability in the Soil and its Effects on Tropane Alkaloid Metabolism in Datura stramonium” at the Metabolomics 2019 Conference (23–27 June 2019, The Hague, the Netherlands) and International Society of Chemical Ecology (2–6 June 2019, Atlanta, GA, USA).

JENNIFER MATTHEWS, a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Technology, Sydney, whose research focuses on employing state-of-theart molecular, imaging, and microbiological techniques to identify the key metabolic networks in Symbiodiniacea–bacteria associations that drive dinoflagellate ecological success. She is planning to present her work “Microbial Metabolic Networks: The Hidden Key to Resilience of Coral Algal Endosymbionts” at the Metabolomics 2019 Conference (23–27 June 2019, The Hague, the Netherlands).

Each Travel Award consists of a certificate and 800 CHF to attend an academic conference of their choice in 2019. Congratulations to the winners of this highly competitive travel award.

We would like to thank all the Scientific Committee members for their assiduous evaluation of the candidates. It was a difficult decision given the high quality of the award applications, and we thank all applicants.

The 2020 Metabolites Travel Awards will be open for applications from the second half of 2019 to early next year. Please check www.mdpi.com/journal/ metabolites/awards for more information closer to that time.

Professor Peter J Meikle BSc (Hons), PhD.
Editor-in-Chief of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989)
Leader, Obesity and Diabetes Program
Head, Metabolomics Laboratory
NHMRC Senior Research Fellow Program Head, Metabolism
Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Metabolites, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Metabolites Travel Award on behalf of the Evaluation Committee:

XIAOTAO SHEN, PhD student at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, whose research focuses on the development of various bioinformatic approaches/tools for untargeted metabolomics. He is planning to present his work “Metabolic Reaction Network-based Recursive Metabolite Identification for Untargeted Metabolomics” at the Metabolomics 2018 Conference (24–28 June 2018, Seattle, USA). The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs towards attending this conference.

It was a difficult decision with such high quality applications for the award and we thank all applicants. We wish to congratulate Mr. Xiaotao Shen for his accomplishments.

Prof. Peter J Meikle
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Metabolites, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 Metabolites Travel Award on behalf of the Evaluation Committee:

KATIE HILLYER，Postdoc fellow at the Victoria University of Wellington, whose research seeks to understand the role of metabolism and free metabolite pools in organism function during exposure to cellular stress. She is planning to present her work “Mapping carbon fate during coral bleaching: the application of ¹³C metabolomics”at the Metabolomics 2017 (June 25–29, Brisbane, Australia). The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs towards attending this conference.

It was a difficult decision with such high quality applications for the award and we thank all applicants. We wish to congratulate Dr. Katie Hillyer for her accomplishments.

A/Prof. Peter J Meikle,
Editor-in-Chief