Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Metabolites will be granting the Travel Award to one junior scientist. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Metabolites Editorial Board. 

This award provides financial support for the winner to attend an international conference on the aspects of metabolites and metabolism relevant to the fields of metabolomics, metabolic biochemistry, computational and systems biology, biotechnology and medicine to be held in 2024, in order to hold a presentation, present a poster, or both.

Candidate Requirements:
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students.
– Plans to attend an international conference in 2024 (oral presentation or poster). 

Required Application Documents:
– Information of the conference the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted.
– Curriculum vitae and list of publications.
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words).
– Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status as a postdoctoral fellow/PhD student.

The winner will be awarded CHF 500 and a certificate. 

Please submit your applications for the Metabolites 2024 Travel Award online by 31 December 2023. Prizes will be awarded at the end of 31 March 2024 and announced on the Metabolites website.

Kind regards,
Metabolites Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Markus R. Meyer, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously offer their time to review the papers submitted to Metabolites by presenting an award to the reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for Metabolites.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?
All of the reviewers for Metabolites in 2023 will be automatically included.

Selection Criteria:
– Number of review reports;
– The quality and timeliness of review reports.

What will the winners receive?
There will be two winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– CHF 200;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in 2024 after peer review;
– A certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced in 29 February 2024 on the journal website.

How can I make myself eligible?
If you have not yet reviewed papers for Metabolites but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Kind regards,
Metabolites Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Metabolites is now inviting nominations for the Metabolites 2023 Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to one young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the field of metabolomics, metabolic biochemistry, computational and systems biology, biotechnology, and medicine. All nominations will be assessed by an Award Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Markus R. Meyer.

The Prize
– CHF 2000;
– Option to publish one paper free of charge in Metabolites after peer review before the end of 31 December 2024;
– An electronic certificate.

Eligibility and Requirements
– Must have received their PhD no more than 10 years prior to 31 December 2023;
– Must have produced ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of metabolomics, metabolic biochemistry, computational and systems biology, biotechnology, and medicine;
– Must be nominated by senior scientists.

List of Documents for Nomination
– Detailed curriculum vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;
– Scanned copy of doctorate certificate;
– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

Schedule
Open for nomination: 24 May 2023
Nomination deadline: 31 October 2023
Winner announcement: 31 December 2023

How to Submit Nominations
The nominations must be submitted online.

Contact
Ms. Celia Xu
Marketing Specialist
Email: [email protected]

Kind regards,
Metabolites Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Metabolites 2023 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2021 in Metabolites were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, two winners were selected.

One Review:
L-Carnitine and Acylcarnitines: Mitochondrial Biomarkers for Precision Medicine
By Marc R. McCann, Mery Vet George De la Rosa, Gus R. Rosania and Kathleen A. Stringer
Metabolites 2021, 11(1), 51; doi:10.3390/metabo11010051

One Article:
Comprehensive Meta-Analysis of COVID-19 Global Metabolomics Datasets
By Zhiqiang Pang, Guangyan Zhou, Jasmine Chong and Jianguo Xia
Metabolites 2021, 11(1), 44; doi:10.3390/metabo11010044

Each winner will receive CHF 400 and a chance to publish a free paper in Metabolites in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Metabolites 2023 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Metabolites.

Kind regards,
Metabolites Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Metabolites, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Metabolites 2023 Travel Award. The award has been granted to: Mr. Francisco Maria Reis Ventura Rosado Traquete, a PhD student at the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, who was awarded a Caixa Geral de Depósitos Award in 2021. The fields in the domain of Biochemistry and Bioinformatics and their applications are his main areas of interest. Additionally, he will attend the 19th Annual International Conference of the Metabolomics Society, which will be held on June 18–22, 2023.

As the awardee, he will receive an honorarium of CHF 500 and an electronic certificate.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winner on his accomplishments.

Editor-in-Chief, Markus R. Meyer
On behalf of the Metabolites 2023 Travel Award Evaluation Committee

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Metabolites 2022 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Wout Bittremieux.

Dr. Wout Bittremieux is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Antwerp in Antwerp, Belgium. Dr. Bittremieux’s research employs advanced computational techniques to solve fundamental biological questions, including developing algorithmic solutions and artificial intelligence methods for the analysis of mass spectrometry-based metabolomics and proteomics data. Dr. Bittremieux received his PhD in 2017 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 51 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Bittremieux’s Scopus Scientific Citations number is 809 and his Hirsch index is 17. He is clearly a rising star in the field of computational metabolomics. Dr. Bittremieux has secured funding of more than EUR 950,000 since 2019. This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Bittremieux on his outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Wout Bittremieux will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before 31 December 2023 in Metabolites after peer review, and an electronic certificate.

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 many excellent nominations.

Metabolites 2022 Young Investigator Evaluation Committee

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Metabolites 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Metabolites Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Metabolites. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Nguyen Phuoc Long
Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaco Genomics Research Center, Inje University College of Medicine, Korea.
Research Interests: omics; personalized medicine; pharmacology; toxicology; biostatistics; machine learning.

Jianing Mi
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.
Research Interests: uhplc-ms; metabolomics and metabolites analysis; plant hormones; apocarotenoids.

Xian Luo
The Metabolomics Innovation Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Research Interests: mass spectrometry; LC-MS; metabolomics; metabolic flux.

The Prize for Each Winner:
– CHF 200.
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Metabolites in 2023.
– A certificate.

Kind regards,
Metabolites Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Metabolites 2022 Best Paper Award. All of the papers published from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 in Metabolites were considered for this award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, three winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Markus R. Meyer, were selected.

One Review
Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors Targeting Metabolism and Tumor Microenvironment
By Andrea Angeli, Fabrizio Carta, Alessio Nocentini, Jean-Yves Winum, Raivis Zalubovskis, Atilla Akdemir, Valentina Onnis, Wagdy M. Eldehna, Clemente Capasso, Giuseppina De Simone, Simona Maria Monti, Simone Carradori, William A. Donald, Shoukat Dedhar and Claudiu T. Supuran
Metabolites 2020, 10(10), 412; doi:10.3390/metabo10100412

Two Research Articles:
MetaboAnalystR 3.0: Toward an Optimized Workflow for Global Metabolomics
By Zhiqiang Pang, Jasmine Chong, Shuzhao Li and Jianguo Xia
Metabolites 2020, 10(5), 186; doi:10.3390/metabo10050186

Tryptophan Metabolism, Inflammation, and Oxidative Stress in Patients with Neurovascular Disease
By Martin Hajsl, Alzbeta Hlavackova, Karolina Broulikova, Martin Sramek, Martin Maly, Jan E. Dyr and Jiri Suttnar
Metabolites 2020, 10(5), 208; doi:10.3390/metabo10050208

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Metabolites in 2022.

On behalf of the Assessment Committee, we congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Metabolites, as well as thank the Award Committee for voting on and helping with this award.

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