Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the application period is now open for the 2020 Metabolites Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to a young investigator in recognition of her/his excellence in the advancement/research of metabolism and metabolomics. All nominations will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee led by the Editors-in-Chief, Prof. Peter Meikle.

The award will consist of:

–– 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs);
–– An certificate of award.

Eligibility and Requirements:

–– Maximum 40 years of age and no more than 10 years since having received her/his Ph.D. by 31 December 2020;
–– Ground-breaking research and significant contribution to the advancement of the fields of Metabolism and Metabolomics;
–– Candidates must be nominated by their supervisor(s), research director, or department head.

List of Documents for Nomination:

–– Detailed Curriculum Vitae including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants (4 pages maximum).
–– A description of the candidate’s research (up to two pages).
–– Birth certificate or other proof of age.
–– Scanned copy of doctorate certificate.
–– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

Please submit your nomination materials at the link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metabolites/awards/submit/760 before 20 November 2020. The winner will be announced on the Metabolites website by the end of January 2021.

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