Molecular Omics Blog

We are delighted to welcome Professor Ling Hao to the Molecular Omics Editorial Board!

About Ling:

Ling Hao is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the George Washington University in Washington DC. She received her PhD in 2017 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Prof. Lingjun Li in mass spectrometry method development and conducted postdoctoral research in neurobiology in Dr Richard Youle’s lab and Dr Michael Ward’s lab at the National Institutes of Health. Since starting her own research group in 2019, she has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a Rising Star Award from the Human Proteome Organisation, a Ralph E Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities, and a Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.

Research in her lab focuses on developing mass spectrometry-based proteomics, metabolomics and lipidomics methods to study neuroscience questions. Her team combines analytical chemistry, cell biology and bioinformatic strategies to understand organelle dynamics, proteostasis and molecular interactions in human stem cells and stem cell-derived neurons, with the goal to decipher molecular mechanisms underlying brain diseases.

Find out more about Ling and her research on her webpage and check out some of her RSC publications below:

Integrated proteomic and metabolomic analyses of the mitochondrial neurodegenerative disease MELAS
Haorong Li, Martine Uittenbogaard, Ryan Navarro, Mustafa Ahmed, Andrea Gropman, Anne Chiaramello and Ling Hao
Mol. Omics, 2022, 18, 196-205

Site-specific characterization and quantitation of N-glycopeptides in PKM2 knockout breast cancer cells using DiLeu isobaric tags enabled by electron-transfer/higher-energy collision dissociation (EThcD)
Zhengwei Chen, Qing Yu, Ling Hao, Fabao Liu, Jillian Johnson, Zichuan Tian, W. John Kao, Wei Xu and Lingjun Li
Analyst, 2018, 143, 2508-2519

Relative quantification of amine-containing metabolites using isobaric N,N-dimethyl leucine (DiLeu) reagents via LC-ESI-MS/MS and CE-ESI-MS/MS
Ling Hao, Xuefei Zhong, Tyler Greer, Hui Ye and Lingjun Li
Analyst, 2015, 140, 467-475

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We are delighted to welcome Professor Rosário Domingues to the Molecular Omics Editorial Board!

About Rosário:

Rosário Domingues graduated with a degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Coimbra (1990), received her Ph.D. degree in Chemistry (1998), and Habilitation in Biochemistry (2014) both at the University of Aveiro. Since 2016 she has held the position of Associate Professor with habilitation in the Mass Spectrometry Centre, Department of Chemistry at the University of Aveiro (UA). She is the Director of the Doctoral Program of Biochemistry at UA and the leader of the Lipidomic Laboratory of the Mass Spectrometry Centre of the UA and Marine Lipidomic lab at CESAM-UA.

She has over 25 years of research experience in the field of mass spectrometry, and is a well-established researcher in lipidomics, glycomics and changes in biomolecules associated with oxidative stress monitored by mass spectrometry. Her major research interests are focused in lipidomics, namely: Algae & Marine lipidomics, Oxidative lipidomics, Food & Microbial lipidomics and lipidomics in Health and Disease. She is the author of one book and ten book chapters with more than 390 articles published in international journals. She has coordinated and participated in several research projects funded by national and European programs (35 in total). Currently, she is the coordinator of the European project Cost Action CA19105 Pan-European Network in Lipidomics and EpiLipidomics.

Find out more about Rosário and her research on her webpage and check out some of her RSC publications below:

Lipid profile variability in children at different ages measured in dried blood spots
Helena Beatriz Ferreira, Tânia Melo, Hugo Rocha, Artur Paiva, Pedro Dominguesa and M. Rosário Domingues
Mol. Omics, 2022, 19, 229-237

The plasma phospholipidome of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is modulated by both sex and developmental stage
João P. Monteiro, Helena B. Ferreira, Tânia Melo, Carla Flanagan, Nuno Urbani, João Neves, Pedro Domingues and M. Rosário Domingues
Mol. Omics, 2022, 19, 35-47

Applications of lipidomics in marine organisms: progress, challenges and future perspectives
Felisa Rey, Tânia Melo, Diana Lopes, Daniela Couto, Francisca Marquesab and M. Rosário Domingues
Mol. Omics, 2021, 18, 357-386

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We are delighted to welcome Professor Celia Berkers to the Molecular Omics Editorial Board!

About Celia:

Celia Berkers is Professor of Metabolomics at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). She started her PhD at Harvard Medical School (Boston) before moving to the Netherlands Cancer Institute (Amsterdam) where she completed it in 2010. Berkers did her post-doctoral research in the laboratory of Professor Karen Vousden at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research (Glasgow). She joined the Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group at Utrecht University in 2013 as an independent group leader in Metabolomics and was appointed full Professor in 2018. She is currently affiliated with both the Division Cell Biology, Metabolism & Cancer at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and the Biomolecular Mass spectrometry and Proteomics Group in the Faculty of Science.

The Berkers group develops and applies metabolomics and fluxomics tools to advance our understanding of the (re)wiring of metabolism in health and disease. Her team combines these metabolomics methodologies with advanced in-vitro model systems and cross-omics data analysis, with the ultimate goal of identifying novel metabolic targets that can be exploited for therapy. The team’s research currently focuses on applications in cancer- and immuno-metabolism.

Find out more on Celia’s group webpage and check out some of her RSC publications below.

Targeting coenzyme Q10 synthesis overcomes bortezomib resistance in multiple myeloma
Esther A. Zaal, Harm-Jan de Grooth, Inge Oudaert, Pieter Langerhorst, Sophie Levantovsky, Gijs J. J. van Slobbe, Jeroen W. A. Jansen, Eline Menu, Wei Wu and Celia R. Berkers
Mol. Omics, 2022, 18, 19-30