HUMAN Doctoral Network

Harmonising and Unifying Blood Metabolomic Analysis Networks funded by @HorizonEU Coordinators: Helen Gika & Michael Witting

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🧬 First Webinar of 2026!
Uncovering sex-specific vulnerabilities in cancer metabolomics — from patients to pathways with Dr. Caroline Johnson of Yale School of Public Health
🗓 06.02.26, 13:00 CET
🔗 Zoom: https://t.co/90i4fC43Ep
#CancerResearch #Metabolomics #webinar

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#Weekend Read:
Using EIEIO-MS/MS, @metabolomicaceu scientists mapped double bond positions in human plasma lipids (NIST SRM 1950).

🔗https://t.co/g3RbfU4PoA

#Lipidomics #MassSpec

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#Weekend Read
🔦The “dark metabolome” isn’t a myth, it’s a frontier.

New research shows most unannotated signals in metabolomics are not just fragmentation artefacts, but real, undiscovered molecules. 🚀

🔗https://t.co/5Bsxv1baaj

#Metabolomics #DarkMetabolome #MassSpec

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How do plants create their vast chemical diversity? 🌿
Join Tomáš Pluskal (IOCB Prague & MZIO) for our next HUMAN Webinar:

🔬 Decoding the Chemical Universe of Plants
🗓 14 Nov 2025 | 🕐 13:00 CET | 💻 Zoom
🔗 https://t.co/90i4fC4BtX

#webinars #metabolomics

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🔬 Piercing the secrets of tumors:
New nanoneedle tech can “imprint” living tissue, mapping lipid changes in space & time.
It can:
✅ Distinguish healthy vs cancer tissue
✅ Predict glioma grade
✅ Track chemo response in real time

Curious?🔗https://t.co/3o4DhFyAkC

#Lipidomics

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🔬 New in #MassSpectrometry: SpectriPy bridges R & Python for data analysis.

Breaking language barriers → more flexible & reproducible science. 🚀

🔗https://t.co/D3wUIvpal2

#RStats #Python #Bioinformatics #OpenSource

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New #HUMAN paper out! 🩸

Our partners from @metabolomicaceu explored blood microsampling (DBS, qDBS, VAMS) for untargeted #lipidomics using high-throughput LC-MS.

Volumetric devices show plasma-like precision & recovery!

🔗https://t.co/d8Jje7qM7r

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What if Heisenberg had a mass spec? Would he be interested in #meth-abolomics?

This latest #Weekend Read, explores how plasma metabolomics and bioinformatics modeling can uncover the hidden biological signatures of chronic methamphetamine use.

Curious? 🔗https://t.co/bjcuB4JBZx

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#Weekend Read
#Metabolomics annotation is hard.

And JESTR attempts makes it easier by treating molecules & spectra as two views of the same object — and ranking candidates with joint embeddings.

Result? Big gains over some of existing tools.

Curious? 🔗https://t.co/55o44seExk

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🚨 Not all pathways are created equal! Applying gene-centric tools to metabolomics can mislead. We unpack 5 pitfalls + strategies for better interpretation 🔬⚡

A must-read for systems biology & multi-omics: https://t.co/OKd1z0P3zt

#weekend #metabolomics

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💡 Free + open to all:
Steroid Metabolomics and Impact on Patient Care
w/ Ravinder J. Singh (Mayo Clinic)
🗓️ 19 Sept 2025 | 13:00 CET | Zoom
🔗 https://t.co/90i4fC4BtX

#webinars #metabolomics

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Thrilled to see ❗3❗ HUMAN PIs in @TheAnalystSci’s 2025 #PowerList Top 10! 🎉👏

Congrats to Georgios Theodoridis, Michael Witting & Coral Barbas for their insights on making analytical science the keystone of all good science.

🔗 https://t.co/qT89fhrMtr

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#Weekend Read Alert!

In this paper, single-cell mass cytometry was used to trace labelled glucose and glutamine in breast cancer cells, uncovering 40 active metabolites and revealed flux heterogeneity invisible to traditional methods!

Curious? 🔗 https://t.co/Gbj4hj9T6Y

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🚨 Webinar Alert! 🚨
"From conventional to convenient: Blood microsampling in metabolomics"

with Michael Witting (Helmholtz Munich)

🗓 Sept 23, 2025 | 11am ET / 4pm BST / 5pm CET

➡️ Register now: https://t.co/f9RWs6q7yL

#Metabolomics #LifeSciences #Webinar

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Exciting progress in computational metabolomics! The newly introduced CMRV offers a unified, community-driven language to describe tools, workflows, and data types across the field.

Curious? 🔗https://t.co/3xdJgczaQF

#metabolomics #weekendread

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Reuse, re-analyze…ReDU!

Pan-ReDU is a new framework that connects public data across GNPS, NMDR, and MetaboLights through standardized metadata, unique MS identifiers, and integrated tools.

Curious? 🔗https://t.co/pYVVKRvMNZ

#Metabolomics #MassSpectrometry #OpenScience

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#WeekendRead

DreaMS — a self-supervised transformer model trained on 700M+ unannotated MS/MS spectra.

It learns rich molecular representations directly from raw spectral data.

Curious? 🔗https://t.co/x6tpmy2OPc

#metabolomics #AI #machinelearning #deeplearning #annotation

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Guess who showed up in full force at #MetSoc2025? 😉

Our DCs, PIs, and Associated Partners gathered in Prague for the biggest #Metabolomics conference of the year!

How many of us did you get to meet?

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🧠✨ New #Weekend Read!

A randomized controlled trial shows that inulin supplementation during alcohol withdrawal can reshape the gut and blood metabolome in patients with AUD.

Curious? 🔗https://t.co/ENNyjRSZa3

#health #metabolomics #gut #microbiome #fiber

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Spotted 👀 in Paris!

HUMAN PI Michael Witting and DC Pauline Couacault of HMGU delivered talks at the recently concluded RFMF Scientific Days last 10-13 June 2025. Fabien Jourdan (INRAE), another consortium collaborator, was also present in the event!