2025 NWMRC and UW NORC Metabolomics Symposium

Location: Orin Smith Auditorium (In-Person Event)

8:30

Registration & Coffee & Socializing

9:00

Daniel Raftery, PhD

Professor, UW Dept. Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

Welcome and Introduction

9:10

Thomas Metz, PhD

Laboratory Fellow & Chief Science Officer of the Biological Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Integrating multiple spectrometries and computational predictions of molecular properties for reference-free compound identification

10:10

Danijel Djukovic

Lab Manager NW MRC; UW Dept. Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

Targeted LC-MS Methods for Dietary Studies at the NW-MRC

10:35

Coffee & Socializing

10:50

Marian Neuhouser, PhD, RD

Professor, Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Pharmacokinetics and Discovery of Food-based Metabolomics Biomarkers

11:15

Angela Hanson, MD

Assistant Professor, UW Dept. of Medicine, Div. Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine

ApoE Carrier Status Affects Cerebrospinal Lipidomics After Acute Fat Feeding

11:40

Matthew Walker, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, UW Dept. Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

Mitochondrial Mechanisms in Heart Failure

12:05

Lunch Break

1:00

Nagana Gowda, PhD

Research Associate Professor, UW Dept. Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

Discovery of Objective Biomarkers for Predicting the Preanalytical Quality of Human Plasma and Serum for Metabolomics

1:25

Johanna Lampe, PhD, RD

Professor, Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Metabolomics in Nutrition Research: The Nutrition and Physical Activity Study (NPAAS)

1:50

Sandi Navarro, PhD

Senior Research Scientist, Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Generalizability and External Validation of Dietary Biomarkers in Controlled Feeding Studies

2:15

Ben Harrison, PhD

Senior Research Scientist, UW Dept. Lab Medicine & Pathology

How to Outlive Your Twin: A Fly Metabolism Study

2:40

Coffee & Socializing

3:00

Shabnam Salimi, MD, MSc

Acting Instructor, UW Dept. Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

Aging, Health and Metabolism

3:25

Laura den Hartigh, PhD

Research Associate Professor, UW Dept of Medicine, Div. Metabolism, Endocrinology & Nutrition

Gut Microbial Lipid Metabolites Impact Obesity in Mice

3:50

Wentao Zhu, PhD

Acting Assistant Professor, UW Dept. Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

Protective Effects of a High-Tryptophan Diet on Intestinal Inflammation in Mice