Work guidelines for all members of the WCMC team (research postdocs, scientists, grad students but also lab staff, outreach staff and computational staff)
Director
Cheminformatics and Compound Identification
Team leader: Yuanyue Li, PhD, Project Scientist
MS/MS predictions: Jesi Lee, PhD student chemistry
RT prediction, MS/MS libraries: Fanzhou Kong, PhD student chemistry
DB study design metadata: Parker Bremer, PhD student chemistry
Environmental cheminformatics: Delilah Milner, PhD student chemistry
Novel technologies
Team leader : Tong Shen, PhD, Project Scientist
Ion mobility and MS-imaging: Min Liu, PhD, postdoctoral scholar (04/2023)
Adducts and microsampling: Lauren Bishop, PhD student chemistry
Psychedelic endorphins: Charles Seo, PhD student chemistry
Food biomarkers: Yendry Carvajal Miranda, PhD student agricultural and environmental chemistry
Chemical Biology
Team leader: Prof. Oliver Fiehn, PhD
UDP glucosyltransferases in plants: Elys Paola Rodriguez, PhD student chemistry
Oxidative stress: Nathanial Chase Stevens, PhD student pharmacology & toxicology
KBase: Sara Greenfield , PhD student integrated genetics & genomics
Databases & Software development
Team leader: Gert Wohlgemuth
Programmer: Diego Pedrosa
Programmer: Daniel E Rundle
Programmer: Nolan R Guzman
UC Davis West Coast Metabolomics Center - service core
WCMC technical director: Uri Keshet, PhD
WCMC project manager: Scott Mackell
WCMC Principal Statistician: Christopher R. Brydges, PhD (external)
WCMC outreach, coordinating manager: Jeannette Martins
WCMC outreach, academic manager: Arpana Vaniya, PhD
Nutritional and oxylipin pilot studies: Kamil Borkowski, PhD (Newman laboratory)
Primary metabolism team
Service Core laboratory manager: Luis Valdiviez (staff + project management, GC-TOF MS team leader)
Staff research associate: Michael Gonzalez
Laboratory Assistant: Kamyar Choubak
Laboratory Assistant: Eesha Gupte
Untargeted metabolomics team:
Staff research associate: Emilia McCann
Staff research associate: Zakery Tippins
Staff research associate: Jeremiah Wells
Staff research associate: Carol Stroble
Metabolite targets team:
Staff research associate: open position
Staff research associate : open position
Staff research associate: Iris Beussen
Students 2021-2022: Daniel Cardenas, Eesha Gupte, Ryan Hioe, Arti Naik, Mahima Marichetty, Mikel Lemoine, Jad Gerges,Marie Oniashinyan Varona A Ajayi, Vinay S Parmar, Xinning Li, Jacob Huang, Nicholas Puso
Former Fiehnlab Members
We proudly present: former lab members who have achieved the rank of faculty
Prof. Wolfram Weckwerth, U Vienna / Austria
Prof. Do Yup Lee, Seoul / Korea
Prof. Dinesh Barupal, New York / USA
Prof. Johannes Fahrmann, MD Anderson, TX / USA
Prof. Tomas Cajka, CAS Prague / Czech Republic
Former postdocs and project scientists
Dr. Christopher R. Brydges, -2022
Dr. Tobias Kind, PhD, 2004-2022
Dr. JongCheol Lee, 2021
Dr. Jun Ding, 2019-2020
Dr. Raquel Cumeras, 2019-2021
Dr. Ivana Blazenovic, 2015-2018
Dr. Tomas Cajka, last position Project Scientist 2012-2017
Dr. Bei Gao, 2016-2018
Dr. Elizabeth Axton, 2018
Dr. Seema Datta, 2005-2007
Dr. Jeong-Jin Park, 2007-2008
Dr. Nabil Saad, 2005-2007
Dr. William Wikoff, last position Project Scientist 2011-2016
Dr. Sangeeta Kumari 2010-2011
Dr. Dmitry Grapov -2015
Dr. Johannes F. Fahrmann, -2016
Dr. Alexander Chassy -2015
Former PhD students
Zachary Rabow, 2018-2022
Shunyang Wang, 2018-2022
Ying Zhang, 2016-2021
Jacob Folz, 2016-2021, last position postdoc 2021-2022
Clayton Blozies, 2016-2020
Dinesh Barupal, last position Project Scientist 2020
Megan Showalter, last position Project Scientist 2019
Brian DeFelice, last position postdoc, 2013-2019
Sili Fan, -2022, last position statistician at UC Davis School of Medicine
Mona El-Badawi Sidhu, last position postdoc 2011-2017
Yunjia Lai, MSc student, 2015-2017
Zijuan Lai , 2012-2017
Dominique Ardura, 2012-2017
Yan Ma, 2011-2016
John Meissen, last position postdoc 2007-2014
Do Yup Lee, last position postdoc 2005-2010
Kirsten Skogerson, 2007-2010
Saeed Khazaie, MSc student, 2008-2009
Reid Gustafson, MSc student, 2012-2013
Former undergraduate and high school students
2020-2021: Wasim Sandhu,Eesha Gupte and high school students Briana Le, Alanna Sun, Xifan Wang, Aaron Peng, Ayushi Borhkur,
2019-20: Kiana Choubak, Wing Yan Chiu, Zachary Antig, Shuli Hu, Maria Ambriz Juarez, Sharie Kwok, Jie Tang, Rafferty Leung, Emma Ku, Anand Bakshi,Chegze Duan, Jie Tang, Jessie Badley
2018/2019: Jessie Badley, Zachary Antig, Chengzhe Duan, Inna Kurilyak,Jordan Wilson, Zachary Rabow, Alexander Nagourney, Michael Gonzalez, Auguste Sharma
2017: Mengyao Fan, Caleb Sanders, Nayeli Mauricio-Jimenez, Carson T. Moss, Karina Kurudimov, Lana Christensen, Noreen Mansuri, Emily Becher, Kirthana Srikanth, Michael Gonzalez
Former corelab and IT staff members
Bennett Haffner, SRA core (targeted LC-MS/MS), -2022
Emilio Mejia, SRA core (targeted LC-MS/MS), -2022
Kelly Paglia, project manager (2017-2022)
Patrick Fitzgerald, SRA core (targeted LC-MS/MS) -2022
Bryan Roberts, SRA core (untargeted LC-MS/MS) -2022
Jessica Kwok, SRA core (untargeted LC-MS/MS) -2022
Federico Madden, programmer (2021)
Gregory Byram, SRA core (targeted LC-MS/MS), 2017-2020
Alice Dalo, SRA core, 2019-2020
David Thorsrud, SRA core, 2019-2020
Sajjan Mehta , software developer, 2014-2020
Ying Yng Choy SRA core (targeted LC-MS/MS)
Hailey Heil, SRA core(untargeted LC-MS/MS)
Matthew Mueller, programmer, 2016-2018
Benajamin Wancewicz, SRA core, 2013-2018
Nathaniel Grimes, SRA core, 2016-2018
Michael Sa, SRA core, 2016-2018
Zachary Kons, SRA core, 2016-2018
Osamede Enobakhare SRA core, 2016-2018
Martin Scholz, software developer 2003-2009
Yun Lu, 2005-2008
Sevini Shahbaz 2008-2010
Kristie Cloos 2010
Pradeep Haldiya 2010-2011
Wan Tan 2008-2011
Narendra Meena 2012-2013
Mark Silveria 2011-2013
Elizabeth Axton 2013
Nancy Nguyen 2013- 2014
Kevin Smith (WCMC)
Benjamin Nguyen
Mimi Swe Doll (core lab)
Mine Palazoglu, lab manager 2005-2017
Dr. Ingrid Gennity (core lab), -2017
Stephanie Samra (core lab), -2014
Kristine Sales (WCMC project manager)
Angela Beliveau (WCMC project manager)
Joyce Wong (core lab)
Charlene Chin (core lab)
Joyce Lopez
Carol Tran (core lab)
Lana Amerie (core lab)
Alberto Vargas
Erin Lee
Deepika Sharad
Brian Nguyen
Mike Webb (core lab)
Visiting Scientists list 2015 -
Lina Dahabiyeh, Jordan, 2022-2023
Kelechi Lele, Nigeria, 2021
Honglian Ye, China, 2019-2022
Tomas Cajka, Czech Republic, 2021
Kitae Kim, Korea 2020
Jing Zhu, China 2020
Sarita Devi, India, 2019
Sebastian Andres Riquelme Rifo, Chile, 2019
Raquel Cumeras, Spain, 2019-2021
Alberto Tabernero Valdes, Spain, 2019
Xinchen Lu, China, 2019-2020
Dawei Deng, Schweden, 2019
Tong Xie, China, 2019
Hamidreza Ardalani, Denmark, 2019
Su Ling Zeng, China, 2018-2019
Israa Mohamed Taher Hassan, Egypt, 2018-2020
Chao Zhu, China, 2018-2019
Sangkyu Lee, South Korea, 2018
Yoshitaka Inoue, Japan, 2018
JungEun Lee, South Korea, 2018
Lukasz Szczerninski, Poland, 2018
Kourosh Hooshmand, Denmark, Untargeted Metabolomics, 2018
Lei Quin, South Korea, 2018
Lisa Plötzky, Germany, 2018
Daniela Eisenstecken, Italy, 2018
Hong "Snow" Yan, China, Chemoinformatics & Compond ID, 2017-2018
Li Li Lin, China, Metabolomics of Pneumonia in children, 2017
Changyin Li, China, Pharmacognosy, 2017-2018
Natasha Machado, Brazil, metabolomics of gastric bypass surgery in humans, 2016-2017
Ivana Blazenovic, Germany, 2016
Jian "Jim" Ji, China, ion mobility QTOF MS, 2016
Morteza Gholami, Iran, 2016
Karla Juarez, Mexico, 2016
Marco Piparo, Italy, 2016
Shekufeh Zareian, Iran, 2016
Brent Winston, Cananda, 2015-2016
Shanggao Liao, China, 2015
Sud Ali Nusaibah, Malaysia, 2015
Maria Tortosa, Spain, 2015
Shekufeh Zareian, Iran, 2015
Wei Gu, China, 2015-2016
Shan- Gao Liao, China, 2015-2016
Wentao Zhu, China, 2015
Naoaki Ono, Japan, 2015
Mingxiao Yang, China, 2015
Kwang-Hyeon Liu 2008-2010