Speakers and abstracts

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Ahmed Ali

Head of the single cell team at Leiden University

Justin van der Hooft

BioInformatics lecturer at Wageningen University

Ahmed Ali

Ahmed Ali is an assistant professor of Biomedical Sciences at LACDR, Leiden University. He Leads single cell research in the Analytical Biosciences and Metabolomics group, he is a visiting researcher at Shimizu’s group, BDR, RIKEN, Japan, and Misr International University, Egypt. His research involves developing innovative analytical methods tailored for small-volume, or single cell analysis to enable metabolomics-driven systems biology in personalized health strategies.

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Justin van der Hooft

Justin J.J. van der Hooft is an Assistant Professor in Computational Metabolomics in the Bioinformatics Group at Wageningen University & Research, NL, and an author of >100 peer-reviewed articles in the metabolomics field. Justin is very fascinated by the ingenuity of nature in creating marvellous chemical structures. He obtained his PhD (2012) in Systematic Metabolite Annotation and Identification at the Biochemistry and Bioscience groups in Wageningen. After a postdoctoral period in Glasgow, UK, studying both analytical and computational aspects of metabolite structure annotation, and together with Joe Wandy & Simon Rogers coining MS2LDA unsupervised substructure discovery, he returned to Wageningen. Since 2020, his team has been developing computational metabolomics strategies to decompose mass spectral data into structure and substructure information. By linking genome and metabolome mining, his team studies plant, food, and microbiome-associated metabolites to find novel bioactive metabolites. Recently developed tools and frameworks include MS2Query to perform analogue search, FERMO to prioritize metabolite features and profiles by enabling effective and reproducible data integration and data filtering strategies, and NPLinker to handle multi-omics data for natural products discovery. Since 2022, he is also a Visiting Professor in Johannesburg. Got interested? Find out more and meet the team here: https://vdhooftcompmet.github.io.

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