Links to members’ web bios are provided (when available) in the table below to facilitate collaboration. Some web bios may require a user account to access information.

Full list here

Richard Beger, Ph.D. (Chair)
Food and Drug Administration
Jefferson, AR

Matthew Lewis, Ph.D.
Bruker Daltonics
London, UK

Jennifer Kirwan, Ph.D.
Berlin Institute of Health
Berlin, DE

Past Coordinating Committee Members:

Warwick Dunn, Ph.D. (7/2019-12/2020)
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, UK

Christina Jones, Ph.D. (7/2019-12/2021)
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD

Eligibility Requirements

mQACC members should have an interest in the quality assurance and quality control for untargeted metabolomics and be affiliated with/represent industry (including scientific instrument companies, pharma and biotech as examples), government or academic institutions or contract research organizations.

Members should have or have held a position within the last five years at the postdoctoral level or higher. Graduate students (Masters, Ph.D.) are now eligible for membership.

To maintain mQACC membership, active participation in at least one working group and attendance for at least three teleconference and/or face-to-face meetings every year is required.

Membership Types

There are two categories of membership for mQACC:

Affiliate Member: Member with practical experience in untargeted metabolomics, including quality assurance and quality control practices.
Non-affiliate Member: Member who does not have practical experience in the field of metabolomics, but in a related field (e.g. proteomics). A non-affiliate member must have an interest in the field, including an interest in quality assurance and quality control.
Graduate Student Member: Graduate student working on the development of QA/QC processes to be applied to untargeted metabolomics and are relevant to the work of mQACC. Graduate students only applying QA and QC processes in their research are not eligible to be members.

Application Process

Potential Affiliate and Non-Affiliate members are asked to submit the following two items via email to Dr. Krista Zanetti (zanettik@mail.nih.gov):

An application form [PDF - 951 KB]. The application form asks for the name of a current mQACC member (see list below on this page) who is willing to sponsor the application. Potential members who do not have access to a current mQACC member, but are otherwise qualified for membership should contact Dr. Krista Zanetti prior to submitting application materials to request a sponsor.
A current Curriculum Vitae and/or NIH Biosketch.

Membership is effective upon approval by the Coordinating Committee.

Potential Graduate Student members are asked to submit the following two items via email to Dr. Krista Zanetti (zanettik@mail.nih.gov):

An application form [PDF - 993 KB]. The application form asks for the name of a current mQACC member (see list below on this page) who is willing to sponsor the application. Potential members who do not have access to a current mQACC member, but are otherwise qualified for membership, should contact Dr. Krista Zanetti prior to submitting application materials to request a sponsor.
A letter from the applicant’s supervisor which includes details of the course being studied and how work being performed relates to development of QA/QC practices.