SERVICE
Washington University Service (2020 –)
Member; WashU Medicine Dean candidate review committee2026
Member; AI in Biomedical Research committee2024–
Member; WashU New Investigator Awards Committee2024–
Member; Office of Postdoctoral Affairs Faculty Advisory Committee2023–
Member; Search Committee for Head of Department of Genetics2022–2023
Faculty Director; WashU Mass Spectrometry Technology Access Center for metabolomics2022–
Chair; Mass Spectrometry Technology Access Center (MTAC) Internal Advisory Committee2022–
Member; Provost's Strategic Planning Initiative2021
Member; Search Committee for Founding Director of the MTAC2021
Member; Search Committee for the BJC Investigator Program2021–
Member; McDonnell Genome Institute (MGI) Leadership Council2020–2023
Departmental service
Member — Advisory committee for RISE Fellow Alex Francette2024–
Member — Advisory committee for Prof. Alireza Ghanbarpour2024–
Chair; RISE Fellows Committee2023–
Member; Advisory committee for Prof. Slavica Pavlovic Djuranovic2023–
Member; Advisory committee for Prof. Clair Crewe2022–
Member; Advisory committee for Prof. Ghazal Ashrafi2021–
Member; Cell Biology & Physiology faculty search committee2020–2021
Morgridge Institute Service (2015-2020)
Director, Metabolism Research Theme
For nearly five years, I held a leadership position at The Morgridge Institute for Research on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Morgridge is a private biomedical research institute affiliated with the university that was founded as a means to spark innovative and interdisciplinary research on campus, and to be competitive for top nationwide talent. Following a national search in 2015, I was selected to be the Director and Arthur C. Nielsen Jr. Chair of the Metabolism Theme. As Director, I led three initiatives:
Faculty recruitment — I led the recruitment and hiring of two new Investigators/Assistant Professors: Prof. Jing Fan (from Josh Rabinowitz’s laboratory at Princeton) and Prof. Jason Cantor (from David Sabatini’s laboratory at the Whitehead Institute).
Establishing new technological infrastructure — I directed the development of new technological centers that advance the research of labs across campus, including the UW-Madison Laboratory for Biological Mass Spectrometry, a metabolomics center directed by Josh Coon, and continue to serve on its advisory board.
Building a cohesive metabolism community — I led the development of new programs aimed at funding top trainees, fostering collaboration, and attracting world leaders to our campus. Among many initiatives, this has included establishing the Morgridge Interdisciplinary Fellowship — a funding mechanism designed to draw new graduate student and postdoctoral talent into our community — and the Frontiers in Metabolism Meeting — an annual international symposium of top scientific investigators studying the basic mechanistic underpinnings of metabolic disorders and pioneering new approaches for probing and quantifying metabolic processes.
Additional Morgridge Service
Member; Morgridge outreach strategic planning meeting2019–2020
Member; Morgridge Institute mission and branding committee2017–2020
UW-Madison Service (2009-2020)
Biochemistry Department
Member; Chair’s advisory committee2019–2020
Chair; Tenure committee for Prof. Jason Cantor2018–2020
Chair; Tenure committee for Prof. Judith Simcox2018–2020
Member; Chair transition committee2014
Member; IPiB Course development committee2013
Founder/Organizer; faculty lunch seminar series (CLUB)2013–2015
Member; NMR search committee2013–2015
Member; Apparatus committee2013–2015
Member; IPiB website committee2013
Member; IPiB admissions and recruiting committee2011–2019
Member; Seminar and symposium committee (Chair 2013 – 2015)2010–2015
Member; Curriculum review committee2010–2015
College and University
Member; Tenure committee for Prof. Jing Fan (Nutritional Sciences)2018–
Member; WID faculty search in metabolic flux2019
Member, Medical Scientist Training Program admissions committee2018–2020
Co-Chair, Madison Executive Committee on Metabolism2018–2020
Member, Faculty Steering Committee of the Chemistry-Biology Interface
Training Program2017–2020
Member; CMB first-year advising committee2014–2015
Member; Search committee for Morgridge Metabolism Initiative2014–2015
Chair; CMB Cellular & Molecular Metabolism focus group2012–2020
Member; Steering committee of the Molecular Biosciences Training Grant2011–2015
Member; WID Systems Biology Theme applicant review committee2010
Reviewer; UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR)
Pilot Award Program2014–2020
Reviewer; UW VCRGE internal competition for the Shaw Scientist Award2016–2017
Professional Service
National and International Grant reviews
NIH R01 grant reviewer (NIDDK Special Emphasis Panel)2024–
Agence Nationale De La Researche2023
US-Israel Binational Science Foundation2022
NIH Director’s Early Independence Award program (DP5)2021
NIH R35 grant reviewer (MIRA Early Stage Investigators Special Emphasis Panel)2021
NIH R01 grant reviewer (NCI Special Emphasis Panel)2019
Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation2019
Raine Medical Foundation (Australia)2017
NIH R01 grant reviewer (MBPP study section, ad hoc member)2016
Telethon (Italy)2016
Friedrich’s Ataxia Research Alliance2015–2016
Barth Syndrome Foundation Research Grant Program2014
NIDDK R13 Review Panel (ad hoc member)2013
NIH R01 grant reviewer (IPOD study section, ad hoc member)2013
Meeting planning
Scientific organizer, Mitochondrial Medicine 2025 (United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation)2024–2025
Co-chair, ASBMB 20252023–2025
Lead scientific organizer, Keystone Symposium on Mitochondria2022
Lead scientific organizer, Morgridge Frontiers in Metabolism2018, 2019
Advisory board membership
National Center for Quantitative Biology of Complex Systems2021–
Mayo Clinic Metabolomics Resource Core2017–2018
Editorial service
Cell, Science, Nature, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, eLife, Cell Metabolism, Molecular Cell, Cell Reports, Cell Chemical Biology, Developmental Cell, Nature Metabolism, Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Communications, Nature Cardiovascular Research, PNAS, Science Advances, Genes & Development, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Molecular Systems Biology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Molecular Cellular Proteomics, Journal of Cell Biology, EMBO Reports, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, ACS Chemical Biology, Mitochondrion, Journal of Lipid Research, Biochemistry, PLOS Genetics, PLOS One, Journal of Proteome Research, Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, Trends in Genetics, Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Journal of Bacteriology
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