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Thomas Metz

Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Projects

CPTAC Proteome Characterization Center

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Tao Liu
The overall objective of the PNNL Proteome Characterization Center (PCC) is to comprehensively characterize human tumor samples provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and to integrate the…

Advanced Proteomics and Metabolomics Studies of Type 1 Diabetes

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Thomas Metz
Project type
Exploratory Research
In this four year two phase (R21/R33) project we will apply advanced proteomic and metabolomic nanoflow liquid chromatography-Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry technologies…

NMR-based metabolomics of the enteropathogens Salmonella and Yersinia

Lead Institution
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Principal Investigator
Kathleen McAteer
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The goal of this research is to analyze and reconstruct intercellular and intracellular networks in Salmonella and Yersinia using multiple types of -omics data. Although we hope to gain a more…

Undiagnosed Diseases Network Metabolomics Core

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Thomas Metz
A state of the art metabolomics core will be a vital part of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). However, in order for the UDN to realize it’s the full potential it is essential that the…

OHSU-PNNL NORTHWEST CO-LABORATORY FOR INTEGRATED OMICS

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Karin Rodland
An essential component of the OHSU-PNNL Northwest CoLaboratory for Integrated Omics (CoLab) is the collaborative pursuit of joint research projects that leverage the compelling biomedical model…

Identification of Metabolite Toxins

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
David Wunschel
This project will collect data on ion-mobility, accurate mass and compound fragmentation data using an ESI-IMS-MS/MS system for a number of metabolite toxins and structurally similar compounds. This…

Pacific Northwest Advanced Compound Identification Core

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Thomas Metz
The capability to chemically identify thousands of metabolites and other chemicals in clinical samples will revolutionize the search for environmental, dietary, and metabolic determinants of disease…

Advanced Proteomics and Metabolomics Studies of Type 1 Diabetes

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Thomas Metz
In this four year two phase (R21/R33) project we will apply advanced proteomic and metabolomic nanoflow liquid chromatography-Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry technologies…

Deciphering Microbial Communication Through Metabolites

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Thomas Metz
This project will establish a Metabolomics Center at PNNL that will develop the advanced measurement capabilities necessary to define the metabolic processes of microbiomes and determine how these…

Modeling Host Responses to Understand Severe Human Virus Infections

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Thomas Metz
This comprehensive and highly integrated systems biology program seeks to delineate the complex host responses that determine the outcome of infections with potentially lethal viruses. To achieve…

Development of Metabolomics for Biomarker Discovery

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Thomas Metz
Project type
Exploratory Research
Metabolomics is a holistic approach to the study of a biological system’s metabolite complement (often generalized to include essentially all small molecules), and its practice is anticipated to…

A Systems Biology Approach to Emerging Respiratory Viral Diseases

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Thomas Metz
This Systems Biology Program will comprehensively analyze and model the molecular and cellular events and pathogen-host interactions that occur during the course of respiratory virus infection. Our…

OHSU-PNNL NORTHWEST CO-LABORATORY FOR INTEGRATED OMICS

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Karin Rodland
An essential component of the OHSU-PNNL Northwest CoLaboratory for Integrated Omics (CoLab) is the collaborative pursuit of joint research projects that leverage the compelling biomedical model…

Predictive Modeling of Viral Pathogenesis

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Joshua Adkins
The interactions between a host and a pathogen are complex, representing a molecular interplay that results in either health or disease as an outcome. Understanding the nuances of these interactions…

Undiagnosed Diseases Network Metabolomics Core

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Thomas Metz
A state of the art metabolomics core will be a vital part of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). However, in order for the UDN to realize it’s the full potential it is essential that the…

A Molecular Atlas of the Developing Lung

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Richard Corley
The United States is one of the top nations for prematurely born infants and has a correspondingly high dayone infant mortality rate. Expanding our understanding of alveologenesis is a critical step…

FSFA: MOSAIC—Metabolic and Spatial Interactions in Communities

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Errol Robinson
This EMSL user proposal is to support the MOSAIC DOE BER funded FSFA at PNNL. The primary activities involving EMSL are a set of BSSD demonstration tasks focusing on key science questions and related…

OHSU-PNNL NORTHWEST CO-LABORATORY FOR INTEGRATED OMICS

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jon Jacobs
An essential component of the OHSU-PNNL Northwest CoLaboratory for Integrated Omics (CoLab) is the collaborative pursuit of joint research projects that leverage the compelling biomedical model…

Multi-platform 'Omics Analysis to Determine TB Vaccine Correlates

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jennifer Kyle
In recent years, mass spectrometry-based integrated multi-omics analyses have allowed for powerful interrogations of patient samples, and the identification of correlates of risk for tuberculosis…

Cyanobacteria Membrane Biology Grand Challenge: Systems Analysis of the Dynamics of Membrane Architecture, Composition, and Function- Proteomic, Metabolomic, and Metallomic Characterization

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Jon Jacobs
Project type
Grand Challenge
The strain Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142, isolated from benthic waters off the coast near Galveston, Texas, is a unicellular strain approximately 4-7 μm in diameter along the major axis. This…

Biological Systems Interactions

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
James Fredrickson
SPECIFIC AIMS: The overall objective of the proposed research is to acquire a predictive understanding of how microbial interactions impart stability, fitness, and functional efficiency to microbial…

Establishment of a Robust Method for Soil Metabolomics Analysis

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Vanessa Bailey
Project type
Limited Scope
The objective of this work is to adapt current evolving protocols for metabolomics analyses to soil samples. As chemical perturbations are primarily detected on a molecular level, the metabolome will…

BetaMarker: Biomarkers of Beta Cell Stress in Type 1 Diabetes

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Thomas Metz
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is generally accepted to result from impaired immune tolerance, leading to the autoimmune destruction of islet beta cells. However, the durable preservation of beta cell…