http://www.carleton.ca/cmscExecutive
Jeffrey C. Smith, President
Dr. Jeff Smith is a Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Institute of Biochemistry at Carleton University. He received his BSc from Trent University in 2000 having the good fortune of being the first honours BSc student to be able to use the MS infrastructure in Trent University's Water Quality Centre under the tutelage of Professors Raymond E. March and Steven P. Rafferty. He then moved to the Centre for Research in Mass Spectrometry at York University and earned his PhD in MS-based proteomics under the supervision of Professor K. W. Michael Siu in 2005. For the next three years, Jeff worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Research Associate at the Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology at the University of Ottawa under the supervision of Professor Daniel Figeys.
In 2008 Jeff joined Carleton University and is currently the Director of the Carleton Mass Spectrometry Centre. In 2018 Jeff was awarded the CSMS Young Investigator Award. His research focusses on the use of mass spectrometry to investigate the biomolecular mechanisms of cellular life. This overarching statement encompasses everything from studying lipidomic, proteomic, and metabolomic dynamics in applications such as virology, cancer and hypoxia, to the development of novel derivatization strategies to enhance the sensitivity of MS analyses (Google "TrEnDi" for more details). Jeff's work is highly collaborative with large research partnerships including the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, the University of Ottawa, the National Research Council, Health Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as well as others, and is gratefully supported by NSERC, CFI, ORF, CIHR, NFRF, OCE, BioCanRx, MITACS, and Carleton University.
Contact info:
Jeffrey C. Smith, Ph.D.
President, Canadian Society for Mass Spectrometry
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biochemistry
and Chemical and Environmental Toxicology Program
Steacie Building, Carleton University,
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
Phone: 1-613-520-2600 x2408
Email: jeff.smith@carleton.ca
www.carleton.ca/smithlab
Anas El-Aneed, Vice President
Anas El-Aneed (Ph.D. Biochemistry (2007) & M.Sc. Pharmacy (2003), Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada; M.B.A. (2012), the University of Saskatchewan, Canada; and B.Sc. Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (1997), Lattakia University, Syria) is a Professor and Assistant Dean of Pharmacy at the College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He Joined the University of Saskatchewan in 2008. El-Aneed’s research relies on the use of different mass spectrometry platforms for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of small organic compounds. His current research is focused on urine biomarker discovery for respiratory illnesses, identifying novel cannabinoids and their metabolites, and developing MALDI matrices. In 2007, he was awarded the Governor General Gold medal for his Ph.D. thesis, supervised by Dr. Joseph Banoub; it was centered on the mass spectrometric analysis of bacterial carbohydrates. To date, he has co-authored over 75 publications and contributed to over 160 conference abstracts. He has supervised/co-supervised 46 trainees and research staff to-date. He is also on the editorial board of Rapid Communication in Mass Spectrometry. He has been appointed by the federal government to the NSERC governing council since 2018..
Contact info:
Anas El-Aneed, M.Sc., MBA, Ph.D.
Professor & Assistant Dean, Pharmacy
Vice President, Canadian Society for Mass Spectrometry
College of Pharmacy and Nutrition
Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sciences Research Group
University of Saskatchewan
107 Wiggins Road, Room 2A20.12,
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5E5
Phone: 1-306 966-2013
Paul Mayer, Treasurer
Paul Mayer is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Ottawa, where he has been since 1998. His research interests lie in the fundamental aspects of gas phase ion reactions and processes occurring in mass spectrometers. He was the 2008 recipient of the F.P. Lossing Award. He obtained his BSc from the University of Manitoba in 1990, followed by a PhD with John Holmes at the University of Ottawa in 1994.
He held postdoctoral positions with Tomas Baer (University North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Leo Radom (Austrailian National University, Canberra, Australia), prior to his appointment at the University of Ottawa.
Contact info:
Paul M. Mayer
Department of Chemistry and Bimolecular Sciences
University of Ottawa
10 Marie Curie
Ottawa, ON Canada K1N 6N5
Phone: 1-613-562-5800 x6038
Paul's website
Stéphane Bayen, Secretary
Stéphane Bayen is Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Food Science & Agricultural Chemistry at McGill University. He obtained a PhD [Chemistry] from the National University of Singapore in 2005, and then conducted research at the University of Geneva (2005-2008) and again at the National University of Singapore (2010-2014). In all these positions, he has developed novel strategies to track chemical contaminants based on mass spectrometry (GC-EI-MS, LC-QqQ-MSMS, GC-QqQ-MSMS, ICP-MS).
His current research is focused on developing novel analytical approaches, i.e. non-targeted analysis (NTA), to monitor contaminants and to provide a more in-depth understanding of the human exposome [http://foodtox.lab.mcgill.ca/]. NTA is a powerful technique that relies on high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) and computational tools to detect and identify unknown or unexpected chemicals, and establish the fingerprints of samples for food/environmental forensics applications. His laboratory is equipped with HPLC QTOF-MSMS and GC-HRMS systems. In 2021, Stéphane Bayen became recipient of the Agilent Thought Leader Award, recognizing my leadership and contributions to the fields of Food Analysis and Food Authenticity.
Contact info:
Stéphane Bayen, ing., PhD.
Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Food Science & Agricultural Chemistry, McGill University
Secretary, Canadian Society for Mass Spectrometry
21111 Lakeshore, Ste Anne de Bellevue, Québec, H9X 3V9
Phone: 1-514 398-8618
Email: stephane.bayen@mcgill.ca
Past Presidents:
Derek Wilson (York University) 2022-2024 - Derek James Wilson was born precisely 13.800000001 years and 145.23 days after the big bang. Nothing very different happened from that point forward except that in the year 2020, he became president of the Canadian Society for Mass Spectrometry and began to disseminate to the membership emails that were either funny or annoying, depending on one’s perspective, but also (hopefully) informative. Derek has done some marginally interesting work in mass spectrometry over the years, which has got him on 100+ papers, a few of which are in bigshot journals. He’s won a smattering of awards, including recently (co-winning) the NSERC synergy award. In addition to the vaunted position of CSMS past president, Derek also is a research chair in the Molecular Origins of Disease, and is presently director of the very large “Technology Enhanced Biopharmaceuticals Development and Manufacturing Initiative”, which is basically something he made up.
Lekha Sleno (Université du Québec à Montréal) 2017-2021
Paul Mayer (University of Ottawa) 2013-2017
Michael Siu (York University) 2010-2012
Orval Mamer (McGill University) -2010
