Guest Editors:
Leonard James Foster, PhD, University of British Columbia, Canada
Lennart Martens, PhD, Ghent University, Belgium
Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 6 September 2025
Call for papers - Advances in proteomics and metabolomics
Meet the Guest Editors
Back to topLeonard James Foster, PhD, University of British Columbia, Canada
Leonard Foster is a Professor at Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Director of the Life Sciences Institute at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He grew up in northern British Columbia and earned his BSc at Simon Fraser University in 1996. Later, he moved to the University of Toronto to complete a doctoral degree in the cell biology and biochemistry of insulin’s effects on adipocytes. From there he went to the University of Southern Denmark to study mass spectrometry and proteomics with Matthias Mann. In 2005 he took up his current position at UBC, where his group develops and applies quantitative proteomic methods to study host-pathogen interactions in a variety of systems.
Lennart Martens, PhD, Ghent University, Belgium
Lennart Martens is a Senior Full Professor at Ghent University and a Group Leader at the VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, both in Ghent. He has been working in mass spectrometry-related bioinformatics since his Master’s degree, which focused on elucidating the sequence-dependent fragmentation of peptides. He worked for a few years for a software company before returning to Ghent University in 2002 to pursue a PhD in proteomics informatics. In 2003, he created the PRIDE repository at EMBL-EBI. After obtaining his PhD in 2006, he rejoined EMBL-EBI to coordinate the PRIDE group. He returned to Ghent University and VIB in 2009, where his group focuses on the creation of novel machine learning and AI models for advanced mass spectrometry data analysis and interpretation, and their application to large-scale public proteomics data.
About the Collection
Recent technological advancements, such as mass spectrometry and high-throughput sequencing, have revolutionized our ability to analyze complex biological samples. These tools are enabling discoveries across diverse contexts, from understanding cellular dynamics in model organisms to investigating ecosystem-level interactions in environmental studies. Moreover, the integration of proteomic and metabolomic data with genomic information is providing a systems-level view of how molecular mechanisms drive phenotypic outcomes in both healthy and diseased cells, and this in fundamental biological, clinical, agricultural, and ecological contexts. Indeed, these fields have the potential to reveal key insights into wide ranging areas of the life sciences, from microbial interactions, over plant stress responses, to evolutionary adaptations, and many more.
As we push the boundaries of these disciplines, we can expect to uncover novel applications in biotechnology, improve resource management strategies, and address critical challenges in environmental and agricultural sciences, alongside their clear implications for human health and medicine.
All manuscripts submitted to this journal, including those submitted to collections and special issues, are assessed in line with our editorial policies and the journal’s peer review process. Reviewers and editors are required to declare competing interests and can be excluded from the peer review process if a competing interest exists.
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Submission Guidelines
Back to topThis Collection welcomes submission of original Research, Method, Short Report, Review, and Database article types. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Advances in proteomics and metabolomics" from the dropdown menu.
All manuscripts submitted to this journal, including those submitted to collections and special issues, are assessed in line with our editorial policies and the journal’s peer review process. Reviewers and editors are required to declare competing interests and can be excluded from the peer review process if a competing interest exists.