Research Team Leaders

Associate Professor, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Renewable Resources Dept at the University of Alberta. His research area focuses on Agricultural Soil Health. He is interested in examining how regenerative farm practices, including the use of compost and biochar, can increase carbon sequestration and reduce GHG emissions.

1. JC Santana-Martinez, AM Aguirre-Monroy, MD MacKenzie, BD Lanoil. The impact of reclamation and vegetation removal on compositional and functional attributes of soil microbial communities in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region. Applied Soil Ecology.Volume 198, June 2024, 105368. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz1009. PubMed: 31724701

2. JAC Hernandez, HM Ribeiro, E Bayne, MD MacKenzie, BD Lanoil. Impact of stockpile depth and storage time on soil microbial communities. Applied Soil Ecology. Volume 196, April 2024, 105275. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz861. PubMed: 31602464

3. Maja Krzic, Tom Yates, Amanda Diochon, Laura Van Eerd, M Derek MacKenzie. Canadian Journal of Soil Science. Volume 104, Number 2, June 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2019.07.013. PubMed: 31377153

4. HASSAN Khodaei, C Álvarez-Bermúdez, S Chapela, C Olson, MD MacKenzie, MA Gómez, J Porteiro. Pergamon. Volume 288, 1 February 2024, 129895. DOI: 10.3390/metabo9070123. PubMed: 31252628

5. Tien Weber, Guillermo Hernandez Ramirez, Sylvie Quideau, M Derek MacKenzie. Biochar–manure impacts wheat and canola grain productivity, dry matter partitioning, and protein content in western Canada. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2023 Nov. DOI: 10.1186/s12263-019-0636-8. PubMed: 31143299

6. Amanda Lynn Schoonmaker, Adam Mathison, MD Mackenzie. Hitchhiker planting: mixed-species container stock planting as a novel tool to increase plant diversity on industrially disturbed sites. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 2023 Sep. 53: 905-921. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9690-2_24. PubMed: 31463859

Professor in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Computing Science and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His extensive research interests encompass a wide range of fields, including metabolomics, proteomics, genomics, bioinformatics, analytical chemistry, food chemistry, natural product chemistry, molecular biology, protein chemistry, structural biology and nanotechnology and neuroscience. Some of his lab's most significant contributions have been in the area of protein chemical shift analysis and the prediction of protein structure. Dr. Wishart led the "Human Metabolome Project" (HMP), a comprehensive initiative involving multiple universities and investigators aimed at cataloging over 250,000 human metabolites in various human tissues and biofluids.

1. Vanessa Neveu, Geneviève Nicolas, Reza M Salek, David S Wishart, Augustin Scalbert. Exposome-Explorer 2.0: An Update Incorporating Candidate Dietary Biomarkers and Dietary Associations With Cancer Risk. Nucleic Acids Res. 2020 Jan 8;48(D1):D908-D912. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz1009. PubMed: 31724701

2. Wishart DS, Li C, Marcu A, Badran H, Pon A, Budinski Z, Patron J, Lipton D, Cao X, Oler E, Li K, Paccoud M, Hong C, Guo AC, Chan C, Wei W, Ramirez-Gaona M. PathBank: a comprehensive pathway database for model organisms. Nucleic Acids Res. 2020 Jan 8;48(D1):D470-D478. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz861. PubMed: 31602464

3. DS Wishart. NMR metabolomics: A look ahead. J Magn Reson. 2019 Sep;306:155-161. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2019.07.013. PubMed: 31377153

4. Abdul-Hamid Emwas, Raja Roy, Ryan T McKay, Leonardo Tenori, Edoardo Saccenti, G A Nagana Gowda, Daniel Raftery, Fatimah Alahmari, Lukasz Jaremko, Mariusz Jaremko, David S Wishart. NMR Spectroscopy for Metabolomics Research. Metabolites. 2019 Jun 27;9(7):123. 23DOI: 10.3390/metabo9070123. PubMed: 31252628

5. Rosa Vázquez-Fresno, Albert Remus R Rosana, Tanvir Sajed, Tuviere Onookome-Okome, Noah A Wishart, David S Wishart. Herbs and Spices-Biomarkers of Intake Based on Human Intervention Studies–A Systematic Review. Genes Nutr. 2019 May 22;14:18. DOI: 10.1186/s12263-019-0636-8. PubMed: 31143299

6. Lipfert M, Rout MK, Berjanskii M, Wishart DS. Automated Tools for the Analysis of 1D-NMR and 2D-NMR Spectra. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2019. 2037: 429-449. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9690-2_24. PubMed: 31463859