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Will you be attending the 2016 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry?

The 2016 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry is being held on January 10th – January 16th in Tucson, Arizona, USA.

The biennial Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry is sponsored by the ICP Information Newsletter, Inc., a nonprofit research organisation located in Hadley, Massachusetts and Lehigh Acres, Florida, and organised by Dr. Ramon Barnes of the University Research Institute for Analytical Chemistry.

If you are attending the conference why not come and chat to JAAS Executive Editor Philippa Ross at booth 51 in the turquoise ballroom. She will be manning the stand from Sunday the 10th until Wednesday the 13th.

JAAS will also be sponsoring four poster prizes this year, so good luck to all of the entrants!

Why not submit your research to be included in the upcoming JAAS themed issue showcasing the research of those attending the conference? We must receive your submission by February 15th 2016. For more information contact us.

Philippa Ross Philippa Ross

Executive Editor, JAAS.

See you there!

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The 2nd National Conference on Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Chinese Chemical Society Held in Hangzhou

The 2nd National Conference on Mass Spectrometric Analysis (CNMS) of Chinese Chemical Societywas held on October 16-19, 2015 in Hangzhou, China. This conference was hosted by the Chinese Chemical Society and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). The 2nd NCMS was organized by Mass Spectrometry Division of Chinese Chemical Society and the Department of Chemistry of Zhejiang University. More than 1000 conventioneers including scientists, experts and students attended the conference.

The opening ceremony of the conference was chaired by Prof.Yuanjiang Pan from Zhejiang University. Prof. Jianhong Luo, the vice-president of Zhejiang University, Prof. Hongyuan Chen from Nanjing University, and Prof. Qiankun Zhuang from NSFC gave the opening speeches.

Prof. Yuanjiang Pan of Zhejiang University chaired the Opening Ceremony

Prof. Jianhong Luo of Zhejiang University gave the opening speech

Prof. Hongyuan Chen of Nanjing University during the opening speech

Prof. Qiankun Zhuang of NSFC during the opening speech

During this symposium, 17 plenary lecturers including 5 academicians, 56 invited speakers, 54 contributed speakers and 26 young scientists presented their latest academic achievements in mass spectrometry, which were related to instrumentation developments, mass spectrometric fundamentals, as well last to he development and application of mass spectrometric technologies. 16 excellent young scientists and 30 excellent posters were awarded. The meeting provided a great opportunity for extensive academic and technical exchanges on research progress in the hope of promoting the development of mass spectrometry in China. In addition, many analytical instrument manufacturers, including Shimadzu, Agilent, Hitachi, Bruker and so on, exhibited their relevant instruments and technical application data.

The well-organized conference was highly appreciated by the attendees and sponsors, which pushes forward mass spectrometric research and applications and promotes the development of Science and Technology in mass spectrometry.

Conference Hall

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JAAS poster prize winners at Tsukuba seminar

The 2015 Tsukuba Seminar organized by the Discussion Group for Plasma Spectrochemistry was held in Tsukuba, Japan on the 9th & 10th July 2015.

The theme of the 2015 Tsukuba Seminar was on the “Current and Future Contributions of Plasma Spectroscopy onto Chemical Exploitation of Natural Resources”.

Our journal Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (JAAS) awarded two poster prizes at the Tsukuba Seminar 2015, which included a certificate and a fantastic £100 RSC Book Voucher each.

We are very pleased to announce the winners-

Ken Kakegawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Title of the poster: Gas-cylinder-free mass spectrometry of surface adhesion samples using touchable plasma

Rina Matsushita (Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences)

Title of the poster: Development of dual-channel type concentric grid nebulizer for plasma spectrometry

From the left, Ken Kakegawa, Professor Takafumi Hirata, Rina Matsushita

Professor Takafumi Hirata (Kyoto University, President of the Discussion Group for Plasma Spectrochemistry) awarded the prizes to the winners.

Congratulations to Ken and Rina!

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CYTO 2015

To celebrate the upcoming meeting of the 30th Congress of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry – CYTO 2015 – in Glasgow, we’ve put together a small collection of papers on mass cytometry and flow cytometry from JAAS and Analyst. These will be free to read until July 24th.

Deputy Editor Rebecca Brodie will be attending CYTO 2015, so if you are in Glasgow this weekend and would like to discuss the journal, or publishing in general, please do email us.

We hope you enjoy reading these papers.

Gold-nanoparticle coated La, Tb-encoded PS beads and their application in investigating the performance of the inductively coupled plasma of a mass cytometer
Chun Feng, Vladimir I. Baranov and Mitchell A. Winnik
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2013, 28, 1475-1484
DOI: 10.1039/C3JA50149C

Diffusion- and velocity-driven spatial separation of analytes from single droplets entering an ICP off-axis
Olga Borovinskaya, Maryam Aghaei, Luca Flamigni, Bodo Hattendorf, Martin Tanner, Annemie Bogaerts and Detlef Günther
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2014, 29, 262-271
DOI: 10.1039/C3JA50307K

Analyst cover imageMetal/dye-doped core-shell silica nanoparticles for potential use in bioassay
Jung Aa Ko and H. B. Lim
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2013, 28, 630-636
DOI: 10.1039/C3JA30373J

Webcam-based flow cytometer using wide-field imaging for low cell number detection at high throughput
Joshua Balsam, Hugh Alan Bruck and Avraham Rasooly
Analyst, 2014, 139, 4322-4329
DOI: 10.1039/C4AN00669K

Making a big thing of a small cell – recent advances in single cell analysis
Kerstin Galler, Katharina Bräutigam, Christina Große, Jürgen Popp and Ute Neugebauer
Analyst, 2014, 139, 1237-1273
DOI: 10.1039/C3AN01939J

High temporal resolution fluorescence measurements of a mitochondrial dye for detection of early stage apoptosis
Divya Iyer, Rachel D. Ray and Dimitri Pappas
Analyst, 2013, 138, 4892-4897
DOI: 10.1039/C3AN01142A

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ISEAC 39 – University of Hamburg

The ISEAC 39 Conference will take place at the University of Hamburg from July 19th – July 22nd 2016.

The central subject of the conference is the innovative use of analytical methods for the investigation of environmentally and food relevant questions.

Topics for discussion:

  • Sampling
  • Non-targeted approaches (screening, fingerprinting, profiling, barcoding, omicstechnologies)
  • Targeted approaches (detection, identification and quantification of organic compounds)
  • Rapid testing and on-site applications (sensors, biosensors)
  • Bioinformatics (processing, recycling, sharing, storage)
  • Risk assessment

‘The Symposium will bring together both established and young researchers in academia, public and industrial laboratories involved in the field of environmental and food analytics and hard ware  manufacturers involved in the development and distribution of analytical instrumentation relevant for this interdisciplinary field.’

The meeting will include lectures, poster sessions, an exhibition and will provide plenty of time for the distribution of knowledge on the latest developments in analytical methods for environmental and food analysis.

For more information please contact Prof. Dr. Jose Broekaert or Prof. Dr. Markus Fischer

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The 6th Asia-Pacific Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistryheld in May 19th- 22rd at Xiamen, China

The 6th Asia-Pacific Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry (2015APWC) was successfully held from May 19th to 22rd in Xiamen, China. The conference was hosted by Xiamen University and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and organized by the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Xiamen University and the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis & Instrumentation. More than 330 atomic spectrometry experts and scholars from 16 countries and regions, including United States of America, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, India, etc. attended this conference.

The opening ceremony of the conference was chaired by the Conference Chairman Professor Wei Hang of Xiamen University. Professor Yunbao Jiang, dean of the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Xiamen University, and Prof.Benli Huang, Honorary Chairman of 2015APWC, made the welcoming remarks. Professor Ramon Barnes, the founder of Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, introduced previous Winter Conferences on Plasma Spectrochemistry to the attendees and made congratulations to Prof.Benli Huang on his 90th birthday. Prof. Gary Hieftje from Indiana University and Prof. Guibin Jiang from Chinese Academy of Eco-Environment Center delivered conference Plenary Lectures.

Prof. Wei Hang

Prof. Ramon Barnes

Prof. Benli Huang

Prof. Gary Hieftje

Prof. Guibin Jiang

During the conference, more than 50 well-known scholars gave excellent lectures. Extensive academic and technical exchanges on research progress took place on a variety of domains, including plasma spectral/mass spectral analysis, analytical instrumentation, elemental speciation analysis, environmental analysis, food and drug analysis, laser-induced plasma spectrochemistry, applications of plasma spectrochemistry, etc. In the conference, many analytical instrument manufacturers, including Perkin Elmer, Agilent, Shimadzu, Thermo Fisher, Spectro, Nu Instrument, Analytik Jena and so on, exhibited their relevant instruments and technical application data.

Prof. Zhifang Chai (middle)

In this conference, Prof.Zhifang Chai was awarded the ‘Life Achievement Award for Atomic Spectrometry in China’ for his outstanding contribution in atomic analysis and characterization. In order to encourage graduate students to attend the conference and share their latest research work, 10 best posters were selected and awarded. The well-organized conference was highly appreciated by the attendees and sponsors, which pushes forward spectral research and application and promotes the development of Science and technology in Atomic Spectrometry.

(Thanks a lot for the information to Prof. Wei Hang, Xiamen University.)

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Join up with JAAS at the 6th Asia-Pacific Winter Conference in Xiamen, China

Will you be joining us in Xiamen later this month?

If so, on behalf of the organisers and JAAS Editorial Board, we would like to invite you to submit an article for a themed issue in JAAS, on your work presented at the conference.

The submission deadline for the issue will be 15th July 2015. Accepted papers will be published online as advanced articles as soon as they are ready. The issue will be published online and in print in early 2016. All authors will receive a PDF of their article and a print copy of this issue when it is published. There will be no upper limit on the number of papers published in the themed issue.

We welcome the submission of communications, full papers and technical notes for consideration in the issue, and all articles will be subject to the usual high standards of the journal through peer-review. If you are interested in writing a review article for the issue, then please do not hesitate to contact me by email. We will also have a JAAS 30th Anniversary Event on the Friday night, so please do come and speak to me!

Articles should be submitted through the JAAS website, and we kindly ask all authors to indicate in their covering letter that their article is for consideration in the APWC 2015 issue. Further details about what we have to look forward to can be found on the conference website.

2015 Asia-Pacific Winter Conference (2015 APWC), Xiamen, China
May 19-22, 2015

Take a look at some of the papers published in the themed issue from the 2012 Asia Pacific Winter Conference, held in Jeju Island, South Korea

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The 6th Asia-Pacific Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry

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“to bring together spectroscopists on a worldwide scale to stimulate contacts and exchange of experiences.”

Dates for your diary

Abstract Submission deadline: September 1st 2015

Early-Bird Registration Deadline: March 15th 2015

Conference Registration Date: May 19th 2015

Conference Dates: May 20th-22nd 2015

For more information please visit the conference website

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European Workshop on Laser Ablation 2016

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European Workshop on Laser Ablation 2016
12 – 15 July 2016
Ljubljana, Slovenia


Registration will open in early 2016!
Early registration deadline (discounted rate) – 20th May 2016

The Registration Fee for participants and students includes:

Entrance to the scientific session
Certificate of attendance
Congress folders, badge, Final Programme and Book of Abstracts
Coffee breaks
Lunches on Wednesday, July 13, Thursday, July 14 and Friday, July 15
Icebreaker Reception on Tuesday, July 12
Afternoon Social Programme on Wednesday, July 13
Gala Dinner on Thursday, July 14

For more information about the conference, please see the webiste

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European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry 2015 Plasma Award

JAAS Advisory Board member Jörg Feldmann, from the University of Aberdeen, received last week in Münster the 2015 European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry. The laureate presented his excellent work on identification and quantification of organoarsenic species. Congratulations, Jörg!

Prof. Feldmann in Münster after his Award presentation

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