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Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2022 – now open for nominations

Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2022

Analyst is delighted to announce the Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship is open for nominations.

The Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship is a platform for an early career analytical scientist to raise the profile of the analytical sciences to the wider scientific community and general public.

 

Lectureship details

  • The recipient will receive up to £2000 contribution towards travel and accommodation costs to attend and present a lecture based on their research at a leading international meeting.*
  • Recipients will be invited to contribute a review to Analyst in the following year.

 

How to nominate

Self-nomination is not permitted.

Nominators must send the following to the editorial team (at analyst-rsc@rsc.org) by 31st July 2022.

  • A recommendation letter, including the name, contact details and website URL of the nominee.
  • A one-page CV for the nominee, including their date of birth, summary of education and career, a list of up to five of their top independent publications, total numbers of publications.
  • A one-page statement of achievement with a lay summary, written by the nominee describing their best accomplishments.
  • A supporting letter of recommendation from an independent referee. Ideally this could be for example the nominee’s post doc or PhD supervisor.

The nominator and independent referee should comment on the candidate’s presenting skills.

Incomplete nominations or those not adhering to the above requirements will not be considered.

Particulars and selection criteria

  • Have completed their PhD
  • Have published in Analyst in the past 3 years
  • Be working in a research area within the scope of Analyst
  • Be at an early stage of their independent career (typically this will be within 10 years of completing their PhD, but appropriate consideration will be given to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path). Please contact the Editorial Office if you have any queries
  • The editorial team will screen each nomination for eligibility and draw up a shortlist of candidates based on the nomination documents provided.
  • The recipient of the Lectureship will then be selected by the Analyst Editorial Board.

For any queries, please contact the editorial team at analyst-rsc@rsc.org.

Previous winners

2021 – Debbie Silvester

2020 – Yi-Lun Ying

2018 – Wei Min

2016 – Patrick L. Hayes

 

*Should the Covid-19 outbreak prevent travel to an international meeting, the recipient will still be eligible to receive the prize.

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Analyst themed collection on Smartphone-based sensors open for submissions

We invite you to contribute an article or review to an ongoing themed collection in Analyst, focusing on Smartphone-based sensors. We welcome papers on this new and exciting area of sensor research in various areas of application including; health monitoring, medical diagnostics, environmental exposure analysis and forensics. The Guest Editors are Professor Sharon Weiss, Vanderbilt University, USA and Professor Jinhong Guo, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

Accepted articles will be published as soon as they are accepted and then gathered in an online collection that will be promoted as a complete collection in 2022.

We will be accepting submissions throughout 2022!

Please note that all submitted manuscripts will be subject to peer review in accordance with the journal’s normal standards.

If you are interested in submitting to this collection, or have any questions please contact the Analyst Editorial Office (analyst-rsc@rsc.org)

 

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SCIX 2018

Are you going to be at SciX 2018?

Analyst is proud to announce that Dr Wei Min (Columbia University, USA) is the winner of the 2018 Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship. Dr Min will be giving an award plenary on the topic of Seeing molecular vibrations: chemical imaging for biomedicine at 8:30 am on Monday 22 October.

We are also sponsoring a symposium in honour of Dr Wei Min (18AWD11) at 9:15 am, Monday 22 October, with a wonderful lineup of speakers including:

Richard Zare, Stanford University, USA
Duncan Graham, University of Strathclyde, UK
Juergen Popp, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany
Katsumasa Fujita, Osaka University, Japan
Lingyan Shi, Columbia University, USA

Two Board members of our sister journal Analytical Methods will be receiving prestigious awards at SciX 2018 and if you will be around, I encourage you to please do attend their plenary lectures and their award sessions.

• Michael Roper, Analytical Methods Associate Editor will be receiving the 2018 AES Electrophoresis Mid Career Award and will be giving a plenary lecture at 8.30am on Wednesday 24 October.

• Sue Lunte, former Editor-in-Chief of Analytical Methods and current Advisory Board member, will be receiving the 2018 Anachem Award and will be giving a plenary lecture at 8:00am on Thursday 25 October.

Look out for our Royal Society of Chemistry booth, number 904, during the conference. Executive Editor Jeanne Andres (Analyst, Analytical Methods, JAAS) and Deputy Editor Rebecca Brodie (JAAS) will be attending the conference and look forward to meeting you at SciX 2018.

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Will you be at SPEC 2016 in Montreal?

SPEC 2016 Logo image

Will you be at SPEC 2016 on June 25-30 in Montreal, Canada?

This international conference series brings together clinicians and scientists who are developing and improving innovative pre-clinical and clinical applications of vibrational spectroscopy that can lead to health care delivery improvements.

If you are attending the meeting, why not find me and have a chat about Analyst, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and publishing in general, and let me explain why our journals are the best home for your research.

Analyst will be sponsoring a poster prize this year, so good luck to all the entrants!

Rebecca Brodie Rebecca Brodie

Deputy Editor, Analyst, Analytical Methods, JAAS.

Please feel free to get in touch with me before the conference to arrange a meeting.

As with previous SPEC conferences, Analyst is proud to be publishing a themed issue to feature papers from the conference and to highlight the latest advances in diagnosis and novel biomedical applications of infrared and Raman spectroscopy.

  • Submitted papers can be based on oral or poster presentations given at the meeting
  • There will be no upper limit to the number of papers an author can submit
  • All submissions will be subject to initial assessment and peer review in the usual manner and must meet the usual standards and requirements for the journal
  • This themed issue is scheduled to be published in early 2017

The deadline for submission is 26th August 2016.

I look forward to meeting you in Canada!

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Themed issue on Carbon & Graphene in Analytical Science now published!

Analyst front coverWe are pleased to announce that the Analyst themed issue showcasing the latest discoveries and developments in carbon and graphene in analytical science has been published as issue 9 in Analyst.

Guest Edited by Professor Martin Pumera, Nanyang Technological University, this issue showcases the latest technology, method and application-based science among the top researchers working in both academia and industry.
Read his introductory editorial:

Carbon and Graphene in Analytical Science
Analyst, 2016, 141, 2618-2618
DOI: 10.1039/C6AN90028C

You can check out the complete issue here: rsc.li/1Nwezau

Happy reading!

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Is food allergen analysis flawed?

Dairy products

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It’s Allergy Awareness Week 25 April – 1 May, 2016.

There are around 21 million people who suffer from allergies in the UK alone.  Allergy UK is the leading national charity dedicated to supporting these people, and provides a dedicated helpline and online forums. Allergy Awareness Week hopes to draw attention to a number of allergies and promote well-being in those individuals who suffer from them.

Researchers at LGC, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Allergy Action, and the University of Manchester have combined to produce a critical review published in Analyst on the flaws in the analysis of food allergens that could jeopardise their future risk management, as well as ways to address those flaws. Follow the link below to read their review.

Peanuts

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Is food allergen analysis flawed? Health and supply chain risks and a proposed framework to address urgent analytical needs
M. J. Walker, D. T. Burns, C. T. Elliott, M. H. Gowland and E. N. Clare Mills
Analyst, 2016, 141, 24-35
DOI: 10.1039/C5AN01457C

Check out the Chemistry World comment on allergies from Michael Walker here.

Interested to read more about food testing? Try the ‘Detecting food authenticity and integrity‘ online collection: A compilation of papers showcasing the latest discoveries and developments in the analysis and detection of food fraud, contamination, adulteration and spoilage.

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SPEC 2016 themed issue with Analyst

As with previous SPEC conferences, Analyst is proud to be publishing a themed issue on optical diagnosis to feature papers from the conference and to highlight the latest advances in diagnosis and novel biomedical applications of infrared and Raman spectroscopy.

  • Submitted papers can be based on oral or poster presentations given at the meeting
  • There will be no upper limit to the number of papers an author can submit
  • All submissions will be subject to initial assessment and peer review in the usual manner and must meet the usual standards and requirements for the journal
  • This themed issue is scheduled to be published in early 2017

The deadline for submission is 26th August 2016.

You can submit your article using the Analyst portal

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Congrats to the Europt[r]ode poster prize winners

Congratulations to our Analyst Poster Prize winners at the recent Europt[r]ode XIII meeting in Graz, Austria. The biannual conference is one of the major conference series on optical sensors and since 1992 it has been a forum for scientists and engineers from academia, research institutes and industry from all over the world.

First place was won by Idoia Urriza, Complutense University of Madrid, whose poster was entitled “New luminescent indicator dyes for oxygen, hydrogen sulphide, mercaptans and ammonia detection in biogas streams”.

There was a tie for second place. One runner up was Gillian Duffy, Dublin City University, with her poster “A fully integrated centrifugal lab-on-a-disc optical sensing platform for measurement of phosphate in water”.

And the second runner up was Maciej Trzaskowski, Warsaw University of Technology, with his poster “Mobile SPR system for detection of biological threats”.

The winners were selected by a panel of judges and the prizes were awarded by Analyst Deputy Editor Rebecca Brodie. First prize was 300 Euros, with both runners up winning 150 Euros each. All received a certificate to recognise their achievement.

Congratulations to Idoia, Gillian and Maciej!

Idoia Urriza Gillian Duffy Maciej Trzaskowski
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Optical Chemical Sensors and Biosensors publishing

To celebrate the recent Europt[r]ode conference in Graz, Austria, we have put together a collection of papers from Analyst and Analytical Methods dedicated to optical chemical sensors and biosensors research.

These papers will be free to read (with the creation of a free account) until the end of April. We hope you enjoy reading them!

Do you fancy submitting an article to Analyst or Analytical Methods? Why not submit to us today or alternatively email us with your suggestions!

An antibody-free microfluidic paper-based analytical device for the determination of tear fluid lactoferrin by fluorescence sensitization of Tb3+
Kentaro Yamada, Shunsuke Takaki, Nobutoshi Komuro, Koji Suzukia and Daniel Citterio
Analyst, 2014, 139, 1637-1643
DOI: 10.1039/C3AN01926H

Sensing applications based on plasmonic nanopores: The hole story
Andreas B. Dahlin
Analyst, 2015, 140, 4748-4759
DOI: 10.1039/C4AN02258K

An integrated sensing and wireless communications platform for sensing sodium in sweat
G. Matzeu, C. O’Quigley, E. McNamara, C. Zuliani, C. Fay, T. Glennon and D. Diamond
Anal. Methods, 2016, 8, 64-71
DOI: 10.1039/C5AY02254A

Application of PAMAM dendrimers in optical sensing
E. Soršak, J. Volmajer Valh, Š. Korent Urek and A. Lobnik
Analyst, 2015, 140, 976-989
DOI: 10.1039/C4AN00825A

Development of a low cost microfluidic sensor for the direct determination of nitrate using chromotropic acid in natural waters
Deirdre Cogan, Cormac Fay, David Boyle, Conor Osborne, Nigel Kent, John Cleary and Dermot Diamond
Anal. Methods, 2015, 7, 5396-5405
DOI: 10.1039/C5AY01357G

Emerging priority substances in the aquatic environment: a role for passive sampling in supporting WFD monitoring and compliance
Lisa Jones, Jenny Ronan, Brendan McHugh, Evin McGovern and Fiona Regan
Anal. Methods, 2015, 7, 7976-7984
DOI: 10.1039/C5AY01059D

Label-free biosensors based on in situ formed and functionalized microwires in microfluidic devices
Yanlong Xing, Andreas Wyss, Norbert Esser and Petra S. Dittrich
Analyst, 2015, 140, 7896-7901
DOI: 10.1039/C5AN01240F

Plasmon-enhanced optical sensors: a review
Ming Li, Scott K. Cushing and Nianqiang Wu
Analyst, 2015, 140, 386-406
DOI: 10.1039/C4AN01079E

Biosensor-based microRNA detection: techniques, design, performance, and challenges
Blake N. Johnson and Raj Mutharasan
Analyst, 2014, 139, 1576-1588
DOI: 10.1039/C3AN01677C

Magnetic optical sensor particles: a flexible analytical tool for microfluidic devices
Birgit Ungerböck, Siegfried Fellinger, Philipp Sulzer, Tobias Abel and Torsten Mayr
Analyst, 2014, 139, 2551-2559
DOI: 10.1039/C4AN00169A

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EUROPT[R]ODE – Will you be there?

Graz, Austria

The Clock Tower, landmark of Graz

Will you be at the EUROPT[R]ODE conference on March 20-23 in Graz, Austria?

The biannual EUROPT[R]ODE conference is one of the major conference series on optical sensors. Since 1992, the EUROPT[R]ODE conference has been a forum for scientists and engineers from academia, research institutes and industry from all over the world.

If you are attending the meeting, why not find me and have a chat about Analyst, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and publishing in general, and let me explain why our journals are the best home for your research.

Analyst will also be sponsoring three poster prizes this year, so good luck to all the entrants!

Rebecca Brodie Rebecca Brodie

Deputy Editor, Analyst, Analytical Methods, JAAS.

Please feel free to get in touch with me before the conference to arrange a meeting.

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