Analyst Blog

If you are interested in the diverse applications of Raman spectorscopy, ‘inside Raman’ is an event being held by Renishaw on Monday 26th  and Tuesday 27th September, at the Natural History Museum in London.

Fitting with the fantastic venue, the Monday sessions will focus on conservation and life sciences, with a great list of speakers including Robin Clark, from University College London and Howell Edwards, University of Bradford.

The speakers on Tuesday focus more on the chemistry, materials science, and physics aspects of Raman spectroscopy including David King from Kings College, London and Analyst author, Sergei Kazarian from Imperial College London.

Read some of the presenters work here:

Broadband terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of drugs-of-abuse and the use of principal component analysis
Andrew D. Burnett, Wenhui Fan, Prashanth C. Upadhya, John E. Cunningham, Michael D. Hargreaves, Tasnim Munshi, Howell G. M. Edwards, Edmund H. Linfield and A. Giles Davies
Analyst, 2009, 134, 1658-1668

Probing history with Raman spectroscopy
Howell G. M. Edwards
Analyst, 2004, 129, 870-879

Ultrafast infrared chemical imaging of live cells
Hemmel Amrania, Andrew P. McCrow, Mary R. Matthews, Sergei G. Kazarian, Marina K. Kuimova and Chris C. Phillips
Chem. Sci., 2011, 2, 107-111

Micro ATR-FTIRspectroscopic imaging of atherosclerosis: an investigation of the contribution of inducible nitric oxide synthase to lesion composition in ApoE-null mice
Francesca Palombo, Hao Shen, Lea Esther S. Benguigui, Sergei G. Kazarian and Rita K. Upmacis
Analyst, 2009, 134, 1107-1118

Tours of the Natural History Museum are also available, so do go along!

6th International Symposium on Enabling Technologies (ETP Boston)
October 7, 2011, Boston MA, U.S.

The 6th International Symposium on Enabling Technologies – Atlantic Conference will be held in Boston later this year on October 7th. JAAS Editorial Board member, Dr Scott Tanner from University of Toronto and Metallomics author Jane Thomas-Oates, University of York are amongst the impressive line-up of speakers. Read a selection of some of the speakers latest research below.

For further details, visit the conference website. Abstract submission and registration now open!

Don’t forget to pick up a complimentary copy of our analytical journals, if you are planning to attend!

Development of analytical methods for multiplex bio-assay with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Olga I. Ornatsky, Robert Kinach, Dmitry R. Bandura, Xudong Lou, Scott D. Tanner, Vladimir I. Baranov, Mark Nitz and Mitchell A. Winnik
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2008, 23, 463-469, DOI: 10.1039/B710510J

Denaturing and non-denaturing microsolution isoelectric focussing to mine the metalloproteome
Barbara Pioselli, Caroline Munro, Andrea Raab, Christian L. Deitrich, Kriangsak Songsrirote, Jörg Feldmann and Jane Thomas-Oates
Metallomics, 2009, 1, 501-510, DOI: 10.1039/B903607E

Characterizing the connectivity of poly-ubiquitin chains by selected reaction monitoring mass spectrometry
Hamid Mirzaei, Richard S. Rogers, Barbara Grimes, Jimmy Eng, Alan Aderem and Ruedi Aebersold
Mol. BioSyst., 2010, 6, 2004-2014, DOI: 10.1039/C005242F

Leading analytical scientists from Canada and China will be meeting up in Toronto at the end of August for the 3rd Canada-China Analytical Chemistry Conference (CCACC). This is going to be held as a joint conference with the  57^th ICASS (International Conference on Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy). 

The speaker list is pretty impressive, and demonstrates the strength of  analytical science in these two countries!

The conference will be held in Toronto from the 29th-31st August.  For further details, please visit the conference website.

Pick up a complimentary copy of our analytical journals, if you are planning to attend!

Want to find out more?

The Applied Materials Chemistry Group from the RSC are hosting a one day workshop on Surface chemistry and the non-specific binding problem in biosensor technology.

Date: May 9^th, 2011 (9:15 AM – 5:00 PM)

Location: Burlington House, Royal Society of Chemistry, Piccadilly, London, UK

For more information and how to register, visit the website.

Considering that this phenomenon will ultimately dictate whether a biosensor can be commercialized or not, it is clear that a dedicated symposium on this subject is both timely and warranted. The subject matter is relevant to the fields of drug discovery, clinical diagnostics and environmental analysis, including homeland security and defense sectors.

PROGRAM

8:45 – 9:15       Registration

9:15-10:00 Professor Lisa Hall University of Cambridge, “Interfacial communication: a key requisite for Biosensor function”

10:00 – 10:45 Dr Helge Schnerr, TTP LabTech Ltd, Melbourn “Biosensors and the non-specific adsorption dilemma – Is there a way out?”

10:45 – 11:00    Coffee break

11:00 – 11:45   Professor Jean-Francois Masson, University of Montreal, “Detection of biomolecules in crude serum using peptide monolayers and microhole arrays”

11:45 – 12:30   Dr Christophe Blaszykowski, University of Toronto, “Antibiofouling behaviour of self-assembled monolayer-based biosensing platforms characterized by an ultra-high frequency acoustic wave sensor”

12:30 – 1:30   Buffet lunch

1: 30 – 2:15 Dr Sub Reddy, University of Surrey, “Towards protein-specific polymers and hydrogels and their use in sensors”

2: 15 – 3: 00 Dr Neil Hopkins,  Dstl, UK “Engineering biofouling resistant surfaces: Topography and functionality”

3:00 – 3:15  Coffee break

3:15 – 4:00 Professor Mike Thompson, University of Toronto, “Selectivity of biological receptors: Relevance to biosensor development”.

4:00 – 5:00 Discussion

Registration fee; 75 pounds for academic delegates; 100 pounds industry delegate. Fee includes a lunch and all proceedings.

Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XXXVII
Buzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

August 28 – September 2, 2011

Since the first meeting in France in 1949, the CSI conference has been a forum where scientists involved in all aspects of spectroscopy and spectrometry meet to share experiences, discuss results and applications and present new ideas.

This year the meeting will be hosted in South America for the first time in its 60 years of history. Visit http://www.csixxxvii.org/ for more details.

 Abstract submission deadline April 30^th 2011

The Analytical Research Forum (ARF11) is a major event for researchers in analytical science, and will be held in Manchester, 25 – 27 July 2011.

 Poster abstracts and early bird registration deadline: 27 May 2011

Aimed at early stage analytical science students, the invited lectures have been selected to reflect a broad range of research interests. And if you’ve ever wondered what analytical science can do for research in the life sciences, then the additional optional workshop is for you:

 Analytical Science in the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB)

 Generously supported by the Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund (ACTF) of the Analytical Division, there are a number of discretionary travel bursaries on offer – apply by the 27 May deadline.

 Find full details at www.rsc.org/ARF11