Prof. Cooks is Henry B. Hass Distinguished Professor–Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at Purdue University
We’re delighted that Analyst Editorial Board member, Professor Graham Cooks, will be the plenary speaker at Pittcon 2012.
His talk will be entitled “Ambient Ionization and Mini Mass Spectrometers: In situ MS for Everyone” and will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Sunday 11th March in the Chapin Theater.
Watch this space for more details on our attendance at Pittcon!
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 57th 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!
Applications are now invited for the 2012 Gordon Kirkbright Bursary Award
The Gordon F. Kirkbright bursary award is a prestigious annual award that enables a promising student/non-tenured young scientist of any nation to attend a recognised scientific meeting or visit a place of learning.
The fund for this bursary was established in 1985 as a memorial to Professor Gordon Kirkbright in recognition of his contributions to analytical spectroscopy and to science in general. Although the fund is administered by the Association of British Spectroscopists (ABS) Trust, the award is not restricted to spectroscopists.
For further information contact John Chalmers at vibspecconsult@aol.com
The closing date for entries is 31 December 2011
Please also visit our website for further details about travel grants available to RSC journal authors and RSC members
The infamous Blue Bear looking in at Colorado Convention Center, Denver
The 59th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics (aka ASMS 2011) is well underway here in Denver, Colorado and I can’t believe it’s been less than a day!
Sunday’s opening plenary was all about finding our origins in grains of stardust – fascinating at any time, but possibly more so for anyone from the UK currently experiencing the “Brian Cox” phenomenon. The mixer drinks which followed were a chance to meet some familiar faces, and to get my bearings before things kicked off properly today.
I started Monday learning about all that’s new with instrument development for imaging mass spectrometry, including talks from Analyst Advisory Board members Renato Zenobi and Julia Laskin. The highlight, however, had to be Sarah Trimpin’s description of her experiments on LSI using a BB gun! (I’m sure all appropriate health and safety measures were taken)
During the poster session I had the chance to meet with Analyst Editorial Board member Graham Cooks, and also Jentaie Shiea from the Editorial Board of our sister journal, Analytical Methods.
More Board members later, when I attend a session on hydrogen-deuterium exchange chaired by another Editorial Board member, Vicki Wysocki.
And there might be a sneaky visit to the hospitality suites later…purely to talk more science of course…
If you’re attending, and would like to meet to talk all things MS and publishing, just leave a comment below or tweet me: @analystrsc
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 9th, 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 30th 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
EAP 2011: Analytical Sciences – Divide and Conquer!
This year’s EAP conference (Emerging Analytical Professionals) will be held from 06-08 May, and the general theme of this year’s conference is analytical chemistry in archaeological sciences. The EAP meeting is a unique conference providing excellent networking and professional development opportunities for early analytical career professionals. Other specialist sessions will include separation sciences, knowledge from data and career development.
Venue: The Kettering Park Hotel and Spa, Kettering Parkway, Kettering, NN15 6XT
For more information on how to register for the conference, please visit the EAP 2011 website
The 2nd International Congress on Analytical Proteomics will take place in Ournse, Spain from the 18th -20th July 2011. This is one of the major proteomics events of 2011 in Europe.
The aims of this congress are to join the proteomics and analytical communities into a common objective: to develop robust, reproducible and reliable sample treatments that can be used in all branches of the Proteomics area with the confidence given by the driven motors of proteomics; those who need the analytical-based proteomics tools and those who develop analytical tools.
The 1st International Congress on Analytical Proteomics, which was held in Portugal in 2009, had an excellent acceptance among the scientific community.
Confirmed plenary speakers
Prof. Alfred L. Yergey (National Institutes of Health)
Approaches to Optimize Use of Mass Spectrometric Data for Proteomics
Prof. Concha Gil (Complutense University)
Candida Albicans-Host interaction: Insights From Proteomics
Prof. R. John Solaro (Univ Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.)
Workflow and Significance of Understanding the Cardiac Sarcomere Sub-Proteome
Prof. Juan J. Calvete (Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia)
Snake venom proteomics to help fighting a neglected pathology
Prof. Juan Pablo Albar (Spanish Institute for Proteomics)
Prof. Wei Ning Chen (Nanyang Technological University)
Cell-based proteomics platform for biomedical applications
Prof. Ola Söderberg (Uppsala University)
Proximity Ligation Assays-Seeing is believing
Registration, Dates and Further Information
Please see the conference website for further information and details of how to register.
Early bird registration deadline: March 1st 2011
