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2015 European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry

09 Apr 2013

Those of you who attended the Closing Ceremony of the recent 2013 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry in Krakow, will have heard that the RSC was planning to host the 2015 European Winter Conference in Glasgow, with Professor Joerg Feldmann from University of Aberdeen as Chair.

You may also have seen that nominations to host the conference in 2015 are now open again, and you could be wondering why this is.

We are sad to say that our submitted bid was not felt to be suitable by the Continuation Committee, and so we have respectfully acknowledged their decision. However we would like to take this opportunity to assure you that we did not withdraw our support, and that it has always been our intention to act in support of the community and in accordance with your wishes.

We became involved in the bidding process because after the Zaragoza conference, we were approached by members of the community who asked if the RSC would be willing to consider supporting a bid to bring the conference back to the UK after 20 years. Following careful consideration of the Conference Constitution, we consulted with the Chair of the Krakow conference to ask whether our involvement as a society would be possible. No concerns were raised with us that were not addressed in our bid and in discussions with the Committee, prior to the awarding of the bid to Glasgow.

After this initial agreement made in Krakow, the Committee still had serious concerns regarding aspects of the bid, including the level of the involvement of the RSC, such that they do not believe it to be in the best interest of the community for us bring the Winter Conference back to the UK in 2015.

The RSC has a long history of involvement with the atomic spectrometry community and the Winter Conferences. Our intention with the Glasgow bid was and will continue to be, to support the community in whatever way we can. It goes without saying that we look forward to working with and supporting you in the future.

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European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry 2013 and Plasma Award

22 Feb 2013

As you already know if you are following us on twitter, the European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry 2013 was held on February 10 – 15, 2012 in Krakow, Poland. The conference, chaired by JAAS Editorial Board member Joanna Szpunar and co-chaired by Pawel Koscielniak, was very successful, as approximately 500 participants presented 26 invited lectures, 100 oral contributions and more than 220 posters, while more than 25 companies participated in the exhibition. Moreover, several excellent workshops were organised.

Among the highlights of the conference, in addition to the excellent social events where all participants could appreciate the hospitality of Polish people, the Opening ceremony in which JAAS Editorial Board member Norbert Jakubowski received the 2013 European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry has to be featured. The laureate presented his excellent work on Development of ICP-MS based methods for label free detection of (semi)metals in single cells. Congratulations, Norbert!

JAAS sponsored a poster Award consisting in one personal electronic subscription to JAAS, an iPod Nano and a certificate, and the winner was Georgia Sanabria for her work on an Alternative method for fast and precise Pb isotope ratio determination in crude oil, asphaltenes kerogen and sedimentary rocks by GC-MC-ICPMS, coauthored by Christophe Pécheyran, Sylvain Berail, Olivier F.X. Donard from CNRS / Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour. Congratulations!

We would like to remind you that there is a JAAS Themed Issue devoted to this conference. If you want to submit a work that was presented in Krakow, please remember that the deadline for submission is April 1st, 2013.

Finally, the next Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry will be hosted in Amelia Island (Florida), chaired by JAAS Advisory Board Member Ramon Barnes.

The Chair, Joanna Szpunar and JAAS Editor, May Copsey

Dr. Norbert Jakuboswki, Plasma Award laureate

JAAS poster Award

Night in Krakow

Hot plasma party

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European Winter Conference – JAAS themed issue

08 Jan 2013

European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry
Kraków, Poland, 10-15 February 2013

Happy New Year everyone! As it is now the new year, then that must mean the next Winter Conference is just round the corner, and I’m definitely looking forward to my first visit to Poland and the beautiful city of Kraków.

As regular readers of JAAS will know, the journal publishes a themed issue from the Winter Conference each year, and this year is no different. On behalf of the organisers and the JAAS Editorial Board, I would therefore 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 1st April 2013, and the issue will be published online, and in print, in summer of 2013. All authors will receive a PDF of their article and a print copy of this issue when it is published. 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.

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 EWC 2013 issue. We will also have an Exhibition stand at the conference, so if you have any questions or would like to dicsuss this further, please do drop by and see me!

We will also be offering a JAAS Poster Prize of a personal electronic subscription to the journal, and one of the newly designed i-pod Nanos (so if you are presenting a poster, this could be yours!)

Further details about what we have to look forward to can be found on the conference website – but the Gala Dinner in the Wieliczka Salt Mine looks fantastic!

I look forward to seeing you in Kraków!

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The 11th Chinese Analytical Chemistry Annual Meeting Held in Qingdao

02 Nov 2012

The 11th Chinese Analytical Chemistry Annual Meeting was held on October 26-29, 2012, at Qingdao International Convention Center. This is the most important professional meeting on Analytical Chemistry in China, which is held once every three years. The meeting was sponsored by the Chinese Chemical Society, the Chinese Spectroscopy Society and the Geological Society of China, and was organized by Qingdao University of Science & Technology and Linyi University.

The Chairman was Prof. Erkang Wang (Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS), and the Vice Chairmen were Prof. Hongyuan Chen (Academician of CAS), Prof. Zhifang Chai (Academician of CAS), Prof. Ruqin Yu (Academician of CAS), Prof. Shouzhuo Yao (Academician of CAS), Prof. Jincai Zhao (Academician of CAS), Prof. Yukui Zhang (Academician of CAS), Prof. Guibin Jiang (Academician of CAS), Prof. Shaojun Dong (Academician of CAS), Prof. Guofang Pang (Academician of CAS). The Symposium Science Committee was composed of 108 professors. The Organizing Committee was chaired by Prof. Kui Jiao, and the Vice Chairmen were Prof. Qiankun Zhuang, Prof. Xiurong Yang, Prof. Hangting Chen, and Prof. Shusheng Zhang.

More than 1500 people from 200 units including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Chinese Academy of Sciences, various universities and companies attended the meeting. The meeting comprised 1148 papers and 232 poster presentations. There were 9 different sessions: Atomic Spectroscopy, Molecular Spectroscopy and Spectrum Analysis, Electroanalysis, Nanoscience-based Analysis, Biochemistry Analysis, Chromatography, New Analytical Instruments, Youth Forum and National Fund Forum. The meeting accommodated 13 plenary lectures, 219 invited lectures and 104 oral presentations. This conference has provided an opportunity for the academic exchange, and will promote the development of Analytical Chemistry in China.

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SCIX 2012

29 Oct 2012

ACS/RSC session organizers and speakers in the atomic section (from right to left): Dr. May Copsey, Dr. Niamh O'Connor, Prof. Barry Sharp, Prof. Gunda Köllensperger, Dr. Erin Simonds, Prof. Detlef Günther, Prof. Joseph Caruso, and Dr. David Koppenaal.

The SCIX 2012 conference* was held on September 30 – October 5, 2012, in Kansas City, MO, USA. The meeting covered all aspects of analytical chemistry and over 730 papers were presented in ~100 symposia and 5 poster sessions. More than 900 attendees enjoyed plenary and award lectures by distinguished experts, a large exhibition, and several exiting evening events. Kansas City offered a lot of opportunities for scientific exchange, networking, and good food including barbecue and steak.

The atomic section of SCIX was strong this year with a total of 12 sessions. A highlight in program were two sessions organized by the Analytical Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) on the “current status of the analytical sciences: focus on human health”. Thanks to the organizers (editor of the analytical journals at RSC Dr. May Copsey, publisher Dr. Niamh O’Connor, and Chair of the ACS Analytical Division and member of the JAAS advisory board Dr. David Koppenaal), experts in the field accepted the invitation to Kansas City and presented their latest results in health-related research (see below for a list of recent publications). Topics included e.g. elemental mass spectrometry in the clinic, in vivo diagnostics, biomedical applications, the fate of nanoparticles, and single cell analysis by mass cytometry. These sessions were supported by ACS, RSC, JAAS, and Metallomics.

ACS/RSC session organizers and speakers in the biomedical section (from left to right): Dr. John Chalmers, Prof. Susan Lunte, Dr. May Copsey, Prof. Dana Spence, Prof. Christy Haynes, Prof. Duncan Graham, and Prof. Nick Stone.

The FACSS Innovation Award was presented to Prof. Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois, for the advancement of infrared microscopy instrumentation by theory and computation. Also, JAAS editorial board member Prof. Gary M. Hieftje received an ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award. JAAS advisory board member Prof. Ralph Sturgeon was awarded the 2012 Lester W. Strock Award. Reports on the award sessions will follow in a separate blog entry.

It is also important to acknowledge the work of young investigators. This years SAS Student Poster Award recipients are:
Changqi Xu; University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry (Micro-Raman Spectroscopy to Evaluate the Effect of Oral Cancer Radiotherapy on Tooth Chemical Structure);
Joseph Swanstrom, Univ. of South Carolina (Measuring Phytoplankton Community Structure via Fluorescence Imaging Multivariate Optical Computing);
Andrew Storey; Indiana University (Glow Discharge Imaging Spectrometry with a Tilting Interference-Filter Spectrometer);
Kevin P. Pfeuffer, Indiana University (Development and Characterization of a New Concentric-Geometry Flowing Atmospheric Pressure Afterglow).

Congratulations! See the SCIX website for a complete list of the 2012 award recipients.

Speakers in the session on new plasmas and new instrumentation (from right to left): Dr. Kim Marshall, Dr. Kaori Shigeta, Prof. Naoki Furuta, Dr. Lothar Rottmann, Prof. Jeffrey Hopwood, and Dr. Carsten Engelhard (organizer).

If you attended the conference and would like to share your experience, please leave a comment below.

Mark your calendars for the next meeting:
SCIX 2013 will be held at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee and Frontier Airlines Center in Milwaukee, WI, USA, September 29 – October 4, 2013.

See you there!
Carsten Engelhard, 2012 Program Section Chair Atomic Spectroscopy

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* SCIX – for the great SCIentific eXchange – was presented by the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS). SCIX 2012 was the 39th annual North American Meeting of FACSS, the 51st National Meeting for the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and the Main National Meeting for the Coblentz Society.

Take a look at some recent publications of the ACS/RSC session speakers:

Kansas City skyline

Persistence of engineered nanoparticles in a municipal solid-waste incineration plant, T. Walser, L. K. Limbach, R. Brogioli, E. Erismann, L. Flamigni, B. Hattendorf, M. Juchli, F. Krumeich, Ch. Ludwig, K. Prikopsky, M. Rossier, D. Saner, A. Sigg, St. Hellweg, D. Günther, W. J. Stark.
Nature Nanotechnology, 2012, 7, 520-524. DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2012.64

Detection of metals and metalloproteins in the plasma of stroke patients by mass spectrometry methods, P. Kodali , K. R. Chitta , J. A. Landero Figueroa , J. A. Caruso and O. Adeoye,
Metallomics, 2012, 4, 1077-1087. DOI: 10.1039/C2MT20092A

Speciation of Oxaliplatin Adducts with DNA Nucleotides, A. Zayed, G. D. D. Jones, H. J. Reid, T. Shoeib, S. E. Taylor, A. L. Thomas, J. P. Wood, B. L. Sharp,
Metallomics, 2011, 3, 991-1000. DOI: 10.1039/c1mt00041a.

Quantitative determination of intact free cisplatin in cell models by LC-ICP-MS, T. Falta , P. Heffeter , A. Mohamed , W. Berger , S. Hann and G. Koellensperger,
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2011, 26, 109-115. DOI: 10.1039/C0JA00047G

Multiplexed mass cytometry profiling of cellular states perturbed by small-molecule regulators, B. Bodenmiller, E. R. Zunder, R. Finck, T. J. Chen, E. S. Savig, R. V. Bruggner, E. F. Simonds, S. C. Bendall, K. Sachs, P. O. Krutzik, G. P. Nolan,
Nature Biotechnology, 2012, 30, 858-867. DOI: 10.1038/nbt.2317

Examining changes in cellular communication in neuroendocrine cells after noble metal nanoparticle exposure, S. A. Love, Z. Liu and C. L. Haynes,
Analyst, 2012, 137, 3004-3010. DOI: 10.1039/C2AN00034B

Detection of SERS active labelled DNA based on surface affinity to silver nanoparticles, M. M. Harper, J. A. Dougan, N. C. Shand, D. Graham and K. Faulds,
Analyst, 2012, 137, 2063-2068. DOI: 10.1039/C2AN35112A

Towards a safe non-invasive method for evaluating the carbonate substitution levels of hydroxyapatite (HAP) in micro-calcifications found in breast tissue, M. M. Kerssens, P. Matousek, K. Rogers and N. Stone,
Analyst, 2010, 135, 3156-3161. DOI: 10.1039/C0AN00565G

Monitoring intracellular nitric oxide production using microchip electrophoresis and laser-induced fluorescence detection, E. R. Mainz, D. B. Gunasekara, G. Caruso, D. T. Jensen, M. K. Hulvey, J. A. Fracassi da Silva, E. C. Metto, A. H. Culbertson, C. T. Culbertson and S. M. Lunte,
Anal. Methods, 2012, 4, 414-420. DOI: 10.1039/C2AY05542B

Measuring P2X1 receptor activity in washed platelets in the absence of exogenous apyrase, K. B. Anderson, W. Karunarathne and D. M. Spence,
Anal. Methods, 2012, 4, 101-105. DOI: 10.1039/C1AY05530E

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23rd ICP-MS User Meeting and 10th Symposium on Mass Spectrometry Methods for Trace Element Analysis

29 Oct 2012

The 23^rd ICP-MS User Meeting was held jointly with the 10^th Symposium on Mass Spectrometry Methods for Trace Element Analysis on September 10-12 at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Tulln, Austria. The meeting is a biannual event of analytical chemists held in Germany/Austria/Switzerland. This year it was organized by Thomas Prohaska, Stephan Hann, Johanna Irrgeher, and member of the editorial board Gunda Köllensperger.

Attendees listening to a talk (picture by VIRIS lab).

Over 120 attendees discussed fundamentals, applications, and future trends in ICP-MS. The meeting was a great venue for scientific exchange between ICP-MS users in academia and industry as well as instrument manufactures. Over the course of three days, young investigators and established scientists presented highlights of their research and discussed cutting-edge topics and challenging issues in 30 oral and 17 poster presentations. Lectures were held in three main sessions, materials testing, biological applications, and environmental applications. Instrument manufactures had the opportunity to present features and benefits of their ICP mass spectrometers in a dedicated vendor session and the exhibition hall. Posters could be assessed for the entire period of the user meeting with scheduled poster sessions to meet the authors.

We are very much looking forward to the next ICP-MS User Meeting, which will we held in Germany in 2014. Daniel Pröfrock and his team will organize the event at the Helmholtz Centre in Geesthacht.

Bastian Franze and Carsten Engelhard

Take a look at some recent papers from the meeting organizers:

Accurate quantification of mercury in river water by isotope dilution MC-ICP-SFMS and ICP-QMS detection after cold vapour generation,
Lisa Fischer, Marion Brunner, Thomas Prohaska and Stephan Hann, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012,27, 1983-1991.

Sulfur containing amino acids – challenge of accurate quantification,
Evelyn Rampler, Thomas Dalik, Gerhard Stingeder, Stephan Hann and Gunda Koellensperger,J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2012,27, 1018-1023.

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The Second China-US Analytical Chemistry Workshop Held in Beijing

20 Sep 2012

The 2^nd China-US Analytical Chemistry Workshop was held on September 14-15^th, at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. The workshop is a China-US bilateral meeting of analytical chemists, supported by the Chinese National Nature Science Foundation and the American Chemical Society. It focuses on the discussion of the latest trends in analytical chemistry. The first US-China Analytical Chemistry meeting was held at Purdue University in West Lafyette in the summer of 2010, organized by Prof. R.G. Cooks and Zheng Ouyang. Over 50 prominent analytical chemists from both countries attended the workshop.

The 2^nd China-US Analytical Chemistry Workshop was organized by Prof. Xinrong Zhang and Prof. Jinming Lin in Analysis Center of Tsinghua University, and was hosted by Department of Analytical Chemistry, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). About 100 people from 14 units of US and 42 units of China attended the workshop. Prof. Qiankun Zhuang (NSFC), Prof. Kelsey Cook (US NSF), Prof. Yukui Zhang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics), Prof. Jonathon Sweedler (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign), Prof. Paul Bohn (Notre Dame University), Prof. R. Graham Cooks (Purdue University, USA.), Prof. Isiah Warner (Louisiana State University), Prof. Chunhai Fan (Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, CAS), Prof. Rena Robinson (Pittsburgh University), Prof. Yanyi Huang (Peking University), Prof. Lane Baker (Indiana University), Prof. Xingyu Jiang (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology), Prof. Steve Jacobson (Indiana University), Prof. Zongxiu Nie (Institute of Chemistry, CAS) and Prof. Lihua Zhang (Dalian Institue of Chemical Physics, CAS) gave speeches at the workshop. In addition, a discussion on research trends in analytical chemistry, infrastructure and instrumentation, the status of analytical post-graduate education, and how the community can help to raise the profile of publications in analytical science was carried out.

The two-day conference has been committed to bring leading scientists and young scientists together to discuss their current research and built informal networks with their peers that may lead to lifetime collaboration and scientific achievement. Furthermore, it has sought to forge better ties between analytical chemists working in the two countries, and to promote the well-being of the discipline of Analytical Chemistry in the future.

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JAAS Poster Prize: 2012 Asia-Pacific Winter Conference

14 Sep 2012

We are pleased to announce that the JAAS Poster Prize from the recent 2012 Asia-Pacific Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Jeju, Korea has been awarded to Ms. Hae-Jin Jung from Inha University Korea.

Ms Jung’s Poster was on the topic “Single particle analysis by the combined use of quantitative ED-EPMA, Raman microspectrometry, and ATR-FT-IR imaging techniques”.

Congratulations Hae-Jin!

For those who attended the conference, we hope that you managed to make it home safely!

Don’t forget to submit your article to the JAAS themed issue which will include articles presented at the conference. The submission deadline for this is 1st October, and articles can be submitted through the journal website, www.rsc.org/jaas.

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SciX Final Program now Online-Late-Breaking Poster Submission Deadline is September 15

05 Sep 2012

The final program for the SciX 2012 Conference presented by the FACSS societies can now be found online: http://www.scixconference.org/index.php/program/final-program. The conference will be held in Kansas City, MO from September 30-October 5.

Attendees are encouraged to make their hotel arrangements soon. The SciX conference special hotel rate is set to expire on September 10, 2012. After that deadline, the conference cannot guarantee rooms in the conference hotel (Sheraton Crown Center) where the symposia and exhibition will be held. Take advantage of the reduced hotel rates now! Book online through the SciX website!

Authors have until September 15 to submit late-breaking poster abstracts online at http://www.scixconference.org. Poster abstracts will be included in a supplement to the final program- and late breaking posters are eligible for all poster awards!

Dr. Steven J Ray

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The Second Atomic Spectroscopy Symposium of China Held in Shenyang

29 Aug 2012

The Second Atomic Spectroscopy Symposium of China was held on Aug, 19-21, at Shenyang, Liaoning, China. It was organized by Northeastern University, which was sponsored by The Atomic Spectroscopy Professional Committee of China Instrument and Control Society. More than 100 people from 44 units including National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), various universities and companies attended the symposium.

The symposium was organized by Prof. Jianhua Wang from Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Northeastern University. The Chairman was Prof. Guibin Jiang (Academician of CAS, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences), and the Vice Chairmen were Prof. Qiankun Zhuang, Prof. Xinrong Zhang, Prof. Pengyuan Yang, Prof. Xiuping Yan, Prof. Bin Hu, Prof. Xiandeng Hou, Prof. Jianhua Wang and Prof. Qiuquan Wang. Prof. Qiuquan Wang chaired the opening ceremony, and Prof. Liang Zuo (Vice President of Northeastern University) gave an opening speech. In addition, Prof. Qiankun Zhuang (The Director of Analytical Chemistry, NSFC) and Prof. Pengyuan Yang (Fudan Univeristy) gave speeches at the opening ceremony.

There were 3 plenary lectures imparted by Prof. Benli Huang (Academician of CAS, Xiamen University), Prof. Guibin Jiang (Academician of CAS) and Prof. Qiankun Zhuang. The symposium included 8 sessions, 23 invited lectures, 17 oral presentations and 35 poster presentations. This is an important professional symposium on atomic spectroscopy in China, which provided an opportunity for the academic exchange and will promote the development of atomic spectroscopy in China.

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