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25th Montreux Symposium on LC–MS

The 25th anniversary of the Montreux LC–MS symposium will be held at the Montreux Music and Convention Centre, Montreux, Switzerland from 12–14 November 2008.

The growing popularity of LC–MS is reflected by the participation of scientists from over 30 countries from a variety of research and development disciplines, including pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food and environmental.

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Resarchers involved in novel instrumentation and new LC–MS fields, such as nanotechnology and microfluidics, UPLC, low flow rate spray techniques, proteomics and systems biology will also be present. A special session on metabolomics in collaboration with the Metabolomics Society has also been organized, as well as a series of lectures on the future of this exciting technique.

The Roland W. Frei opening lecture will be delivered by Professor Ruedi Aebersold from the ETH Zurich with a presentation called LC–MS–MS Methods for the Discovery and Measurement of the Proteome. Professor Jack Henion — a pioneer in the filed of LC/MS — will give a talk on the History and Future Outlook for LC–MS. Quality of Life, an Integrated Future of Medicine and Nutrition Research: Challenges for LC–MS Technology will be addressed by Professor Jan van der Greef from TNO Quality of Life and the LACDR at Leiden University.

Aerosol—Cloud-Climate Interactions: Possibilities and Limits of Off-line and On-line Mass Spectrometric Techniques will be discussed by Professor Thorsten Hoffmann from the University of Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz; Professor Age Smilde from the University of Amsterdam will discuss LC–MS and Multivariate Analysis: a Happy Marriage?; and Professor Thomas Hankemeier from the LACDR and Netherlands Metabolomics Centre at Leiden University. will talk on Improving the Analytical Strategies for Metabolomics.

The full programme, including a full list of speakers and details on the poster session can be obtained at the website for the event (see contact details below).

The international Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry will be conferring the Roland W. Frei Award for the best poster presentation by a young scientist. The exhibition is key part of the conference and all major companies involved in LC–MS will be present to showcase what they offer chromatographers.

There is a series of short introductory courses running from 10–11 November to stimulate newcomers to the world of LC–MS, interpretation, sample pretreatment and multivariate statistics/chemometrics.

The scenic town of Montreux is located approximately 100 km east of Geneva along the north shore of Lac Léman and can be easily reached from Geneva's Cointrin Airport by rail or road (A1 freeway to Lausanne) A9 direction Vevey/Montreux). The Montreux Music and Convention Centre is located along the lake at 95, Grand Rue.

Website: www.iaeac.ch/lcms-monteux.html

E-mail: iaeac@bluewin.ch

Registration URL: https://www.event4you.net/evman/inscription_form.asp?FID=LCMS

9 October 2008

PerkinElmer OneSource Compliance Seminar

Old Trafford Football Ground, Manchester

Organizers: PerkinElmer

Contact: www.regonline.co.uk/OSOLDTrafford08

E-mail: onesource@perkinelmer.com

Website: www.perkinelmer.com/onesource

20–21 October 2008

International Light Scattering Colloqium 2008

Bacara Resort and Spa, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Organizers: Wyatt Technology

Contact: Lindsey McGowan

Address: Wyatt Technology Corporation, 6300 Hollister Avenue, Santa Barbara, California, USA.

E-mail: lmcgowan@wyatt.com

Website: http://www.wyatt.com/events/fff-malsfocusmeeting

20–22 October 2008

LABTECH Conference & Exhibition 2008

The Gulf International Convention and Exhibition Centre, PO Box 580, Kingdom of Bahrain, Manama, Bahrain

Organizers: Saudi Aramco Co., ACS, SAICSC-ACS and Bahrain Society of Chemists

Contact: Yaser Sonbul

Address: Saudi Aramco Co., Box# 7010, N/A Ras Tanura, 31311, Saudi Arabia

E-mail: vaser.sonbul@aramco.com

28–30 January 2009

SCM-4 — the 4th International Synposium on the Separation and Characterization of Macromolecules

Rhone Congress Centre in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Organizer: SCM-4 Conference Committee

Contact: Ordibo bvba

Address: Edenlaan 26, B-2610 Wilrijk (Belgium)

Tel: +32 58 523116

Fax: +32 58 514575

E-mail: cm@ordibo.be

Website: http://www.ordibo.be/scm

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