Micromass Users’ Meeting at ASMS From: “Beaty, Tom” Newsgroups: sci.techniques.mass-spec Subject: Micromass Users’ Meeting at ASMS Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 19:57:35 -0400 Micromass will be holding a Users’ Meeting at ASMS. Besides keynote speakers of general interest, there will be breakout sessions on various specific topics and also a service and support forum. Continental …
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The deadline for ASMS extended abstract submission is May 29. Abstracts must be submitted using the abstract submission Web page. Note that embedded figures can be in color. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format, but Microsoft Word or Word Perfect (Windows or Mac OS) documents can be submitted. You may need Adobe Acrobat (the …
The ASMS 2002 Thermo Finnigan Customer Forum is Sunday June 2, at Sea World in Orlando.
Sequenom Q1 Revenue Up on Increased Costs, Widened Losses (Stock Symbol SQNM)
The Matrix Science Workshop at ASMS will be held at the Marriott on Sunday June 2nd from 8 to noon. Note that Matrix Science is now a hardware company and CPU clusters have now entered the realm of mass spectrometry hardware.
ABI stock was downgraded on weak overall Q3 revenues even though MS instrument sales were up 28% over last year (with triple quad sales most notably strong).
Five of the initial eight articles in the new American Chemical Society Journal of Proteome Research are related to MS. This is good news for MS in general, but thins the paper supply in the already crowded MS journal field.
The Washington Post and Motley Fool weigh in on the Applera reorganization. The Fool-ish take seems to have ABI with the long and Celera the short end of the Applera stick.
The Desorption Ionization Interest Group Meetingat ASMS, organized by John Allison, is tentatively scheduled Monday June 3 during the lunch break. The focus will be “Analysis of Non-covalent Complexes by ESI and MALDI: Why are these experiments so hard to do?” See the ASMS Interest Group page for more information.
Today, reorganization at Applera followed by negative market reaction. Meanwhile, Waters has been having a small rally in April. What a difference a few weeks makes.
There is no indication on the Montreux LC/MS Conference page when abstracts are due for the November 6-8, 2002 meeting, but there is contact information and an e-mail list signup.
The ASMS Conference Registration deadline is April 19th. Overflow hotels are the Courtyard Marriott Village at Lake Buena Vista, the Fairfield Inn at Lake Buena Vista, and the Spring Hill Suites at Lake Buena Vista. You could also try your luck at other nearby hotels if you are so inclined.
Here’s and article on DNA chips from the CBS News site.
The Web site for the Orlando World Center Marriott, site of the 50th Annual ASMS Conference, has a large set of panoramic views. You’ll need a plug-in for ipix format and a reasonably fast internet connection.
This just in from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry: 50th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry June 2 – 6, 2002 Orlando, Florida CONFERENCE HOTEL Marriott World Center, Rate: $146. Rooms at the Marriott are SOLD OUT. OVERFLOW HOTELS – shuttle buses will be provided. These hotels are new and surround a common plaza. There …
The 900 MHz wide-bore NMR was delivered to PNNL last month.
The intrepid David Sparkman reports from Pittcon in this month’s JASMS. Contact ASMS if you deleted the e-mail containing the secret password needed to access e-JASMS on-line.
I’m still amazed by the Babel Fish translator, especially for pages that don’t even display properly on a standard US browser. Japanese to English translation is quite good, for example the Yokohama City University Mass Spectrometry Laboratory. Chinese to English does not appear to be as good, but the ideas come across as in this …
The Gyros Microfluidic CD is a sort of spinning microextraction disk for MALDI. It comes with its own sample prep juke box, but as yet no slot loading MALDI to play your biomolecular greatest hits.
Babel Fish translation of this site is now possible by clicking on the appropriate flag icon on the left side of the page. To get an idea of the power of this tool, take a look at the Spanish Mass Spectrometry Society, the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan, or the German Mass Spectrometry Society Web …