2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Shared by MS/NMR ” … Mass spectrometry is a very important analytical method used in practically all chemistry laboratories the world over. Previously only fairly small molecules could be identified, but John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka have developed methods that make it possible to analyse biological macromolecules as well.” …

ASMS Fall Workshop Comparative and Functional Proteomics. What Is It and How To Do It November 7 – 8, 2002 Sheraton Hotel Boston, Massachusetts The deadline for registration is October 16. For details, please visit the ASMS web site www.asms.org ACCOMMODATIONS: Rooms may be booked at the Sheraton Hotel. Call (800) 325-3535. To obtain the …

Anniversary Symposium Liebig 2003 Bernhard Spengler is organizing a symposium on bioanaltical chemistry at Schloss Rauischholzhausen, May 12 – 15, 2003. Scheduled speakers include Rolf Apweiler, Charles Cantor, Franz Hillenkamp, Michael Karas, Bernhard K√ɬºnstler, Wolf Lehmann, Matthias Mann, Ingo Potrykus, Detlev Riesner, and Marvin Vestal. More information can be found at www.liebig2003.de, or if your …

If you are on the ASMS e-mail list, you will have learned that there was a slight mixup in the Fall Workshop brochure: the text for the fall 2002 program on proteomics was replaced with the fall 2000 program on FTICR. The corrected brochure can be downloaded from the ASMS Fall Workshop Web page.

The 20th Montreux Symposium on Liquid Chromatography / Mass Spectrometry will be held at the Marriott Riverfront, Savannah, Georgia, USA, October 15-17, 2003. The 19th Montreux Symposium on LC/MS will be held in at the Montreux Convention Center in Montreux, Switzerland November 6-8, 2002.

Drug Discovery & Development July/August 2002 Mass Spectrometers Move Toward Greater Versatility Three-dimensional quadrupole ion traps are now mating with multiple MS technologies to give researchers increased analytical vitality

U.S. News 2002 Graduate School Rankings in Analytical Chemistry 1. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2. Purdue University 3. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 4. Indiana University, Bloomington 5. Iowa State University

18th Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry Call for abstracts just in: Mass Spectrometry in Glycobiology and Glycochemistry October 18 – 22, 2002 The Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California Program Chairs: Julie A. Leary and Carlito Lebrilla, University of California Go for the science, stay for the golf.

E-mail today from ASMS: Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry 18TH Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry: “Mass Spectrometry in Glycobiology and Glycochemistry” Pacific Grove, CA, Oct 18 – 22, 2002 Program details and on-line registration are now available. Go to www.asms.org or call ASMS ASMS 2019 Galisteo Street, Building I Santa Fe, NM 87505 Phone: (505) …

PECASE Award Presented to Mass Spectrometrist Michael C. Fitzgerald, Assistant Professor at Duke University, received one of 60 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Bush on Friday.

Quantitation Workshop 2002 The ASMS Quantitation Interest Group will sponsor a workshop during the upcoming ASMS conference. The meeting will take place in Grand VI at lunchtime (12:15-1:30) on Thursday, 6 June. In addition, a short business meeting of the interest group will follow the talk. The workshop will feature a talk on Mad Cow …

The Shimadzu Biotech Technical Evening at the 50th Annual ASMS Conference will be held on June 1st from 5.30pm – 9.00pm in Crystal Ballroom G, Marriott Orlando World Center, Orlando, Florida. Registration is required.