The September 1 Analytical Chemistry cover strory is an article on Atmospheric Pressure MALDI by Susanne Moyer and Robert Cotter at Johns Hopkins.
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
WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
“QUANTITATIVE SYNTHETIC POLYMER MASS SPECTROMETRY“
NOVEMBER 7-8, 2002
Hosted by:
Polymers Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD
Chairmen:
Scott D. Hanton     Air Products & Chemicals
William E. Wallace  NIST Polymers Division
Charles M. Guttman NIST Polymers Division
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Industrial, academic, and government researchers and practitioners interested in the application of mass spectrometry to synthetic polymers and the fundamental aspects of recent developments in the quantitation of these results.
DESCRIPTION
Mass spectrometry is a rapidly evolving measurement technique for synthetic polymers.  It holds the promise of providing the absolute molecular mass distribution as well as quantitative end group, composition, and structural information.  To realize this promise presents challenges to researchers in all fields of polymer characterization.
This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from industry, academia, and government to present new results, discuss recent trends, and identify important problems in the area of quantitative mass spectrometry of synthetic polymers.  The format for the 1.5-day meeting will be 30-minute talks followed by informal discussion.  Talks will focus on methods of quantitation, including sample preparation, instrumental parameters, data analysis software, and analyte properties.  A special session will be held where workshop participants will be asked to present measurement problems they have encountered in their own work for comment and discussion by the other workshop participants.
Space is limited to 75 attendees.  Early registration is encouraged.  Pre-registration is required.  There is no on-site registration for this workshop.
REGISTRATION FEE $100
TO PRE-REGISTER OR FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact William Wallace at 301-975-5886 or by email:  william.wallace@nist.gov
Or visit for online registration:  www.nist.gov/conferences
LIST OF SPEAKERS AS OF  8/12/2002
MALDI Sample Preparation РKevin Owens (Drexel)  
Dry Grinding MALDI Sample Prep – Sarah Trimpin (Oregon State)
Chromatography And MALDI – Franz Mayer-Posner (Bruker)
Laser Ablation (Modeling) РBarbara Garrison (PSU )  
Detector Technology  - Bruce Laprade (Burle Electr-Optc)
Data Handling – Tony Kearsley (NIST )
Truly Monodispersed Polymers РShinichi Kinugasa (NMIJ , Japan)  
Copolymers (Intact Molecules) – M. Mutaudo (Catania)
Copolymers (PSD ) – Tony Jackson (ICI )
 
End Groups – Chrys Wesdemiotis (Akron)
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.
PDF ‘sample’ article available at Analytical Biochemistry: Internet Biomolecular Resources, Vol. 268, No. 2, March 15, 1999
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
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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.
The Analytical Chemistry Fundamental Reviews now has four mass spectrometry articles, a 400% increase from a few years ago. The articles are:
Current Application of Mass Spectrometry to Combinatorial Chemistry (Xueheng Cheng and Jill Hochlowski)
Environmental Mass Spectrometry: Emerging Contaminants and Current Issues (Susan D. Richardson)
Mass Spectrometry of Chemical Polymers (Charles N. McEwen and Patricia M. Peacock)
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (Diane Beauchemin)
Tecan’s Integrated Microfluidic System: data and chemistry on the same disk.
Annual Reviews made available the full text of ten review articles related to the September 11th terrorist attacks available without charge. These articles include the following relevant to mass spectrometry:
EXPLOSIVES DETECTION: A Challenge for Physical Chemistry
Jeffrey I. Steinfeld and Jody Wormhoudt
Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 1998BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS—A PRIMER FOR MICROBIOLOGISTS
Robert J. Hawley and Edward M. Eitzen Jr.
Annual Review of Microbiology, 2001ANTHRAX
Michèle Mock and Agnès Fouet
Annual Review of Microbiology, 2001
Desorption 2002 Conference Page
Desorption 2002 will be held at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado from September 1-5, 2002.
Biotech finance: Celera cuts 132 jobs (16% of workforce) and Waters stock upgraded to “Strong Buy”.
Drug Discovery & Development: Analyzing the Proteome With Mass Spectrometry
From the ASMS Employment Database:
Number of jobs = 268
Number occurrences ‘protein’ or ‘proteomics’ in job announcements = 265
The Advanced Chemistry Development ASMS 2002 Users’ Meeting will be held Sunday, June 2.
ASMS Extended Abstracts (Manuscripts) Due May 29
Formatting Info: http://www.asms.org/confASMS2002Manuscripts.php
Uploading: http://www.inmerge.com/aspFolder/ASMSAbstractUploadProcess.html