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)

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, 1998

BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS—A PRIMER FOR MICROBIOLOGISTS

Robert J. Hawley and Edward M. Eitzen Jr.

Annual Review of Microbiology, 2001

ANTHRAX

Michèle Mock and Agnès Fouet

Annual Review of Microbiology, 2001

This just in from ASMS by broadcast e-mail:

ASMS registration and employment center

50th ASMS Conference

June 2 – 6, 2002

Marriott World Center, Orlando, Florida

REGISTRATION HOURS

Saturday, June 1: 1 – 5 pm

Sunday, June 2: 10 am – 8 pm

Monday – Wednesday: 7:30 am – 5 pm

CONFERENCE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU

There will be an on-line employment bureau.

You are encouraged to enter positions and resume

information in advance through the ASMS web site:

www.asms.org

Computers will be available to search databases at the conference.

CANDIDATES. If you are seeking a position, BRING at least

20 copies of your resume, in addition to registering on-line. Resumes

should be filed 3 – 7 pm on Sunday, June 2.

Be sure to register on-line BEFORE you arrive at the conference.

EMPLOYERS: You may search the candidate database on-line

and review the full resumes that will be on file.

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 Disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE) and related forms of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) given by Dr. Jacques Grassi of the Commissariat √ɬ† l’Energie Atomique (CEA) in Saclay, France (see brief abstract below). Dr. Grassi has been involved with the field of TSE diagnosis since 1996. He and his co-workers have developed a test for post-mortem diagnosis that was favorably evaluated by the European Commission in May 1999, and is widely used for systematic testing of cattle in slaughterhouses in Europe and Canada.

Title: Progress in Understanding BSE

Speaker: Dr. Jacques Grassi

Association: CEA, Saclay, France

Abstract: We have developed tests that have been for the diagnosis of BSE that are being used in the framework of epidemiological studies, as well as for the systematic testing of cattle at slaughterhouse. Following a brief overview on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), I will try to demonstrate how these tests allowed to improve the protection of consumers, the mad cow epidemic in Europe and its consequences in terms of public health as well as in economic terms.

FYI: An overview about BSE can be found on the issue of C&E; News of April 9, 2001 on Page 24.


JEOL User’s Meeting and Hospitality Suite at ASMS

From: cody@nojunkmail.jeol.com (Chip Cody)

Newsgroups: sci.techniques.mass-spec

Subject: JEOL User’s Meeting and Hospitality Suite at ASMS

Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:40:52 GMT

JEOL will be holding a User’s Meeting on Sunday June 2, 2002 in Orlando

Florida before the annual ASMS Conference. The meeting will be held

from 11:00 to 1:00 in the Key Largo Room at the Marriott Orlando World

Center Hotel, 8701 World Center Drive, Orlando, FL 328211-3. A buffet

lunch will follow from 1:00-3:00 pm in the Key Biscayne Room. All JEOL

customers are invited to attend. Please RSVP to Ms. Mary White at

978-535-5900, ext. 2219 or by e-mail to ms@jeol.com.

JEOL’s Hospitality Suite at the ASMS Conference will be open from 7:00

pm to 9:00 pm on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evening in the Boston

Room at the Mariott Orlando World Center Hotel. All conference

attendees are welcome to join us.



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