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

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 √Ǭ† √Ǭ† Air Products & Chemicals William E. Wallace √Ǭ†NIST Polymers Division Charles M. Guttman NIST Polymers Division WHO SHOULD ATTEND Industrial, academic, and government researchers and practitioners interested …

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.

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 …

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√¢‚Ǩ‚ÄùA PRIMER FOR MICROBIOLOGISTS Robert …