Meetings
ASMS in Portland The 44th American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics will be held May 12-16 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. The conference will feature daily plenary lectures, oral and poster sessions, workshops, and short courses on all aspects of MS. Registration will be held Sunday from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Oregon Convention Center. Rates are $140 for members, $75 for student members, $230 for nonmembers, and $120 for student nonmembers. There will be 21 workshops offered during the meeting and five short courses prior to the meeting. The ASMS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Mass Spectrometry will be presented to Burnaby Munson of the University of Delaware and Frank Field of Rockefeller University on Thursday, May 16. In the course of their research on ionmolecule reaction kinetics, Munson and Field recognized that the characteristic product ions formed in ion-molecule reactions of methane and trace levels of additives could be used to identify the additive molecules based on only a few peaks. The resulting technique chemical ionization MS was the first of the soft ionization techniques and is still widely used to solve analytical problems For further information on registration orhousine* contact ASMS 1201 Don Diego Ave Santa 87505 (505-9894517; fax 505-989-1073) 316 A
Program Sunday, May 12 Registration MS Tutorials Welcome Mixer
Monday, May 13 Plenary Lecture: The Chilling Story of an Atomic Identity Crisis: BoseEinstein Condensation in a Gas. Carl E. Wieman Oral Sessions Electrospray and MALDI of Large Molecules Emerging Methods for Biomedical Applications History of Various Mass Separation Techniques Reactions of Gas-Phase Ions Moving MS Out of the Lab: In Situ, On-Line, and Portable MS Applications New Developments and Applications in Inorganic MS Workshops Afternoon Poster Sessions
Tuesday, May 14 Plenary Lecture: Ion Games in a Magnetic Gymnasium: Attomoles to Megadaltons. Alan G. Marshall Oral Sessions Electrospray and MALDI of Small Molecules MS in Pharmacology and Toxicology TOF Methods for DNA Sequencing Host-Guest Interactions Direct Sampling MS: Fundamentals and Applications
Analytical Chemistry News & Features, May 1, 1996
Frontiers in Isotope Ratio Measurements Workshops Afternoon Poster Sessions
Wednesday, May 15 Plenary Lecture: Biomedical MS: Blood, Sweat, and Urine. Catherine C. Fenselau Oral Sessions Fundamentals of MALDI MS-Based Strategies for Characterizing Biomolecule-Ligand Interactions Ion Traps: Fundamentals and Applications Ion Structure and Energetics MS and DNA Adducts: Environmental Carcinogens? Human Dosimetry? Energy and Petrochemicals Workshops Afternoon Poster Sessions
Thursday, May 16 Plenary Lecture: Prehistoric Cave Art at Vallon. Jean Clottes Oral Sessions Fundamentals of Electrospray Cellular Recognition and Signal Transduction Fast Separations/MS FT-MS Environmental MS Mass Spectrometric Characterization of Synthetic Polymers Workshops Afternoon Poster Sessions Plenary lecture and reception: Address by the recipients of the 1996 ASMS Award for Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry. Burnaby Munson and Frank Field
