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Conferences, Meetings and Events
Details on happenings, past and future, in person and online.
BMSS Ambient Ionisation SIG Meeting 2024
[Posted: 26 October 2023]
The meeting will be a celebration of ambient ionisation mass spectrometry featuring presentations from the key founders of this area with a historical and forward-facing view of the area.
Direct real time analysis of sub picogram levels of pesticides in drinks
[Posted: 18 September 2023]
Pesticides are widely used in agriculture to control pests and improve food security and yields. However, they are also toxic to humans and so are regularly monitored in foods and beverages to protect consumers. Safe levels of pesticides in many products are not based on human health thresholds but on minimum reporting levels of analytical instruments at levels of approximately 1 ppb (1 pg ul-1 or 1 pg g-1). Food and beverage matrices can be challenging and so often require lengthy clean-up which leads to long processing times. Research question: Is it possible to use TD-GC-MS to differentiate by material?
Rapid Screening of Submicroliter Urine Samples for Drugs of Abuse utilizing Pulsed Gas Ambient Ionization
[Posted: 3 May 2022]
Rapid detection of trace drugs-of-abuse in urine is demonstrated using a pulsed gas direct analysis in real time ambient ionization equipped time-of-flight mass spectrometer. Submicroliter sampling combined with analysis at multiple temperatures serve to minimize the matrix effects normally encountered in direct analysis of urine without pre-processing to remove salts, proteins, metabolic products including creatinine and urea.
Simplifying the detection of explosives in a walk-up environment
[Posted: 3 May 2022]
The composition of volatiles from freshly ground roast-ed coffee is complex, with hundreds of chemical compounds contributing to the aroma. Head-space solid-phase micro-extraction was used to sample volatiles from five different coffees for analysis by GC-MS. Chemometric analysis revealed specific differences between coffees from different origins and different preparations.
BMSS41 – Sheffield 8th – 9th September 2021
[Posted: 15 April 2021]
BMSS41 will feature a compact two day (one night) format in Sheffield for 2021.