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Dear Subscriber !
Welcome to the October issue of EVISA's Speciation Newsletter.
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deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) meanwhile affects around ten
percent of children worldwide. A new study led by Susan Korrick of
Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and Sharon Sagiv of
Boston University School of Public Health now shows that slight mercury
exposure during pregnancy could be linked to a higher risk of
ADHD-related behaviors (see the news below). This is just another
neurological disorder related to the strong neurotoxin mercury and its
organometallic species. The high toxic potential of these compounds is
one of the reason for the UNEP mercury treaty that is meant to ban the
industrial use of mercury in the future. The EU is one step ahead and
has now added another mercury compound (phenylmercury) to its
restriction list (see the news below).
Another toxic species,
namely inorganic arsenic comes often with food and drinking water.
Unfortunately no global restriction is limiting the arsenic content of
food. While most people believe arsenic in rice is a problem only in
contaminated areas of Bangladesh or China, this may not be fully
correct. The US FDA has now published the preliminary results of its
screening test for rice sold in the USA and has found inorganic arsenic
up to 250 ppb. At least for those who eat a lot of rice, the
recommendation is to vary the diet. More studies based on speciation
analysis are required to evaluate the human risk for inorganic arsenic
from different foods.
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NEWS
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EVISA is keeping you updated with what is going on in speciation analysis. In this section you will find news about the most current research results, about trends, legal issues and informations from manufacturers in the field of speciation analysis.
With all the links to further information and publications the News archive is a valuable collection of "hot topics" in speciation analysis. We continuously update even former news with new links and information so that all news are actual all the time.
The behavior of Gd-based contrast agents during wastewater treatment
Only about 10% of the gadolinium released into the waste water resulting from its use as MRI contrast agent is removed from the waste water stream. This is the result of a new study done by researchers from the University in Muenster (Germany).
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Prenatal mercury intake linked to ADHD
A new study shows slight mercury exposure during pregnancy could be linked to a higher risk of ADHD-related behaviors.
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EU publishes new ban on phenylmercury
September 19, 2012, ECHA updated the REACH Annex XVII (Restriction List) by including phenyl mercury compounds in the list (amendment No. 848/2012).
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Arsenic in Rice : First results from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
On September 19, 2012, the FDA released the first analytical results of nearly 200 samples of rice and rice products collected since in the U.S. marketplace.
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EVENTS
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With a list of about 50 current entries EVISA is informing you about interesting events and keeps you updated with their deadlines. By consulting our list of deadlines you won't miss the opportunity for early registration at reduced fee or the chance to submit your contribution in time.  more infos... Please recognize the following deadlines: ANAKON 2013, March 4,2013 - March 7,2013, Essen, Germany
October 25,2012 Submission of abstracts for oral presentations
October 25,2012 Submission of abstracts for poster presentationsISSPA 2013: 13th International Symposium on Soil and Plant Analysis
April 8,2013 - April 12,2013, Queenstown, New Zealand
October 30,2012 Submission of abstractsPlease do not hesitate to inform us in case that your conference related to speciation analysis is missing in our Agenda.
GMS 2012: 28. Jahrestagung der GMS 2012 Gesellschaft für Mineralstoffe und Spurenelemente e.V.
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11.10.2012 - 13.10.2012
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AsBIC-VI: 6th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference
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Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong, China
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05.11.2012 - 08.11.2012
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ISRANALYTICA 2013: the 16th Annual Meeting of the Israel Analytical Chemistry Society
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The David Intercontinental Hotel, Tel Aviv, Israel
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22.01.2013 - 23.01.2013
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European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry
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Krakow, Poland
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10.02.2013 - 15.02.2013
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ANAKON 2013
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Essen, Germany
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04.03.2013 - 07.03.2013
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XII International Symposium on Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine
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Punta del Este, Uruguay
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11.03.2013 - 13.03.2013
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Pittcon 2013
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Philadelphia,
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17.03.2013 - 21.03.2012
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canas 2013: Colloquium Analytische Atomspektroskopie 2013
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Freiberg, Germany
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17.03.2013 - 19.03.2013
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ISSPA 2013: 13th International Symposium on Soil and Plant Analysis
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Queenstown, New Zealand
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08.04.2013 - 12.04.2013
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ElCheMS 2: 2nd International Workshop on Electrochemistry/Mass Spectrometry
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Münster, Germany
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23.05.2013 - 24.05.2013
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VACANCIES
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EVISA provides information about open positions for Ph.D. students, PostDocs and permanent staff in the field of speciation. Looking to fill a vacancy or needing a new career challenge? Either way this service is FREE. Many laboratories and research facilities (from Greenland to Crete) have already found their highly educated stuff through this service by EVISA. If you would like to post an open position here, please contact us at info@speciation.net !
Doctorates
University of Warwick: Extreme Performance Mass Spectrometry of Metallodrugs
Two Warwick Collaborative Postgraduate Research PhD Scholarships are available from October 2012 in the groups led by Professor Peter Sadler FRS and Professor Pete O’Connor using ultra high resolution mass spectrometry to study the mechanism of action of organometallic and photoactivatable metal anticancer complexes.
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University of Pau, France: Cellular imaging of metal stress in fungi and/or algae by synchrotron XRF and NanoSIMS
This doctoral thesis will be performed in the context of a recently obtained excellence project (EQUIPEX MARSS) at the University of Pau where one axis of the project is the acquisition of a NanoSIMS.
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Postdoctoral
U.S. EPA, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Las Vegas: Detecting, Quantifying, and Characterizing Engineered Nanomaterials in the Environment
This research opportunity focuses on developing novel analytical
approaches to detect, quantify, and characterize engineered nanomaterials at environmentally relevant concentrations in real environmental matrices.
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DIRECTORY
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EVISA's directory of scientist is a versatile tool to facilitate contact with scientists in the field of speciation and related sciences. The directory is fully searchable for names, addresses, research topics etc. You should bookmark this directory as an always up-to-date address book. (In order to hinder SPAM robots for collecting the E-mail accounts, we hide them in a special format).
More than 275 active scientists in the field of speciation analysis already joined the directory. Join this great directory that is extensively linked to all type of other information on this site, such as homepages, conferences and literature.
If your entry is still missing in this directory, please contact us at info@speciation.net.
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LINKS
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EVISA provides an easy access to external information. Our database contains more than 2650 links to relevant information from numerous top scientific resources spread over the whole Web. The database is searchable both via full-text and categories such as elements, type of species and type of information. We are permanently updating our links section.
If your web site is missing here, please e-mail your link information to info@speciation.net.
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