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Welcome to the October issue of EVISA's Speciation Newsletter!
Three weeks ago American wine made it again into the headlines. Relatively high arsenic concentrations were found in red wines from different wine regions in the US. In March already Californian white wines were identified to have high arsenic content. While the news were telling that one should not panic since anyhow there are other sources for dietary intake, epidemiologists have identified wine as an important source for arsenic exposure (see the news below).
While arsenic in food is not regulated in Europe, mercury in fish is limited to 1 ppm. Fish is the most important source for human exposure to methylmercury which is over 100 times more toxic than mercury. Interestingly, an EU position paper dated 29 May 2015, proposes a weakening of the current strict limits for toxic mercury in foodstuffs and, therefore, a worsening of consumer health protection throughout the EU.
In order to better understand the metabolism of organomercury compounds, their transport and distribution in the organism, researchers from the University of Münster have studied the binding partners of mercury compounds in human blood. Besides the hemoglobin, carbonic anhydrase was found to form adducts with organomercury compounds (see the news below).
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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.
New mercury transporting protein in human blood identified
Researchers from the University of Münster (Germany) identified carbonic anhydrase as a mercury transporting protein in human blood
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High Levels of Arsenic in American Wines
A new University of Washington study that tested 65 wines from America's top four wine-producing states -- California, Washington, New York and Oregon -- found all but one have arsenic levels that exceed what's allowed in drinking water.
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EVENTS
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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.
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ICMG - 2016: 6th International Conference on Metals in Genetics, Chemical Biology and Therapeutics
Date: February 17,2016 - February 20,2016
Location: Bangalore, India
October 20,2015 Notification of acceptance
October 31,2015 Early registration at reduced fee
Please do not hesitate to inform us in case that your conference related to speciation
analysis is missing in our Agenda.
4th International Conference on Selenium in the Environment and Human Health
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Sao Paulo, Brazil
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17.10.2015 - 20.10.2015
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ISTERH 2015: Recent Advances in Trace Element Research in Health and Disease
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Dubrovnik, Croatia
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18.10.2015 - 22.10.2015
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RAFA 2015: 7th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis
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Prague, Ctzech Republic
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03.11.2015 - 06.11.2015
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2016 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry
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Tucson, United States
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10.01.2016 - 16.01.2016
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ICMG - 2016: 6th International Conference on Metals in Genetics, Chemical Biology and Therapeutics
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Bangalore, India
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17.02.2016 - 20.02.2016
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PittCon 2016: 45th Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy
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Atlanta, GA, United States
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06.03.2016 - 11.03.2016
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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
Umeå University: Mercury Biogeochemistry
Umea University, Department of Chemistry has an open position for a PhD student in the field of mercury biogeochemistry.
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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 280 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 2750 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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