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Welcome to the March issue of EVISA's Speciation Newsletter !
We apologize that this month Speciation Newsletter is one week late. The coronavirus pandemic has change all our lives drastically, starting from working from the home rather than in the office and as everyone else, we are trying to do the most important things first.
For those of you, who can find the time to follow our Speciation newsletter, we would like to report about two new publications, related to mercury speciation analysis. The first one is reporting about the possibility to use dried blood spots (DBS) for mercury speciation analysis (see the news below). While we have observed, that mercury can easily be lost from some sample types during drying, a group of North American researchers report that DBS can be used for quantitative mercury speciation analysis. The reason for such stability seems to be the fact that mercury species in blood are complexed by low and high molecular thiols, preventing volatilization during the drying and storage of dried blood samples.
In order to investigate such complexes with thiols, researchers from Sweden and Vietnam developed a sensitive and selective method for their speciation analysis. Using an online preconcentration technique, they were able to reach limits of detection at the pM level and could identify some low molecular thiol complexes with methylmercury in the extracellular milieu of an important HgII methylating bacterium, Geobacter sulfurreducens PCA (see the news below).
As can be
seen from EVISA's diary of events, all events until May are either
canceleed, postponed or modified to take place only on the internet.
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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 information 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.
Determination of methylmercury complexes with low molecular mass thiols
Researchers from Sweden and Vietnam developed a sensitive and selective method for the speciation of methylmercury-thiol complexes found in the extracellular milieu of methylating bacteria.
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Mercury Speciation Analysis of Dried Blood Spot Samples
North American researchers investigated, whether human dried blood spot (DBS) samples can be used for mercury speciation analysis.
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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.
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EWLA2020: 15th European Workshop on Laser Ablation
Date: July 7,2020 - July 10,2020
Location: Bern, Switzerland
April 15,2020 Early registration at reduced fee
April 15,2020 Submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations
May 15,2020 Notifification of acceptance
June 15,2020 Submission of abstracts for late poster presentation
Please do not hesitate to inform us in case that your conference related to speciation analysis is missing in our Agenda.
SETAC Europe 30th Annual Meeting
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Virtual
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03.05.2020 - 07.05.2020
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ISCC 2020: 44th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography
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Riva del Garda, Italy
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24.05.2020 - 29.05.2020
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68th ASMS Conference
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Houston, Texas
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31.05.2020 - 04.06.2020
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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
Europe: Mercury Biogeochemistry
The EU H2020 programme is financing a Marie-Curie training network on 'mercury biogeochemistry' over the next four years (2020-2023). A total of 15 PhD positions are open throughout Europe on a variety of topics, some including ICPMS or mass spectrometry.
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Postdoctoral
U.S. FDA: PostDoc with experience in single particle ICP-MS
The US Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (College Park, Md) seeks a postdoctoral analytical chemist with experience in single particle ICP-MS.
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IPREM, Pau, France: Environmental Sciences
The scietific team around Marie-Pierre Isaure at IPREM (Pau, France) is looking for a postdoctorial fellow that will work on both imaging and spectroscopy.
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University of Crete: Marie Curie Fellowship
The group of Spiros A. Pergantis is currently seeking junior or experienced post-docs with an excellent track record in Analytical, Bioanalytical or Physical Chemistry, that are eligible and willing to apply for a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowship. The group has hosted 5 Marie Curie postdoctoral fellows so far and has the expertise to prepare competitive research proposals under the MSCA scheme for the following research project:
“Ion Mobility Spectrometry on-line with Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry: A New Analytical Tool for Studying Physicochemical Matrix Effects Occurring in an Inductively Coupled Plasma, for Determining Metal Containing Nanoparticles and Metalloproteins”
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CEA-Saclay: Development of a nuclearised instrumental platform and associated methods to analyse actinide-peptide species of interest in nuclear toxicology
A Post-doctoral position is open in the Department of Physical Chemistry at CEA-Saclay (10-20 km near Paris).
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Other
LGC, Teddington, UK: Researcher Inorganic Mass Spectrometry (6702)
LGC is offering a position for a researcher joining its Inorganic Analysis team.
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Nestle, Lausanne, Switzerland: Minerals & Metals Specialist
Nestlé Research is seeking a Minerals & Metals Specialist to support its research strategy.
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Glass Expansion: European Operations Manager
Glass Expansion is a world leader in the design, manufacture and support of sample introduction system for ICP-OES and ICP-MS. It is establishing a new European office and distribution centre in Weilburg, Germany to provide technical and logistical support to our existing OEM, distributor and end-users around Europe. This newly created position is available for someone to set-up the new facilities, engage the team and then manage the new organization.
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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 290 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 2800 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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