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Welcome to the February issue of EVISA's Speciation Newsletter !
More than a week ago we came back from the European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry in Ljubljana. That was an event very nicely organized and the more than 500 participants greatly enjoyed to meet friends and colleagues from around the world after a long period of virtual meetings. Speciation analysis was an important topic of the conference with two sessions dedicated to speciation and two sessions dedicated to nanoparticle analysis (altogether 25 presentations). The speciation part was opened by Joanna Szpunar from Pau (France). In here plenary lecture she mentioned also the role of EVISA as an important information source for the speciation community during the last 20 years.
While the EVISA web portal with more than 17000 pages is the most important information source for all those interested in trace element and speciation analysis, google and other search engines for a long time have devaluated the site because of missing HTTPS protocol and other formal reasons. Since we have modernized our server in September last year, it seems that search engines have re-evaluated the site. In December and January, we have seen nearly twice as much visitors in comparison to months before.
Speciation analysis is of great importance, whenever the health risks related to non-essential elements in foodstuffs has to be evaluated. Mushrooms are known to accumulate trace elements from the soil into their fruit-bodies in cluding cadmium, lead, mercury and arsenic. It is also known, that arsenic speciation is quite different for different mushroom species. While there is no legislation for arsenic in mushrooms, it is important to know the arsenic content and speciation in mushrooms often consumed. A group of researchers from the University of Graz have now investigated the arsenic speciation in the most popular cultivated and wild-grown edible mushrooms in central Europe (see the news blow). Fortunately, they found no health risk for consumers of mushrooms related to arsenic.
The next conferences of importance for the speciation community are the PittCon (Philadelphia, March 18-22, 2023) and the ANAKON (Vienna, April 11-14, 2023).
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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.
Unfortunately, this month we have not seen any publication related to speciation analysis of general interest. In case that you feel that we missed something, we would be happy to receive a notification.
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.
Arsenic species in edible mushrooms from central Europe
A group of researchers from the University of Graz have investigated the arsenic speciation in the most popular cultivated and wild-grown edible mushrooms in central Europe.
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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.
ICBIC20: 20th International Conference on Biological Inorganic ChemistryDate: July 16,2023 - July 21,2023
Location: Adelaide Convention Centre, Australia
February 6,2023 Submission of abstracts
February 20,2023 Notification of acceptance
Goldschmidt 2023
Date: July 9,2023 - July 14,2023
Location: Lyon, France
March 1,2023 Submission of abstracts
May 31,2023 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.
PittCon 2023: 73th Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy
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Philadelphia, PA
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18.03.2023 - 22.03.2023
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ANAKON 2023
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Vienna, Austria
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11.04.2023 - 14.04.2023
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DGMS 2023: 54th Annual Conference of the DGMS
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Dortmund
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14.05.2023 - 17.05.2023
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71st ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics
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Houston, Texas
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04.06.2023 - 08.06.2023
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NAWLA 2023: 4th North American Workshop on Laser Ablation
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University of Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
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05.06.2023 - 09.06.2023
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16th ISABC: 16th International Symposium on Applied Bioinorganic Chemistry,
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Ioannina, Greece
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11.06.2023 - 14.06.2023
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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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University of Insubria in Como (Italy9: Frontal Chromatography ICP-MS for the speciation analysis of mercury
The research group on trace element speciation at the University of Insubria in Como (Italy) has an open position for a 12 month postdoctoral fellowship related to “Frontal Chromatography ICP-MS for the speciation analysis of mercury”
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Lorraine University: Modelling metal binding to environmental humic nanoparticles
The group ‘’Physical Chemistry and Reactivity of Surfaces And interfaces’’ (PhySI) of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Continental Environments (LIEC) at the University of Lorraine has an open position for an 13-Month Postdoctoral fellowship related to "Modelling metal binding to environmental humic nanoparticles: theory and application to data interpretation".
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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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