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The BMSS
special interest group on Stable Isotopes (BMSS ISO-SIG) will
hold its inaugural meeting at the University of Glasgow, University
Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK on 13th
and 14th January 2009
SIMSUG 2009, the annual meeting
of the UK IRMS users group,
will follow on 14th and 15th January 2009
Who coined the word, Isotopes?
The organising committee would like to thank our
industrial sponsors
for generously supporting BMSS
ISO-SIG and SIMSUG
2009
* Happy New Year *
Last Minute News!
We have been upgraded to larger rooms, still within the
university main building.
We are now meeting in Hunter Halls East : room A14 on the campus
plan on our web site:
http://www.suerc-conference.co.uk/bmss-simsug/index.html
PRESENTERS! Please ensure that your talks are in Powerpoint
2003 format or earlier!
We have now closed abstract submissions.
The two progammes include more than 50 exciting oral and poster presentations.
Final programmes are available at:
http://www.suerc-conference.co.uk/bmss-simsug/programme.html
A book of abstracts for each programme is also available
to download
See you in Glasgow!
Breaking News 18th December 2008
Abstract deadline extended!
Abstracts continue to arrive, but with
the hectic period before the holiday season, we have decided to extend
the abstract submission deadline until the end of December. For
abstract submission, see the 'PRESENTATION' link on the web site. We
are using a form for each meeting. Instructions are given for email
submission of completed abstracts.
Programmes will feature your original communications built around
a core of three invited presentations. Draft programmes are now available
through the PROGRAMME link on the web site. Both meetings will
feature your ~15 minute presentations.
Registration is through the BMSS,
follow the 'REGISTRATION' link on the web site or go directly to the
BMSS web site: http://www.bmss.org.uk/meetings.htm
The theme of the BMSS ISO-SIG meeting is the in vivo application
of stable isotope tracers, most likely using GCMS and LCMS techniques.
Rob Beynon (Liverpool) is to talk on current proteomics work
using stable isotopes. This session may naturally include original communications
using amino acids tracers and the measurement of protein synthesis, using GCMS
and LCMS.
Muriel Caslake (Glasgow) will present her work on lipoprotein
kinetics in a session that would naturally host other lipid work.
Roel Vonk (Groningen) will present his work on lactose intolerance
and include ongoing proteomics studies. This session may have a carbohydrate
metabolism theme.
Groups currently using stable isotopes and GCMS and LCMS are encouraged
to support the meeting and to compare methods, models and instrumentation.
The theme of the SIMSUG 2009 meeting is the measurement and interpretation
of natural variations of stable isotope abundance, predominantly using
Isotope Ratio MS.
James McCullagh (Oxford) will describe current work using
LC-IRMS in a session that would naturally include original communications featuring
other applications of compound-specific isotope analysis.
Simon Kelly (Institute of Food Research, Norwich) will describe
the application of Stable Isotopes in Studies of Food Authentication.
Melanie Leng (BGS, Keyworth) will discuss current work on
silicon and oxygen isotopes in a session that will likely include other 'inorganic'
applications.
Applications from geology, ecology, soil science, climate science,
forensics, drugs of abuse and food adulteration are also likely to feature
in a full programme of your original communications.
Breaking News 12th December 2008
We are pleased to announce a third keynote speaker for SIMSUG
2009! See below.
Draft programmes are now available through the 'PROGRAMME' link.
Send us your Abstracts!
Abstract submission is picking up, so don't
be late! See the 'PRESENTATION' link.
We are using a separate downloadable abstract form for each meeting.
Instructions are given for email submission of completed abstracts. Should
you wish to request a specific day for your presentation, please
indicate this when submitting.
Programmes for each meeting will feature your original communications
built around a core of three keynote presentations. Following the
successful format of SIMSUG, both meetings will feature your ~15 minute presentations.
A number of additional sponsors have
kindly agreed to support the meetings. Web sites can be visited
through links on their logos on our web site.
Registration is through the BMSS,
follow the 'REGISTRATION' link
or go directly to the BMSS web site: www.bmss.org.uk/meetings.htm
The theme of the BMSS ISO-SIG meeting is the in vivo application
of stable isotope tracers, most likely using GCMS and LCMS techniques.
Rob Beynon (Liverpool) is to talk on current proteomics work
using stable isotopes. This session may naturally include original communications
using amino acids tracers and the measurement of protein synthesis, using GCMS
and LCMS.
Muriel Caslake (Glasgow) will present her work on lipoprotein
kinetics in a session that would naturally host other lipid work.
Roel Vonk (Groningen) will present his work on lactose intolerance
and include ongoing proteomics studies. This session may have a carbohydrate
metabolism theme.
Groups currently using stable isotopes and GCMS and LCMS are encouraged
to support the meeting and to compare methods, models and instrumentation.
The theme of the SIMSUG 2009 meeting is the measurement and interpretation
of natural variations of stable isotope abundance, predominantly using
Isotope Ratio MS.
James McCullagh (Oxford) will describe current work using
LC-IRMS in a session that would naturally include original communications featuring
other applications of compound-specific isotope analysis.
Simon Kelly (Institute of Food Research, Norwich) will describe
the application of Stable Isotopes in Studies of Food Authentication.
Melanie Leng (BGS, Keyworth) will discuss current work on
silicon and oxygen isotopes in a session that will likely include other 'inorganic'
applications.
Applications from geology, ecology, soil science, climate science, forensics,
drugs of abuse and food adulteration are also likely to feature in a full programme
of your original communications.
Second Announcement, 15th November 2008
Call for abstracts for BMSS
ISO-SIG and SIMSUG
2009!
Abstract submission and Registration for BMSS
ISO-SIG and SIMSUG 2009 are now in place.
Please follow the links below.
First Announcements, October 2008
BMSS Stable Isotope SIG Meeting (BMSS ISO-SIG),
January 2009
The first meeting of the newly-formed BMSS special interest group
on stable isotopes (BMSS ISO-SIG) will be held in Glasgow on 13th and
14th January 2009. BMSS ISO-SIG will run until lunchtime on 14th January,
with the annual meeting of the UK Isotope Ratio MS users group, SIMSUG,
commencing after lunch and ending on 15th January. You and your colleagues
are very welcome to attend both meetings.
The main them of this meeting will be the in vivo application
of stable isotope tracers. Human, animal, plant and microbial applications,
from single cells to ecosystems, will all be welcomed. A wide
interest in target analysis to study the flux of key metabolites and
macromolecules is anticipated, but the organisers also wish to encourage
studies of micronutrients, hormones, mediators and xenobiotics using
stable isotope tracers. Although 'omics techniques are the remit of
other BMSS SIG's, such as Biological MS, the organising committee will
invite speakers from the 'omics community to illustrate their work
using stable isotopes.
Registration for both meetings will be through the BMSS, while a
web site at SUERC will host information, a programme and submitted
abstracts. The launch of the registration system and the web site will
be announced through this email list. Please broadcast the meetings
to colleagues who may be interested in attending!
For now, can I encourage you to consider the material that you or
a member of your group would like to present in January? As is the
case with SIMSUG, the organising committee will invite a small number
of keynote speakers, but the majority of the programme will be created
from original communications submitted in abstract from. We would be
particularly keen to encourage original communications from postgraduate
students, in either oral or poster form. Registered students who are
BMSS members will be eligible to apply for a travel grant.
SIMSUG 2009, January 2009
SIMSUG 2009 will be held in Glasgow on 14th and 15th January 2009.
On this occasion SIMSUG will be preceded by a meeting of the newly
formed BMSS special interest group on stable isotopes which will run
from 13th January to lunchtime on 14th January (BMSS ISO-SIG). SIMSUG
sessions will start after lunch. You are very welcome to attend both
meetings. The BMSS meeting will focus on the use of stable isotope
tracers and MS techniques other than IRMS. To help integrate
this theme with SIMSUG, the local organising committee will try to
encourage compound-specific applications to be presented in the first
session at SIMSUG, after lunch on Wednesday 14th January. Please
put SIMSUG in your diary and broadcast these meetings to your colleagues.
The BMSS have agreed to administer these two meetings and to maintain
an email list of delegates for both. Registration for SIMSUG will thus
be cheaper for BMSS members. Registered students who are BMSS members
will be eligible to apply for a travel grant. When the registration
system and the web site have been launched this will be announced through
the new email list. Registration will be on-line through the BMSS web
site. An abstract form and eventually, the programme and book of abstracts,
will be downloadable from the web site. Please start to think of the
material you would like to present in oral or poster form at one or
both meetings. Thermo Instruments have kindly agreed to be main sponsor
for both meetings.
Previous meetings
SIMSUG 2007 was hosted by the University of Newcastle: www.ceg.ncl.ac.uk/simsug/
Organising Committee
Tom Preston, Stable Isotope Biochemistry Laboratory, SUERC
Gary McCaw, Duncan Guthrie Institute of Medical Genetics, Yorkhill NHS
Trust, Glasgow
Jason Newton, NERC Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry Facility, SUERC
Susan Waldron, Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow
Douglas Morrison, Stable Isotope Biochemistry Laboratory, SUERC
Roland Bol, BBSRC, North Wyke
Gavin O’Connor, BMSS Meetings Secretary, LGC
Sandra Small, Stable Isotope Biochemistry Laboratory, SUERC
Anna Upton,
BMSS Administration Officer
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