Invitation to the European Mass Spectrometry Conference (EMSC) 2018
On behalf of the French and German mass spectrometry societies - La Société Française de Spectrométrie de Masse (SFSM) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Massenspektrometrie (DGMS) - we have the great pleasure to invite you to the European Mass Spectrometry Conference (EMSC), taking place between 11 to 15 of March 2018. The EMSC incorporates the 35th SFSM and the 51st DGMS annual mass spectrometry conferences. For the first time, the SFSM and DGMS are organizing a joint conference on mass spectrometry and its applications. This conference is open to any MS scientist worldwide, with a focus on mass spectrometrists from Europe, to attend this joint French/German initiative. We hope that other national MS societies from Europe will continue this format in the future, to foster a regular European MS exchange.
This meeting will be held from Sunday evening, 11 March, through Thursday after lunch, 15 March 2018 in Saarbrücken (Germany), which is right on the border to France. Saarbrücken is located in the heart of Europe, easily accessible from almost everywhere in Europe. There will be several short courses on Sunday before the conference officially opens on 11 March.
We will have 12 plenary lectures, 18 sessions of contributed talks, accompanied by poster presentations, and an instrument vendor exhibition in the field of mass spectrometry and its applications. This is a unique opportunity to build new or reinforce existing scientific exchanges and collaborations, and to create new links at the European and international level. The conference equally welcomes scientists from academia, government, industrial and non-profit research organizations, instrument vendors as well as the industry and the private sector, working on fundamental research, instrumentation, sample preparation, data processing and applied aspects of mass spectrometry.
We hope to see you in Saarbrücken at the EMSC 2018.
Sincerely,
Frédéric Aubriet, Vincent Carré and Dietrich Volmer, Conference Chairs
on behalf of the organizing committee
Official languages
The official languages of the EMSC 2018 are English, French and German
In order to facilitate the scientific exchanges between all participants
the lectures, keynotes and oral communications should be presented in English. Slides should also be written in English,
for poster presentations, English is strongly encouraged (even if it is possible to use French or German).
Plenary Lectures
Alain van Dorsselaer (Wolfgang Paul Lecture), France
Philippe Schmitt Kopplin, Germany
Arnaud Delcorte, Belgium
Gert von Helden, Germany
Gérard Hopfgartner, Switzerland
Thomas Kraemer, Switzerland
Liam McDonnell, Italy
Ljiljana Pasa-Tolic, United States of America
Saskia van Ruth, Netherlands
Zoltan Takats, London, United Kingdom
Pierre Thibault, Canada
Joelle Vinh, France
Topics
Fundamental of MS
Instrumentation
Ionization techniques
Ion activation
Ion chemistry
Health and Disease
Pharmaceutical applications
Nutrition
Environment
Clinical mass spectrometry
Diagnostics
Omics
Metabolomics and Fluxomics
Lipidomics
Proteomics and PTM
Data processing / Data integration / Statistical approaches
Imaging MS
Targeted and non-targeted analysis
Geochemistry
Petroleomics and astrochemistry
Preparative MS and separation methods
Polymers/ synthetic molecules
Structural identification and annotation
Doping
Forensics
Local organizing committee - Scientific committee
Marc Angotti Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Frédéric Aubriet LCP–A2MC, Université de Lorraine, France
Vincent Carré LCP–A2MC, Université de Lorraine, France
Patrick Chaimbault LCP–A2MC, Université de Lorraine, France
Cédric Guignard Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Carsten Hopf ABIMAS, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Emmanuelle Leize-Wagner LSIMS, Université de Strasbourg, France
Hans H. Maurer Experimental & Clinical Toxicology Department, Saarland University, Germany
Markus R. Meyer Experimental & Clinical Toxicology Department, Saarland University, Germany
Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg Fachbereich Chemie, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
Cédric Paris LIBio, Université de Lorraine, France,
Dietrich Volmer Institute of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Saarland University, Germany
Important dates
The programme and the abstracts are available here
