Swiss Group for Mass Spectrometry
Schweizerische Gruppe für Massenspektrometrie

Groupe suisse de spectrométrie de masse
Gruppo svizzero di spettrometria di massa

SGMS Meeting 2001

The 2001 Meeting of the SGMS was held on 25 and 26 October 2001 at the Hotel Chaumont et Golf near Neuchâtel.

Hotel Chaumont et Golf

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Programme

Thursday 2001-10-25
14:00 - 14:10 Opening
 Session 1, Chair: Raffaele Tabacchi
 14:10 - 15:10 Daniel Gerber, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel
Mass independent single molecule detectors for mass spectrometry.
 15:10 - 15:30 Martin Resch, Shimadzu Schweiz GmbH, Reinach
Fundamental design principles of a MALDI-TOF for high throughput sample analysis.
 15:30 - 15:50 Gérard Bondoux, Waters European Headquarter, St Quentin Yvelines, France
Using the mass spectrometer for triggering a fraction collector. Various aspects of MS directed autopurification.
15:50 - 16:10 Ludovica Verzegnassi, Nestlé Research Centre, Lausanne
Challenges in food trace analysis by LC-MS/MS: sulfonamides in honey.
16:10 - 16:30 Coffee Break
 Session 2, Chair: Marc Suter
16:30 - 17:30 Giovanni Sindona, Univ. della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy; sponsored by Agilent Technologies
The effect of nucleoside proton affinities on the formation of zwitterionic oligonucleotides.
 17:30 - 17:50 Stefan Schürch, University of Bern, Bern
Gas-phase dissociation of mixed-sequence RNA/DNA oligonucleotides.
17:50 - 18:10 Christian Guenat, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel
The Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer (FTMS) - Is this powerful analytical tool ripe for chemists and biochemists in the pharmaceutical industry?
18:10 - 18:15 Break
18:15 - 19:15 General Assembly
19:15 - 20:30 Aperitif sponsored by Brechbühler AG
20:30 - ?? Conference Dinner
Friday 2001-10-26
 Session 3, Chair: Laurent Fay
09:00 - 10:00 Andy J. Taylor, University of Notthingham, UK
APCI-MS for rapid and dynamic measurement of flavour release.
10:00 - 10:20 Vittorio Raverdino, Agilent Technologies, Geneva
Atmospheric pressure photoionization (APPI): Selective or complementary ionization technique for LC/MS?
10:20 - 10:40 Stephan Brombacher, University of Basel, Basel
Advantages and problems of the analysis of di-carbonyl-DNPH derivatives with HPLC-MSn using APCI(-).
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
 Session 4, Chair: Andreas Staempfli
11:00 - 12:00 Rafael Abela, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen
Research opportunities at the Swiss Light Source - SLS.
12:00 - 12:20 Martin Kohler, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Dübendorf
Characterization of ageing products of ester based synthetic lubricants by LC/ESI-MS, ESI-MS/MS and HR-EI-MS.
12:20 - 12:40 Grid Laue, Syngenta Crop Protection, Basel
Metabolic profiling as a diagnostic tool for mode-of-action identification (MoA) in herbicide research.
12:40 - 13:00 Felix Friedli, MSP-Friedli, Koeniz
Important additions to computer assisted spectra evaluation.
13:00 - 13:10 Closing remarks

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