The Promise of Phage Display: Customized Affinity and Specificity
Virus particles, called phage, can be genetically engineered to manufacture and display various compounds on their surfaces. When large collections of phage are modified in this way, libraries of >1010 compounds can be produced and screened. Gregory A. Weiss and Reginald M. Penner of the University of California Irvine describe how this "phage display" machinery can be applied to sensors for analytes from Salmonella typhimurium to TNT.
Call for Symposia for Washington ACS Meeting August 2009 The 238th American Chemical Society National Meeting will be held in Washington DC from August, 16-20, 2009. The theme for this conference is Chemistry and Global Security: Challenges and Opportunities. Please contact the division program chair if you would like to suggest a topic and chair a session for contributed papers or alternatively, if you would like to organize a symposium. Symposia cosponsored with other Divisions will also be welcomed.
Division Strategic Plan updated
The Division of Analytical Chemistry Strategic Plan from 2006 has been updated. Comments and feedback will be welcomed by Carla Garic. We thank Chris Enke, a past Chair of the Division, for initiating the plan and for this update.
Fall 2008 Division Newsletter just published
The latest issue of the Newsletter is available here on the web. It features messages from the new Chair, Isiah Warner, the immediate Past Chair, Laurie Locascio, and the Chair of the Subdivision on Chromatography and Separations Chemistry, Susan Olesik; reports and photos from the Division Award sessions at the recent ACS Meeting; a salute to Dow Chemical Company on the 25th anniversary of its support for the Award in Chemical Instrumentation; and information on program plans for 2009.
Division abstracts for PittCon 2009 still being accepted
There will be five sessions for oral papers organized by the Division of Analytical Chemistry at PittCon in Chicago next March 8 to 13, plus a Division poster session. Abstracts can be submitted through December 31, 2008. Be sure to mark the abstract "ACS oral/poster" when it is submitted.
Updated: Division Members now receiving Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry Annual Reviews has published the
first volume of a new series devoted to analytical chemistry.
The Editors are Edward Yeung and Richard Zare. Division members are now receiving
their copy of the printed volume (free of charge) and will have on-line access to the series from
2008 on as part of the Division dues. (original version posted on May 30)
Using the analyticalsciences.org calendar Dear Analytical Division Members & Guests,
You may have noticed that on the Analytical Sciences homepage there is a Google calendar for Division and Patron/Partner events, as well as events of interest to the analytical sciences community. If you are coming to the website to find out about upcoming meetings or other events, please don't forget to take a quick look at the Google calendar for information about these events.
Also, if you are a Division patron/partner, you are able to post your public events on the Google calendar. All you need to do is login to the Google calendar from your patron/partner account and enter the event information. If you are a patron or partner of the Division, please do not hesitate to contact Steven Petrovic, Web Committee Chair for further information on posting events using Google calendar. Contact information may be located in the Committee Chairs selection under the Contact menu.
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