Mass Spectrometry & Spectroscopy
Visiting the 37th BMSS Annual Meeting 13th-15th September 2016
BMSS Introduction to Mass Spectrometry Course 12th & 13th September 2016 The Winter Gardens, Eastbourne, UK Author: Trevor Hopkins, Editor Chromatography Today,
trevor@intlabmate.com
The 37th British Mass Spectrometry Society (BMSS) Annual Meeting and Introduction to Mass Spectrometry Short Course was held at the Winter Gardens, Eastbourne, UK from 12th to 15th September 2016. The meeting, exhibition and short course were organised by the BMSS.
History of BMSS
The formation of a specialist society formally began in 1964 after various iterations in the 1950’s and 1960’s under the names of the Hydrocarbon Research Group MS Panel and the Mass Spectroscopy Group; the latter was established to refl ect the need of the growing mass spectrometry community for a society to cover all aspects of mass spectrometry.
The fi rst formal conference of the BMSS took place in 1965 at University College, London and BMSS meetings have been held regularly every two years out of three since, in concert with the International Mass Spectrometry Conference (IMSC) which runs on the third year. BMSS has hosted the IMSC three times, in 1973 (Edinburgh), 1985 (Swansea) and 2003 (Edinburgh). A formal constitution for the BMSS was adopted in 1968. In the 1970s the Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group was established to further instrumental developments and fully incorporated with the Mass Spectroscopy Group as the ‘British Mass Spectrometry Society’. In 1980 BMSS was registered with the UK Charity Commission, which required it to have a more educational emphasis.
The historical attendances for the BMSS meetings, including smaller 2-day meetings that are held in the years of IMSC, are shown in Table 1. These numbers when compared to the membership numbers (Table 2) are very healthy and holding strong showing the obvious value and interest of the meeting.
Table 1. BMSS Annual Meeting Attendances
BMSS 2011 – City Hall Cardiff - 264 delegates. BMSS 2012 – Astra Zeneca, Alderley Park (smaller 2 day, single session meeting) - 190 delegates. BMSS 2013 – Winter Gardens Eastbourne – 272 delegates. BMSS 2014 – Astra Zeneca, Alderley Park (smaller 2 day, single session meeting) - 180 delegates. BMSS 2015 – University of Birmingham - 275 delegates. BMSS 2016 – Eastbourne Winter Garden – Attendance not available at press time
Table 2. BMSS Membership History
2010 – 719 members 2011 – 679 members 2012 – 631 members 2013 – 613 members 2014 – 577 members 2015 – 620 members
The Venue
This year the BMSS Annual Meeting returned to a very sunny, warm and pleasant Eastbourne at the same venue as the 2013 Annual Meeting. The Winter Gardens a Grade II listed building in Eastbourne, was designed in 1875 by Henry Currey and built by the seventh Duke of Devonshire as part of the Devonshire Park complex, together with the Devonshire Park Theatre and the Indian Pavilion. This historic building consists of two main parts - the Floral Hall, originally used as a skating rink in winter and concert hall in summer, and the Gold Room.
Both parts are now used for performances, cabaret style events, dinner dances and as a conference venue. The Congress Suite, utilised by BMSS, links the Floral Hall and the Congress Theatre providing undercover access for delegates. The parallel symposia sessions were held in the Gold Room and the Congress Suite with the welcome reception, exhibition, lunches and coffee breaks being held in the Floral Hall.
Figure 1. The 37th BMSS Annual Meeting Venue – The Winter Gardens in Eastbourne from the better side. (Photograph courtesy of BMSS)
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