By Heather Hobbs


BRINGING YOU THE LATEST NEWS & EVENTS FROM THE SCIENCE INDUSTRY Young Chemists Can Now Apply for the ‘Metrohm Young Chemist Award’


In 2018, Metrohm AG will celebrate their 75 anniversary. To mark the occasion, young chemists can now submit their research in a competition that will award cash prizes to the winners as well as an invitation to the company’s headquarters in Switzerland to present their work there.


On 1st April 2018, it will be 75 years since Metrohm was founded in Herisau, Switzerland by the engineer Bertold Suhner. What started as small workshop on the premises of an old textile mill has steadily grown to become the world’s number one maker of instruments for wet chemical analysis. Since the company’s foundation in 1943, Metrohm has remained independent and firmly committed to benefitting customers with superior Swiss quality and outstanding support. Metrohm is owned by the non-profit Metrohm Foundation established in 1982 by Bertold Suhner and his


fellow owners of Metrohm AG, Hans Winzeler and Lorenz Kuhn, to safeguard the independent future and spirit of his company.


With the Metrohm Young Chemist Award, Metrohm wants to appreciate young scientists around the world and the contribution they are making with their work to improve scientific development.


The Metrohm Young Chemist Award is open to university students in many countries, where Metrohm is present with a local subsidiary. Detailed information about the conditions of participation applying in each country is available on www. metrohm.com/en/company/news.


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42nd International Symposium On Capillary Chromatography and the 15th GC×GC Symposium


Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology 2018 - Call for Entries


The 42nd ISCC and 15th GC×GC Symposia will be held at the Palazzo dei Congressi, in Riva del Garda, Italy, from 13th - 18th May 2018.


Over the years, the ISCC has established its reputation as a forum for microcolumn separation techniques. Since the first meeting in Hindelang in 1975, the most important developments in capillary gas chromatography, microcolumn liquid chromatography and electromigration techniques have been presented in this symposium series. The format and the atmosphere of the 42nd meeting will be similar to the previous meetings, this year with particular emphasis on mass spectrometry (MS).


Past meetings have been held in Hindeleng, Riva del Garda, Monterey, Baltimore, Gifu, Kobe, Wintergreen, Park City, Las Vegas, Dalian, Albuquerque, Portland and San Diego. This year the “Palazzo dei Congressi” in Riva del Garda, Italy, will accommodate the 42nd meeting. The six-day event will feature recent findings from leading academic and industrial experts in the form of lectures and posters. Apart from the most recent advances in the fields of pressure and electrodriven microcolumn separation techniques and comprehensive two- dimensional gas chromatography (2D GC), this year particular emphasis will be directed to all Comprehensive Separation Technologies in combinations of capillary chromatography and 2D GC with various forms of MS from unit-mass to high resolution and from single to hybrid analysers.


The conference offers sessions on capillary GC, microcolumn liquid chromatography (LC), electromigration methods and microfabricated analytical systems, which are expected to cover lab-on-a-chip, column technology, coupled and multidimensional techniques, comprehensive techniques, hyphenated techniques, sampling and sample preparation, trace analysis and automation. Application sessions include environmental applications, energy/petrochemical/industrial applications, biomedical/pharmaceutical applications and the analysis of natural products, food, flavours and fragrances.


Workshop seminars of instrument manufacturers and an extensive exhibition of instrumentation, accessories and


supplies will run in parallel to the scientific programme.


At the meeting, the 2018 Marcel Golay Award sponsored by PerkinElmer, will be presented in recognition of outstanding contributions in the field of separation science. The Leslie Ettre award, also sponsored by PerkinElmer, will be presented to a young scientist for research on capillary GC applied to environmental or food analyses. The Giorgio Nota award, sponsored by Waters, will be presented to a scientist in recognition of a lifetime of achievement in capillary LC. The John Phillips Award, sponsored by LECO, will be awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of GC×GC analysis. The GC×GC Lifetime Achievement Award, also sponsored by LECO, honours an experienced GC×GC scientist who has made significant contributions to the field.


At the symposium Elsevier, Chromaleont and the Interdivisional Group of Separation Science of the Italian Chemical Society (Italy) will promote scholarships for young researchers.


For more information please visit www.chromaleont.it/iscc; Email: iscc@chromaleont.it


To encourage scientific exchange and friendship building, the scientific programme will be enhanced with the well-known “Riva Social Programme”, which consists of a welcome reception, cocktail party, classical concert, wine and cheese evening and farewell cocktails. Considering the interest in comprehensive techniques, the 15th GC×GC Symposium will be organised during the same period to allow scientists to attend both meetings. The 15th GC×GC Symposium will start on 13 May 2018 with a course presented by experts in the field covering the fundamental aspects of comprehensive techniques and a plenary session on 14 May 2018. For both meetings, abstracts for consideration as lecture or poster presentations can be submitted on-line at http://www. chromaleont.it/iscc. All abstracts will be reviewed on the basis of scientific merit, novelty and practical application.


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Eppendorf and the journal Science are now accepting applications for the 2018 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology. This annual international research prize of US$25,000 is awarded to young scientists for their outstanding contributions to neurobiological research based on methods of molecular and cell biology. Researchers who are not older than 35 years are invited to apply by 15 June 2018. The winner and finalists are selected by a committee of independent scientists, chaired by Science’s Senior Editor, Dr Peter Stern.


The 2017 prize was won by the Italian scientist Flavio Donato, PhD from the Kavli Institute of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim for his research on how neural networks mature during development to represent space in the brain.


For more about the prize and film interview with Flavio Donato, go to www.eppendorf.com/prize.


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