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Visiting the 36th BMSS Annual Meeting 15th-17th Sept 2015 BMSS Introduction to Mass Spectrometry Course 14th & 15th Sept 2015


University of Birmingham – Edgbaston, UK Trevor Hopkins, Editor Chromatography Today, trevor@intlabmate.com


The 36th British Mass Spectrometry Society (BMSS) Annual Meeting and Introduction to Mass Spectrometry Short Course was held at the University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK from 14th - 17th 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 declining 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. Table 2. BMSS Membership History


2010 – 719 members 2011 – 679 members 2012 – 631 members 2013 – 613 members 2014 – 577 members


The decline in BMSS members over the last fi ve years is likely attributable to the decline of the pharmaceutical industry in the UK and the erosion of dedicated mass spectrometry facilities coupled with the adoption of the Mass Spectrometer as a universal detector in HPLC and other separation techniques. The current trend to simple push button operation mass spectrometers, no longer needing a specialist to perform and evaluate the sample analysis, potentially will be a continuing factor in the decline of members.


The symposia took place in the Elgar Concert Hall in the Bramall Building and the University’s original, late-Victorian redbrick building, The Aston Webb building (pictured).


The Posters were positioned in two locations on the fi rst fl oor foyer of the Bramall Building and in the fi rst fl oor rotunda of the Aston Webb Building (pictured).


As usual, academia, industry and government were all well represented among the speakers and over 275 delegates were in attendance. The events were again accompanied by a one and a half day short course on 14th and 15th September which was designed, in keeping with the societies mantra to have a more educational emphasis, for novices to mass spectrometry who wanted to gain a solid understanding of the instrumentation, and who wanted to gain an awareness of the vast fi eld of applications. For current mass spectrometry users, this provided an excellent refresher to the theory and a means to keep abreast of recent developments and advances in a rapidly changing fi eld.


Course Content


The course covered the fundamental aspects of mass spectrometry, assuming an undergraduate level of basic science, but required no previous practical experience or knowledge of the technique.


Attendees were introduced to the basic concepts and terminology of mass spectrometry and learned about the most important ionisation techniques used in mass spectrometry such as electron ionisation, a range of atmospheric pressure ionisation techniques, some of the more recent ambient ionisation/direct analysis techniques and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ ionisation. They also discovered how mass analysers work, including quadrupoles, ion traps, time-of-fl ight and Fourier transform mass spectrometers (Orbitrap and FT ICR), plus how hybrid mass spectrometers enable the design of the widest range of MS experiments to solve analytical problems: from compound characterisation to quantifi cation.


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View of BMSS Annual Meeting Registration from the First fl oor rotunda of the Aston Webb Building


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