WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, MORNING

8:00-8:55 Breakfast (provided) - Ballroom B-C

Plenary Session/ Conference Opening– Ballroom A.

Organizer and Chair: Kelly LeBlanc (National Research Council Canada)

9:00 Conference Opening. Kelly LeBlanc

9:15 Gerhard Herzberg Award Presentation. Kelly LeBlanc, President of CSASS

9:20  (I001) Gerhard Herzberg Award Lecture: DETECTION OF LITHIUM PLATING AND ION DYNAMICS IN LITHIUM ION CELLS REVEALED BY MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY. Gillian Goward, McMaster University

10:00 Coffee Break - Ballroom B-C

10:40 Burgener Research Graduate Student Travel Award John Burgener on behalf of Burgener Research.

10:45 (I003) Burgener Research Graduate Student Travel Award Lecture: AN AZOMETHINE-H-BASED FLUOROGENIC SENSOR FOR FORMIC ACID Mark Potter, University of Windsor

11:15 PerkinElmer Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy Award presentation. Aaron Hineman on behalf of PerkinElmer

11:20 (I002) PerkinElmer Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy Lecture: DESIGNER MATERIALS AND SMARTPHONE DEVICES FOR BIOANALYSIS Russ Algar, University of British Columbia

12:00 Lunch (provided) – Ballroom B-C

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, AFTERNOON

NMR– Richelieu

Organizer and Chair: Gang Wu (Queen’s University)

13:20 (I025) NMR Christian Detellier Memorial Symposium: Tamer Elbokl, Rod Wasylishen, John Ripmeester, Victor Terskikh, Glenn Facey

14:00 (I026) WALK THE (ULTRAWIDE)LINE: UNRECEPTIVE NUCLEI REVEAL THEMSELVES Robert W. Schurko, Florida State University & National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

15:00 Coffee Break - Ballroom B-C

15:40 (I027) Showcasing Solid-State NMR as a Sensitive Probe of MOF Structure and Chemistry Yining Huang, Western University

16:20 (I028) SOLID-STATE CHLORINE-35/37 NMR OF PARAMAGNETIC COBALT(II) COMPOUNDS Lukas Bauder, Queen’s University

18:00 Cocktail Reception at the Canadian Museum of Nature


Separations/Mass Spectrometry– Chaudiere

Organizers and Chairs: Maxim Berezovski (University of Ottawa) and Andrei Drabovich (University of Alberta)

13:20 (I029) METABOLIC PHYNOTYPINNG IN CHRONIC DIEASES Oleg Mayboroda, Liden University Medical Center

14:00 (I030) SPINAL CORD LIPIDOMIC REMODELING ACROSS SIX MOUSE MUTANT STRAINS MONITORED BY MASS SPECTROMETRY IMAGING Pierre Chaurand, Université de Montréal

14:40 (I031) CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS-MASS SPECTROMETRY BASED METABOLOMICS APPROACHES FOR VOLUME-RESTRICTED BIOMEDICAL STUDIES Rawi Ramautar, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research

15:00 Coffee Break - Ballroom B-C

15:40 (I032) HIGH THROUGHPUT LIPIDOMICS BY MULTISEGMENT INJECTION-NONAQUEOUS CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS-MASS SPECTROMETRY Philip Britz-Mckibbin, McMaster University

16:20 (I034) Development of LC-FAIMS-MS workflow for lipidomics study Jianjun Li,National Research Council Canada

18:00 Cocktail Reception at the Canadian Museum of Nature


Speciation– Panorama

Organizers: Helen Lord and Diane Beauchemin (Queen’s University)

Session Chairs: Helen Lord and Yulianna Holowaty (Queen’s University)

13:20 (I036) CHROMIUM SPECIATION USING MODIFIED GRAPHENE (A 2D-NANOMETERIAL), A BATTERY-OPERATED MICROPLASMA AND A PORTABLE, FIBER-OPTIC SPECTROMETER Vassili Karanassios, University of Waterloo

14:00 (I037) SPECIATION OF SELENIUM AND CHROMIUM IN DRINKING WATERS USING AN INERT HPLC AND DRC-ICP-MS Aaron Hineman, PerkinElmer

14:20 (I038) COMPREHENSIVE GAS CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF VOLATILE SELENIUM SPECIES Dirk Wallschläger, Wilfred Laurier University

14:40 (I039) FULLY AUTOMATED INLINE ELEMENTAL SPECIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL, CLINICAL, AND NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS C. Derrick Quarles Jr., Elemental Scientific Inc.

15:00 Coffee Break - Ballroom B-C

15:40 (I040) UPDATE AND EXTENSION OF FDA METHOD EAM 4.11 FOR IMPROVED ANALYSIS OF ARSENIC SPECIES IN NON-RICE BASED BABY FOODS Sean D. Conklin, United States Food and Drug Administration

16:00 (I041) SPECIATION OF ARSENIC IN FRESHWATER FISH USING LIQUIDCHROMATOGRAPHY AND MASS SPECTROMETRY X. Chris Le, University of Alberta

16:20 (I042) SPECIATION OF ARSENIC IN GARDEN VEGETABLES FROM YELLOWKNIFE Andre Castillo, Queen’s University

16:40 (I043) SHOW THE ENVIRONMENT REMORSE WITH AN ALTERNATIVE PROTEIN SOURCE!SPECIATION ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVE PROTEIN SOURCES USING INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY Helen Lord, Queen’s University

18:00 Cocktail Reception at the Canadian Museum of Nature


Forensic Analysis– Capitale

Organizers and Chairs: Katie Moghadam and Diane Beauchemin (Queen’s University)

13:20 (I044) [KEYNOTE] RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY FOR FORENSIC PURPOSES: DETECTION, IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL STAINS AND GUNSHOT RESIDUE Igor K. Lednev, State University of New York, University at Albany

14:00 (I045) COMMERCIALIZING A PRODUCT FOR UNIVERSAL TRACE FORENSIC BODY FLUID IDENTIFICATION Alexis R. Weber, SUNY University at Albany

14:20 (I046) TRANSFER AND PERSISTENCE ANALYSIS OF GUNSHOT RESIDUE BY MP-AES AND ICP-MS Sanela Martic, Trent University

14:40 (I047) INTRODUCTION OF A TANDEM LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY-INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY TECHNIQUE FOR THE FORENSIC ANALYSIS OF SOLDER Katie Moghadam, Queen’s University

15:00 Coffee Break - Ballroom B-C

15:40 (I048) RAMAN AND FTIR MICRO-SPECTROSCOPY TO SOLVE HERITAGE FORGERY CASES: TWO EXAMPLES FROM SOUTH AFRICA AND CANADA Adelphine Bonneau, Université de Sherbrooke

16:20 (I050) VALIDATION AND EXPANSION OF SEX DETERMINATION METHOD THROUGH ANALYSIS OF HUMAN HAIR USING ELECTROTHERMAL VAPORIZATION COUPLED TO INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY Margaret MacConnachie, Queen’s University

18:00 Cocktail Reception at the Canadian Museum of Nature

Innovations from Manufacturers– Joliet

Organizers: Kelly LeBlanc (National Research Council Canada)

13:20 (I051) A CLOSER LOOK AT MASSHUNTER 5.2 FOR AGILENT ICP-MS & ICP-MS/MS – ICPMS METHODS AS EASY AS 1, 2 AND 3. R. Bastian Georg, Agilent Technologies Canada

13:40 (I052) THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA’S CERTIFIED REFERENCE MATERIAL PROGRAM Patricia Grinberg, National Research Council Canada

14:00 (I053) FAST, AUTOMATED MICROWAVE DIGESTION OF VARIOUS FOOD SAMPLES FOR TRACE METALS ANALYSIS Jessica Gilles, CEM Corporation

14:20 (I054) IN-SITU Rb/Sr BY LA-MC-ICP-MS/MS: THERMO SCIENTIFIC NEOMA MS/MS Peter Stow, Isomass Scientific Inc.

14:40 (I183) FAILURE ANALYSIS USING FT-IR AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS Peter Krygsman, Bruker Canada

15:00 Coffee Break - Ballroom B-C

15:40 (I056) DEVELOPMENT OF A SPECTRA LIBRARY FOR 78 ELEMENTS WITH THE REACTION GASES O2, N2O, CO2, NH3, CH3F AND CH4 Aaron Hineman, PerkinElmer

16:00 (I057) NEW SAMPLE PREPARATION AND AUTOMATION TOOLS FROM ELEMENTAL SCIENTIFIC Andrew Toms, Elemental Scientific Inc

16:20 (I058) THE IMPORTANCE OF ORTHOGONAL ASSESSMENT: ANALYSIS OF THERAPEUTIC ANTIBODIES USING MULTIPLE SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES Forrest Kohl, Infinite Scientific & JASCO Inc.

16:40 (I185) INNOVATIVE MICROWAVE INDUCTIVELY COUPLED ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA – OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETER (MICAP™-OES 1000) FLEXIBLE SAMPLE MATRIX AND FULL SPECTRUM ACQUISITION Eric Moen, Radom Corp.

18:00 Cocktail Reception at the Canadian Museum of Nature