Canadian Society for Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy

PROPOSED SESSIONS

So far, the list of confirmed invited speakers in each symposium is as follow:

Agricultural and food safety
· Diane Beauchemin (Queen’s University, Canada)
· Fanny Hernandez (formerly at ANSES, France)
· Iris Koch (Royal Military College of Canada)
· Dominic Larivière (Université Laval, Canada)
· Bob Lockerman (CEM, USA)

Electrochemistry/surface analysis
· Dominik Barz (Queen’s University, Canada)
· Zhifeng Ding (Western University, Canada)
· Paul Duchesne (Queen’s University, Canada)
· Carlos Escobedo (Queen’s University, Canada)
· Jesse Greener (Université Laval, Canada)
· Zhe She (Queen’s University, Canada)
· Olena Zenkina (Ontario Tech University, Canada)
· Peng Zhang (Dalhousie University, Canada)

Environmental analysis
· Barbara Zeeb (Royal Military College of Canada)

Forensic analysis
· Igor Lednev (University at Albany, USA), Keynote Lecture: Vibrational spectroscopy for the detection, identification and analysis of biological stains for forensic purposes.

LA-ICPMS

Nanomaterials and their analysis
· Chad Cuss (Memorial University, Canada): Self-organizing maps for the detection and classification of natural nanoparticles and nanoparticle systems measured using single particle ICP-time-of-flight-MS
·Andreas Limbeck (TU Wien University, Austria): Advances in nanoparticle characterization using laser ablation single particle-ICP-MS

NMR
· David Bryce (University of Ottawa, Canada)
· Lindsay Cahill (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
· Yining Huang (Western University, Canada)
· Tong Mittermaier (McGill University, Canada)
· Jan Rainey (Dalhousie University, Canada)
· Steve Smith (Queen’s University, Canada)
· Amrit Venkatesh(University of Virginia, USA)
· Tuo Wang (Michigan State University, USA)
· Gang Wu (Queen’s University, Canada)

Sample introduction systems for the inductively coupled plasma
· Yoshitaka Takagai (Fukushima University, Japan): Ion Chromatographic Automatic Sample Introduction into ICP-MS/MS for Ultra-Trace Analysis and Application to Radioactive Nuclides Analysis

Separations/Mass spectrometry
· Steffany Bennett (University of Ottawa, Canada)
· Maxim Berezovski (University of Ottawa, Canada)
· Miroslava Cuperlovic-Culf (National Research Council of Canada)
· Alan Doucette (Dalhousie University, Canada)
· Asma Farjallah (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)
· Thomas Kislinger (University of Toronto, Canada)
· Sergey Krylov (York University, Canada): Leveraging Mass Spectrometry to Address Binding Study Inaccuracies: Implications for Drug Discovery
· Huiyan Li (University of Guelph, Canada)
· Jianjun Li (National Research Council of Canada)
· Lekha Sleno (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
· Dajana Vuckovic (Concordia University, Canada)
· Arash Zarrine-Afsar (University of Toronto, Canada)
· Richard Oleschuk (Queen’s University, Canada)
· Lekha Sleno (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
· Jeff Smith (Carleton University, Canada)
· Dajana Vuckovic (Concordia University, Canada)
· Karen Waldron (Université de Montréal, Canada)


Speciation Analysis
· Zuzana Gajdosechova (NRC Canada): Know what you vape: metal analysis in cannabis vape liquids
· Kevin Kubachka(U.S. Food and Drug Administration): Elemental Speciation at the FDA’s National Forensic Chemistry Center
· Derrick Quarles (Elemental Scientific, Inc.): Determination of Hg species in blood using a novel liquid chromatography, inline sample preparation, and post-column hydride generation system connected to an ICP-MS
· Jens Sloth (DTU National Food Institute): Trace element speciation analysis in foodstuffs – from research to regulation
· Hailey Yu (University of Alberta): Determination and speciation of selenium in fish from lakes affected by former open coal mines
· Mesay Wolle (U. S. Food and Drug Administration)
· Ben Wozniak (Brooks Applied Labs): Environmental applications of speciation analysis