PROPOSED SESSIONS

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

Advancements in Biomaterials, Nanostructured Materials, and Devices for Diagnostics, Therapeutics, and Beyond Agricultural and food safety

Agricultural and food safety
· Diane Beauchemin (Queen’s University, Canada) “New insight from measurements of the bio-accessibility of elements in rice using the continuous online leaching method with detection by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry”
· Chris Le (University of Alberta, Canada “Speciation of As in fish tissues”
· Jenny Nelson (Agilent, USA) “Elemental Characterization of Foods”

Chemical and Isotopic Speciation Analysis
 · Huy Dang (Trent University) "The mixed blessing of rare earth elements as critical minerals"
· Emanuela Gionfriddo (The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA) “Addressing the Challenge of Small Molecule Separation in Complex Samples through Sustainable and High-Throughput Microextraction Techniques”
· Holger Hintelmann (Trent University, Canada) "Mercury dynamics in contaminated river systems and thermokarst lakes”
· Vassili Karanassios (University of Waterloo, Canada) “Elemental speciation by optical emission microplasma spectroscopy: the case forchromium and arsenic”
· Iris Koch (Royal Military College of Canada)
· Kerri Miller (University of Calgary, Canada) “Copper isotopic composition of isolated ceruloplasmin from human serum”
· Ran Zhao (University of Alberta) “Identification of amines and amides using p-toluenesulfonyl chloride derivatization followed by LC-MS”
· Mesay Wolle (U. S. Food and Drug Administration) “Vitamin B12 determination in nutritional products and dietary supplements by HPLC-ICP-MS”

Electrochemistry/surface analysis
· Aichen Chen (University of Guelph, Canada)
· Brad Easton (Ontario Tech University, Canada)
· Iraklii Ebralidze (Ontario Tech University, Canada)
· Jasneet Karu (Brock University, Canada)
· Samuel Mugo (MacEwan University, Canada)
· Mohtashim Shamsi (Southern Illinois University, USA)
· Balaji Subramanian (Trent University, Canada)
· Liliana Trevani (Ontario Tech University, Canada)
· Olena Zenkina (Ontario Tech University, Canada)

Environmental analysis
 · Ela Bakowska (Corning, USA) “Analyzing automotive exhaust samples for heavy metals and other elements”
· Petra Krystek (Deltares, The Netherlands) “Environmental chemistry: Challenges and possible impact of elements and smallest particles”
· Erik Krogh (Vancouver Island University, Canada)
· Xing-Fang Li (University of Alberta, Canada)
· Vaughn Mangal (Brock University, Canada)
· Zoltan Mester (National Research Council of Canada)
· Andrea Raab (University of Graz, Austria)
· Nausheen Sadiq (Mount Royal University, Canada)
· Kevin Wilkinson (Université de Montréal, Canada)

Forensic analysis
 · Ruth Ann Armitage (Eastern Michigan University, USA)
· Claude Dalpé (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) “RCMP Trace Evidence Services : What we do, and what we don’t”
· Igor Lednev (University at Albany, USA)
· Sanela Martic (Trent University, Canada)
· Alexis Weber (University at Albany, USA)

LA-ICPMS and LIBS
 · Andressa Adame (INRS, Canada)
· Amina Hussein (University of Alberta, Canada)
· Derrick Quarles (Elemental Scientific Inc., USA) “Exploring the capabilities of LIBS and LA-ICP-MS for high-speed imaging”
· Mohamad Sabsabi (National Research Council of Canada)
· Pooja Suresh (Gastops, Canada)
· Steve Rehse (University of Windsor, Canada)

Miniaturatization and micro-plasmas

Nanomaterials and their analysis
 · Robert Clough (University of Plymouth, UK) “A fish tissue reference material certified for nanoparticles? Progress so far.”
· Edward Lai (Carleton University, Canada) “Capillary Electrophoresis and Liquid Chromatography of Organic Fluorescent Dyes for Detection of Nanoplastics in Water Quality Analysis
· Ruth Merrifield (PerkinElmer, Canada) “Strategies for improving the detection limits of selenium nanoparticles by single particle ICP-MS analysis”
· Chady Stephan (PerkinElmer, Canada) “Approaches and strategies for the detection and quantification of nano – microplastics by Single particle Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry”

NMR
 · Darren Brouwer (Redeemer University, Canada)
· David Bryce (University of Ottawa, Canada)
· Gillian Goward (McMaster University, Canada)
· Jim Harper (Brigham Young University, USA)
· Rui Huang (Guelph University, Canada)
· Yining Huang (Western University, Canada)
· Vlad Ladizhansky (Guelph University, Canada)
· Chad Rienstra (Wisconsin University, USA)
· Gang Wu (Queen’s University, Canada)

Sample introduction systems for the inductively coupled plasma
 · Yan Cheung (Agilent, USA) “Multielement Analysis of Single Cells and Microplastics by ICP-MS with Automated Micro-Flow Sampling”
· Derrick Quarles (Elemental Scientific Inc., USA) “State-of-the-art ICPMS sample introduction systems for nanoparticle, single cell, and elemental speciation”
· Kayo Yanagisawa (Japan Atomic Energy Agency) “Dual port chamber for ICP-MS in radionuclide analysis”

Separations/Mass spectrometry
 · Alan Doucette (Dalhousie University)
· Leonard Foster (University of British Columbia)
· Thomas Kislinger (University of Toronto)
· Sergey Krylov (York University)
· Huiyan Li (University of Guelph)
· Lekha Sleno (Université du Québec à Montréal)
· Jianjun Li (National Research Council Canada)
· Lekha Sleno (Université du Québec à Montréal)
· Arash Zarrine-Afsar (University of Toronto)
· Hongquan Zhang (University of Alberta)