UPCOMING EVENTS

DATES TO REMEMBER

ABRF members and Corporate Sponsors are encouraged to make announcements about pertinent meetings, workshops, or courses that are beneficial to our members and open to the public. Send items to be listed to Daniel J. Strydom, BioNebraska, Inc., 3820 NW 46th St., Lincoln, NE 68524-1637 (Tel: 402-470-2100; Fax: 402-470-2345; email: strydom@inetnebr.com).

1999

Sept 18-21 11th International Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference, Miami Beach, Florida. Contact: TIGR Science Education Foundation Conference Office, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850-3319; Tel: (301) 838-3509 or 838-3515; Fax: (301) 838-0229.

Sept 19-23 3rd European Symposium of The Protein Society, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Contact: R. W. Newburgh, Ph.D., 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814; Tel: (301) 571-0662; Fax: (301) 571-0666 (email: newburgh@protein.faseb.org).

Sep 23-24 The Future of Functional Genomics, Proteomics and Pharmacogenomics for Drug Discovery, San Diego, California. Contact: Customer Service Department, Institute for International Research (IIR), P.O. Box 102914, Atlanta, GA 30368-2914; Toll-Free: (888) 670-8200; International Calls: (941) 951-7885; Fax: (941) 365-2507 (email: register@iir-ny.com; WWW: http://www.iir-ny.com).

Sep 27-29 113th AOAC International Annual Meeting Exposition, Houston, Texas. Contact: AOAC International, 481 North Frederick Avenue, Suite 500, Gaithersburg, MD 20877-2417; Tel: (301) 924-7077; Fax: (301) 924-7089 (email: meetings@aoac.org; WWW: http://www.aoac.org).

Oct 19 3rd International Symposium on ProteoGenomics, San Francisco, California. An official satellite event of the American Society of Human Genetics 49th Annual Meeting, October 19-23, 1999, San Francisco, California. Contact: California Separation Science Society, Tel: (650) 876-0792; Fax: (650) 876-0793 (email: info@casss.org; WWW: http://www.casss.org).

Oct 24-29 26th Annual Conference of Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, Vancouver, British Columbia. Contact: Division of Analytical Chemistry, FACSS; Tel: (505) 989-1648; Fax: (505) 989-1073 (WWW: http://facss.org/info.html).

Oct 26-28 20th Annual Conference of the Analytical Laboratory Managers Association, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois. Contact: Analytical Laboratory Managers Association, 1201 Don Diego Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87505; Tel: (505) 989-4683; Fax: (505) 989-1073 (email: p.a.m.-jw@ix.netcom.com).

Oct 31-Nov 3 19th International Symposium on the Separation of Proteins, Peptides, and Polynucleotides--ISPPP '99, Delray Beach, Florida. Contact: Janet Cunningham, Barr Enterprises, P.O. Box 279, Walkersville, MD 21793; Tel: (301) 898-3772; Fax: (301) 898-5596 (WWW: http://www.zorbax.com/isppp).

Nov 4-5 International Quality Issues Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Contact: Barbara Sherman, PACS, Inc., 409 Meade Drive, Coraopolis, PA 15108; Tel: (800) 367-2587 or (724) 457-6576; Fax: (724) 457-1214 (email: hnpacs@aol.com; WWW: http://members.aol.com/hnpacs/pacs.htm).

Nov 14-19 Eastern Analytical Symposium, Garden State Convention Center, Somerset, New Jersey. Contact: Eastern Analytical Symposium, P.O. Box 633, Montchanin, DE 19710-0633; Tel: (302) 738-6218; Fax: (302) 738-5275.

2000

Jan 9-12 4th Symposium on the Analysis of Well Characterized Biotechnology Pharmaceuticals, San Francisco, California. Contact: Karen Bertani, CaSSS, 156 South Spruce Avenue, Suite 207A, South San Francisco, CA 94080-4556; Tel: (650) 876-0792; Fax: (650) 876-0793 (email: kbertani@casss.org; WWW: http://www.casss.org/wcbp).

Jan 22-29 LabAutomation-2000, Palm Springs, California.Contact: Amy Thompson, University of Virginia, Box 572 HSC, Charlottesville, VA 22908; Tel: (804) 924-9430; Fax: (804) 924-5718 (WWW: http://labautomation.org).

Feb 9-11 6th International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography--HTC-6, St. John's Conference, Bruges, Belgium. Contact: HTC-6 Congress Secretariat, Ordibo bvba, Lucas Henninckstraat 20, B-2610, Wilrijk (Antwerp), Belgium; Tel: +32 (3) 561 2831; Fax: +32 (3) 827 8439 (email: smitsr@pophost.eunet.be, WWW: http://www.ordibo.be/htc).

Feb 19-22 ABRF 2000, Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, Washington. Contact: ABRF '00 Meeting Management Office, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814; Tel: (301) 530-7010; Fax: (301) 530-7014 (email: mmiller@faseb.org).

Feb 20-24 13th International Symposium on High Performance Capillary Electrophoresis and Related Microscale Techniques, HPCE 2000, Saarbrücken, Germany. Contact: H. Engelhardt, Instrumentelle Analytik/Umweltanalytik, Bau 9.2, University of Saarland, Postfach 151150, D-66041 Saarbrücken, Germany; Tel: +49 (681) 302 2433; Fax +49 (681) 302 2963 (email: hpce2000@rz.uni-sb.de; WWW: http://www.uni-sb.de/hpce2000).

Mar 26-30 219th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California. Contact: ACS Meetings Department, 1155 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036; Tel: (202) 872-4396; Fax: (202) 872-6128 (email: natlmtgs@acs.org).

Apr 11-14 17th International Trade Fair and International Conference for Analysis, Biotechnology, Diagnostics, and Laboratory Technology, Analytica 2000, Munich, Germany. Contact: Messe München GmbH, Messegelände, D-081823 Munich, Germany; Tel: +49 (89) 949 01; Fax: +49 (89) 949 09 (email: info@messe-muenchen.de; WWW: http://www.analytica.de).

Jun 25-30 24th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques, HPLC 2000, Seattle, Washington. Contact: Janet Cunningham, Barr Enterprises, P.O. Box 279, Walkersville, MD 21793; Tel: (301) 898-3772; Fax: (301) 898-5596 (email: Janetbarr@aol.com).

July 11-14 Protein 2000: The Proteome and Protein Engineering into the Next Millennium, London, England. Contact: Prof. Roger Epton, Mayflower Worldwide Ltd., P.O. Box 13, Kingswinford, West Midlands, DY6 0HR, England, United Kingdom; Tel: +44 (0) 1384 279324; Fax: +44 (0) 1384 294463 (email: r.epton@mayflower.demon.co.uk).

Sep 16-20 13th Meeting of Methods of Protein Structure Analysis, MPSA 2000, Charlottesville, Virginia. Contact: Dr. Jay W. Fox, Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia (email: jwf8x@virginia.edu; WWW: http://www.med.virginia.edu/medicine/basic-sci/micr/fox/MPSA.html).

ABRF TRAINING AND WORKSHOP COURSES

ABRF members and corporate sponsors are encouraged to contribute to this column, which is sponsored by the ABRF Education Committee, by sending announcements of new courses to Nili Leffers, EntreMed, Inc., 9640 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850; Tel: (301) 517-5542; Fax: (301) 217-9594 (email: nilil@entremed.com). This list of courses can also be found on the ABRF Web site Homepage.

1999

Oct 5-8 Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry, at Hewlett Packard, Bellevue, Washington. Contact: Tel in U.S.: (800) 227-9770; Tel in Canada: (800) 265-7768. Other dates and locations are also available.

Oct 12-14 Advanced Interpretation of Mass Spectra, at Hewlett Packard, Naperville, Illinois. Contact: Tel in U.S.: (800) 227-9770; Tel in Canada: (800) 265-7768. Other dates and locations are also available.

Oct 13-26 Macromolecular Crystallography, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Contact: Tel: (516) 367-8346; Fax: (516) 367-8845 (email: meetings@cshl.org).

Oct 13-26 Advanced In Situ Hybridization and Immunocytochemistry, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Contact: Tel: (516) 367-8346; Fax: (516) 367-8845 (email: meetings@cshl.org).

Oct 13-26 Genome Informatics, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Contact: Tel: (516) 367-8346; Fax: (516) 367-8845 (email: meetings@cshl.org).

Oct 13-26 Positional Cloning: Contig to Candidate Gene, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Contact: Tel: (516) 367-8346; Fax: (516) 367-8845 (email: meetings@cshl.org).

Oct 18-22 Techniques of HPLC, at Hewlett Packard, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Contact: Tel in U.S.: (800) 227-9770; Tel in Canada: (800) 265-7768. Other dates and locations are also available.

Oct 20-Nov 2 Making and Using DNA Microarrays, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Contact: Tel: (516) 367-8346; Fax: (516) 367-8845 (email: meetings@cshl.org).

Oct 25-26 Drug Discovery Using Molecular Biology Techniques to Find Drug Targets, American Chemical Society. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Contact: Tel: (800) 227-5558 (email: shortcourses@acs.org).

Oct 25-27 Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry, American Chemical Society, in Chicago, Illinois. Contact: Tel: (800) 227-5558 (email: shortcourses@acs.org).

Oct 28-29 Combinatorial Chemistry: Solid and Solution Phase Synthesis, American Chemical Society, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Contact: Tel: (800) 227-5558 (email: shortcourses@acs.org).

Nov 2 Practical High Performance Liquid Chromatography, at Hewlett Packard, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Contact: Tel in U.S.: (800) 227-9770; Tel in Canada: (800) 265-7768. Other dates and locations are also available.

Nov 2-15 Phage Display of Combinatorial Antibody Libraries, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Contact: Tel: (516) 367-8346; Fax: (516) 367-8845 (email: meetings@cshl.org).

Nov 4-9 Computational Genomics, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Contact: Tel: (516) 367-8346; Fax: (516) 367-8845 (email: meetings@cshl.org).

Nov 17-18 Interpretation of Mass Spectra, American Chemical Society, in Somerset, New Jersey. Contact: Tel: (800) 227-5558 (email: shortcourses@acs.org).

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