Challenges in analysis of complex natural mixtures Faraday Discussion

Introduction

Welcome

Join us in Edinburgh in May 2019 for this addition to our Faraday Discussion series. For over 100 years and 300 meetings, Faraday Discussions have been the forefront of physical chemistry. Many of these Discussions have become landmark meetings in their field.

We invite you to join us to discuss the topic of Challenges in analysis of complex natural mixtures and make your contribution to this cutting-edge dialogue alongside leaders in this field.

This meeting is for established scientists, post-graduate students and industrial researchers interested in the structure determination of molecules contained within unresolved complex mixtures. Given the recent developments in new methodologies and their creative combinations, the unique format of the Faraday Discussions will allow for in-depth discussions and opportunities to establish new collaborations.

It will be unique in bringing together scientists who may otherwise attend more specialised conferences focusing e.g. on their specific field of chromatography, NMR or MS, or biological metabolites or a specific environmental mixture.

On behalf of our committee, we look forward to welcoming you to Edinburgh.

Dušan Uhrin
Chair, Challenges in analysis of complex natural mixtures

Caring responsibilities

The RSC is keen to encourage and enable as many people as possible to attend our events, to benefit from the networking opportunities and the chance to hear talks from leaders in the field. If you have childcare, caring responsibilities or other care needs, and would like to attend this event, please do get in touch with us to see if there’s anything we can do to help enable you to attend.

Format

Faraday Discussions remain amongst the only conferences to distribute the speakers’ research papers in advance, allowing the majority of each meeting to be devoted to discussion in which all delegates can participate. Following each meeting a written record of the discussion is published alongside the papers in the Faraday Discussions journal.

Find out more about the Faraday Discussions in this video:

Themes

Structure determination of molecules contained within unresolved complex mixtures represents an unsolved problem that continues to challenge physical and analytical chemistry. This meeting will discuss a vision for developing the field of analysis of complex mixtures.

It will be unique in bringing together scientists who may otherwise attend more specialised conferences focusing e.g. on their specific field of chromatography, NMR or MS, or biological metabolites or a specific environmental mixture.

The Faraday Discussion will be organised into the following themes:

Dealing with Complexity
This session will discuss latest advances and future directions of two specific techniques: mass spectrometry and chromatography, and their hyphenation. The emphasis will be on the latest methodologies in each of these fields.

High-resolution Techniques
High-resolution mass spectrometry is one of the most promising approaches to tackle the issues of structure determination of molecules locked in complex mixtures. This will be contrasted by another high-resolution technique, NMR spectroscopy, which has the capability to solve structures, but struggles with complexity. Are there ways of overcoming this limitations? Is the lower sensitivity of NMR a blessing or a curse?

Data Mining and Visualisation
This session will explore how chemometrics can assist all other techniques in the analysis of complex mixtures, where extracting information by data-driven analysis is a necessity. How can chemometrics, data mining, multivariate calibration or multi-way analysis be best applied to different types of complex mixtures? The importance of creating databases of primary data and their mining is expected to increase. What needs to be done to accelerate this trend?

Future Challenges and New Approaches
The closing session will look at new (hyphenated) experimental, multidimensional techniques, new instrumentation, advances in medical, and environmental sciences. In chemometrics we can for example ask, how best to combine molecular analysis with microbial speciation (based on DNA, RNA or MS sequencing) to advance soil ecology or studies of aquatic ecosystems? Can we unravel the molecular structures in complex mixtures by atomic force microscopy by “seeing”, rather than interpreting the spectroscopic data?

Congratulations to the two poster prize winners at this Faraday Discussion, Sheri Murrell and Gianluca Trifiro

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Speakers

Abstract Submission CLOSED

Oral Abstracts and Research Papers

A full research paper containing new unpublished results always accompanies oral presentations at Faraday Discussions. Submit an oral/paper abstract by 27 August 2018 if you wish to be considered for an oral presentation and associated published paper. The oral/paper abstract should outline current research in progress. Authors of the selected abstracts must then submit a full research paper with a significant amount of new unpublished work by 3 December 2018.

The research papers are reviewed upon submission and are sent to all delegates 4 weeks before the meeting so they can be read in advance. At the meeting the presenting author is allowed five minutes to highlight the main points of their paper, and the rest of the time is for discussion. The discussion is recorded and will be published alongside the research paper in the Faraday Discussion Volume.

Poster Abstracts

Submit your poster abstract by 18 March 2019. Posters are displayed throughout the meeting and a poster session is held on the first evening. The Faraday Division Poster Prize will be awarded to the best poster presented by a student at the conference.

Travel grants are available for PhD students, postdocs within 10 years of completing their PhD and early career scientists within 10 years of leaving full time education. There are also a number of non-competitive travel grants available. See the bursaries section for more details.

Additional Information

Authors will be notified of the outcome of the review process within about 6 weeks of the submission deadline. The abstracts should be no longer than one A4 page in portrait layout. Please ensure you provide the details of the presenting author and indicate whether you are submitting an abstract for oral or poster presentation

Deadlines

Registration

Please read the registration information before registering.
Please note accommodation is not included in the registration fee.

Registration includes:

Attendance at the sessions
Refreshments throughout the meeting
Lunch on all three days
Attendance at the poster drinks reception on Monday 13 May
Attendance at the conference dinner on Tuesday 14 May
A copy of the discussion pre-prints
A copy of the final theme issue of Faraday Discussion Volume containing papers presented at the Discussion (issued approximately 6 months after the meeting)**
For non-member registrants, membership of the 91AV until the end of 2019

Registration fees are as follows:

	Early Bird (by 25 March 2019)	Standard (by 15 April 2019)
Member*	£355	£410
Non-Member***	£460	£515
Student Member*	£170	£225
Student Non-Member	£195	£250
Guest fee ****	£100	£100

Registration fees are VAT exempt.

* If you are an 91AV member and wish to register for this meeting, please select the member option on the online registration page. You will need to enter your membership number.

**Excluding students, who can order the volume at a reduced price at the conference.

***For non-member registrants, affiliate membership of the 91AV until the end of 2019, the affiliate membership application will be processed and commence once the registrant has attended the event.

**** This includes all lunches, refreshments and the conference dinner but does not include attendance at any scientific sessions.

Student Delegates

In order to encourage undergraduate or postgraduate students to attend the Discussion, a reduced conference fee (to include a set of pre-prints but not the final Discussion Volume) is available. This fee applies to those undertaking a full time course for a recognised degree or a diploma at a university or equivalent institution.

A copy of the publication may be purchased at less than half price, only for orders placed at the meeting where an application form will be made available.

Conference Dinner

The conference dinner on Tuesday 14 May 2019 and is included in the regsitration fee.

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Deadlines

Bursaries

We have two types of grants available to attend this meeting:

A limited number of non-competitive travel grants of up to £200 are available for PhD students and early career scientists. These are assigned on a first come, first served basis. Applicants must be 91AV members of any level at the time of making their application
Competitive grants of up to £800 are available to assist with international travel expenses for PhD students, postdocs within 10 years of completing their PhD and early career scientists (including technicians and industrialists) within 10 years of leaving full time education. In addition, applicants must be 91AV members of any level at the time of making their application.

To take advantage of the competitive grants and many other benefits, become a member. Follow the link on the right hand side to find out more and join today!

Applications for either grant should be submitted as early as possible, but at least 8 weeks in advance of the start of the meeting (18 March 2019) Please see respective terms & conditions for full eligibility information.

Deadlines

Mar 18 2019
Bursary deadline

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Sponsorship & supporting organisations

A selection of sponsorship opportunities is available for companies who would like to promote their activities at Challenges in Analysis of Complex Natural Mixtures Faraday Discussion

As well as booking a table top exhibition space, there are opportunities to sponsor social events, advertise in the abstract book or place a promotional item in delegate packs. For further information and prices please download the sponsorship menu from this page.

Please note that exhibition spaces are limited, spaces will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

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Venue

John McIntyre Conference Centre

John McIntyre Conference Centre, University of Edinburgh, 18 Holyrood Park Road, Edinburgh, EH16 5AY, United Kingdom

Accommodation

There is a limited number of rooms available to book on campus. You can book these as part of the registration process. £258 for 2 nights, B&B (single, en-suite room).

Committee

Dušan Uhrin (Chair) University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Mark Barrow University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Timothy Ebbels Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Ruth Godfrey Swansea University, United Kingdom
Donald Jones University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Mathias Nilsson University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Organised by

Organised by the Faraday Division in association with the Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division (ESED) and the Analytical Division.

Contact information

91AV

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