ANZSMS-18 Conference Program

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MONDAY ORALS

MoO-01 Morrison Lecture
EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF THE MICROBIAL WORLD USING BIOGEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES
Roger Summons

MoO-02
COMPOUND SPECIFIC D/H ISOTOPES FOR ORGANIC GEOCHEMICAL STUDIES
Kliti Grice, Robert I. Kagi and Robert Alexander

MoO-03
MASS SPECTRAL RECOGNITION OF NOVEL HIGHLY BRANCHED ALKANES IN ROCK EXTRACTS FROM THE OFFICER BASIN
Paul Greenwood, Graham Logan, Roger E. Summons and Khaled Al-Arouri

MoO-04
ISOTOPE DILUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY AS AN ORGANIC REFERENCE METHOD, A USERS GUIDE
Paul McA. Harvey, C. Peter Taylor, Lindsey G. Mackay and Bernard King

MoO-05
A HIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRIC METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS IN SEDIMENT BY ISOTOPE DILUTION
C. Peter Taylor, Paul McA. Harvey, Lindsey G. Mackay and Bernard King

MoO-06
AN ISOTOPE DILUTION REFERENCE METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF CADMIUM AND LEAD IN SEDIMENT BY ICP-MS
Richard B. Myors, Ruth Hearn, Lindsey G. Mackay and Bernard King

MoO-07
CARBON AND NITROGEN CYCLING IN AN ORGANIC RICH ESTUARY - INSIGHTS FROM CONTINUOUS FLOW ISOTOPE RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRY
Andrew Revill, Perran Cook and Daniel Holdsworth

MoO-08
ANALYSIS OF EXTRACTABLE ORGANIC MATTER (EOM) FROM THE NORWEGIAN NOM TYPING PROJECT SAMPLES BY GC-MS
Alfred A. Christy and Per K. Egeberg

MoO-09 Keynote Lecture
MASS SPECTROMETRY TECHNIQUES USED IN SPORTS ANTI-DOPING PROGRAMMES
Ray Kazlauskas

MoO-10
THERAPEUTIC DRUG MONITORING OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSANT DRUGS USING HPLC MASS SPECTROMETRY
Paul J. Taylor, Paul Salm, Stephen V. Lynch, Alun Jones and Peter I. Pillans

MoO-11
APPLICATION OF MASS SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES TO FORENSIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
G. Stewart Walker

MoO-12
A COMPARISON OF DERIVATIVES OF ANABOLIC STEROIDS FOR DETECTION BY GC/MS
Samantha Nelis and Allen Stenhouse

MoO-13
THE CATALYTIC GAS PHASE OXIDATION OF METHANOL TO FORMALDEHYDE
Tom Waters, Richard A. J. O'Hair and Anthony G. Wedd

MoO-14
THE ANALYSIS OF WINE VOLATILES DERIVED FROM OAK
Alan Pollnitz, George Skouroumounis, Kevin Pardon, Dimitra Capone and Mark Sefton

MoO-15
IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF FATTY ACIDS BY ESI-FOURIER TRANSFORM-ICR MASS SPECTROMETRY
Mansoor Ahmad, Keith J. Fisher, Athol Turner and Gary D. Willett



MONDAY POSTERS

MoP-01
ANALYSIS OF CHLORINATED HYDROCARBONS IN SOILS USING GCMS AND SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION
Zoë Harvey, John A. Fisher and John C. Traeger

MoP-02
QUANTIFICATION OF UNBOUND MYCOPHENOLIC ACID BY HPLC-ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE CHEMICAL IONISATION-TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY
Paul. J. Taylor, Charlene Willis, Paul Salm, Susan E. Tett and Peter I. Pillans

MoP-03
THE EVALUATION OF ABBREVIATED CALIBRATION CURVES FOR SIROLIMUS QUANTIFICATION BY HPLC-MASS SPECTROMETRY
Paul J. Taylor, Paul Salm, Alun Jones and Peter I. Pillans

MoP-04
IONSET SELECTION FOR SENSITIVITY OPTIMISATION OF ORGANOTIN ANALYSIS BY GC-MS
F. Zhang, G. Kerven and D. Lockington

MoP-05
TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR THE ANALYSIS OF DRUGS OF ABUSE IN HUMAN HAIR
Noel Sims and Peter Stockham

MoP-06
QUANTIFYING ABSCISIC ACID, THE PLANT STRESS HORMONE, AND ITS PRECURSORS DURING THE ONSET OF DROUGHT
Andy Netting and Karina Kristensen

MoP-07
AUTOMATED PEPTIDE ANALYSIS OF BODY FLUIDS WITH MALDI TOF AND HYBRID TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY
H. Muenster and M. Kellmann

MoP-08
MECHANISTIC ASPECTS OF THE FRAGMENTATION OF PROLINE-PHENYLALANINE RICH PEPTIDES
Yuqin Wang, Jan Johansson and William J. Griffiths

MoP-09
PROBING TRANSITION METAL BINDING SITES ON DNA USING ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY
Joanne Torrens, Lina Lina, Margaret Sheil, Stephen Ralph and Jennifer Beck

MoP-10
OPTIMISATION OF EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS FOR OBSERVATION OF DOUBLE-STRANDED DNA USING ELECTROSPRAY IONISATION MASS SPECTROMETRY
Rajesh Gupta, Amit Kapur, Jennifer L. Beck and Margaret Sheil

MoP-11
LARGE SCALE PROTEIN IDENTIFICATION USING AUTOMATED 2D-GEL SPOT EXCISION, DIGESTION AND DATA DEPENDENT ONLINE LC ESI-MS/MS
St. John Skilton, James Langridge, John Hoyes, Christopher Hughes, Ronan O'Malley, Jyoti Choudhary, Malcolm Ward, Alicia Ma, Helen Byers, Lu Yu, Christina Nock, Walter Blackstock and Robert Bordoli

MoP-12
INTERFERENCES IN THE ANALYSIS OF NERVE AGENT DEGRADATION PRODUCTS BY MASS SPECTROMETRY
Veronica T. Borrett, Robert J. Mathews and John C. Traeger

MoP-13
MEASUREMENT OF SDZ RAD IN BLOOD BY HPLC ELECTROSPRAY-TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY
Paul Salm, Paul J. Taylor, Stephen V. Lynch and Peter I. Pillans

MoP-14
MASS SPECTROMETRY IN THE CHARACTERIZATION OF METABOLIC PATHWAYS OF TERPENES IN HERBIVOROUS MARSUPIALS
Rebecca Boyle, Noel Davies, Stuart McLean and Georgia Pass

MoP-15
CORRELATION OF CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE WITH NOVEL REDOX REGULATION OF A CYSTEINE PROTEINASE FROM PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS
Yu-Yen Chen, Gert H. Talbo, Keith J. Cross and Eric C. Reynolds

MoP-16
MONITORING OLIGOSACCHARIDES IN URINE, PLASMA AND BLOOD SAMPLES FROM MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSES PATIENTS BY ELECTROSPRAY IONISATION MASS SPECTROMETRY
Steven L. Ramsay, Tina Rozaklis, John J. Hopwood and Peter J. Meikle

MoP-17
ATOM-BY-ATOM SYNTHESIS OF COLD IRON OXIDE/SULFIDE CLUSTERS IN THE GAS PHASE. REACTIONS OF Fe2OXSY+, X,Y = 0-2, X+Y = 2, AND RELEVANCE TO THE NITROGENASE ENZYMES
Phillip Jackson, Detlef Schröder and Helmut Schwarz

MoP-18
HXH+ VS X+-(H2) FOR X = C-Sn: HIGH-LEVEL THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS REVEAL A SURPRISINGLY HIGH THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY FOR THE SIDE-ON 2C+-(H2) COMPLEX
Phillip Jackson, Detlef Schröder and Helmut Schwarz

MoP-19
ADVANTAGES AND APPLICATIONS OF ELEVATED RESOLUTION AND EXACT MASS ON A BENCHTOP GCTOF MASS SPECTROMETER
Anthony Newton and St. John Skilton

MoP-20
MICRO-ADSORPTIVE SAMPLE PREPARATION FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY
Cheryl L. Brucato, Aletta Schnitzler and William Kopaciewicz

MoP-21
DETERMINATION OF THE TRANSPORT ACROSS CACO-2 CELL MONOLAYERS OF COMPOUNDS VARYING IN LIPOPHILICITY USING LC-MS
Allan Wong, Ben Ross, Alun Jones, Per Artursson, Lucia Lazorova, and Istvan Toth



TUESDAY ORALS

TuO-1 Plenary Lecture
LARGE SCALE APPROACHES TO THE DETERMINATION OF PROTEIN FUNCTION
Keiryn Bennett

TuO-02
THE ROLE OF MASS SPECTROMETRY IN HIGH THROUGHPUT PROTEOMICS: CONQUERING NEW FRONTIERS OR GIVING FALSE HOPE
Peter G Hains, Derek van Dyk, Angela Connolly, Nichole Verrills and Bradley J Walsh

TuO-03
WHAT DOES A FROG KEEP UNDER ITS SKIN?
C. S. Brinkworth and J. H. Bowie

TuO-04
SAMPLE AND DATA HANDLING FOR MALDI-TOF-BASED PROTEOME ANALYSIS
Detlev Suckau

TuO-05
NEW MS TECHNOLOGIES FOR INVESTIGATING PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS: THE NEXT FRONTIER IN PROTEOMICS
Kevin M Downard, Janna G Kiselar and Simin D Maleknia

TuO-06
ANALYSIS OF ESTROGEN-DNA-ADDUCTS WITH NANO-LC-ES MS/MS AND COLUMN SWITCHING
J. Embrechts, F. Lemiere, W. Van Dongen and E. L. Esmans

TuO-07
INVESTIGATING NONCOVALENT DNA-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS USING ELECTROSPRAY IONISATION MASS SPECTROMETRY
Jennifer L. Beck, Susan E. Brown, Nicholas E. Dixon, Amit Kapur and Margaret M. Sheil

TuO-08
Gln-Gly CLEAVAGE, GAMMA GLUTAMATE SHIFT AND BACTERIAL DEGRADATION OF PROLINE RICH PROTEINS
William J Griffiths and Andreas Jonsson

TuO-09 Plenary Lecture
ORTHOGONAL INJECTION MALDI-QQTOFMS: A POWERFUL TOOL FOR ANALYSIS OF BIOMOLECULES
Ken Standing

TuO-10
A COMPACT MALDI TOF INSTRUMENT WITH DESORPTION VELOCITY CORRECTION AND ORTHOGONAL ACCELERATION GEOMETRY - TOWARDS A BENCH-TOP DEVICE WITH IMPROVED MASS ACCURACY AND MINIMAL MASS CALIBRATION REQUIREMENTS
Mark Lewin, David S Selby, Victor Mlynski and Michael Guilhaus

TuO-11
A NOVEL MEMBRANE INTRODUCTION MASS SPECTROMETRY SYSTEM COMBINED WITH FAST GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY
Patricia Calderon, Nirand Pongpun, Michael Guilhaus, Philip Crisp and Anthony Fane

TuO-12
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND APPLICATIONS OF IMPROVED MALDI-TOF MSMS SYSTEM
Marvin Vestal, Jennifer Campbell, Kevin Hayden, Arnie Falick and Peter Juhasz

TuO-13
A COMPACT ORTHOGONAL ACCELERATION TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER WITH AN OPTIMISED ELECTRON IONISATION SOURCE FOR FAST CHROMATOGRAPHY AND HIGH MASS ACCURACY
Nageeb Sousou and Michael Guilhaus

TuO-14
CONTROLLING BACKGROUND EQUIVALENT CONCENTRATIONS IN INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY (ICP-MS) AS A MEANS OF ACHIEVING LOW QUANTIFICATION LIMITS IN REAL SAMPLES
Christopher Tye, Fredrick Fryer, Rodney Minett and Ken'ichi Sakata

TuO-15
RESOLVING SPECTRAL INTERFERENCES IN ICPMS ANALYSIS USING A NOVEL REACTIVE COLLISION CELL
Graeme Chapple



WEDNESDAY ORALS

WeO-01 Plenary Lecture
REACTIVE INTERMEDIATES OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS BY MASS SPECTROMETRY: FROM IONS TO RADICALS
Frantisek Turecek

WeO-02
C2O3 NEUTRALS: DO THEY EXIST?
S. Peppe, S. Dua and J. H. Bowie

WeO-03
SYNTHESIS OF LINEAR C5 AND ITS CONVERSION TO RHOMBIC STRUCTURE IN THE GAS PHASE
Suresh Dua and J. H. Bowie

WeO-04
THE ABSOLUTE PROTON AFFINITY FOR METHYLKETENE
John C Traeger

WeO-05
PROBING THE GAS PHASE CHEMISTRY OF CHARGED SILVER (I) ADENINE POLYMERS, (xAd+yAg-zh) (y-z)+, VIA MULTISTAGE MASS SPECTROMETRY EXPERIMENTS
Ana K Vrkic, Thomas Taverner and Richard A J O'Hair

WeO-06
GAS PHASE ION-MOLECULE CHEMISTRY OF YTTRIUM AND LANTHANUM CARBIDE CLUSTER CATIONS WITH BENZENE AND CYCLOHEXANE
Gary D. Willett, Keith J. Fisher, Derek R. Smith and Rui Zhang

WeO-07
GAS PHASE REACTIONS OF NEGATIVE IONS
Keith J. Fisher, Ian G. Dance and Gary D. Willett

WeO-08
DO NEGATIVE IONS EXIST IN INTERSTELLAR ENVIRONS?
A. M. McAnoy, S. Dua and J. H. Bowie



THURSDAY ORALS

ThO-01 Plenary Lecture
MASS SPECTROMETRIC CHARACTERISATION OF STRUCTURALLY MODIFIED PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS
Simon Gaskell

ThO-02
DIFFERENTIATION OF GRAPE (Vitis vinifera) VARIETIES BY ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY OF JUICE PATHOGENESIS RELATED PROTEINS
Yoji Hayasaka, Katheryn S. Adams, Kennith F. Pocock, Gayle A. Baldock, Elizabeth J. Waters and Peter B. Høj

ThO-03
QUADRUPOLE TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR THE ANALYSIS OF NONCOVALENT COMPLEXES FORMED BETWEEN GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE AND VARIOUS LIGANDS
Jennifer A Burgess, Lu-Yin Lian and Simon J Gaskell

ThO-04
HIGH SENSITIVITY LC/MS/MS USING ION TRAP MASS ANALYZERS IN PHARMACEUTICAL AND LIFE SCIENCE RESEARCH
Paul C. Goodley, James A. Apffel and Linda Lopez

ThO-05
ANALYSIS OF CONUS VENOM, THE SEARCH FOR BIOACTIVE, POSTTRANSLATIONALLY MODIFIED PEPTIDES
Alun Jones, Marion Loughnan, Trudy Bond and Paul.F. Alewood

ThO-06
DETERMINATION OF ARSENIC OXIDATION STATE OF ARSENICAL-PEPTIDE DRUGS BY LC-MS
David J. M. Stone and Tim Jackson

ThO-07
THE EVOLUTION OF THE MULTICOLLECTOR IN ISOTOPE RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRY
C. B. Douthitt and Ken Garnett

ThO-08
SOME EXPERIENCES WITH DATA SYSTEM VALIDATION (INCLUDING DATA MIGRATION, RETIREMENT AND 21 CFR 11)
David Browne, Terry Thompson, Dave Mole and Bob McDowall

ThO-09 Plenary Lecture
ACCURATE, PRECISE AND RAPID MEASUREMENT Pb, Th, Hf, W AND Os ISOTOPES BY HIGH ABUNDANCE SENSITIVITY MULTIPLE COLLECTOR INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETER (MC-ICPMS): A REVIEW OF METHODS, RESULTS, AND APPLICATIONS
Kenneth Collerson

ThO-10
CONTINUOUS FLOW PYROLYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR THE ISOTOPIC MEASUREMENTS OF OXYGEN-DEUTERIUM IN WATERS, ORGANIC AND INORGANIC COMPOUNDS
John Morrison and Andy Mower

ThO-11
A COMPARISON OF CONTINUOUS FLOW AND DUAL INLET IRMS TECHNOLOGIES FOR CARBONATE ANALYSES
Andy Phillips, Andy Mower, John Morrison and Stephanie Dudd

ThO-12
HIGH PRECISION ISOTOPE RATIO FINGERPRINTING OF ETHANOL AND OTHER COMMERCIAL MOLECULES AND MATERIALS
C. B. Duothitt and Ken Garnett



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