WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, MORNING

8:00-9:00 Hot buffet breakfast (provided) – Great C

Plenary Session – Great C

Chair: Diane Beauchemin (ICASS Chair)

9:00 Conference opening. Diane Beauchemin

9:15 Gerhard Herzberg Award presentation. Liyan Xing (Vice-President of CSASS)

9:20 (I140) SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS) APPLICATIONS, QUANTIFICATION AND SINGLE MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY. Alexandre G. Brolo , University of Victoria, Department of Chemistry, Victoria. BC, Canada.

10:00 Refreshment break and posters – Great C

10:40 Burgener Research Graduate Student Travel Award. Mirah Burgener on behalf of Burgener Research

10:45 (I077) INTERFACIAL INSIGHTS: PROBING POLYMER CONFORMATIONS WITH SFG SPECTROSCOPY. Bianca Martins de Lima1 , Paula Wood-Adams2, Patrick Hayes3,1Concordia University, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada. 2University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada; 3Université de Montréal, Department of Chemistry, Montreal, QC, Canada.

11:15 PerkinElmer Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy Award presentation . Aaron Hineman on behalf of PerkinElmer

11:20 (I152) LIPIDOMICS ODYSSEY: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE HORIZONS. Lise Cougnaud, Reza Maulana, Ana Carolina Dos Santos, Elissa Mariani, Oluwatosin Kuteyi, Dajana Vuckovic, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada.

12:00 Exhibition opening with hot buffet lunch (provided) – Great B

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, AFTERNOON

Chemical and Isotopic Speciation Analysis I – Great C

Organizer:Helen Lord Co-Chairs:Helen Lord and Andre Castillo

13:20 (I059) ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGE OF SMALL MOLECULE SEPARATION IN COMPLEX SAMPLES THROUGH SUSTAINABLE AND HIGH-THROUGHPUT MICROEXTRACTION TECHNIQUES. Emanuela Gionfriddo , University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, Department of Chemistry, Buffalo, NY, USA.

14:00 (I012) SPECIATION OF NITROGENOUS-COMPOUNDS WITH P-TOLUENESULFONYL CHLORIDE DERIVATIZATION FOLLOWED BY LC-MS. Ran Zhao , Xinyang Guo, Kimberly Wong, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Canada.

14:40 (I046) ARSENIC SPECIATION IN WASTEWATER, PLANTS AND BIOFILMS AND EFFECTS ON REMOVAL IN LABORATORY-SCALE CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS. Antoine Hnain1, Iris Koch1, Debora Meira 2 and Kela Weber1,1Royal Military College of Canada, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Kingston, ON, Canada; 2Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, U.S.A.

15:00 Refreshment breaksponsored by Isospark, exhibition and posters– Great B and C

15:40 (I056) SOLID-STATE SPECIATION ANALYSIS USING SYNCHROTRON-BASED X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIC METHODS. Iris Koch , Blaire Coffey, David Patch, Antoine Hnain, Jennifer Scott, Ken Reimer, Kela Weber. Royal Military College of Canada, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Kingston, ON, Canada. Andre Castillo. Queen’s University, Department of Chemistry, Kingston, ON, Canada. Debora Meira, Zou Finfrock. CLS@APS sector 20, Canadian Light Source Inc., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

16:00 (I055) SELECTIVITY OF ARSENOBETAINE USING FIELD PORTABLE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE. Blaire Coffey, Jennifer Scott, and Iris Koch. Royal Military College of Canada, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Environmental Sciences Group, Kingston, ON, Canada.

16:20 (I113) ELEMENTAL SPECIATION BY OPTICAL EMISSION MICROPLASMA SPECTROMETRY: THE CASE FOR CHROMIUM AND ARSENIC. Daniel A. Cebula, Liaba Quadeer, V. Zhou, U. Dayal, M. J. W. Thiessen and Vassili Karanassios , University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

17:00 Poster session and Exhibition – Great B and C

17:40 Refresh and walk to Greg Frewin Theatre (see map)

18:15 Dinner sponsored by Isospark –Grand Theatre –ticket required

19:30 WONDERS A Magic Spectacle –Grand Theatre

21:30 End of magic show


Forensic Analysis I – Upper Fallsview A

Organizer:Katie Moghadam Co-chairs:Darrian Prendergast and Katie Moghadam

13:20 KEYNOTE SPEAKER (I109) A NOVEL APPROACH FOR IN SITU DETECTION OF GUNSHOT RESIDUE. Igor K. Lednev. University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA

14:00 (I017) TRANSFER AND PERSISTENCE ANALYSIS OF GUNSHOT RESIDUE BY MP-AES AND ICP-MS. Deanna Haas1, Shannon Accettone1,2, David Ruddell3,Sanela Martic1,4. 1Department of Forensic Science, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada, 2Department of Chemistry, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada, 3Center of Forensic Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, 4Trent School of Environment, Environmental Life Sciences, Materials Science Program, Water Quality Center, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada.

14:20 (I033) CHEMICAL FUNCTIONALIZATION OF SYNTHETIC MELANIN FOR USE IN A FORENSIC SKIN SIMULANT. Kgalalelo Rampete 1, Jean-Paul Desaulniers1,2, Theresa Stotesbury1,2, 1Applied Bioscience Graduate Program, Faculty of Science, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON, Canada. 2Faculty of Science, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON, Canada.

14:40 (I029) GRAPHORMER-IR: GRAPH TRANSFORMERS CAN PREDICT EXPERIMENTAL IR AND IRMPD SPECTRA USING HIGHLY SPECIALIZED ATTENTION Cailum M. K. Stienstra1, Liam Hebert2, Teun van Wieringen3, Patrick Thomas1, Alexander Haack1, Jason Guo1, Jonathan Martens3, W. Scott Hopkins 1,4,5 1Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; 2Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON,; Canada 3 Radboud University, Institute for Molecules and Materials, FELIX Laboratory, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; 4Watermine Innovation, Waterloo, ON, Canada; 5Centre for Eye and Vision Research, Hong Kong Science Park, New Territories, Hong Kong.

15:00 Refreshment breaksponsored by Isospark,exhibition and posters – Great B and C

15:40 (I076) DROPLETS OF JUSTICE – TRACE METAL ANALYSIS OF SWEAT AND SALIVA SAMPLES TO DETERMINE SEX, ETHNICITY, AND AGE IN FORENSIC SCIENCE USING INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY (ICP-MS). Aimee Williams, Madison Smith and Nausheen Sadiq. Mount Royal University, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Calgary, AB, Canada.

16:00 (I061) DETECTING VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS THAT MIMIC CADAVERIC DECOMPOSITION USING POLYDIACETYLENE-BASED COATINGS. Deanna Fisher, Simon Rondeau-Gagne, University of Windsor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Windsor, ON, Canada.

16:20 (I008) INFLUENCE OF ANTICOAGULANT ON THE SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS OF DRYING BLOOD POOLS. Erin Giroux1 , Iraklii I. Ebralidze2,3, Theresa Stotesbury1,3, 1Applied Bioscience Graduate Program, 2Materials Characterization Facility, 3Faculty of Science, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON, Canada.

16:40 (I038) BIOPHYSICAL ANALYSES OF DISEASE-RELATED PROTEINS: TDP-43, GELSOLIN AND CRYSTALLIN. Josephine Esposto1 , Robert J. Huber2, Sanela Martic*1,3 1Environmental and Life Sciences Program, Trent University, Peterborough, ON; 2Department of Biology, Trent University, Peterborough, ON; 3Department of Forensic Science, Environmental and Life Sciences Program, Material Science Program, Water Quality Center, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada.

17:00 Poster session and Exhibition – Great B and C

17:40 Refresh and walk to Greg Frewin Theatre (see map)

18:15 Dinner sponsored by Isospark –Grand Theatre –ticket required

19:30 WONDERS A Magic Spectacle –Grand Theatre

21:30 End of magic show


NMR I – Great A

Organizer and Chair:Gang Wu

13:20 (I107) ION DYNAMICS IN LITHIUM and ZINC ION CELLS REVEALED BY
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY and RELAXOMETRY. Gillian R. Goward , Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.

14:20 (I049) ELUCIDATION OF DYNAMICS AND ENERGY LANDSCAPE OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS BY SOLID STATE NMR. Daryl Good, Peng Xiao, Philip Drewniak, Dylan Dingwell, Leonid Brown, Rachel Brown, Meaghan Ward, Vlad Ladizhansky,Department of Physics and Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.

15:00 Refreshment breaksponsored by Isospark, exhibition and posters– Great B and C

15:40 (I138) UNVEILING THE ROLE OF INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED MOTIFS IN P97-P47 COMPLEX USING SOLUTION NMR SPECTROSCOPY. Rui Huang,University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.

16:20 (I023) INTRODUCING OXYGEN-17 LABELS ONTO L-THREONINE SIDECHAIN. Yuying Huang and Gang Wu. Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada.

17:00 Poster session and Exhibition – Great B and C

17:40 Refresh and walk to Greg Frewin Theatre (see map)

18:15 Dinner sponsored by Isospark –Grand Theatre –ticket required

19:30 WONDERS A Magic Spectacle –Grand Theatre

21:30 End of magic show


Sample preparation and introduction for the ICP – Upper Fallsview B

Organizer and Chair:Diane Beauchemin

13:20 (I115) ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS IN YEAST CELLS AND MICROPLASTICS BY ICP-MS WITH AUTOMATED MICRO-FLOW SAMPLE INTRODUCTION. Yan Cheung, Emmett Soffey, and Bastian Georg, Agilent Technologies.

13:40 (I127) IR-HEATED TOTAL CONSUMPTION SAMPLE INTRODUCTION SYSTEM FOR THE ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX GEOLOGICAL SAMPLES BY INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY. William Hachey and Diane Beauchemin. Queen’s University, Department of Chemistry, Kingston, ON, Canada.

14:00 (I028) DUAL PORT CHAMBER FOR ICP-MS IN RADIONUCLIDE ANALYSIS. Kayo Yanagisawa1,2, Makoto Matsueda2,3, Makoto Furukawa 2,4 and Yoshitaka Takagai2(1) Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Nuclear Science and Engineering Center, Research Group for Nuclear Chemistry, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan. (2) Fukushima University, Cluster of Science and Technology, Fukushima, Japan. (3) Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Collaborative Laboratories for Advanced Decommissioning Science, Miharu, Fukushima, Japan. (4) PerkinElmer Japan G.K., Hodogaya, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

14:20 (I130) STATE-OF-THE-ART ICPMS SAMPLE INTRODUCTION SYSTEMS FOR NANOPARTICLE, SINGLE CELL, AND ELEMENTAL SPECIATION. C Derrick Quarles Jr., 1 Patrick Sullivan, 2 Benjamin T. Manard, 2 Paula Menero Valdes, 3 Beatriz Fernandez3, 1Elemental Scientific, Inc., Omaha, NE, USA ; 2Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA; 3University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.

14:40 (I081) MAXIMIZING ICP-OES WORKFLOW EFFICIENCY WITH THE ALL-NEW AGILENT ADVANCED DILUTION SYSTEM (ADS2). Longbo Yang . Agilent Technologies, Mississauga, ON, Canada.

15:00 Refreshment breaksponsored by Isospark, posters, and exhibition – Great B and C

15:40 (I124) ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS FOR THE LITHIUM-ION BATTERY VALUE CHAIN. Bernd Bletzinger, Nora Engel, and Florian Schuart. Analytik Jena. Presenter: Bartosz Jasiak.

16:00 (I116) COMPARING SAMPLE PREPARATION STRATEGIES FOR THE DETERMINATION OF MAJOR COMPONENTS IN BLACK MASS WITH THE AVIO® 550 MAX ICP-OES. Ken Neubauer, Aaron Hineman, PerkinElmer, Shelton, CT, USA.

16:20 (I122) OVERVIEW OF A “TOTAL WORKFLOW” APPROACH TO SAMPLE PREPARATION AND WHY IT MATTERS. Geoff Williams and Luca Bertoli, ATS Scientific, Burlington, ON, Canada.

16:40 (I141) SNRG BLOCK SYSTEM: THE MOST VERSATILE ACID DIGESTION BLOCK FOR METALS ANALYSIS. Rachid Choudar, Analytichem, Baie d’Urfé, QC, Canada.

17:00 Poster session and Exhibition – Great B and C

17:40 Refresh and walk to Greg Frewin Theatre (see map)

18:15 Dinner sponsored by Isospark –Grand Theatre –ticket required

19:30 WONDERS A Magic Spectacle –Grand Theatre

21:30 End of magic show