DGMS 2009: foeus on bioanalytieal mass speetrometry
Michael Przybylski
The 42nd Annual Conference ofthe German Society for Mass Spectrometry (DGMS) was held on March 8-11, 2009, at the University of Konstanz. It included more than 320 partic
ipants from various universities, academic institutions, and all of the major manufaclurers in the fjeld of mass spectromelry from Germany, several other Europcan conntnes and Ihc USA. Trends in all of the major areas of thc methods, instrumentation and appLications of mass spectrometry were discussed, and the successful development of Ihe DGMS as an interdisciplinary scientific and technology forum contin
ued at DGMS 2009, as amply noted at the recent 18th International Mass Spectrometry Conference in Bremen.
international repule (Tilmann Märk, Innsbruck), the broad scientific spectrum at DGMS 2009 was renected in nine plenary and keynote Icctures and 56 discussion presenta
tions. Together with three workshops on polypeptide fragmentation, affinity mass spectrometry and protein glycosylation, a nllmber of thcmes focllsed on new develop
menls in bioorganic and biopolymer chemistry and the Iife sciences. One example 01' an exciting new bioanalytical
mcthod~ion mobility mass spectrometry as an approach to protein conformational characterization---is representcd by one of the papers of this special issue. The papers in the prescnt special issue 01' Analylical and Bioullalylical Chemislry, ranging from the mass spectrometrie strueturnl analysis of lipids and brnin gangliosidcs to the determination of drugs of abusc, the charaeterization 01' ß-amyloid aggregates and cancer cell proteome analysis, nicely illus
trate the current status of bioanalytieal mass speetromctry.
In addition to the traditional Wolfgang Paul opening lecture of the conferenee, which was given by a scientist of
M. Przybylski ([':9)
Laboratorium für Analytische Chemie, Universität Konstanz, 711457 Konst,1oz. Gennany
e-mail: Michad.PrL).bylski@uni -konstanz.dc URL: bttp://www.uni-konstanz.de/agprzybylski/chemie
Michael ,Przybylski has been Full Professor of Analytieal Chemistry and Biopolymer Chemistry al the University of Konstanz sinee 1988.
His research interests foeus on peptide and protein strueture analysis, biopolymer mass speetrometry, and proteome analysis. Further research areas inelude moleeular rceognition und supramolceular assoeiation speetromctry, vaccine peptides and epitope analysis. and neurodegen erative peptides and proteins.
Konstanzer Online-Publikations-System (KOPS) URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-107662
URL: http://kops.ub.uni-konstanz.de/volltexte/2010/10766/
First publ. in: Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 395 (2009), 8, p. 2441
