Annual DART Forum - Join us at ASMS

IonSense, Inc

May 2011

What's New with DART?
The latest developments and news on DART Mass Spectrometry

Greetings!,

We would like to invite you to our Annual DART Forum, Tuesday Morning, June 7 at the Colorado Convention Center. Please join us for a cup of coffee, breakfast, and science.

We will have Registration and Breakfast followed by a stimulating program on the latest developments in DART. Please Click here for details and registration.

There are also several new publications on DART that you may find interesting and the links are below.

Please have a look and contact me if you have any questions or comments. Thanks.

Regards,
Brian

Brian Musselman
President and CEO
IonSense, Inc.

DART Breakfast Forum at ASMS - Register Now

This year we will be hosting a Breakfast Symposium in the Convention Center. Please take a look at the agenda and click the link to register. There is limited seating so sign up early to assure a spot.

The Annual DART Forum

Tuesday, June 7

6:45 - 8:15AM

Colorado Convention Center, Room #603

Denver

Program

Registration and Breakfast 6:45-7:15AM

Speakers 7:15-8:15

Networking 8:15-8:30

Advances in DART Instrumentation: Transmission Mode, Laser Ablation and Mobility Separations

Facundo Fernandez, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Dietary Supplements at Lightning Speed: From Identity Requirements to Contaminant Screens

James Neal-Kababick, Director, Flora Research Laboratories, Grants Pass, OR

The Latest Developments in DART Applications

John Dane, MS Applications Chemist, JEOL USA, Peabody, MA

What's New from IonSense:

DART in a Flash - A New Approach to Getting your Questions Answered

Joseph Tice, Engineering Manager, Ionsense, Inc., Saugus, MA

Going Vertical for High Throughput DART

Liz Crawford, Applications Manager, Ionsense, Inc., Saugus, MA

Custom Methods Development - Seek and Find

Michael Festa, Software Manager, Ionsense, Inc., Saugus, MA

Service in a Box - Keeping Your DART Up and Running

Douglas Simmons, Manager, Ionsense, Inc., Saugus, MA

Recent DART Publications

Here are a few of the recent publications using DART. Just click on the titles to visit the abstract.

Detection of illicit drugs on surfaces using direct analysis in real time (DART) time-of-flight mass spectrometry, Andrew H. Grange, G. Wayne Sovocool

Rapid screening for synthetic antidiabetic drug adulteration in herbal dietary supplements using direct analysis in real time mass spectrometry, Zhigui Zhou, Jialing Zhang, Wei Zhang, Yu Bai and Huwei Liu

Analysis of Alprazolam by DART-TOF Mass Spectrometry in Counterfeit and Routine Drug Identification Cases, Warren C. Samms, Yongyi Julia Jiang, Mark D. Dixon, Stephen S. Houck, Ashraf Mozayani

Simple and Rapid Screening for Methamphetamine and 3,4-Methylene- dioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and Their Metabolites in Urine Using Direct Analysis in Real Time DART-TOFMS, M. Kawamura, R. Kikura-Hanajiri and Y. Goda

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About IonSense

IonSense, Inc. provides open-air mass spectrometry solutions to the fields of food safety, forensics, drug development, and chemical analysis. They manufacture and develop direct analysis in real time (DART®) technology licensed from JEOL USA, Inc. and atmospheric solids analysis probe (ASAP™) licensed from M&M Consulting.

DART and ASAP Sources are available for most commercial LC/MS systems. Look here to see if your system is DART-ready. And check here to see if your system is ASAP-ready.