Day 1: Tuesday, January 22, 2008

07:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:20
Opening Remarks:

Ovadia Lev, Chairman, Isranalytica 2008
Eli Grushka
, President, Israel Analytical Chemistry Society
Sandro De Bernardin, Italian Ambassador in Israel
Paolo Cescon, Director, CINSA, Venezia, Italy; Head of the Italian Delegation
09:20 - 10:10
PLENARY LECTURE
TOWARDS THE PERSONAL MASS SPECTROMETER: CHEMICAL ANALYSIS IN SITU AND IN REAL TIME

Graham R. Cooks

Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Chairperson: Aviv Amirav
10:10 - 10:35
Coffee Break, Posters & Vendor Exhibits
10:35 - 12:40
Hall A
Hall B
Hall C
Hall D

Session A
OPTICAL METHODS AND DETECTORS
Chairperson: Robert S. Marks

Session B
PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS (I)
Chairperson: Assaf Friedler


Session C
FORENSIC CHEMISTRY AND NOVEL METHODS
Chairperson: Igal Gozlan




THE FIRST ISRAEL – ITALY
BI-NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS

Supported by the Italian embassy in Israel & by the Grand Water Research Institute
Session D
EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS
Chairperson: Sara Elhanany
10:35 - 11:00

Keynote Lecture:

SPM-BASED APPROACHES TOWARDS INTEGRATED, PORTABLE, NANO-BIOCHIPS
Levi A. Gheber
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel

Keynote Lecture:

2-D LIQUID SEPARATIONS, MICROARRAYS AND MICROPROTEOMICS FOR MAPPING CHANGES IN DISEASE STATES
David Lubman
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Keynote Lecture:

FORENSIC ANALYSIS vs. CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
Abraham J. Domb
Division of Identification and Forensic Science (DIFS), Israel Police, Jerusalem, Israel

Keynote Lecture:

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY: RESEARCH INTO A CONTEXT-BASED LEARNING APPROACH

Daphna Mandler
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
11:00 - 11:20

OPTICAL METHODS FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
Vincenzo Palleschi
National Research Center, Pisa, Italy

FORMATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF STABLE PROTEIN COMPLEXES WITH FULLERENE AND ITS DERIVATIVES
Michael Gozin
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

THE GROWING THREAT OF TERROR BY PEROXIDE-BASED EXPLOSIVES
Ofer Reany
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

THE SOCIAL ASPECTS OF SCIENCE COMMUNICATION ABOUT ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Marco Benedetti
CINSA Venezia, Venezia, Italy
11:20 - 11:40

DEVELOPMENT OF NEW METHODOLOGIES TO MONITOR VIRAL INFECTIONS
Robert S. Marks
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel

USING PEPTIDES TO STUDY PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS: A BASIS FOR DRUG DESIGN
Assaf Friedler
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

MAXIMIZING THE ENHANCEMENT OF INVISIBLE IMPRESSIONS AND LATENT
FINGERPRINTS

Daniel Mandler
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
IS THERE A COMMON UNDERSTANDING OF ETHICS IN A LABORATORY?
Orna Dreazen
Israel Laboratory Accreditation Authority (ISRAC), Lod Airport, Israel
11:40 - 12:00

EXTENDING MEASUREMENT CAPABILITIES OF CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTROMETERS: NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND LIMITATIONS
Ettore Castiglioni
Jasco Europe, Cremella & University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

CHARACTERIZATION OF GLYCAN MOIETIES IN THE 66-kDa CELL-WALL GLYCOPROTEIN OF THE RED MICROALGA PORPHYRIDIUM SP
Oshrat Ontman
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel

ODOR – THE SENSE BEYOND ANALYTICS?
Michael Zviely
CIC – Cathay Israel Chemistry, Haifa, Israel


THE FIRST ISRAEL – ITALY
BI-NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM (Cont.)

Session E:
WATER AND
ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS

Chairperson: Sara Elhanany
MARKERS OF ANTHROPOGENIC CONTAMINATION: THE UPPER JORDAN RIVER, THE SHEFDAN SAT AND OTHER TEST CASES
Irena Pankratov
The Water Authority, Bet Dagan, Israel
12:00 - 12:20

NEAR INFRARED CHEMICAL IMAGING AS A TOOL TO ASSESS CONTENT UNIFORMITY IN SOLID-DOSAGE FORMULATIONS
Wakefield Stuart
Malvern Instruments Worcestershire, UK

ELECTROPHORETIC DEPOSITION OF PROTEINS USING ATOMIC FORCE CONTROL
Aaron Lewis
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

THE FINGERPRINT DOMAIN: RECENT TRENDS IN LATENT FINGERMARK VISUALIZATION
Yossi Almog
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

DETERMINATION OF PERCHLORATE RESIDUE IN WATER USING MRM LCMS ANALYSIS
Igal Bar-Ilan
Migal Galilee Technology Center, Kiryat Shmona, Israel and Tel-Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee, Israel
12:20 - 12:40 MULTI-PHOTON IONIZATION SPECTROSCOPY FOR TLC CHROMATOGRAPHY
Yuheng Chen
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

CORONA CAD: A NOVEL UNIVERSAL DETECTION TECHNIQUE FOR HPLC - UPGRADING THE METHODS FOR OLEYL ALCOHOL TESTING WITH EVAPORATIVE LIGHT SCATTERING DETECTOR
Vladimir Ioffe
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Netanya, Israel
STATE OF THE ART CHARACTERIZATION –TECHNIQUES FOR STATIC AND DYNAMIC INTERFACES
Moshe Shmilovitz
Tetra Sense Scientific Tools, Carcur, Israel

SPECIATION ANALYSIS OF SELENOPROTEINS IN HUMAN BLOOD
Carlo Barbante
CINSA Venezia, Venezia, Italy
12:40 - 14:00
Lunch, Posters & Vendor Exhibits
14:00 - 14:50

PLENARY LECTURE
QUALITY BY DESIGN AND PHARMACEUTICAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT: ANALYTICAL ASPECTS

Moheb M. Nasr
Director, Office of New Drug Quality Assessment, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), FDA, USA 

Chairperson: Bianca Avramovitch

14:50 - 15:15
Coffee Break, Posters & Vendor Exhibits
15:15 - 16:40

Session F
ELECTROCHEMICAL AND NANO SENSORS
Chairperson: Judith Rishpon

Session G
PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS(II)
Chairperson: David Lubman

Session H
MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION
Chairperson: Chaim N. Yarnitzky

THE FIRST ISRAEL – ITALY
BI-NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM (Cont.)

Session I
WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS (Cont.)
Chairperson: Carlo Barbante
15:15 - 15:40

Keynote Lecture:

FIELD-EFFECT-BASED SEMICONDUCTOR PLATFORM FOR BIO- AND CHEMICAL SENSORS

Michael J. Schöning
Aachen University of Applied Sciences & Institute of Bio- and Nanosystems, Research Centre Jülich, Germany

Keynote Lecture:

THE ROLE OF LABILE IRON IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
Ioav Cabantchik
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Keynote Lecture:

ARCHAEOMETRIC ANALYSES OF INDOLES IN MOLLUSKAN TEKHELET AND ARGAMAN PIGMENTS

Zvi Koren
Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan, Israel

Keynote Lecture:

ELECTROANALYTICAL METHODS TO STUDY THE TRACE METALS SPECIATION IN SEAWATER

Gabriele Capodaglio
CINSA Venezia, Venezia, Italy
15:40 - 16:00

HIGHLY SENSITIVE NANOPARTICLES MODIFIED ELECTRODES FOR FAST DIAGNOSTICS
Judith Rishpon
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

SOME ASPECTS OF ACCURACY TESTING
Berta Iosefzon
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Jerusalem, Israel

THE MULTIPARAMETER ANALYSIS OF NANOPARTICLES IN REAL TIME
Patrick Hole
NanoSight Ltd., Salisbury, UK

METHOD DEVELOPMENT FOR THE DETERMINATION OF AMOXICILLIN AND AMPICILLIN FROM WASTEWATER AND EFFLUENT USING SPE & LC-MS/MS
Dror Avisar
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
16:00 - 16:20

DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL APPROACH FOR MEASURING REDOX POTENTIAL IN MILK, AND IMPLICATIONS TO SENSING AND DIAGNOSTIC APPLICATIONS
Tomer Noyhouzer
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

SOLID-STATE NMR SPECTROSCOPY – ANOTHER TOOL IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
Lilian L.E. Cohen
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Petach Tikva, Israel

STABILITY ANALYSIS OF COLLOIDAL DISPERSIONS
Eran Golik
Dr. Golik Chemical Instrumentation, Tel Aviv, Israel

INFRARED AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF BIOMATERIALS OF MARINE ORIGIN
René Born
TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
16:20 - 16:40

End of Session

A “PING-PONG” MODEL FOR THE RAPID PRECLINICAL DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW CHEMICAL ENTITY
Tair Lapidot
Bioline Innovations, Jerusalem, Israel

NANOSCALE SIZE ANALYSIS BY SINGULAR BEAM MICROSCOPY
Joseph Shamir
Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
Haifa, Israel


MULTI-ELEMENTS SPECIATION IN WATERS WITH HPLC-ICPMS
Riccardo Magarini
PerkinElmer LAS, Milano, Italy
16:40 - 17:00
Coffee Break, Posters & Vendor Exhibits
17:00 - 18:00

Session J
ICP / ICP-MS
Chairperson: Haim Tobias

Session K
ANALYTICAL IP
Chairperson: Orna Dreazen


THE FIRST ISRAEL – ITALY
BI-NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM (Cont.)

Session I (cont)

WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS (Cont.)
Chairperson:
Carlo Barbante

17:00 - 17:20

DEVELOPMENT OF ONLINE PHOTOCATALYST-ASSISTED OXIDATION AND REDUCTION DEVICE FOR THE DIFFERENTIATION OF SELENIUM SPECIES BY COUPLING WITH HPLC AND ICPMS
Yuh-chang Sun
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan R.O.C

PATENTS IN THE ISRAEL ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY: REVIEW, AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ART
Lior Itzhaki
Dr. Eyal Bressler & Co., Ramat Gan, Israel


CONTROL OF NITRIFICATION AND DENITRIFICATION IN A TWO STAGE BIOLOGICAL SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT USING THE SIGNALS OF A COMBINED ON LINE AMMONIA AND NITRATE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
Leopold Faschingleitner
Murtac GmbH, Knittelfeld, Austria
17:20 - 17:40

TOTAL MULTI-LINE ICP ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS SAMPLES
Geoff Tyler
HORIBA Jobin Yvon, Longjumeau, France

SUFFICIENCY AND BREADTH OF CLAIMS; THE BROADNESS OF CLAIMS IN A PATENT APPLICATION VERSUS THE DISCLOSURE
Yigal Fraenkel
Reinhold Cohn & Partners, Tel Aviv, Israel

  EXCITATION-EMISSION FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY OF NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER IN LAKE KINNERET AND ITS CATCHMENT BASIN
Mikhail Borisover
Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel
17:40 - 18:00
End of Session

End of Session

  COMPARABILITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING DATA IN ITALY
Maria Belli
National Agency for Environmental Protection and Technical Services (APAT), Roma, Italy

Day 2: Wednesday, January 23, 2008

07:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:50
PLENARY LECTURE
LASER LIGHT OR ANTIBODY - TWO GOOD FRIENDS TO ANALYSTS

Reinhard Niessner

Institute for Hydrochemistry, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany 

Chairperson: Israel Schechter
09:50 - 10:20
Coffee Break, Posters & Vendor Exhibits
10:20 - 12:20
Hall A
Hall B
Hall C

Session L
HPLC
Chairperson: Igal Bar-Ilan

Session M
Special Session
MEET THE REGULATOR
Chairperson and Discussion Moderator: Raphy Bar

With
Moheb M. Nasr
Director, Office of New Drug Quality Assessment, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), FDA, USA 


Session N
MASS SPECTROMETRY AND APPLICATIONS
Chairperson: Zeev Karpas

10:20 - 10:40

Keynote Lecture:

PEAK PROFILES OF INTERCONVERTING ENANTIOMERS IN DYNAMIC CHROMATOGRAPHY
Volker Schurig
University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Introduction lectures:

QUALITY TESTING OF DRUGS BY THE REGULATOR VERSUS THE MANUFACTURER
Mimi Kaplan
Director, Institute for Standardization and Control of Pharmaceuticals,
Pharmaceutical Administration, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel

Keynote Lecture:

APPLICATION OF STABLE ISOTOPES RATIO ACCURATE MEASUREMENTS IN SOURCE FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION
Zeev Aizenshtat
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

10:40 - 11:00

THE EFFECT OF N-OCTANOL IN THE MOBILE PHASE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF LIPOPHILICITY BY RP-HPLC
Eli Grushka
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

IMPURITIES IN DRUG ANALYSIS: KNOWNS AND UNKNOWNS
Bianca Avramovitch
Associate Director, Global Generics R&D Analytical Technologies,
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.,
Jerusalem, Israel 

DEVELOPMENT OF A COUPLED GC/ICPMS FOR ANALYSIS OF d34S IN INDIVIDUAL ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
Alon Amrani
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
11:00 - 11:20

STRATEGIES IN AUTOMATED METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Ian Peirson
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., Bracknell, UK

ASK THE REGULATOR:
ANSWERS TO FAQ

Moheb M. Nasr
Director, Office of New Drug Quality Assessment, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), FDA, USA 

HYDROCARBON ANALYSIS WITH THE SUPERSONIC GC-MS –
A NOVEL CONCEPT OF ISOMER ABUNDANCE ANALYSIS

Alexander B. Fialkov
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

11:20 - 11:40

ESA’S CORONA CAD: A NEW UNIVERSAL HPLC DETECTION TECHNIQUE
Norman Ramsey
ESA Biosciences, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA

FRAGMENTATION EFFICIENCY IN LINEAR QUADRUPOLE ION TRAPS WITH ADDED HEXAPOLE FIELDS
Ori Granot
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

11:40 - 12:00

SEPARATION OF METABOLITES AND OTHER POLAR COMPOUNDS ON SILICA HYDRIDE-BASED STATIONARY PHASES COMPOUNDS USING AQUEOUS NORMAL PHASE RETENTION
Alexander Kovalerchik
Lab Experts, Bat Yam, Israel

COMBINED STRATEGY FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT FOOD SAFETY ANALYSIS USING LC/GC TRIPLE QUADRUPOLE SYSTEMS
Thierry Faye
Varian, Inc., Les Ulis, France

12:00 - 12:20
A NEW POWERFUL MULTIPURPOSE ANALYTICAL TOOL: PERSPECTIVES AND EVALUATION OF COUPLING HPLC WITH ELECTRON IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY
Achille Cappiello
University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy

End of Session
MALDI-TOF IMAGING IN DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Ran Rosen
Agentek (1987) Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel
12:40 - 13:40
Lunch, Posters & Vendor Exhibits
13:40 - 14:10

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE IACS
14:00 -14:10: BEST POSTER AWARD; GENERAL ADDRESS OF THE DAC DELEGATE, Daniel Mandler

14:10 - 15:00
PLENARY LECTURE
NOVEL CHIRAL ION EXCHANGERS VERSUS MORE ESTABLISHED CHIRAL STATIONARY PHASES
FOR LC ENANTIOMER SEPARATIONS


Wolfgang Lindner

Department of Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 

Chairperson: Eli Grushka
15:00 - 15:15
Coffee Break, Posters & Vendor Exhibits
15:15 - 17:00

Session O
HPLC (cont.)
Chairperson: Volker Schurig

Session P
ANALYTICAL MANAGEMENT
Chairperson: Ilya Kuselman

Session Q
PESTICIDES AND ANTIOXIDANTS
Chairperson: Pierangela Palma

15:15 - 15:40

Keynote Lecture:

AUTOMATED OFF-LINE CAPILLARY 2D-LC FOR SEPARATION OF COMPLEX PEPTIDE SAMPLES
Robert van Ling
Dionex Corporation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Keynote Lecture:

INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE LABORATORY PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS BASED ON PROFICIENCY TESTING RESULTS
Ilya Kuselman
The National Physical Laboratory
of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

Keynote Lecture:

ELUCIDATION COMPOUNDS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF POMEGRANATES BY SCREENING 29 ACCESSIONS USING MODERN ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES
Rachel Amir
Migal Galilee Technology Center, Kiryat Shmona, Israel and Tel-Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee, Israel

15:40 - 16:00

HIGH SPEED CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS USING SUB-2 MICRON HPLC PACKINGS
Bart Denoulet
Grace Davison Discovery Sciences, Lokeren, Belgium

ANALYTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SUBSTANCES UNDER THE REACH REGULATION – LEGAL ASPECTS
Gil Dror
The Levinson Environmental Law Firm, Haifa, Israel

ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES BY LC-MS: AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH IN MULTIRESIDUE ANALYSIS
Pierangela Palma
University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy

16:00 - 16:20

ACHIEVING HIGH SPEED HPLC PERFORMANCE AT MODERATE PRESSURES USING FUSED-CORE™ PARTICLE TECHNOLOGY
Hillel K. Brandes
Supelco Inc., Division of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, USA

FROM INSTRUMENTS TO DECISIONS, UNIFYING AND INTEGRATING LABORATORY INFORMATICS
Heiko H. Linde
Agilent Technologies, Waldbronn, Germany

USING GC-EAD AND GC-MS TECHNIQUES FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF ATTRACTANTS OF PEST INSECTS: THE ETHIOPIAN FRUIT FLY, DACUS CILIATUS LOEW (DIPTERA: TEPHRITIDAE)
Anat Zada
Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

16:20 - 16:40

End of Session

LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS: ISO/IEC 17025 REQUIREMENTS
Hilla Ben-David
Israel Laboratory Accreditation Authority (ISRAC), Lod Airport, Israel

GCxGC-TOFMS OF PESTICIDES IN COMPLEX SAMPLES
Jack Cochran
Restek Corporation, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, USA

16:40 - 17:00

 

DEVELOPING A PROFESSIONAL LIMS IN YOUR GARAGE or LOWERING THE LABORATORY DATA MANAGEMENT THRESHOLD or LAB CONTROL MADE EASY WITH LOW COST
Arnie Miller
Arnie Miller Laboratories Ltd., Be’er-Sheva, Israel

End of Session

 Poster Session

1
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY: RESEARCH INTO A CONTEXT-BASED LEARNING APPROACH
Daphna Mandler
Department of Science Teaching, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
2
FAST ANALYSIS OF PBDEs BY LOW-PRESSURE GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY AND TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY
Thierry Faye(1) & Ed George(2)
(1)Varian, Inc, Les Ulis, France
(2) Varian, Inc., Walnut Creek, USA




3
BENEFITS OF API TEMPERATURE PROGRAMMABLE DRYING GAS IN LC/MS/MS ANALYSIS
Ed George & Thierry Faye
Varian, Inc, Les Ulis, France
2 Varian, Inc., Walnut Creek, USA


4 CHARACTERIZATION OF CRUDE OILS FRACTIONS USING COMBINED CHROMATOGRAPHIC METHODS
Mariana Popescu(1), Claudia Irina Koncsag(2), Cornelia Balbae(1), Gabriela Stanciu(2) & Dana Cristina Toncu(2)
(1) Rompetrol Quality Control, Navodari, Romania
(2) Ovidius University of Constanta, Department of Chemical Engineering, Romania

5
PULSED FLOW MODULATION – A NOVEL CONCEPT FOR COMPREHENSIVE 2D GCxGC-MS WITH SUPERSONIC MOLECULAR BEAMS
Marina Poliak, Alexander B. Fialkov & Aviv Amirav
School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
6
A NOVEL METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMPREHENSIVE 2D LCXGC
Mati Morag & Aviv Amirav
School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
7
OPTIMIZING DISPERSIVE SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION AND SPLITLESS INJECTION – GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY FOR QuEChERS FRUIT AND VEGETABLE EXTRACTS
Jack Cochran(1), Julie Kowalski(1), Lydia Nolan(1), Raymond Allum(2) & Justine Loyo(2)
(1) Restek Corporation, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, USA;
(2) Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
8
USING STATIONARY PHASE SELECTIVITY TO OPTIMIZE UHPLC ANALYSES
Jack Cochran, Richard Lake, Rebecca Wittrig, Frank Dorman, Randy Romesberg & Bruce Albright
Restek Corporation, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, USA
9
DETERMINATION OF PROPIONIC AND ACRYLIC ACIDS BY ISOCRATIC LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY. COMBINATION OF REVERSED PHASE SEPARATION, ANION SUPPRESSION AND CONDUCTIVITY DETECTION
Hen Lavi(1), Joachim Weiss(2), Zamir Manor(3), Olga Golberg-Oster(4), Yeoshua Nahmani(1) & Eitan J.C. Borojovich(1)
(1) Nuclear Research Center Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel
(2) Dionex Corporation, Germany
(3) Manbar Technologies, Israel
(4) Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel



10
THE USE OF ‘SEMI’ UPLC-MS/MS TECHNOLOGY IN BIOANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS
Kean A. Woodmansey, Stephen T. Brookes & Iain D. Love
Department of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Charles River Laboratories, Tranent, UK
11
ANALYSIS OF AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTICS
Alexander Kovalerchik(1) & Martin Eysberg(2)
(1) Lab Experts, Bat Yam, Israel; (2) Antec Leyden, The Netherlands
12
ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS OF LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT ORGANOGELS: ELECTROPHORESIS, BIOENCAPSULATION AND ELECTROCHEMISTRY
Shaul Mizrahi, Dan Rizkov & Ovadia Lev
Department of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
13
CHEMOMETRICS AS A KEY TO PARCHMENT CHARACTERIZATION
Bella Dolgin, Valery Bulatov & Israel Schechter
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
14
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN N-OCTANOL/WATER PARTITIONING SYSTEM AND CHROMATOGRAPHIC BEHAVIOR
Deborah Benhaim & Eli Grushka
Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
15
DLEMMA: A NEW APPROACH FOR IDENTIFICATION AND RELATIVE QUANTIFICATION OF METABOLITES BY THE USE OF LC -QTOF-MS
Liron Feldberg, Ilya Venger, Sergey Malitsky & Asaph Aharoni
Department of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
16
MAPPING OF PUTATIVE BINDING SITES OF BETA-LACTOGLOBULIN
Bogdan Belgorodsky, Ludmila Fadeev & Michael Gozin
School of Chemistry, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
17
REAL-TIME DETECTION OF THE REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES PRODUCTION OF HUMAN PHAGOCYTE CELL LINES
Avi Ashkenazi, Khalil Abu-Rabeah & Robert S. Marks
Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
18
NEW COMPOSITE ANTIMONY-DOPED, TIN OXIDE-COATED CLAY – SILICATE ELECTRODES
Arik Sadeh, Sergey Sladkevich, Faina Gelman, Petr Prikhodchenko & Ovadia Lev
The Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
19
SOLID-STATE ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS SENSOR BASED ON ZEOLITE-IMMOBILIZED IONIC LIQUID AS ELECTROLYTE
Alexander Mishelevich, Eli Korin, Leonid Soifer & Armand Bettelheim
Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel
20
21 ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION – STRIPPING ANALYSIS BY ON-LINE ELECTROCHEMICAL FLOW CELL – MASS SPECTROMETRY (EC/ESI-MS)
Vitaly Gutkin & Ovadia Lev
The Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

22 SENSORS BASED ON FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS FUNCTIONALIZED BY CHEMICAL MODIFIER/NANOPARTICLE HYBRID SYSTEMS
Jenny Gun(1), Michael J. Schöning(2), Maryam H. Abouzar(2) & Arshak Poghossian(2)
(1) Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,Jerusalem, Israel
(2) Aachen University of Applied Sciences (Julich Campus), Jülich, Germany



23

DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND ELECTROPOLYMERIZATION OF HYBRID PYRROLE BASED COMPOUNDS, FOR USE IN BIOSENSORS
Liron Amir(1), Gabriel N. Lemcoff(1) & Robert S. Marks(2)
(1) Department of Chemistry; (2) Department of Biotechnology Engineering
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva , Israel

24
ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS FOR BIOSENSOR APPLICATION
Silvia Piperno & Levi A. Gheber
Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
25
CHEMILUMINESCENT SENSOR FOR ASSESSMENT OF CIRCULATING POLYMORPHONUCLEAR LEUKOCYTE ACTIVITY OF PERITONEAL DIALYSIS PATIENTS
Daria Prilutsky(1,3), Boris Rogachev(2), Marina Vorobiov(2), Moshe Zlotnik(2), Leslie Lobel(3), Mark Last(4) & Robert S. Marks(1,5,6)
(1) Department of Biotechnology Engineering; (2) Department of Nephrology, Soroka Medical Center; (3) Department of Virology, Faculty of Health Science; (4) Department of Information Systems Engineering; (5) National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev; (6) The Ilse Katz Center for Meso and Nanoscale Science and Technology
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel

26
NANOSTRUCTURING OF MIPs
Daniel Owsiejewicz & Levi A. Gheber
Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
27

DISPATCH-ABLE RAPID AND SPECIFIC DIAGNOSIS OF BRUCELLA SPP. BASED ON LUMINESCENT DETECTION VIA OPTICAL FIBERS
Yael Liebes(1), Menachem Banai(2) & Robert Marks(1,3)
(1)
Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
(2)
Department of Bacteriology, Kimron Veterinary Institute, Bet Dagan, Israel
(3)
The National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

28
WHOLE CELL-BASED BIOSENSOR FOR DETECTION OF INFLUENZA A
Amit Mor, Pavel Naumenko, Leslie Lobel & Robert S. Marks
Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
29
CHEMILUMINESCENT OPTICAL FIBER IMMUNOSENSOR FOR THE DETECTION OF IgM ANTIBODIES AGAINST DENGUE VIRUS IN HUMANS
Danit Atias, Yael Liebes, Phillipe Dussart, Leslie I. Lobel & Robert S. Marks
Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
30
A NEW FLUORESCENT CHEMOSENSOR FOR Cu2+ BASED ON PHENYLETHYLIDENE-3,4-DIHYDRO-1H-QUINOXALIN-2-ONE DERIVATIVE
Efrat Korin(1), James Y Becker(1), Benny Cohen(1), Cheng-Chu Zeng(2)
(1) Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
(2) College of Life Sciences & Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China



31
LABEL-FREE DETECTION OF NANO-SENSOR ARRAYS BY RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY
Keren Kantarovich(1), Levi A. Gheber(2), Karsten Haupt(3) & Ilana Bar(1)
(1) Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
(2) Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
(3) Compiègne University of Technology, Compiègne, France




32
NANO-ANTIBODY CHIP USING NANO FOUNTAIN PEN (NFP)
Inbal Tsarfati & Levi A. Gheber
Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
33
VOLUMETRIC – COMPLEXOMETRIC METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF SULFATE IN CHROMIUM PLATING SOLUTIONS
Alex Sirota & Vera Persits
Chemical Laboratory, Materials and Processes Engineering, Engines Division, IAI, Lod, Israel
34
MARKERS OF ANTHROPOGENIC FUEL AND INDUSTRIAL CONTAMINATION
Guy Gasser(1,2), Guy Reshef(1), Danny Greenwald(1), Irena Pankratov(1) & Sara Elhanany(1)
(1)The Israeli Water Authority, Tel Aviv, Israel
(2)The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

35
DETERMINATION OF MANNOSE TRIFLATE ASSAY AND RESIDUE USING QUADRUPOLE GCMS
Igal Bar-Ilan, Roza Krichevsky & Gershon Melman
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Migal Galilee Technology Center, Kiryat Shmona, Israel
Tel-Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee, Israel

36
DETERMINATION OF PERCHLORATE RESIDUE IN WATER USING MRM LCMS ANALYSIS
Igal Bar-Ilan & Gershon Melman
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Migal Galilee Technology Center, Kiryat Shmona, Israel
Tel-Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee, Israel

37 ELUCIDATION COMPOUNDS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF POMEGRANATES BY SCREENING 29 ACCESSIONS USING MODERN ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES
Revital Tzulker(1), Ira Glazer(1), Igal Bar-Ilan(1,4), Doron Holland(2), Michael Aviram(3), Rachel Amir(1,4)
(1) Migal Galilee Technology Center, Kiryat Shmona, Israel
(2) Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Newe Ya’ar Research Center, Ramat Yishay, Israel
(3) Lipid Research Laboratory, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
(4) Tel-Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee, Israel

38
MONITORING OF PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN HUNGARY BY SCREENING OF MORE THAN 250 COMPOUNDS IN FRUIT AND VEGETABLE SAMPLES USING VARIAN INSTRUMENTS
Lajos Kadenczki, Gabriella Suszter & Henriett S. Dobrik
Plant Protection and Soil Conservation Directorate, Miskolc, Hungary
39
PHTODEGRADATION OF SULFADIMETHOXINE IN WATER BY MEDIUM PRESSURE UV LAMP
Yaal Lester, Igal Gozlan, Dror Avisar & Hadas Mamane
The Hydro-Chemistry Laboratory, Geography and the Environment, School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
40
ANALYSIS OF AROMA COMPOUNDS OF ISRAELI PITANGA FRUITS BY GC-MS
Irina Kuzmenkov, Viacheslav Semionytchev & Shirly Kizel
Frutarom, Haifa, Israel
41
EXPLOSIVE DETECTION USING MEMS BASED MICROCALORIMETRY
Asaf Zuck(1, 2)
(1) Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Zionna, Israel
(2) Rafael, Haifa, Israel

42
SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC DETERMINATION OF CARBAMATE PESTICIDES AFTER THEIR THERMAL GRADIENT SEPARATION
Ajai K. Pillai & Urmila Tamrakar
Department of Chemistry, Government V.Y.T. P.G. Autonomous College, Durg (Chhattisgarh), India
43
EVALUATION OF DAIRY WASTEWATER SOLIDS AS A FEED INGREDIENT IN RAJNANGAON DISTRICT
E. K. Janghel, J. K. Rai & M. K. Rai
School of Studies in Chemistry and Chhattisgarh Council of Science & Technology, Pt Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, India
44
INFRARED AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF BIOMATERIALS OF MARINE ORIGIN
René Born & Hermann Ehrlich
Institute of Materials Science, TU Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany
45
ANALYTICAL ABILITIES OF THE UNIT FOR NANOSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION
Inna Popov, Avi Ben-Hur, Evgenia Blayvas, Vitaly Gutkin, Vladimir Uvarov & Anna Radko
The Unit for Nanoscopic Characterization, The Harvey Kreuger Family Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
46 HIGH-RESOLUTION NMR "CHROMATOGRAPHY"
Roy E. Hoffman(1), Hilla Arzuan(2), Chava Pemberton(2), Abraham Aserin(2) & Nissim Garti(2)
(1)Department of Organic Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
(2)Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry, The Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

47 FAST ESTIMATION OF CEMENT CONTENTS IN CONCRETE
Tatiana Ch. Kovalchuk, Israel Schechter & Izhack Oref
Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
48 DENTAL ENAMEL CARIES (EARLY) DIAGNOSIS AND MAPPING BY LASER RAMAN SPECTRAL IMAGING
L. Feller
South Africa
49 BIOSENSING APPLICATIONS OF SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS INTEGRATED IN ELECTROLYTE-INSULATOR-SILICON DEVICES
Hila Einati(1), Alexander Mottel(1), Alexandera Inberg(1) & Yosi Shacham-Diamand(1,2)
(1)Department of Physical Electronics, Engineering Faculty and the University Research Institute for Nano Science and Nano-Technologies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
(2)The Department of Applied Chemistry, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan