On behalf of the Organizing Committee, it is my pleasure to invite you to participate in ISRANALYTICA 2010, the 13rd Annual Meeting of the Israel Analytical Chemistry Society. The Conference and Exhibition will take place, according to the formed already tradition, in January 19-20, 2010, at the David Intercontinental Hotel, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

The annual meetings of the Israel Analytical Chemical Society have become one of the largest annual conferences in analytical chemistry in the World. In the last ISRANALYTICA meetings about 2,500 participants from academia, the pharmaceutical and chemical industries, petrochemistry and food industry, biochemistry and biology, water experts, engineers, quality managers and metrologists from major laboratories and companies from Israel and 40 other countries, attended. Leading companies of analytical equipment have also successfully participated in the conference and exhibition bridging between technology developments and end users. In fact, ISRANALYTICA combines the largest chemistry convention in Israel with the largest analytical chemistry exhibition in one location.

The scientific program will cover a large variety of modern topics in analytical chemistry. Leading academic researchers and industrial practitioners will present their recent achievements providing a forum for exchange of exciting developments as well as problems sharing with leading scientists and expert representatives of major instrumentation companies. The program will include a few plenary lectures and keynote lectures at the specific sessions, delivered by international top scientists, oral presentations (in parallel sessions) featuring speakers from Israel and abroad, and a large poster session. The exhibition will take place in the central location adjacent to the seminar rooms. Three prestigious poster awards will be granted by a committee to outstanding posters in the general assembly of the Israel Analytical Chemistry Society.

ISRANALYTICA has been recognized by the Analytical Chemistry Division of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (DAC EuCheMS), the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) and the Cooperation for International Traceability in Analytical Chemistry (CITAC). This year a CITAC workshop will be organized on January 21, 2010, in conjunction with ISRANALYTICA 2010.

The remarkable success of ISRANALYTICA meetings is primarily due to the participants. Therefore, you are encouraged to participate in ISRANALYTICA 2010 by submitting an abstract, presenting your analytical equipment though one of the conference booths or simply and most importantly by attending the conference. With this we assure to have an excited, interesting and fruitful meeting.

Looking forward to seeing you in the conference,

Dr. Ilya Kuselman

Chairman of the Conference