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   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 VISUALIZATION 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
OL Industries China, 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
Nils Langer
Data Physics Instruments GmbH, Filderstadt, Germany
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

ASSAY AND IMPURITIES DETERMINATION OF ADAMANTANE DERIVATE USING LLE AND GC-FID ANALYSIS - METHOD DEVELOPMENT
Merav Cohen
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Jerusalem, 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

SOLID-STATE NMR SPECTROSCOPY – ANOTHER TOOL IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
Lilian L.E. Cohen
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Petach Tikva, 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
Eyal Bressler
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
SPECTROSCOPY OF YbF AND PbF MOLECULES IN LOW PRESSURE INDUCTUVELY COUPLED PLASMA
Maria A. Kartasheva
St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg, Russia

End of Session

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