Programme

The scientific programme that was delivered at the Analytical Research Forum 2009 follows. A PDF of the programme with timings is available to download from this page. 

Session 1 (Monday)

KEYNOTE
Catching criminals and sports cheats - the role of the analytical scientist 
David Cowan
King's College London, UK

Rapid and sensitive screening for methanol and ethylene glycol poisoning using differential ion mobility techniques
Victor Moll*, C L Paul Thomas and Victor Boco-BinTinTan
Loughborough University, UK

Study of acid secretion from isolated stomach tissue using a pH sensing microarray
Eleni Bitziou*, Danny O'Hare and Bhavik Anil Patel
Imperial College London, UK

Session 2 (Monday)

Ronald Belcher Memorial Lectureship
Michael Scanlon
Tyndall National Institute, Ireland

Chiral separation of methamphetamine and related compounds: towards a new profiling method for forensic drug seizures
Samantha Drake*, Calum Morrison and Frank Smith
University of West of Scotland, UK

Incorporation of photochromic spiropyran compounds and spiropyran modified substrates into flow micro-systems
Silvia Scarmagnani* Zarah Walsh, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Silvija Abele, Mirek Macka, Brett Paull and Dermot Diamond
Dublin City University, Ireland

An immobilised BRET system: red fluorescent firefly luciferase
Golnaz Borghei* and Elizabeth A H Hall
University of Cambridge, UK

Session 3 (Tuesday)

Aptamers as biosensors
Colette Dalton*, Karen Faulds and Duncan Graham
University of Strathclyde, UK

Molecular probes for the analysis of the surface chemistry of drug polymorphs
Tracy O Ehiwe*, John C Mitchell, Bruce D Alexander and Martin J Snowden
University of Greenwich, UK

KEYNOTE
Enzyme promiscuity and bioelectronics for biosensors
Elizabeth A H Hall*
University of Cambridge, UK

Session 4 (Tuesday)

Discovering the structural diversity of sainfoin (Onobrychis vicifolia) tannins
Elisabetta Stringano*, An Gea, Rainer K Cramer, Wayne Hayes and Irene Müller-Harvey
University of Reading, UK

Application of atomic force microscopy to the study of pharmaceutically relevant materials
Catherine E Gardner*, Andrew Cassidy, Barry J Aldous, Evgenyi Y Shalaev and William Jones
University of Cambridge, UK

Broadband cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy as a sensitive detector
L Nitin Seetohul*, Meez Islam and Zulfiqur Ali
University of Teesside, UK

KEYNOTE
Down to earth
Geraint Morgan*
Open University, UK 

Session 5 (Tuesday)

SAC Silver Medal Lectureships:
Dr R J C Brown, National Physical Laboratory, UK
Dr J Cole, University of Cambridge, UK 

Investigating early aggregation processes by mass spectrometry
Harriet L Cole*, Jason M D Kalapothakis, Perdita E Barran and Cait E MacPhee
University of Edinburgh, UK

Detection of ionized drugs by ion-transfer voltammetry at liquid/liquid micro-interfaces
Courtney J Collins* and Damien W M Arrigan
University College Cork, Ireland

Session 6 (Wednesday)

A gel based integrated micro-fluidic device for DNA profiling
Jennifer Oakley*, K Shaw, P Docker, C Dyer, G Greenway and S J Haswell
University of Hull, UK

An approach towards rapid and definitive identification of N-oxidised drug metabolites using structurally dependent fragmentation pathways
Stephen W Holman*, Patricia Wright and G John Langley
University of Southampton, UK

KEYNOTE 
Formula One fuel analysis: from Silverstone to Shanghai
Peter Tibbetts*
Federation Internationale De L'Automobile, UK