Congratulations to Christine Brauckmann, Alma Rosa Corrales Escobosa and Daniel Pröfrock, poster prize winners at the 2009 International Symposium on Metallomics (ISM '09) held from 7-10 June in Cincinnati, OH, USA, and cobadged by Metallomics.

The emerging field of metallomics was celebrated at the conference and an award was given each day for the outstanding poster of the session. The conference was a very enjoyable meeting with sessions covering human metallomics, microbial metallomics, metallomics technology, phytometallomics and environmental metallomics. 

The International Symposium on Metallomics is a biannual event, and the Chair of the 2009 conference was Professor Joseph A. Caruso, University of Cincinnati and Metallomics Center of the Americas. The next meeting in the series will be held from 15-18 June, 2011, at the University of Münster, Germany, so mark the dates in your calendar now as it is sure to be an excellent meeting! 

The details of the award-winning posters are: 

Interactions of cisplatinum in the human body, Christine Brauckmann, Björn Meermann, Uwe Karst, University of Münster, Germany. 

Metallomics study on the Cu, Pb, Ni binding to humic acid and the related metal bioavailablity to tomato plant in the presence of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici, Alma Rosa Corrales Escobosa, Julio Alberto Landero Figueroa, J. Felix Gutiérrez Corona, Katarzyna Wrobel, Kazimierz Wrobel, University of Guanajuato, Mexico. 

Quantitative analysis of bio-molecules using phosphorus - a new combined LC-ESI and ICP-MS approach to minimize problems related with the application of monoisotopic element tags for quantification, Daniel Pröfrock , Andreas Prange, GKSS Research Centre, Germany.