Mitchell E. Johnson, Ph.D.
Program Chairman

A Message from the Program Chairman

The Technical Program at the 60th Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon 2009) will be held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, USA from Sunday, March 8th, to Thursday, March 12th, 2009. The Technical Program Committee is organizing five day's worth of Invited Symposia, Workshops, New Product Forums, and Contributed Oral and Poster sessions to provide the world’s most comprehensive coverage of the latest developments in the traditional and emerging disciplines of analytical chemistry and applied spectroscopy. 

The program will be both broad in scope and well balanced. Major focus areas of the program will include:

Bioanalytical chemistry
Proteomics, genomics, and metabolomics
Biomedicine
Informatics
Microfluidics
Chemical Imaging
Pharmaceutical science
Nanotechnology
Homeland security
Food analysis and regulatory affairs
Applied molecular spectroscopy
Mass spectrometry
Chemical separations
Education

The program features collaborations with the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry, the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and the Japan Analytical Instrumentation Manufacturers Association.

This year's Plenary Lecturer will be Professor George M. Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

In addition, a number of prestigious awards will be presented at Pittcon 2009 including the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award, the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award, the Maurice Hasler Award, the Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award, and the Ralph N. Adams Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry.

As with last year, the Technical Program will begin Sunday afternoon with symposia, oral, and poster presentations followed by an Award Presentation/Plenary Lecture and a Poster Mixer.  

Sincerely,
Mitchell E. Johnson, Ph.D.
Program Chairman