Posts Tagged ‘Heidelberg’
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July 28th, 2009
Biosensing and Biomedicine at GOLD2009
Yesterday was my second day in the job with the World Gold Council, so being able to start at such a fantastic meeting here in Heidelberg has been a great introduction for me into the science of gold.
Coming from a pharmaceutical background my attention was immediately drawn to some of the innovations in the field of biosensing and biomedicine. Vincent Rotello from the University of Massachusetts presented an excellent paper on the use of gold nanoparticles in diagnostics and therapeutics, a field I believe is going to become increasingly important in the coming years as a consequence of many pharmaceutical organisations gradual shift in focus from small molecule drug development to the field of biopharmaceutics. Qun Huo, from the University of Central Florida, then presented her fascinating work on the development of a sensitive, yet simple and cost effective, immunoassay technique combining gold nanoparticulates with the robust analytical technique of Dynamic Light Scattering. Christophe Alric from the University of Lyon wrapped up the session with an excellent review of his groups work in the use of gold nanoparticles specifically designed for in vivo SRCT and MRI imaging and X-ray therapy.
A truly excellent session of innovative science which has whetted my appetite for the rest of the meeting.
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July 22nd, 2009
Getting ready for Gold 2009
Here at Project AuTEK we are gearing up for Gold 2009. We are particularly excited regarding the oral talks, the full list of which may be downloaded at www.gold2009.org. In particular a talk by Dr Gabriel Veith entitled ‘Hydroxyl mediated activity and stability of supported gold catalysts’ sounds interesting. In previous papers and posters Dr Veith has used the PVD catalyst preparation technique to unravel the importance of hydroxyl groups in gold catalyst preparation. These species are required for stable gold CO oxidation catalysts whether prepared by deposition precipitation or PVD.
Also at the conference we invite all attendees to come and pay us a visit on the AuTEK stand to view our services and technologies in the Catalysis, Bio-Medical and Nanotechnology fields.
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July 20th, 2009
GOLD 2009 Poster timings online
The timings for poster sessions at GOLD2009 in Heidelberg are now online
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July 8th, 2009
Next issue of Gold Bulletin now available!!
Hi everyoneIt’s here at last, Issue 42(2) of Gold Bulletin.
We have an issue bursting with lots of gold news and science and a superb Guest Editorial from Prof James (Jim) Johnstone from Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand.
We have all the lastest information about Gold 2009 ; the Keynote presentations , the opening Plenary presentations and all the info on the main conference sessions
We have seven wonderful scientific papers from a range of disciplines including Metallurgy, Catalysis, Analytical and also Nanotechnolgy. Also a book review of Mark Grimwade’s Introduction to Precious Metals – Metallurgy for Jewellers and Silversmiths.
Also our regular features of Highlights from Recent Literature and a summary of Calendar Events comming up in the near future.
Hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think. I always like to hear your views.
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April 8th, 2009
Decisions made for GOLD 2009 Programme
At last, the organisers have notified everyone who submitted an abstract for GOLD 2009 on the outcome – and by the scheduled date! With well over 330 abstracts submitted (and still some latecomers arriving), it was a difficult decision on who would give oral presentations and who will display posters on their research. With much hard work by the technical committees, the organisers finally made their decisions at a meeting in mid-February. This was not easy with so many high quality abstracts submitted. Hopefully, we have pleased most people but, inevitably, some will feel disappointed.
We are now busy working on scheduling the oral presentations to produce an interesting, well-balanced programme over the 3 and one-half days of the conference. Again, not an easy task, but we shall succeeed, no doubt. It is clear that the Nanotechnologysector will be much more substantial this time and the bigger number of applications-oriented presentations should give more interest for industrialists looking for exploitation opportunities. We have decided on having a 5th parallel session for some sessions to accommodate the large number of good quality orals that will be presented, rather than shorten the time allowed by each speaker. This need not worry delegates who fear moving back and forth between lecture rooms ( a problem at Gold 2006 in Limerick) as all are close together.
The posters will be divided into 2 sessions this year, again to accommodate the many abstracts submitted. Remember, we are accepting abstracts for posters right up to the start of the conference. So, if you have some interesting research to report, submit an abstract on the conference website (do I need to tell you: it is www.gold2009.org ). I do need to tell you that, if you are attending GOLD 2009, you should register and book your accommodation soon. The hotels are filling up fast, we are told! Otherwise you may need to bring your tent and camp by the river…. Its not long now til we meet in Heidelberg – just before my Birthday, as it happens……..
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March 2nd, 2009
GOLD 2009
New gold technology will be headlined at an International Conference in Heidelberg, Germany in July
Between three and four hundred leading gold scientists will be attending this exciting conference and there will be lots of opportunities for discussion.
There will also be many social events for for participants and their accompanying persons
Trevor Keel
Jason McPherson
Richard Holliday
Tricia Harris
Chris Corti
David Thompson
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