SMSS is a national organisation with the goal to favour research, education and propagation of mass spectrometric techniques in a broad sense. SMSS has members within many different areas, like chemistry, medicine, pharmacy, pulp and paper, environment, biology, physics and so on., that are active within universities/colleges, small and large enterprises, institutes, hospitals and governmental laboratories. SMSS was established 1984.

The Swedish Chemical  Society hosts the SMSS official office.

On March 23 2009, we had our Annual Day of Mass Spectrometry. The title was ‘Mass Spectrometry for Imaging’ and attracted 70-80 people. New for this year was that the Symposium was moved form KVA to Karolinska Institute and Nobel Forum, which shown to be a great success.

Coming up:

2010

August 18-20, 2010

14th NORDIC MASS SPECTROMETRY CONFERENCE will take place at the new Conference center in Central Uppsala, UKK.

This is a meeting that is organized in one of the Nordic countries every three years. The Swedish Mass Spectrometry Society (SMSS) has decided to have the meeting in Uppsala, just north of Stockholm and close to the large Arlanda airport. This should make it easy for participants to travel to this meeting. The meeting will have a scientific program including several distinguished international and national speakers as well as having a large emphasis on poster and company presentations. Several activities as reception at Museum Gustavianum and dinner at a traditional Uppsala Student Union residence will make the conference extra appealing.

We hope that you can come to Uppsala and take part in the exciting new developments in mass spectrometry at the same time as you will meet mass spectrometrists from the Nordic countries.

Annual proceedings (Årsmöte 2010)

Thursday August 19, at 17.30, UKK, Uppsala. The annual proceedings will be arranged in connection with the 14th Nordic MS Conference, www.chemsoc.se/sidor/KK/SMSS/index.htm NB: it is still possible to register to the conference.

Agenda, in Swedish (pdf)

August 25-28, 2010

18th international MPSA conference

Like previous meetings the upcoming MPSA will have a broad approach to current protein and proteomics research. MPSA2010 endeavors to promote the exchange of exciting new ideas on proteins and to facilitate the application of methods in protein structure analysis in the pursuit of solutions to biological problems. The list of MPSA2010 speakers include distinguished scientists in protein folding in health and disease, protein evolution and design, protein interactions, proteomics, as well as other aspects of protein research.

Download the conference poster (pdf)

August 27-30, 2010

Warren Conference, at Hindås outside Gothenburg

Warren Conferences are an international forum for the development of new tools to be used in glycobiology research. A major focus is on mass spectrometry, but also glycan databases is a major issue. The meeting is gathering the international leading experts in these areas and is very important for discussions on how to promote and develop new tools necessary for the development of glycobiology research. More information and program can now be found at: http://www.biomedicine.gu.se/biomedicine/Charles_Warren_Workshop_III

Read the entire SMSS newsletter here (pdf)

October 6 & 7, 2010

1^st AB SCIEX ECMSMS, NH Leeuwenhorst in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
European Conference on MS/MS