Date&Venue : 20-21 November, 2014, Daejeon, Korea

It is pleasure to announce the 3rd ICAST is to be held in Daejeon, the science city of Korea, from 20th to 21st November, 2014. This meeting will focus on wide range of topics related to the analytical science, including Metabolomics, Brain Science and even ECR ion source & accelerator. The purpose of this conference is to bring together scientists in the field of analytical science and technology and review recent development in analytical science.

Topics :
Metabolomics
Metabolomics in human disease
Metabolomics in nutrition and food
Plant metabolomics
Imaging Analysis
Imaging science from cell to molecule
Technical advances on imaging instrumentation
Ultrastructural analysis of cell function
Omics & Imaging
Functional proteomics in crop science
Effective vaccines development
Cell-based imaging in drug discovery
Protein MS (Mass Spectrometry)
Middle-down ECD
Histone PTM analysis
Brain Science
Brain, from molecule to consciousness
Protein NMR
Structural dynamics of biomolecules
Structure-functional relationship of proteins
NMR spectroscopy in solution
Geosciences
Isotope geochemistry using in situ micro-beam techniques
Application of in situ micro-beam techniques
Ion Beam Injector &
Accelerator
State-of-the art of ion source
Ion beam application
Application on accelerator based system

Plenary Speakers:
Prof. John Yates (Scripps Research Institute, USA)
Prof. Mark Cohen (UCLA, USA)
Prof. Byeon-Gak Choi (Seoul National University, Korea)

Registration :
The registration will start in the first week of July, 2014. As the number of conference attendees is limited, please register at your earliest convenience until 31st August, 2014. A registration fee is free.

Accommodation :
A block of rooms has been reserved in advance at the hotel Lotte City Hotel Daejeon. Pre-decided room rate will be available for participants of the conference. A support for lodging is only available for the guest speakers. Please contact us at mercurien@kbsi.re.kr concerning this matter at your earliest convenience.

Abstract submission :
Abstract submission will be opened at the same time as the conference registration. Please submit your abstract until 31st August, 2014.

Review Papers :
We are planning to publish the contributions to this conference in a refereed journal, JAST. Further details will be provided on the website of the conference shortly after.

Key Dates :
Abstract submission & registration until : 31st August, 2014
Speaker notification : 15th September, 2014
Conference hotel reservation until : 20th October, 2014
the Conference : 20th November ~ 21st November, 2014
Review Paper submission until : 31st December, 2014
Conference Homepage : will be ready by 31st July