Successful bid for the 20th IMSC to be held in Geneva, in 2014!

　　At the IMSC 2009 in Bremen, August 30, the joint bid of the Swiss Group for Mass Spectrometry (SGMS) together with the French Mass Spectrometry Society (SFSM) and the Division of Mass Spectrometry of the Italian Chemical Society (DSM) came out first against a very nice submission from the Irish and British MS Societies for Dublin, Ireland. The IMSF board also decided to change to a biennial format after the Kyoto meeting, so that the 20th IMSC will be held in 2014, August 24 - 29.

　　Geneva was selected as host city of the 20th IMSC, which will be taking place at the Centre International de Conférences Genève (CICG).

　　The conference is supported by the Swiss Chemical Society. Academia, industry and three of our neigh-boring countries are represented on the scientific committee.

　　The members of the scientific committee are:

Renato ZENOBI	ETH Zürich	Chair
Marc SUTER	Eawag, Dübendorf	Co-Chair President SGMS
Ruedi AEBERSOLD	ETH Zürich, CH
Günter ALLMAIER	TU Wien, A
Silvia CATINELLA	Chiesi Farmaceutici, Parma, I
Leopoldo CERAULO	University of Palermo, I	Vice-President DSM
Julia CHAMOT-ROOKE	Ecole Polytéchnique, Paris, F	President SFSM
Laurent FAY	Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, CH
Eric FOREST	Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, F	Secretary SFSM
Gianluca GIORGI	University of Siena, I	President DSM
Detlef GÜNTHER	ETH Zürich, CH
Gérard HOPFGARTNER	University of Geneva, CH
Olivier LAPREVOTE	CNRS, F	IMSF representative SFSM
Markus STÖCKLI	Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, CH