MSACL EU is an off-shoot of the highly successful MSACL US conference that has been held in San Diego since 2008. The conference provides a forum for discussing the clinical application of mass spectrometry by bringing together academic and industrial experts in the field with those driven to explore and understand more about the potential application and benefits. The mission of MSACL is to accelerate the implementation of mass spectrometry in the clinical laboratory to the end effect improved patient standard-fo-care and reduced health care costs.

MSACL invests a significant amount of resources in education via the MSACL Travel Awards, which support conference attendance:

1. Young Investigator Awards: Young investigators, in the first four years of their academic position, who submit an abstract which is accepted for presentation (poster/podium) at the annual conference. Applicants must submit ashort application.
2. Trainee Awards: Lab Directors-to-be interested in learning more about what mass spectrometry is and how it could potentially improve results and reduce costs in their clinical laboratory are not required to submit an abstract, but must submit a short application.

It's the abstracts that make the meeting. If you are working in clinical mass spectrometry and have compelling research, submit your abstract for presentation at the MSACL EU Conference.

MSACL focuses on topics including pain management, microbiology, toxicology, proteomics, metabolomics, tissue imaging, and regulations and standards. A comprehensive list is below. Let us know if there is another topic area that you think should be added.

Expected Topics for MSACL 2014 EU

*Note: Abstracts are solicited for the topics listed below, however, if no abstracts are submitted and accepted on any given topic then it will not be covered at the conference.

1. Disease Markers
2. Fundamentals : General
3. Fundamentals : Metabolomics
4. Fundamentals : Microbiolgy
5. Fundamentals : Proteomics
6. ICP-MS
7. Imaging
8. Inborn Errors of Metabolism
9. Metabolomics
10. Microbiology/Virology
11. Molecular Diagnostics
12. New Advances
13. Occupational and Environmental Health
14. Pain Management
15. Proficiency Testing
16. Proteomics
17. Regulations & Standards
18. Sample Prep & Automation
19. Small Molecule Analytes
20. Tissue Analysis
21. Tobacco Exposure
22. Toxicology
23. Translational Mass Spec
24. Various OTHER

Target Audience

The target audience for this program includes pathologists, clinical laboratory directors and scientists, mass spectrometry and automated sample processing providers as well as laboratory diagnostic providers. This program will be beneficial to healthcare administrators, laboratory quality control and standards scientists, as well as those responsible for implementation of clinical analyses for emergency response due to terrorism or accident.

MSACL 2014 will be held at the:

Salzburg Congress Center
Auerspergstraße 6 - 5020 Salzburg, AUSTRIA - Tel. 0043662 88987-0

There are are numerous hotels located in the area of the Salzburg Congress Center that can be located using theSalzburg Convention Center Hotels Guide

Perhaps, the most conveniently located is the Sheraton Hotel, which is connected to the Congress Center.

There are also many options to rent flats by the day through internet services such as AirB&B.

Submission Info

Guidelines:

1. You may submit as many abstracts as you like.
2. A MAXIMUM of 1 podium and 1 poster presentation will be accepted for each individual.
3. You must be the presenter of the abstract(s) that you submit.
4. NO POSTER PRESENTER SUBSTITUTIONS AFTER ACCEPTANCE.
   - If you are unable to attend the conference your abstract will be removed.
5. In order to present you must purchase a FULL conference regstration, not Exhibits Only, before the EarlyBird Registration Deadline.
6. Podium Presentations may be VIDEO (Slides Only) AND AUDIO RECORDED, but will not be placed on the MSACL website until you have approved the content.

MSACL requires submission of a Short and Long Abstract.

The Short Abstract should be fewer than 100 words.

The Long Abstract should be a PDF with 1-inch margins in 12pt Times New Roman font that may include figures, tables and color.

The Long Abstract may be the same as the short abstract, although this is not encouraged.

Abstract Topics

MSACL is soliciting abstracts for both oral and poster presentations under the topics of:

Topics:

1. Analytics
2. Disease Markers
3. ICP-MS
4. Imaging
5. Inborn Errors of Metabolism
6. Metabolomics
7. Microbiology/Virology
8. Molecular Diagnostics
9. New Advances
10. Occupational and Environmental Health
11. Pain Management
12. Proficiency Testing
13. Proteomics
14. Regulations & Standards
15. Sample Prep & Automation
16. Small Molecule Analytes
17. Toxicology
18. Various OTHER

Abstract Submission Guidelines

You will be submitting a:

1. Short Abstract and
2. Long Abstract (PDF).

Short Abstract:

The Short Abstract will be in the printed program.

1. Abstract title no more than 25 words.
2. Abstract body no more than 100 words.
3. One paragraph only.
4. Option provided for including up to two co-authors.
5. No references.
6. No support acknowledgments.

Long Abstract (submit as PDF) :

The Long Abstract will be in the electronic Conference Program. Please use the font and margin specifications below. You may include figures and/or tables and use color. You may acknowledge support and include references.

1. For online Conference Program.
2. PDF
3. No length restriction.
4. Font: Times New Roman 12pt.
5. Line Spacing: 1.5
6. Margins: 1 inch all around.
7. Do not indent paragraphs.
8. One carriage return between paragraphs.
9. May include images, tables, plots and color.
10. Please follow the Abstract Header Formats outlined below:
    • Header Format (One Author).
    • Header Format (Two or More Authors, Same Affiliation).
    • Header Format (Two or More Authors, Different Affiliations).

Only abstracts submitted online will be accepted.

Submit Abstract

Following submission and confirmation you will be able to Edit or Delete your abstract via Abstract Mgmt.

Copyrights

The presenting author/person who submitted the abstract assumes full responsibility of the content of the abstract and we assume that all co-authors are aware of this content. Please note that any material you submit and/or present including, but not limited to, your biography, summary and abstract may be used on the MSACL website and/or in conference materials.

The offices of MSACL are located at:

MSACL, Inc.
205 12th St
Del Mar, CA 92014

Ph: 858-922-5813
Fx: 858-876-1873

You may contact us using the email contact form below.