Sessions/Workshops
Kathy Peter’s SETAC Memorial Session
Dr. Katherine Peter is widely recognized as a brilliant and compassionate scientist who contributed throughout her career to the advancement of varied environmental topics, spanning from the development of novel materials for the removal of contaminants in water to the discovery of roadway and tire rubber-derived chemicals that trigger mortality in salmon species. Through all her work, it is evident that she was passionate about protecting ecosystems and public health. She continuously pushed the boundaries of science and encouraged her colleagues to do the same. She was a community builder who rose far beyond the call of her positions as evidenced by her significant contributions to organizations such as the Best Practices for Non-Targeted Analysis (BP4NTA) working group, SETAC, and ES&T’s Early Career Editorial Advisory Board and numerous awards including the prestigious James J. Morgan ES&T Early Career Award (2021) and the BP4NTA Outstanding Service Award (2023), which has since been named for her. Given the long-lasting impact of Dr. Peter’s research, this session will feature presentations describing recent advancements in the areas of environmental chemistry to which she significantly contributed. This will include the development of novel non-targeted high-resolution mass spectrometry methods and tools to identify, quantify, and trace the sources of unknown contaminants in the environment, as well as fabrication and testing of novel materials for the removal of contaminants. Presenters should specifically highlight the advancements that have been built upon her work and their broader impact in the scientific community. The Pacific North West was a special place in Dr. Peter’s professional and personal life, so it is fitting to honor her during SETAC NA held in Portland. This session provides friends and colleagues the opportunity to celebrate her scientific achievements together and to learn about the advancements in environmental chemistry and engineering that have been made possible by her contributions.
Abstract submission is open now through June 4 (no fee) or June 11 ($50 fee). You can submit your abstracts and learn more about SETAC NA 2025 here.
Call for Abstracts – Internation Conference on Non-Target Screening 2025
Non-target screening and its applications are the focus of an INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE from October 13-16th, 2025, held in Erding, Germany and online. NTS users from all over the world and vendors from the field of instrumental analysis will present their latest results and applications in keynote lectures, lecture sessions, and poster sessions.
Apply for an Oral or Poster Presentation – until May 15th 2025 (late posters until August 31st 2025)
Templates for abstract submissions and further information are available at www.afin-ts.de/ICNTS25
Information regarding registration fees, early-bird registration, and accommodation is available, with early-bird fees open until June 15th.
For further details, please feel free to contact them via e-mail (education@afin-ts.de)
This conference will promote discussion on NTS main topics, such as:
- NTS in Products of Daily Use
- NTS in Health Care, Doping, and Forensics
- NTS in Environmental Analysis
- NTS in Food(omics)
- NTS in Metabolomics
- NTS in Process Monitoring
- NTS in Commercial Solutions, Computational Mass Spectrometry
- NTS with Quality Standards, Data Standardization, Harmonization and Reporting
BP4NTA Talks at SETAC North America 2024
BP4NTA Sessions:
- Mon. Afternoon 10/21/24: 4.20.T – The Practicalities of Non-Targeted Analysis to Support Decision Making
Chaired by: James McCord, Heather Whitehead, Gabrielle Black - Tues. Morning 10/22/24, Location: 204 AB at SETAC: 4.05.T – Bridging the Gap Between the Unknown and the Known for PFAS Analysis
Chaired by: Karl Oetjen, Natalia Soares Quinete, and Juliane B Brown - Tues. Morning 10/22/24 – 8 AM -10 AM (Exhibit Hall) – Poster session: 4.05.P-Tu – Bridging the Gap Between the Unknown and the Known for PFAS Analysis
Chaired by: Karl Oetjen, Natalia Soares Quinete, and Juliane B Brown
Individual Posters:
- Tues. All day 10/22/24: 4.05.P-Tu-131 – Ion Mobility Filtering for Non-Targeted Analysis of PFAS from Environmental Samples Collected at a Ski Resort
Presenting Author – Lindsay Hatch - Tues. All day 10/22/24: 4.05.P-Tu-132 – Utilizing Ion Mobility to Enhance Targeted and Non-Targeted Analysis of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) from a Landfill Leachate Sample
Presenting Author – Naren Meruva - Wed. All day 10/23/24: 4.10.P-We-147 – Enhancing Compound Identification and Exposure Assessment with a Novel Software Application for Managing Libraries.
Presenting Author – Andew McEachran - Wed. Afternoon 10/23/24: 4.10.P-We-149 – Collection and Curation of Externally Shareable High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Spectral Libraries to Aid in Identification of Environmental Contaminants.
Presenting Author – Logan Krajewski
Individual Presentations:
- Mon. Morning, Ballroom B 10:20-10:40: 4.22.A.T-02 – Quantifying 6PPD-Quinone in Water Samples from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, 2018-2024.
Presenting Author – Gabrielle Black - Mon. Morning, 204 AB, 11:40-12:00: 4.11.A.T-06 Nontarget Prioritization Using Standard Toxicity Assays: A Spatial and Temporal Study of Stream Sediments Across California
Presenting Author – Anna Feerick - Mon. Afternoon, Room 204 AB, 1:50-2:00: 104.11.B.T-02 – Organic Contaminants Detected at Illegal Cannabis Grow Operations on Federal Land
Presenting Author – Gabrielle Black
Abstract Reminder: SETAC Ft. Worth Meeting (Oct 20-24, 2024)
May 15th is the deadline to submit an abstract for the SETAC Ft. Worth meeting (Oct 20-24, 2024). We found 7 sessions relevant to the BP4NTA membership, highlighted below. All sessions can be found in Track 4, Chemistry and Exposure Assessment. Session titles include:
- Advanced Monitoring and Assessment Approaches for Improved Treatment of Contaminants of Emerging Concern and PFAS in Wastewater
- Bridging the Gap Between the Unknown and the Known for PFAS Analysis
- Identifying and Linking Environmental Exposure to Biological Effects
- Quantitative Non-Targeted Analysis (qNTA): Bridging the Gap Between Characterization and Quantitation
- The Practicalities of Non-Targeted Analysis To Support Decision Making
- Understanding the Ecological Effects and Rolling Out Solutions for Tire Road Wear Particles and Related Chemicals
- Challenges in PFAS Analyses and Detection
ACS 2024 Session – Progress in Mass Spectrometry: Unambiguous Indentification for Small Molecules
The PNNL m/q Initiative is developing multi-dimensional and integrated experimental and computational methods to unambiguously identify small molecules without the need for authentic reference compounds. This initiative is hosting a symposium at ACS 2024 March 17-18 in New Orleans on the state-of-the-art in reference-free identification using mass spectrometry and featuring key leaders in the community.
SERMACS Session on NTA Methods and Applications
The following session will be held at the South East Regional Meeting of ACS in Durham, North Carolina, October 25-28, 2023:
Title: Methods and Applications of High Resolution Mass Spectrometry
Chairs: Elin Ulrich and James McCord
High resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) instrumentation has utility for answering questions in public health, environmental, agricultural, biological ‘omics, medical, regulatory, and other topic areas. Whether small (e.g., metabolites, pollutants) or large (e.g., proteins) molecules are of interest, HRMS can be a useful data collection tool. Applications of HRMS require care to ensure confident and reproducible detection, identification, classification, and quantification of species of interest – whether known or unknown. This session will discuss development and applications of HRMS across topic areas. Topics of interest for this session include (but are not limited to): instrumentation and related advances (e.g., ion mobility, chromatography/online sample prep, detectors); methods development; performance evaluation for HRMS methods (e.g., selectivity, sensitivity, reporting uncertainty); quality assurance; and real-world applications of HRMS.
SERMACS Session on NTA Data Analysis Workflows
The following session will be held at the South East Regional Meeting of ACS in Durham, North Carolina, October 25-28, 2023:
Title: Data Analysis Workflows for Non Targeted Analysis Studies
Chairs: Alex Chao, Antony Williams
Description: Increasingly, chemical monitoring and characterization studies are shifting towards high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) based non-targeted analysis (NTA, also called untargeted analysis or non-targeted screening) approaches which allow discovery of a greater scope of chemicals than traditional targeted methods. By their very nature, NTA approaches generate orders of magnitude greater amounts of chemical feature data; in order to identify the most significant and relevant chemicals present, researchers may perform post-acquisition analyses on NTA data, often via automated methods. These analyses range from retrieving chemical analytical data, metadata, and quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSPR) predictions to support chemical identifications, to performing statistical analyses and/or combining data from parallel studies to support prioritization of chemical features. Topics of interest for this session include (but are not limited to): software analyses, chemical databases, chromatography and spectral predictions, statistical analyses, prioritization of features, machine learning analyses, multi-study data integration (i.e., geospatial, temporal, metabolomics, lipidomics, genomics, transcriptomics, etc.), and applications of approaches on real world NTA data.