AES's next annual meeting will be October 28- November 2 at the Pittsburgh Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA. The organizers for the 2012 meeting are Yolanda Fintschenko, LabSmith and Aditya Khair, Carnegie Mellon. Please email them at yfintschenko@labsmith.com and akhair@andrew.cmu.edu with any questions.

AES is currently soliciting abstracts for a 3 day meeting of outstanding technical sessions. The schedule is viewable via the AIChE website. AES will also sponsor workshops, a plenary session, an award session, and other events. The Call for Papers for the 2012 Annual Meeting is now open and can be accessed here. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, May 2nd, 11:59pm ET. Please visit our annual meeting page for complete details.

We are delighted to announce that in March 2012 at the Governing Board meeting of The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) held in conjunction with the PITTCON Conference & Expo in Orlando, FL, the AES Electrophoresis Society was accepted as a full member of FACSS.

This is a very important relationship that will support growth and strengthen efforts by both organizations in the dissemination of multi-disciplinary technologies necessary for biomolecular separation and detection. Both organizations strive in organizing scientific meetings with high quality programming. AES has been programming in partnership with FACSS since 2009, which has benefited both members and attendees by expanding the breadth of topics, member-interactions, and potential intellectual collaborations arising from presentations and networking opportunities.

For more details about AES becoming a full member of FACSS, click here.

The AES has experienced significant growth over the last few years such that our membership has increased significantly in number and breath. We are now supporting more professionals, researchers and academics in the areas of separation/detection with electrophoretic and related techniques.

This positive trajectory and the AES Board's efforts to expand our society's reach, we recently voted to change the society name from American Electrophoresis Society to the AES Electrophoresis Society. We consider this name to have greater global appeal which better represents the long term mission of our society to be a unique international organization dedicated to further the development of electrophoretic and related techniques as key components in many scientific investigations across a broad range of disciplines.

For more details on the name change, click here.

The AES Electrophoresis Society launched the premier online resource for dielectrophoresis and the multitude of specialty sub-topics. We invited the innovators from a wide range of dielectrophoretic modes: Field Flow Fractionation DEP, Contactless DEP, Curvature-Induced DEP, Insulator Gradient DEP, 3D carbon electrode DEP, and others to write articles. This central Dielectrophoresis Resource Page provides a unique resource with the latest advancements in the DEP field. This builds upon Herbert A. Pohl's, a research scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory, Anacosta, D.C., seminal journal article on Dielectrophoresis in 1951. This electrokinetic transport mechanism “is becoming an important scientific direction with exponential growth. With over 300 papers published yearly in the past three years, it is becoming one of the main pillars of the field of microfluidics. New and effective dielectrophoretic modes and techniques are being constantly developed and reported in the literature. The great flexibility and potential that dielectrophoresis has to offer, make it suitable for applications in a wide variety of fields...” Visit and read the articles!