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AES is delighted to announce that after many requests, The Trailing Zone will be permanently featured on the AES web site. This inspiring column written by our very own Victor Ugaz (AES Past President and Texas A&M University Associate Professor) is now available for readers to make comments.

This year, AES is pleased to team up for the second time with the journal ELECTROPHORESIS to publish a special proceedings issue highlighting selected manuscripts associated with the work presented at the AES Annual Meeting. Deadline for submission is December 6th, 2013.

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AES member Blanca Lapizco-Encinas invites you to take a look at the special issue Dielectrophoresis 2013 of the journal ELECTROPHORESIS, published as issue 7 of volume 34. This special issue consists of 18 valuable contributions from research groups in the USA, Europe and Asia. It is divided into four parts: (i) Fundamentals, (ii) Nanoanalysis, (iii) Biomedical Applications and (iv) Bioanalytical Applications. This is a unique collection of articles presenting the latest findings on dielectrophoresis-based microdevices. This is the second installment in this series that started with “Dielectrophoresis 2011” published as issues 17 and 18 of volume 32. For further information visit the journal's webpage.

AES's next annual meeting will be November 3-8, 2013 in San Francisco CA. Follow this link to submit your abstracts to the 2013 annual meeting, just scroll down to find Topical 3. The deadline for submission is May 13, 2013.

Our very own Mark Hayes (AES Vice-President and ASU associate professor) will be honored by The American Microchemical Society with the Benedetti-Pichler Award in recognition of his major contributions to the development of new technology for analyzing ultra small volumes of biological fluids and tissues. The award recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of microchemistry.

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AES is delighted to announce that Professor Todd Squires, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of California at Santa Barbara, is the recipient of the 2013 AES Mid-Career Award. This recognition is given for exceptional contributions to the field of electrophoresis, microfluidics, and related areas by an individual who is currently in the middle of their career.

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AES member Victor M. Ugaz invites you to take a look at the special issue of the journal ELECTROPHORESIS devoted to Next Generation Sequencing and Genotyping, published as issue 23 of volume 33. The issue contains a diverse and informative mix of reviews, technology-focused works, and application-oriented papers that convey both the current state of the field and a glimpse of future directions. A unique feature of this collection is that the contributors have endeavored to make their work accessible to a broad range of readers.

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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.

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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.

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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!