The American Electrophoresis Society is a unique organization founded in 1980 to improve and promote technologies for electrophoretic separation and detection. The society was formed to promote excellence; to cross many disciplines; to facilitate communication between members worldwide; to facilitate the training of scientists and students in electrophoresis and detection technologies; and to facilitate peers training peers. Its focus includes theoretical modeling of electrophoretic separations of various biomolecules as well as the direct application of those principles and their refinement.

Application Focus
1-D Gel Electrophoresis Insulator Based Dielectrophoresis
2-D Gel Electrophoresis Isoelectric Focusing
Bioinformatics Isotachophoresis
Blue Native Gel Electrophoresis LoC & Disease Biomarkers
Dielectrophoresis Mass Spectrometry
Electrokinetics Microfluidic Chips
Ferguson Plot Analysis Multi-dimensional Electrophoresis
Free Flow Electrophoresis Polynucleotide Electrophoresis
HPCE Preparative Gel Electrophoresis of Native Metalloproteins
Image Acquisition and Analysis Pulse Field (PFGE)
  Western Blotting

Current Society Information
AES is proud to sponsor a workshop on "Transport in Microfluidic Devices" by Dr. Brian Kirby, Cornell University on Sunday, Nov. 7th. Join us!
Spring 2010
(Volume 15, Issue 1)
AES's next annual meeting will be November 7-12, 2010 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, UT. The organizers for the 2010 meeting are Kevin Dorfman, University of Minnesota and Shramik Sengupta, University of Missouri. Please email them at or with any questions. Contributions are being organized into sessions which can be viewed here. A session schedule will be available in the next month. Late-breaking contributions from members and non-members are welcome for our poster session. Please contact Victor Ugaz at with your abstract. We hope you'll join us for an intense week of electrophoresis-related research and development discussions.
 
AES News

Lightning Helps Create Artificial Blood Vessels
See the article and associated video on Discovery News of how lightning bolts could help create artificial organs. The abstract of the paper is also available in Advanced Materials.

New Device Detects Heart Disease Using Less Than One Drop Of Blood
Testing people for heart disease might be just a finger prick away thanks to a new credit card-sized device created by a team of researchers from Harvard and Northeastern universities in Boston. In a research report published online in The FASEB Journal, they describe how this device can measure and collect a type of cells needed to build vascular tissue, called endothelial progenitor cells, using only 200 microliters of blood. Full article available here.

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