Pilar Campins Falco, PhD Affiliation: MINTOTA Research Group, Departamento de Química Analítica, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Valencia, Dr. Moliner 50, 46100-Burjassot, Valencia (Spain) Title: New tools for characterizing Metallic Nanoparticles: IT-SPME coupled to miniaturized LC

José Benito Rodríguez González, PhD Affiliation: Electron microscopy Unit CACTI. Universidad de Vigo (Spain) Title: Sample preparation for a successful HRTEM analysis

José S. Torrecilla, PhD Affiliation: Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) Title: Algorithms in the quality control of foods

Loïc Dayon, PhD Affiliation: Nestle Institute of Health Sciences (Switzerland) Title: Large-scale and high-throughput clinical proteomic workflow for biomarker discovery in human plasma and CSF

Alexander A. Kamnev, PhD, DSc Affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganisms,Russian Academy of Sciences, Saratov (Russia) Title: Sample treatment in Mössbauer spectroscopy: nondestructive possibilities to look inside sophisticated biocomplexes

Heung Bin Lim, PhD Affiliation: Depart. of Chem., Dankook University, Cheonan-si (South Korea) Title: Magnetophoretic separation of bacteria using metal-doped magnetic nanoparticles in ICP-MS immunoassay