The 43rd DICP Symposium on Bioanalytical Methods, Techniques and Applications, chaired by Prof. Guowang Xu and Mingliang Ye, was successfully held on April 25-27, 2017 in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The symposium has two sessions: 1) highly efficient separation and characterization of biological samples, and 2) new generation metabolomics techniques and their applications in precision medicine. The opening ceremony was chaired by Prof. Shengli Yang (member of Chinese Academy of Engineering). Prof. Rui Cai, the deputy director of DICP, made an opening speech and briefly introduced the institute.
More than 60 distinguished scientists were specially invited from abroad and China to report their brand-new research results including analytical method development and applications in the proteomics, metabolomics, life science and other hot fields. These scientists included Prof. Norman Dovichi (University of Notre Dame, U.S.A), Prof. Jeremy Nicholson (Imperial College in London, U. K), Prof. Albert Sickmann (Leibniz Institute of Analytical Science, Germany), Prof. Frantisek Svec (University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A), Prof. Chris X. Le (University of Alberta, Canada), Prof. Yingming Zhao (University of Chicago, U.S.A), Prof. Guibin Jiang (member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS), Prof. Weihong Tan (member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hunan University), Prof. Huwei Liu (Peking University), Prof. Maili Liu (Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, CAS), Prof. Guowang Xu and Prof. Mingliang Ye (DICP, CAS), etc.
This symposium was also dedicated to remember Prof. Hanfa Zou who passed away one year ago. This symposium brought together researchers in the fields of analytical chemistry and life science together to share their latest research and praised Prof. Zou’s great impact and legacy on biological analytical chemistry. In the opening ceremony, Prof. Guowang Xu introduced Prof. Zou’ C.V. and his outstanding academic achievements in the separation science and bioanalytical chemistry. In addition, there was a youth forum held at the beginning of this symposium, and more than 30 students of Prof. Zou attended the meeting, they shared with many details of life and work about Prof. Hanfa Zou. Prof. Mingliang Ye introduced the status of DICP 1809 group for the post Zou era and the related memorial events this group organized.
This symposium not only reported the latest scientific research results in the field of international analytical chemistry, but also showed the academic levels of our institute. It is also helpful to promote the cooperation with famous scientists at home and abroad. (Text: Hongqiang Qin, Photo: Wansheng Liu).