ELECTROPHORESIS

Call for Papers

May 23, 2013

Foodomics and Advanced Food Analysis

Dear colleague,
Following the last special issue on Foodomics & Food Analysis published in 2012, it is my pleasure to announce with this letter that a new ELECTROPHORESIS issue on “Foodomics and Advanced Food Analysis” will appear in spring 2014.

This publication will contain both research and review papers by recognized experts in the field concerning various aspects related to Food Analysis and Foodomics, including assessment of food safety, quality and authenticity, control of technological processes, determination of nutritional values, characterization of bioactive molecules with beneficial or toxic effects, etc. Applications will include analysis in food, feed and beverages of amino acids, peptides, proteins, DNAs, nutraceuticals, polyphenols, pigments, carbohydrates, vitamins, small organic and inorganic ions, lipids, food additives, antibiotics, pesticides, toxins, etc, using liquid chromatography, capillary electromigration and chip-based miniaturized techniques combined with UV, laser-induced fluorescence, electrochemical detection or mass spectrometry. Besides, innovative applications in the new field of Foodomics (including “non-electrophoretic” approaches for Transcriptomics, Proteomics or Metabolomics) are also welcome.

This special issue on “Foodomics and Advanced Food Analysis” should include top of the line research papers from experts in the field showing technologically and methodologically innovative strategies, together with the current trends and applications of liquid-based separation methods in Food Analysis and advanced analytical approaches for Foodomics.

I would like to invite you to participate in this special issue by presenting your current results as a research article. Review articles are also welcome provided the topic of the review is discussed with me. The deadline for manuscript submission is November 15, 2013. Each manuscript should be written according to the Author Guidelines and should be submitted electronically via the website of ELECTROPHORESIS (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/elpho). Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed according to the policy of the journal, and please also note the mandatory page charge for contributions exceeding 8 printed pages (except for reviews).

If you can accept my invitation to contribute to this issue with an article, please, give me a positive answer by e-mail at your earliest convenience providing also the tentative title of your contribution.

I am confident that, with your contribution, the special issue will be an important document in the field of Food Analysis and Foodomics.

Thank you in advance for your interest and your cooperation.
Sincerely yours,

Alejandro Cifuentes
Laboratory of Foodomics
Institute of Food Science Research (CSIC)
a.cifuentes@csic.es

May 23, 2013

Instrumentation for CE and Microchip CE

Dear colleague,
We are delighted to invite you to submit a manuscript to the special issue of ELECTROPHORESIS on “Instrumentation for CE and Microchip CE”.This will be the third special issue of this series that is running biennially. The first one was published in 2010, as volume 31 issue 15, pages 2467–2694, with 27 articles as reviews, research articles and short communications. The most recent was published in 2012, as volume 33 issue 17, pages 2613-2798 and had similar composition publishing 3 reviews, 19 research paper, and two short communications.

We have observed that even after 30 years of the establishment of the technique, instrumentation continues to be a very active field in both capillary electrophoresis (CE) and microchip-based capillary electrophoresis (μchip-CE or MCE). Both techniques thrive as multidimensional analytical platforms in the analytical, biomedical, pharmaceutical, environmental, and forensic sciences. Recent advances in the instrumentation associated with these techniques have fueled such growth. For that reason, and considering the success of the previous special issues of ELECTROPHORESIS, we would like to cordially invite you to participate in the 2014 Special Issue dedicated to Instrumentation for CE and Microchip CE by presenting your recent results within a research article or a short communication. Review articles are also welcome provided the topic of the review is discussed with the Editors before submission. Submissions related to simulations and CE-related software that could provide rational guidelines for experimental work are also encouraged.

This Special Issue is currently scheduled to be number (12) 2014. Therefore, the deadline for manuscript submission would be October 30, 2013. Each manuscript should be written according to the Instructions to Authors and should be submitted electronically via the website of ELECTROPHORESIS (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/elpho). As usual, all the manuscripts will be peer-reviewed according to the policy of the journal, and please also note the mandatory page charge for contributions exceeding 8 printed pages (except for reviews).

If you are interested in contributing to this Special Issue, we would appreciate very much receiving a tentative title of your contribution. If you cannot send us a contribution at this time, we would also appreciate your referral to a colleague who might be interested.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
With best regards,

Dr. Carlos D. Garcia Department of Chemistry The University of Texas at San Antonio carlos.garcia@utsa.edu

Dr. Emanuel Carrilho Instituto de Química de São Carlos University of Sao Paulo emanuel@iqsc.usp.br

May 23, 2013

Clinical Analysis by CE

Dear colleague,
It is my pleasure to invite you to contribute a paper to a special issue of ELECTROPHORESIS devoted to:

“Clinical Analysis by CE”

The special issue will cover all aspects of CE as it is applied to clinical diagnosis, clinical chemical analysis, and clinical pathology, namely:

- Innovative approaches to the use of CE in clinical or clinical pathological diagnosis and analysis. These approaches can employ zone electrophoresis, capillary PAGE, isotachophoresis, isoelectric focusing, affinity electrophoresis and immunoaffinity CE.
- Development of new analytical tools such as chip-based CE systems and combinations of CE with novel detection systems such as MS, LIF, chemiluminescence and other forms of detection applicable to clinical analysis.
- Analysis of a variety of human biological fluids, tissues and cells by CE-based techniques or hybrid technologies incorporating CE separation of medically significant molecules.
- Novel combinations of analytical techniques such as molecular biology followed by CE analysis or MS analysis of CE separated human molecules of medical interest.

Your article can be either an original full research paper or a short communication describing important new results in the above fields. Comprehensive and/or critical reviews are also welcome but the topic should be agreed upon in advance, by sending a brief outline of its contents to me at tmphil46@yahoo.com. The deadline for manuscript submission is August 1, 2013. Manuscripts should be written according to the guidelines described under Instructions to Authors, which is attached, and should be submitted electronically via the website of ELECTROPHORESIS (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/elpho). All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed according to the policy of the journal and please also note the mandatory page charge for contributions exceeding 8 printed pages (except for reviews; see Author Guidelines for details).

I do hope you will accept my invitation to publish the results of your work in this special issue of ELECTROPHORESIS, which is anticipated to make an important contribution in the coming years. Please let me know the tentative title of your contribution by e-mail (tmphil46@yahoo.com) at your earliest convenience, preferably before June 1, 2013.

Thank you for considering this invitation.

Warm regards and looking forward to hear soon from you,
Terry Phillips

Deputy Editor

April 12, 2013

Fundamentals of Electrophoresis 2014

The 12th Special Issue on “Fundamentals of Electrophoresis” will appear at the beginning of 2014.

You are cordially invited to submit a paper for this special issue. Your contribution may be either (i) a research article with original results, or (ii) a critical review, which may also contain original results.

The particular subjects of the issue are as follows:

- Electromigration in microchip channels and nanochannels
- Dielectrophoresis and micromanipulation with dielectrophoretic forces
- Electromigration in sieving and chiral media
- Electromigration in CE, CEC, and MEKC modes
- Inner surface of separation channel and electroosmotic flow, coating
- Fundamental innovative issues in instrumentation
- Predictive and simulation tools in electrophoresis

The deadline for manuscript submission is August 19, 2013. The manuscript should be submitted electronically via the website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/elpho. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed according to standard Journal procedures and policies. Please also note the mandatory page charge for contributions exceeding eight printed pages (except for reviews; see Author Guidelines online for details).

I look forward to cooperating with contributors.

Prof. Bohuslav Gas
Editor
E-mail for correspondence: gas@natur.cuni.cz

March 13, 2013

Mass Spectrometric Detection in Liquid Phase Separations 2014

The hyphenation of separation methods with mass spectrometry (MS) can be seen as one of the major topics in analytical chemistry. Nearly every liquid phase separation technique has been combined with MS and in many areas MS is going to replace other detection methods as the detector of choice. Major reasons for that is the excellent performance of MS with respect to selectivity and sensitivity as well as the additional gain in information due to the availability of (high resolution) MS and MSⁿ spectra.

ELECTROPHORESIS has a long tradition in publishing Special Issues covering all areas of capillary electroseparation techniques and their combination with MS, leading to seven issues describing the newest developments in "Capillary Electrophoresis — Mass Spectrometry". In 2012 the coverage of this Special Issue was widened to include reports from all fields of liquid phase separations and their coupling with MS. Due to the great success of the 2012 issue, for 2014 a Special Issue covering all aspects of Mass Spectrometric Detection in Liquid Phase Separations has also been scheduled. This Special Issue will contain original research contributions from all areas of pressure driven and electro driven techniques coupled to MS, including theory, techniques, methodology, detection, and all kinds of applications.

I have the great pleasure to invite you to contribute a manuscript to this special issue. Your work can be either an original paper describing full investigations or a short communication describing brief, timely and important results. Also review articles are welcome, provided prior discussion of the topic of the review with the editor. The deadline for manuscript submission is 15 September 2013. Each manuscript will be reviewed according to the policy of ELECTROPHORESIS. Please also note the mandatory page charge for contributions exceeding 8 printed pages (except for reviews; see Author Guidelines online for details). The special issue Mass Spectrometric Detection in Liquid Phase Separations will appear early in spring 2014.

Online submission is encouraged (please see http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/elpho and click YES when asked for special issue). Please send an e-mail with the tentative title of your contribution to christian.klampfl@jku.at at your earliest convenience. I hope that with your article the Special Issue will again be a success and a significant contribution in the fields of LC/CE-MS.

Looking forward to hearing from you I remain with best regards

Christian W. Klampfl
Institute of Analytical Chemistry
Johannes-Kepler-University Linz
Altenbergerstrasse 69
A-4040 Linz / Austria
Tel.: +732-2468-8722
Fax: +732-2468-8679
Email: christian.klampfl@jku.at

February 12, 2013

Microfluidics and Miniaturization 2013

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit a paper for a special issue of ELECTROPHORESIS focused on microfluidics and miniaturization. Since its start in 1999, this special issue has generated significant interest leading to a re-definition of the original scope of the journal and the addition of the new category of "Microfluidics and Miniaturization" to any regular issue of ELECTROPHORESIS. Nonetheless, the special issue on Microfluidics and Miniaturization has become a well-anticipated annual tradition focusing entirely on this exciting and still evolving field.

With Microfluidics and Miniaturization 2013 we would like to continue this tradition, and we encourage submission of articles covering all aspects of miniaturized systems, including theoretical and practical considerations in their design, fabrication and applications. The suggested topics include (but are not limited to) chip design, miniaturized separations, micro total analysis systems (μ-TAS), lab-on-a-chip systems (LOC), miniaturized chemical and optical sensors, detection aspects, microfluidic interfacing, sample preparation, mass spectrometry coupling, bioreactors and cell manipulation. Theoretical aspects as well as well as their application to analytical and bioanalytical challenges (environment, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, diagnostics, forensics, etc.) will also be considered.

The tentative publication date of the Microfluidics and Miniaturization 2013 issue is set towards the fall of 2013. Additional information and directions for authors are available on the web at: http://www.electrophoresis-journal.com. The deadline for submission of the manuscripts is set for April 19, 2013. Please submit your manuscripts electronically at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/elpho indicating that it is intended for this special issue, or contact one of the co-editors directly.

Dr. Frantisek Foret
Institute of Analytical Chemistry
Veveri 97, 61142 Brno
Czech Republic
foret@iach.cz

Dr. Jörg P. Kutter
Dept. of Micro and Nanotechnology
Technical University of Denmark
DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
joerg.kutter@nanotech.dtu.dk