Background
Our guest, Carlito Lebrilla, knows the central valley and California very well, having been a local student in Stockton as a youth.  He completed his B.S. from the University of California, Irvine in 1981, his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1985, became the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technical University of Berlin from 1985-86, then became a NATO-NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technical University of Berlin from 1986-87.  He next worked with Professor Robert McIver as a UC President's Fellow at UC Irvine from 1988-89 after which he was appointed to the Chemistry Department faculty at UC Davis in 1989.  He has continued to develop his research interests in mass spectrometry, bio-analytical chemistry, and the methods of gas-phase chiral analysis.  Mass spectrometry has developed to remarkable levels in the past few years and now has applications across the broad range of chemical topics including biomolecules and carbohydrates.  We will hear of Dr. Lebrilla's pioneering work using mass spectrometry to investigate the interactions of chiral molecules (those with right- and left-handed structural symmetry) in the gas phase.  This is an area of research that would have been considered impossible until recently.  Nonetheless, the chiral properties of biomolecules are essential for their activity in living systems.
 
 
 

PROGRAM:	10:00 a.m.	Registration, Coffee and Conversation
		Inside the Mendocino Ave. Entrance to the UOP Sciences Classroom Building
	10:30 a.m.	ACS Meeting/Announcements/Lecture
		Location:  CR 170 Lecture Hall, Classroom Building
	12:00 Noon	Annual Steak Barbecue - Patio Area ($12.00)
		Reservations requested

Directions & map
 

The San Francisco Bay Area Mass Spectrometry discussion group was formed in 1980 to provide a regular gathering for people interested in mass spectrometry and allied topics. BAMS currently has a membership of about 280 individual and 20 corporate members, and meets 8-10 times per year for a midweek dinner and lecture.  Meetings attract between 30 and 90 people, and are held at a restaurant or hotel in the bay area convenient for our speaker.  We usually convene at 6:00pm for cocktails, dinner at 7:00pm, and lecture at 8:15pm.
 

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BAMS has been fortunate to have had many excellent speakers in our short history.
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If you have questions or comments about BAMS, please contact one of the BAMS officers.
Please thank our corporate sponsors who help keep BAMS membership and dinner costs low.
Here are some internet links that may be of interest to BAMS members.
BAMS treasurer's report for 1999 is available here.
 

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Last update: 4/21/00.