BASi Sponsored Events at Pittcon 2024

SEAC Student Session in Electroanalysis

Sunday, 25^th Feb 2024, 9:30 AM -12:00 PM
Room 30B, San Diego Convention Center

SEAC – The Student Session in Electroanalysis is a showcase SEAC event at Pittcon showcasing new talent in electrochemistry. The spirit of this session is to highlight young and emerging talent in the field of electrochemistry and to facilitate networking with each other and the greater electrochemical community represented by SEAC. The session features selected talks by talented graduate and postdoctoral researchers, discussing advances in a wide range of both fundamental and applied topics in electrochemistry.

 

BASi Presenting: “Advances in Wearable Sensor Technology” 

Sunday, 25^th Feb 2024, 10:30 AM -10:40 PM
Room 30B, San Diego Convention Center

Presented by Dr. Ritesh N. Vyas, Global Head, BASi Research Products

This is brief literature survey on the recent publications on advances in wearable sensor technology. As one of the largest providers of portable potentiostats in the market, PalmSens B.V. will be launching its first ever Wearable Sensit Platform in the market in May. This product will allow direct analysis on the skin using a portable potentiostat built with a patch for sweat based analysis for glucose, lactose etc. As a sole distributor for PalmSens in Northern America, we will also bring a dummy prototype for the audience to gain their valuable feedback.  

 

SEAC Committee Lunch - Sponsored by  BASi

Sunday, 25^th Feb 2024, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room 29A, San Diego Convention Center

Are you a SEAC Member? Join us for a delicious lunch and discuss the present and future of electrochemistry with several other SEAC dignitaries.

 

SEAC Award Symposium - Sponsored by BASi

Sunday, 25^th Feb 2024, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room 24BC, San Diego Convention Center

Charles N. Reilley and Royce W. Murray Award – SEAC (arranged by Mark Meyerhoff)

The SEAC Awards session brings together leaders in the field of electroanalytical chemistry to honor the achievements of Eric Bakker (Reilley Awardee) and Long Luo (Murray Awardee). The symposium will highlight advances in fundamental electrochemistry, electrochemical synthesis, ion selective electrodes, instrumentation, processes occurring at the electrode solution interface, nanoscale electrochemistry, operando measurements, and energy conversion and storage.

The Charles N. Reilley Award in Electroanalytical Chemistry is given in memory of one of the most distinguished analytical chemists of the 20th century. Reilley’s interests were both fundamental and broad; he made seminal contributions not only to electroanalysis, but also optical spectroscopy, NMR, chromatography, data analysis, instrumentation, and surface analysis.  Reilley is central in the history of the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry, which was formed following his death in 1981, as a vehicle for managing the award. 

Current Awardee – 2024

Eric Bakker is chair of analytical chemistry at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. After his undergraduate studies in chemistry at ETH Zurich, he pursued his doctorate with Wilhelm Simon at the same institution, working on optical ion sensing principles and materials and becoming increasingly interested in ion-selective membrane theory. Throughout his doctorate work he was also a part-time project manager at Mettler-Toledo, where he developed a reference electrode element that avoids silver contamination, which was patented and since commercialized. He pursued postdoctoral studies at the University of Michigan with Mark Meyerhoff where he contributed to understanding how potentiometric polyion sensors work and how anion-responsive membrane electrode selectivity can be optimized. He has published over 400 papers that have been globally cited about 30,000 times. Eric also received the Robert Boyle Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Simon-Widmer Award from the Swiss Chemical Society. Having previously served as Associate Editor for Sensors and Actuators B, he was an inaugural Associate Editor for ACS Sensors and now serve as its Executive Editor. He is also a scientific advisor for Eaglenos, a diagnostic company based in Nanjing.

 

 

Congratulations to Dr. Pete Kissinger, recipient of the SEAC Service Award! 

The SEAC Service Award is named in honor of one of the founders of SEAC and a major contributor to founding SEAC, the SEAC endowment and establishment of the Reilley award. Candidates may be nominated by any member of SEAC.

Pete Kissinger received BS degree in 1966 from Union College, Schenectady, PhD from UNC in 1970, and postdoc at KU in 1970-1972. He started as Assistant Professor at Michigan State in 1972-1975, and then was Professor at Purdue in 1975-2019. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Purdue. He has >250 peer reviewed publications. He founded BAS in Michigan in 1974 to fill a gap in low-cost electroanalytical instrumentation that had recently become feasible due to the development of integrated circuit operational amplifiers in the 741 formats. The first standalone cyclic voltammetry instruments and amperometric detectors for liquid chromatography were initial ‘garage products’. The product line was quickly supplemented by liquid chromatography, the first digital electroanalytical workstation (1985) (partnering with the Univ. of Illinois), and several in vivo sampling technologies for neuroscience and pharmaceutical discovery. The latter involved collaboration with the Karolinska Institute, Eli Lilly, and others. Pete retired from active management in 2007. He is a Fellow of AAAS and AAPS and was appointed a Sagamore of the Wabash by Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb.

Pete first envisioned the need for SEAC given the importance of electroanalytical chemistry to academic science in the 1960s and 70s.  The field was neglected in relation to various spectroscopies and chromatography tools where organizations and awards were growing in prominence by the early 1980s.  He organized a group of experts to organize the society, create the Reilley Award, and use Pittcon as the platform for the award and supporting symposia.  This was a team effort.  Pete completed his PhD at UNC Chapel Hill and considers both Charlie Reilley and Royce Murray to be mentors.  He then pursued postdoctoral research with Ralph Adams at the University of Kansas.  All three are now represented by awards at Pittcon.  Pete’s career was uniquely divided between academia (1973-2019), entrepreneurial company creation (1974- ) and writing for trade publications.