Electrophoresis Society Meeting Hosted at Nbs

The National Bureau of Standards (NBS) hosted the Electrophoresis Society Meeting March 26-28, 1986. The meeting, co·sponsored by the Society and the Center for Analytical Chemistry, drew about 135 scientists. The participants represented industry (40 percent); local, State, and Federal government agencies (40 percent); and nnlversities or university hospitals (20 percent). The meeting was structured to allow maximum interaction among the participants. Morning pie. nary sessions were held in the Green Auditorium and afternoon sessions in the Gaithersburg Holiday Inn. Ten companies demonstrated their latest instrumentation in a commercial exhibit. In the first plenary session, Bruce Budowle of the Forensic Science Research and Training Center, Federal Bureau of Investigation, showed advances in the technology of making ultrathin-layer polyacrylamide gel isoelectric focusing a more reproducible method. The method is becoming a useful tool in forensic analyses and has shown remarkable versatility in its adaptation for genetic analyses of small amounts of human body fluids.