Young Scientists Committee Meeting 2001 "Prague"

As for established tradition, the TIAFT Young Scientists met for 90 min during the TIAFT annual meeting in Prague. About 40 young scientists attended the meeting.

Nele Samyn presented a quick overview of the Young Scientist Workshop which took place in Gent (Belgium) on last April 6-7, 2001 and which was devoted to oral fluids in toxicology. After Nele's presentation the assembly decided to continue with the organization of such events (perhaps every 2 years) with the aim to promote contacts between the new scientists' generation and to feed their need of education.

The future of the committee has been also discussed. At the time of the TIAFT meeting in Paris most of the Committee's members will be too old to be able to continue in their current office and we are looking for new inputs. The positions of both chairman and secretary will be vacant and therefore I'd like to warmly invite you to contact me (pascal.kintz@wanadoo.fr) if you feel you will be able to go on with the work done by the Committee over the last years.

The next meeting of the Young Scientists is planned to be held in Paris, on Tuesday morning, August 27, 2002 from 10 am to noon. Discussion topics (for example validation procedures, STA, LC/MS ...) are under discussion and must be proposed in advance to Alain Verstraete (alain.verstraete@ugent.be).

The following topics have been also discussed in Prague:

• Practical aspects of oral fluid (Nele Samyn, Belgium)
• Data base of mass spectra (Aldo Polettini, Italy)
• Capillary electrophoresis in toxicology (Laurence Labat, France)

I hope to see you all in Paris, next August ! ! ! !

Pascal Kintz
Chairman YSC