Dear Subscriber !

Welcome to the August issue of EVISA's Speciation Newsletter. For most of you, holidays are now over and important events are ahead.

We have used the holiday season to improve the versatility of our web site by adding new features. Using modern browsers such as Firefox 3.5 or InternetExplorer 8.0 you now have the option to add the EVISA Search Engine to your Search facilities. Simply visit EVISA's website and click on your list of search engines and you will find the option to add EVISA's search engine.  We also have relaunched the speciation discussion forum that became obsolete (see the news). We hope that you will make effective use of these opportunities.

While the EVISA web site is meant to provide the most actual information about speciation, the best way to be informed about new trends in speciation science is to have direct contact with the scientists working in the field.  A good opportunity to get actual information about speciation analysis will be the workshop TraceSpec 2009, one of the few events focused on speciation analysis. Organized by EVISA, the University of Mainz and IAEAC, this event  to be held September 15-18, 2009 in Mainz unifies the experts in the field of speciation analysis, researchers from different fields using speciation analysis and legislators and other interested participants.  An attractive program consisting of plenary lectures, contributed presentations, posters and an exhibition will provide an overview about the state-of-the-art. While the deadline for submitting presentations is meanwhile gone and the program is available on the web site, you still have a chance to submit late poster contributions.