GLRM 2009

38th Great Lakes Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society          May 13-16, 2009 Chicago

GLRM Exhibition

Exhibition hours:  Thursday, May 14, 2009 — 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM,   Friday, May 15 — 9 AM to 4 PM

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BOOTH	EXHIBITOR
1		Alfa Aesar (Johnson Matthey)	Alfa Aesar, a Johnson Matthey Company, is a leading international manufacturer and supplier of research chemicals, metals and materials. The Alfa Aesar Catalog has over 30,000 products listed, which include, organic compounds, high purity inorganics, pure metals, alloys, elements, precious metal compounds and catalysts, rare earth, AA/ICP standards and more.
2		Spherotech, Inc.	Spherotech, Inc. manufactures uniform, high quality latex, fluorescent, paramagnetic, ferromagnetic and various colored microparticles for biomedical and diagnostic applications. These microparticles are used in applications such as latex agglutination, fluorescence immunoassay, enzyme immunoassay, fluorescence microscopy, confocal fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, image cytometry, magnetic cell separation and magnetic particles EIA.
3		Illinois State University	The Master’s degree program in Chemistry at Illinois State University offers: (1) one of the largest thesis-based terminal M.S. degree programs in the country; (2) cutting-edge research and premier facilities; (3) a strong mentoring environment; (4) graduate teaching/research assistantships, available to qualified students. For more information, please visit www.chem.ilstu.edu.
4		Varian, Inc.	Varian, the innovator in Information Rich Detection provides NMR, LCMS, GCMS, HPLC, AA and ICP instrumentation. Varian provides a complete laboratory solution through our line of columns, consumables and data management systems. Varian: Building long term relationships through unparalleled support; Application, Sales and Service.
5,6,7		Thermo Scientific	Rely on Thermo Scientific products whenever and wherever you need to take research farther, analyze more and move science forward.
10		ProChem, Inc.	ProChem, Inc. is a specialty chemical manufacturing company providing high purity inorganics, organometallics, rare earth and custom chemical synthesis production/purification services. These products are used in research, development and commercial sectors such as semiconductors, crystal growth, ceramics, medical diagnostics, and other applications. ProChem can produce from mg. to large multi-ton quantities.
11		Bruker AXS Inc.	Bruker AXS is a provider of Advanced X-ray Solutions in chemical, materials and life sciences. The revolutionary SMART X2S wheels into the lab and automates routine crystal structures at the touch of a button. Industry-leading APEXII CCDs offer highest sensitivity for microcrystals, high performance microfocus sources, and DUO automatic wavelength change. X8 PROSPECTOR and X8 PROTEUM systems cover the whole range of protein crystal screening to high quality data. The newly introduced D2 PHASER is the fastest and most powerful desktop x-ray diffraction system available for qualitative and quantitative phase analysis.
12		MPI Research	MPI Research is a full service Contract Research Organization that partners with biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device, animal health, and agrichemical companies in meeting their preclinical and early clinical drug development research needs. By combining the convenience and efficiency of comprehensive research services with scientific depth, regulatory compliance and timely study starts, we keep your projects moving forward.
13		ICX Technologies	Tired of bringing samples back to the lab? Want to use your GC/MS for on-site chemical analysis? Educate on the move with Griffin 400 GC/MS/MS - suitable for benchtop and field-use, the Griffin 400 is ideal for teaching real-world applications such as forensics investigation, environmental monitoring, and hazardous incident investigation.
14		Ocean Optics	The Education Division of Ocean Optics focuses on delivering premier, world-class curricula for teaching spectroscopy in the science lab. Combined with state of the art instrumentation and training workshops, Dr. Q and Ocean Optics bring excitement and creativity back into the classroom. Visit the new Spectroscopy101.com for all you're educational needs.
16		Pine Instrumentation	If you need to introduce your students to modern electroanalytical chemistry in an easy and inexpensive way, then Pine’s WaveNow potentiostat and Instructional Three Electrode Cell are exactly what you need! This potentiostat is a lightweight instrument with a USB interface. The instructional cell contains disposable screen-printed electrodes.
17		MeasureNet Technology, Ltd.	MeasureNet brings Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) functionality to the university teaching laboratory. MeasureNet's network design provides high quality data acquisition without the cost and maintenance of bench-cluttering, stand-alone PCs, while enabling live data monitoring and remote storage for collaborative exercises between multiple labs and multiple institutions. Each network supports up to 24 students for a variety of experiments.
18		Q LabTech	Q LABTECH is a US-based laboratory technology company. Q-TUBE™ is a safe pressure tube/reactor. It's affordable and can replace a microwave synthesizer. It has been widely used in research labs in pharmaceuticals, CRO and academia worldwide. Q-TUBE is one of the best chemical reactors available today.
19		Bio-Tools	BioTools, known for expertise in characterization of molecular chirality and protein structure, was the first introduced dedicated spectrometers for the measurement of Vibrational Circular Dichroism (VCD) & Raman Optical Activity (ROA) – the Chiral IR™ and the Chiral RAMAN™.  Consider our BioIR series of solutions for measurements and analysis of FT-IR spectra of proteins, viruses, sugars and nucleotides.
20		Dionex Corporation	Dionex provides a full suite of chromatography solutions: RFIC™ systems for ion analysis; Intelligent LC (LCi) systems, with a full range of HPLC and LC/MS applications; and the new ASE®350 Accelerated Solvent Extraction systems, which save time, solvent, and labor with automated sample preparation.
23		Grace Davidson Discovery Sciences	Trust your chromatography results to Grace Davidson Discovery Sciences, the premier manufacturer of silica based media for SPE, Flash, HPLC and Process chromatography. We help pharmaceutical labs in all stages of drug discovery to optimize time and improve results through decades of experience in silica bonding and the art of column packing.
24		Chemical Education Digital Library	ChemEd DL aims to provide exemplary digital resources, tools, and online services to aid in teaching and learning chemistry. A collaborative, community-driven effort, we provide a destination for all those interested in chemistry to share what they know so that others may learn.
25		Division of Chemical Education	DivCHED serves as a means of focusing and enhancing the interests and efforts of all constituencies involved in the teaching and learning of chemistry at every level.
26		TCI America	TCI America manufactures laboratory chemicals, provides custom synthesis and offers contract research services for pharmaceutical, cosmetic, electronic, chemical and biotechnology researchers.  2008-2009 Laboratory Chemicals Catalog lists 20,000+ products. Capabilities include multi-step synthesis and continuous production from milli to ton scale. Modern facilities can offer cGMP manufacturing.
27		Biotage	Biotage is a leading supplier of tools and technology for analytical, medicinal and process development chemists. Our tools include the Isolera™, a state-of-the-art flash chromatography instrument, the V-10, a highly efficient and fast solvent evaporator and a variety of SPE products such as the revolutionary Isolute™ SLE+.
Sponsoring our mixer		ProQuest	ProQuest provides seamless access to and navigation of more than 125 billion digital pages of the world’s scholarship, delivering it to the desktop of researchers everywhere.