BASIS 2014 Annual Meeting
March 27 & 28, 2014
De Ganzenheuvel, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Thursday, March 27
10:00 – 12:00
Arrival and registration of industrial partners
Arrival and registration of attendees/members
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch and sponsor trade show
13:00 – 13:10
OPENING BASIS 2014
Session 1
Chairman
13:10 – 13:40
History, present and future of stable isotope applications at
the Isotope Bioscience Laboratory of Ghent University
Pascal Boeckx, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
13:40 – 14:10
DELTA RAY: an isotope ratio infrared spectrometer for
simultaneous measurements of carbon and oxygen
isotopologues of CO2
Hans-Jurg Jost, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bremen, Germany
14:10 – 14:40
Introducing the new VisION Isotope Ratio Mass
Spectrometer, the future of IRMS from Isoprime Ltd
Filip Volders, Elementar Analysensysteme GmbH, Hanau,
Germany
14:40 – 15:20
COFFEE BREAK - TRADE SHOW – POSTER SESSION
Session 2
Chairman
15:20 – 16:00
Development of an automated CO2 extraction line and
analysis of the abundance of 13C18O16O
Magdalena Hofmann*, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The
Netherlands
Frans Stellaard
Pascal Boeckx
16:00 -16:45
Cholesterol metabolism studies in men with emphasis on
cholesterol absorption
Dieter Lütjohann and Frans Stellaard, University of Bonn,
Bonn, Germany and University Medical Center Groningen,
Groningen, The Netherlands
17:00 – 18:00
City walk
18:30 – 19:30
Reception
19:30 – 22:00
Dinner
Friday, March 28
Session 3
Chairman
Klaus D. Wutzke
9:00 – 9:30
History, present and future of stable isotope applications at
the Centre for Isotope research of Groningen University
Harro Meyer, University of Groningen, Groningen, The
Netherlands
9:30 – 9:50
Development of a novel liquid chromatographic/mass
spectrometric method for the analysis of NO synthesisspecific amino acids in human plasma
Efraim Oosterink*, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
9:50 – 10:10
GC-MS/C/IRMS to prove administration of androgens and
estrogens in bovines
Geert Janssens, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
10:10 – 10.50
COFFEE BREAK - TRADE SHOW – POSTER SESSION
Session 4
Chairman
Harro Meijer
10:50 – 11:10
A comparison of triple quadrupole and single quadrupole
GC/MS analysis of physiological amino acids
Dewi van Harskamp*, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
11:10 – 11:30
Compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis of nitrogencontaining membrane lipids and their biosynthetic amino
acid precursors
Elisabeth Svensson, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea
Research, den Burg, The Netherlands
11:30 – 11:50
Phenylalanine requirement in the presence of excess
tyrosine of the enterally fed term neonate
Jacomine Hogewind-Schoonenboom*, Academic Medical
Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
11:50 – 12:10
Chlorine isotope variations in the hyper-acid lake system of
Poás volcano, Costa Rica
Alejandro Rodríguez*, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The
Netherlands
12:10 – 12:40
LEDENVERGADERING – BASIS Member Meeting 2014
12:40 – 13:40
Lunch and sponsor trade show
Session 6
Chairman
13:40 – 14:00
Compound specific hydrogen isotopes as a culture
independent method to identify core metabolisms of
microorganisms in situ
Sandra Heinzelmann, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea
Research, den Burg, The Netherlands
14:00 – 14:20
Tracing carbon allocation into cellular compounds using LCIRMS and GC-c-IRMS: A phytoplankton study
Julia Grosse*, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research,
Yerseke, The Netherlands
Tom Bosma
14:20 – 14:40
Towards a palaeosalinity proxy: the isotopic fractionation of
hydrogen between source waters and lipids produced via
different biochemical pathways in haptophyte algae
David Chivall, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea
Research, den Burg, The Netherlands
14:40 – 15:00
Compound specific stable isotopes (CSSI) approach for
sediment fingerprinting in Kunchhal watershed of Nepal
Hari Ram Upadhayay, University of Ghent, Gent, Belgium
YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD CEREMONY
Presenters marked with an * are candidates for the Young Scientist Award.
CLOSING REMARKS
Coffee ‘ to go’
Posters
GC-C-IRMS for analysis of natural hormone abuse in cattle
Paul Zoontjes, University of Wageningen, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Use of stable isotope techniques in a dietary intervention study in obese
children: study protocol
Margriet Veldhorst, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam
Nitrogen cycling and nitrogen sequestration in temperate forest edges
Elyn Remy, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
An assessment of the potential of the hydrogen-isotopic composition of lipid
biomarkers as a palaeohydrological proxy using independent proxy-data
Chiara Cerli, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Water sources for native old growth and fast growing exotic plantation
ecosystems in southern Chile
Pedro Hervé-Fernández, University of Ghent, Gent, Belgium
Automatic analysis of delta C13-DIC in water using gasprep IRMS system
David Verstraeten, Free University Brussels, Brussels, Belgium