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Contemporary human breath related topics: aerosols, saliva, and HR-MS bioinformatics from Pittcon 2019
Citation:
Pleil, J., M. Wallace, W. Miekisch, AND F. DiFrancesco. Contemporary human breath related topics: aerosols, saliva, and HR-MS bioinformatics from Pittcon 2019. Journal of Breath Research. Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, Uk, 13(3):039001, (2019).
Impact/Purpose:
Researchers from the International Association of Breath Research and the scientific board of the Journal of Breath Research (JBR) attended the annual Pittsburgh Conference and Exposition (Pittcon) in March 2019 in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Herein we report on a series of breath related topics from the meeting featuring sessions on exhaled breath aerosols and development of saliva analysis as a complement to non-invasive breath monitoring. Other contemporary breath related subjects, including bioinformatics, metabolomics, and forensics are also discussed.
Description:
The annual Pittsburgh Conference and Exposition (Pittcon) is one the largest worldwide meetings of analytical chemistry instrumentation and applications. Pittcon attracts researchers from all over the world and is unique for us in the breath community in that it is the only non-specialized meeting we generally attend as a group. This year Pittcon hosted International Association of Breath Research (IABR) and Journal of Breath Research (JBR) researchers from Pisa, Italy, Rostock, Germany, Innsbruck, Austria, as well as U.S. researchers from California, Virginia, Arizona, and North Carolina. The 2019 Pittcon was held at the Philadelphia Convention Center with approximately 12,500 attendees from 80 countries, 155 technical sessions, an aggregate of 80 additional poster, networking and workshop sessions, and 750 corporate exhibitors on the exposition floor. Pittcon 2019 featured two main sessions directly related to breath diagnostics research. These were a symposium entitled “Human Exhaled Breath Aerosol (EBA) Sampling and Analysis: Applications for Clinical Diagnostics and Environmental Exposure Studies,” and a workshop session entitled “Saliva Analysis: Non-Invasive Technologies for Drug Testing, Diagnosing Infection, and Assessing Inflammatory and Health Status.” In addition, there were numerous standalone presentations and posters affecting breath research that will be reported herein.