CEA organised with the help of CNRS, on 19th November 2009, a final COMPUTIS seminar entitled “Mass Spectrometry Imaging Workshop” in the premises of the Centre of Research and Restoration for Museums of France (C2RMF) located within the Louvre building in Paris.

The seminar aimed at presenting the major results of the COMPUTIS project by the partners of the project, as well as up to date work and results from 3 European experts and 1 Canadian expert in mass spectrometry imaging.

The programme of the workshop was the following:

The seminar was sponsored by the Ile de France district, the French Society of Mass Spectrometry SFSM and 5 manufacturers of mass spectrometry: Applied Biosystems, Bruker Daltoniks, Leap Technologies, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Waters.

The C2RMF lent freely an amphitheatre for the conference presentations, and a room for the posters and catering.

115 participants registered to the seminar and more than 100 people participated freely in the seminar. The distribution of participants was: 81 from France, 9 from the United Kingdom, 7 from Switzerland, 6 from Germany, 6 from the Netherlands, 2 from Belgium, 2 from Italy, 1 from Canada, and 1 from the United States.