Wednesday Morning Session Preview: Emerging Environmental Contaminants
June 5th 2013This session will cover a broad range of emerging environmental contaminants including organic components from fire retardant applied during a wildfire, disinfectant byproducts in swimming pools, pharmaceuticals in wastewater samples, and more.
Tuesday Afternoon Workshop Preview: LC-MS in the Clinical Lab: How Close is 24/7?
June 5th 2013Among the 11 conference workshops taking place Tuesday from 5:45 to 7:00 p.m. is ?LC-MS in the Clinical Lab: How Close is 24/7?? which was organized by the Clinical Chemistry Interest Group and will have Brett Holmquist and Cory Bystrom presiding.
Monday Morning Session Preview: Biotherapeutics and Biomarkers: Advances in Quantitative Analysis
June 5th 2013This session includes presentations of quantitative studies performed using mass spectrometry techniques for applications ranging from breast cancer biomarkers to site-specific protein glycosylation to therapeutic oligonucleotides.
Monday Afternoon Session Preview: Clinical Chemistry: Dried Blood Spot Analysis
June 5th 2013Monday afternoon?s six presentations will focus on dried blood spot analysis, including the development of enzyme assays based on tandem mass spectrometry for the detection of lysosomal storage disorders; analysis of hemoglobin peptides in tryptic digests of dried-blood spot extracts; in-paper dried blood spot enzyme assays to determine plasma enzyme activities; the determination of neonatal paraben exposure; the introduction of a ?detergent-assisted elution? to improve analyte elution efficiency in dried matrix spot bioanalytical assays by UHPLC?MS-MS; and a method to quantify peptides from insulin-like growth factor-1 and its synthetic analogues in dried blood spots by LC?MS-MS.
Tuesday Morning Session Preview: Ion Mobility: Separations
June 5th 2013The six presentations in this Tuesday morning session will examine various topics in ion mobility spectrometry, including an approach for ion manipulations, calibration standards, stereoisomer separation, petroleomics, and protein self assembly.
The 2013 Emerging Leader in Chromatography: Davy Guillarme
June 4th 2013LCGC's 2013 Emerging Leader in Chromatography award winner Davy Guillarme, a senior lecturer at the University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, in Geneva, Switzerland, recently spoke to us about how his career began and where his research is leading him now.
The LCGC Blog: Retention Shifts in HPLC
June 3rd 2013The nature of retention time changes in HPLC tends to fall into categories. Firstly, the retention time may "drift" over several injections or several analytical campaigns and secondly, the retention time may suddenly "jump to a different value between injections or between analytical campaigns (i.e. analyte retention times are very different to when that method was run last).
Malvern enters grinding & dispersing market
June 3rd 2013Malvern Instruments (Malvern, UK) has entered a three year co-marketing agreement with Netzsch Grinding and Dispersing (Selb, Germany). The two companies serve shared markets including food, ceramics, pharmaceuticals, nano-technology applications, and surface coatings through to metal and mineral mining.
The science of Aboriginal smoking ceremonies
June 3rd 2013Two researchers from the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, have investigated the traditional medicines used in Australian Aboriginal cultures using gas chromatography- mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and gas chromatography with flame ionization detection (GC-FID).1