Frisvad receives Thought Leader award
June 15th 2012Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California, USA) has announced the recipients of its latest Thought Leader award: Dr Jens Frisvad and the centre for microbial biotechnology in the department of systems biology at the Technical University of Denmark.
Waters and Fera focus on food safety
June 15th 2012Waters (Milford, Massachusetts, USA) and the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) (York, UK) have announced that they will open a new laboratory-based training facility which will combine their respective regulatory, scientific and industry expertise to help solve the global food safety challenge.
Wednesday Morning Session: Capillary Techniques & Nanostructures in Chromatography
June 11th 2012The session chairs for this Wednesday morning session are Cornelia Walther of ACIB GmbH (Vienna, Austria) and Edward Yeung of Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa). It will be held in the Orange County Ballroom, beginning at 10:35 a.m.
Tuesday Morning Session: Packed Column Technologies III
June 11th 2012This Tuesday morning session will be chaired by J.J. Kirkland of Advanced Materials Technology, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) and Daniela Stoeckel of Justus-Liebig University (Giessen, Germany). It will be held in Grand Ballroom A-E, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
Wednesday Afternoon Session on Imprinted Sorbents
June 11th 2012“Imprinted Sorbants†is a Wednesday afternoon session that will get under way at 4:30 p.m. The Sessions Chairs will be Shreekant Karmarkar of Baxter Healthcare Corporation (Round Lake, Illinois), and Roberty Kennedy of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
Tuesday Afternoon Session on Omics II
June 11th 2012The Tuesday afternoon “Omics II†session is a continuation of the morning’s “Omics I†session, and will be held in Grand Ballroom F-K, starting at 4:30 p.m. The Session Chairs will be Jonathan Bones of The Barnett Institute, Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts), and David Lubman of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
Tuesday's Csaba Horváth Nominee Sessions
June 11th 2012The Csaba Horváth award was created to honor its namesake and recognize his contributions to high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), including his interest in fostering the careers of young scientists in separation science and engineering. The award is a cash grant and a trophy engraved with the winner's name. The winner is also invited to give an oral presentation at HPLC 2013. There are 10 nominees this year, each giving presentations throughout the duration of the conference. The Csaba Horváth award will be presented on Thursday. Here is a brief description of the four sessions today that include award nominees.
Wednesday Afternoon's Plenary Panel Discussion: What are the Great Challenges of Chromatography?
June 11th 2012Frantisek Svec, of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, California), will moderate "What are the Great Challenges of Chromatography," a Plenary Panel Discussion that will take place Wednesday afternoon in the Grand Ballroom at 5:20 p.m.
Monday Morning Session: Packed Column Technologies I
June 11th 2012Robert Stevenson of American Laboratory/Labcompare (Lafayette, California) and Ulrich Tallarek of Phillips-Universität Marburg (Marburg, Germany) will chair this Monday morning session titled “Chiral Separations†in Grand Ballroom A-E. The session will follow the morning's plenary lectures and will begin at 10:35 a.m.