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Pittcon Returns to Pittsburgh for the First Time in 60 Years

March 27th 2025

The conference will return to its original home in Pittsburgh, after the inaugural event was held at the William Penn Hotel in the city in 1950.

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Celebrating the Work of Women in Mass Spectrometry

By Aaron Acevedo

February 12th 2025

Caitlin N. Cain is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan. She is supported by the National Institutes of Health – National Research Service Award for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows. Her research specializes in the development of chemometric techniques to improve chromatographic non-targeted analyses. Previously, she earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Washington in 2024 and B.S. degrees in Chemistry and Forensic Science from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2019. Her research efforts have been recognized by numerous accolades, including the inaugural LCGC Rising Stars of Separation Science Award. She proudly serves as an executive committee member for the ACS SCSC (Subdivision on Chromatography and Separations Chemistry).

The LCGC Blog: Reunifying Separation Science

By Caitlin N. Cain

January 3rd 2025

Separation Science Worldwide: A Year of Conferences with LCGC

By Aaron Acevedo

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The LCGC Blog: Teaching Separations to the Next Generation of Instrumentalists

By Katelynn A. Perrault Uptmor

December 2nd 2024

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