Alasdair Matheson

Professor Mario Thevis from the Germany Sport University Cologne, Cologne chairs the morning session on Drug Testing and Analysis which begins with a talk on the Use of in vitro Metabolism Studies in Doping Control by Tila Kuuranne from the Doping Control laboratory, United Laboratories, Helsinki, Finland.

This afternoon session on Analysing Bioactive Compounds in Complex Food Matrices is chaired by Professor Rychlic from the Center Of Food and Life Sciences.

An innovative oral session called Liquid Chromatography: Stationary Phase Architecture chaired by Richard A. Henry from Supleco/Sigma Aldrich (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) begins at 8:00 a.m. today in room 311C.

An interview with Merck's Christopher Welch about high-throughput analysis using MISER chromatography and how it can boost your laboratory's productivity.

At 10:30 a.m. today James W. Jorgenson, William Rand Kenan Jr, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina and winner of the LCGC Lifetime Achievement Award will be interviewed by Laura Bush, editorial director of LCGC North America and Spectroscopy, on his illustrious career in chromatography.

This morning LCGC North America and LCGC Europe will begin the 2011 Pittcon Theater sessions.

Pittcon Theater continues on today at 10:00 a.m. with a focus on hyphenated techniques.

If the art of method development is dying what can we do about it?

Kevin Altria, associate director at GlaxoSmithKline and CE Currents editor on the current status of CE as an effective analytical technique.