Alasdair Matheson

Chris Reddy from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) spoke to Alasdair Matheson of The Column about the role of chromatography in the ongoing environmental analysis of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, how GC×GC works in practice, and why this oil spill led to the return of thin layer chromatography (TLC) to his laboratory.

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

Wednesday?s Pittcon Audio & Video Theater will be dedicated to CHROMacademy. CHROMacademy is a cutting-edge e-learning programme that LCGC is launching in collaboration with Crawford Scientific. The site will provide continual professional development for chromatographers to make them more effective in the workplace.

Monday morning LCGC North America and LCGC Europe will launch the first Pittcon Theater sessions. This cutting-edge multimedia project will include live interviews with leading experts from the world of analytical chemistry and will cover the latest developments, applications and trends in the fields of chromatography and spectroscopy. Editor-in-chief of LCGC North America, Dave Walsh and Editorial Director of LCGC Europe, Peter Houston, will host these illuminating sessions.

Tuesday morning LCGC North America and LCGC Europe continue with the second part of the Pittcon Theater sessions. Today's sessions will cover MS/Hyphenated techniques and Spectroscopy.

LCGC Europe has revamped its digital media portfolio to complement the peer-reviewed magazine.

Research Group: Professor Maria Celia Garcia-Ãlvarez-Coque, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.

Research group: Professor Jane Thomas-Oates, Analytical, Environmental and Atmospheric Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York.