John Chasse

Articles by John Chasse

Evelyn Rampler of the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Vienna discusses how her team developed a robust LC–MS/MS platform for semiquantitative glycosphingolipidomics in barley, enabling detailed structural annotation of GIPCs across developmental stages and stress conditions, and paving the way for comparative analyses across plant species.

In research performed at the Beijing Technology and Business University (China), the aroma compounds of duck broth stewed from seven parts were characterized by headspace solid-phase microextraction-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC-MS) and gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry (GC-IMS).

LCGC International spoke to Ibraam Mikhail of the University of Tasmania, lead author of the paper resulting from a study where a compact capillary liquid chromatography (capLC) system was coupled with two small-footprint and portable single quadrupole mass spectrometers for the analysis of haloacetic acids (HAAs) in water samples.

Researchers at the University of Caldas (Manizales, Caldas, Columbia) investigated the volatile organic compounds comprising the volatilome of Hass avocado peel, pulp, and seed grown in the northern Caldas (as well as avocados purchased from commercial sources), employing headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC–MS) for their extraction and identification.

Researchers from the University of Campinas (Campinas, Brazil) and the Waters Research Center (Budapest, Hungary) introduced a rapid, automated method using laser-assisted rapid evaporative ionization mass spectrometry (LA-REIMS) with high-resolution mass spectrometry to fingerprint coffee samples and predict sensory properties. LCGC International spoke to Leandro Wang Hantao of the University of Campinas regarding their work and the paper that resulted from it.

A multinational research team used behavioral assays and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) to examine short- and long-term interactions between juvenile and adult desert locusts to test their hypothesis that cross-stage interactions influence juvenile cohesion and physiological traits.

A recent study conducted by the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and the University of Queensland (Queensland, Australia) developed a novel prioritization strategy that directly links fragmentation and chromatographic data to aquatic toxicity categories, bypassing the need for identification of individual compounds. LCGC International spoke to Viktoriia Turkina of the University of Amsterdam, lead author of the paper that resulted from this study, about their work.

A joint study between Selçuk University (Konya, Turkey) and Hitit University (Corum, Turkey) determined the natural occurrence and concentrations of the mycotoxins ochratoxin A (OTA) and deoxynivalenol (DON) in commercially available tortillas in Turkey. Contamination levels were quantified using validated analytical methods based on high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled with fluorescence or ultraviolet detectors (HPLC-FLD or HPLC–UV).

Researchers from the University of Murcia (Murcia, Spain), the Carlos III Health Institute (Madrid, Spain), and the University of Siena (Siena, Italy) evaluated the concentration of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in chinstrap penguins and krill from Deception Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica) to provide additional data of the PCB presence in Antarctica. To this end, 34 samples of different tissues corresponding to four adult specimens and six chicks were analyzed with gas chromatography.

A study conducted by researchers at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) used gas chromatography coupled with flame ionization detection (GC-FID) to develop an automated sampling protocol applied to indoor rooms of a cannabis cultivation and a cannabis processing facility to investigate the temporal concentration profile and emissions of 22 terpenes.

A study conducted by the College of Veterinary Medicine of Midwestern University (Glendale, Arizona), the University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine (Davis, California) and the College of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee) set out to describe the pharmacokinetics of oral gabapentin (GABA) in goats given as a single dose (SD) and multidose (MD) regimen, as well as to document any adverse effects after administration. Plasma samples were collected and analyzed via reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC).