Laura Bush

LCGC spoke with Elisabeth Bik, PhD, of Harbers Bik LLC about the challenge of preventing scientific and research misconduct in scientific publishing. This segment is Part 6 of 6 and concludes our conversation with Bik.

LCGC spoke with Elisabeth Bik, PhD, of Harbers Bik LLC about the challenge of preventing scientific and research misconduct in scientific publishing. This segment is Part 5 of 6 of our conversation with Bik.

LCGC spoke with Elisabeth Bik, PhD, of Harbers Bik LLC about the challenge of preventing scientific and research misconduct in scientific publishing. This segment is Part 4 of 6 of our conversation with Bik.

LCGC spoke with Elisabeth Bik, PhD, of Harbers Bik LLC about the challenge of preventing scientific and research misconduct in scientific publishing. This segment is Part 3 of 6 of our conversation with Bik.

LCGC spoke with Elisabeth Bik, PhD, of Harbers Bik LLC about the challenge of preventing scientific and research misconduct in scientific publishing. This segment is Part 2 of 6 of our conversation with Bik.

LCGC spoke with Dr. Elisabeth Bik, PhD, of Harbers Bik LLC about the greater challenge of preventing scientific and research misconduct in scientific publishing. This segment is the first part of a six-part interview with Bik.

As we celebrate the 40th year of LCGC, we are thinking not about the past, but about the future.

In this interview, Rafael Paseiro-Cerrato of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration discusses his investigations into the potential for compounds in can coatings to migrate into food.

LC–MS techniques, particularly those using high-resolution MS and nontargeted analysis, are advancing many areas of water research. Here, Imma Ferrer of the University of Colorado shares some of her recent work in this field.

The potential of food packaging components to migrate into food is an important health concern. Perfecto Paseiro Losada and his group at the University of Santiago de Compostela, in Spain, have been investigating the migration kinetics and actual migration of such compounds into a variety of types of food. They also have been carrying out studies to estimate dietary exposure. Paseiro recently spoke to LCGC about this work.

Jim Garvey of the Pesticide Control Laboratory in Ireland discusses the development of pesticide analysis methods with high-resolution accurate mass MS.

In this interview, Thomas Letzel of the Technical University of Munich considers the current state of water analysis, looking at recommended techniques, the growth of nontargeted screening, and multi-disciplinary collaboration.

When analytical chemists apply green chemistry approaches, which seek to minimize negative environmental effects, an important area of focus is reducing the consumption of toxic solvents, such as those used in extraction steps in sample preparation. Developing and testing greener extraction processes for food analysis is a major focus of Elena Ibáñez, a research professor at the Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL-CSIC) in Madrid, Spain.

A new method enables quantification of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in a range of food matrices.

Elena Ibañez is determined to make sample preparation for food analysis not only more environmentally friendly but also more efficient, as she explores approaches that simplify solvent selection, increase solvent selectivity, and lessen the role of chemical solvents.

Analytical chemists are always seeking to make method development more efficient. For nearly two decades, Chris Welch led his teams at the Merck & Co. to constantly drive innovation in this area. Following his recent retirement from the company last year, he and his colleagues wrote a paper about the current state of method development for pharmaceutical research and where it is heading. He recently spoke to us about this topic.

When a company wishes to commercialize a new pesticide, they must conduct environmental studies and develop analytical methods capable of detecting the pesticide, and its metabolites, in soil and water samples. The methods must be robust and rugged, for easy use in routine analysis. James Stry, a principal investigator at FMC Agricultural Solutions, recently talked to LCGC about best practices he and his team have established for developing such methods, including approaches to meeting a variety of requirements of regulatory bodies, simplifying sample preparation, dealing with matrix effects, choosing an ionization method, and streamlining method development.

This Monday afternoon session, which runs from 4:30 to 5:55 pm, will be kicked off by keynote lecturer Attila Felinger of the University of Pécs, in Hungary. Felinger will talk about reversed-flow liquid chromatography.

This morning session, which begins at 11:15 a.m., kicks off with a talk by Luis Colon of the State University of New York at Buffalo, on aminophenyl-derived phases on superficially porous silica particles.

This morning session, which is chaired by X. Chris Lee of the University of Alberta, Canada, and starts at 8:30 a.m., will explore advances in high performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry for various aspects of environmental analysis, including new work being done by researchers in North America and Asia.

The award presentation for the Ron A. Hites award for an outstanding research publication in JASMS will take place on Wednesday at 4:45 pm, in Ballroom 20A on the upper level.

Research awards will be presented this afternoon at 4:45 in Hall D, at the ground level, to Michael T. Marty of the University of Arizona and James S. Prell of Oregon State University. Marty received his PhD in 2013 at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The 2018 recipients of the John B. Fenn Award for a Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry are Gert Von Helden, Martin F. Jarrold, and David E. Clemmer, for their pioneering contributions to the development of ion mobility spectrometry (IMS).

This second of the two parallel tutorial sessions on Sunday evening includes talks from Gregory Eiden of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Jack Beauchamp of California Institute of Technology.

The ASMS conference will offer two parallel tutorial sessions on Sunday evening.

Specialists in food analysis are increasingly interested in taking advantage of methods that harness the power of ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) and high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS). Jon Wong of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been developing such methods for a variety of types of analysis. In this interview, he talks to LCGC about the work to develop these methods and the advantages of their use.

James Stry of FMC Agricultural Solutions talks about best practices for developing robust environmental analysis methods, including simplifying sample preparation and dealing with matrix effects.

Di Jiang of the University of Connecticut will kick off this session with a talk on direct liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) detection of guanine oxidations in a tumor suppression gene.

This symposium will honor Zachary Breitbach of AbbVie, the winner of the 2018 Satinder Ahuja Award for Young Investigators in Separation Science. This award is given by the Subdivision of Chromatography and Separations Chemistry of the Analytical Division of the American Chemical Society.