Stephen Brown

The tutorial sessions at HPLC 2018 are part of the conference’s educational mission. The sessions consist of presentations given by experts on various topics, with more background provided than might be presented in a typical 20-minute talk.

This Wednesday morning session will cover instrumental advances for improving signal-to-noise, digital waveform technology, ion mobility, and duty cycle, and for MS analysis of precursor and neutral loss scans and intact high m/z molecular ion analysis. It will be chaired by Randall E. Pedder of Ardara Technologies and will be held in Hall D from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.

This Wednesday afternoon session will present new research into the microbiome. It will be chaired by Trent Northern of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and will be held in Ballroom 20A from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

This Tuesday morning session will discuss clinical and field applications of mass spectrometry, such as proteomic genotyping, detection of cancer tumors and metastases, tissue profiling, and therapeutic drug monitoring. It will be chaired by Alan Rockwood of Rockwood Scientific Consulting and will be held in Ballroom 6CF from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.

This Tuesday afternoon session will discuss mass spectrometry analysis of emerging environmental contaminants found in fish, wastewater effluent, arctic snow, drinking water, and other matrices. It will be chaired by Eunha Hoh of San Diego State University and will be held in Ballroom 6A from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

This Monday morning session will cover a variety of issues in petroleum and biofuel analysis. It will be chaired by Carolyn Hutchinson of Willamette University and will be held in Ballroom 6DE from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.

This Monday afternoon session will present recent advances in mass spectrometry imaging in plants, animals, and humans. It will be chaired by Shama Mirza of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and will be held in Ballroom 20A from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.