Pittcon

This article highlights a curated selection of the most popular GC-related content, with a focus on the diverse applications of the technique, as featured in LCGC.

In this edition of The LCGC Blog, Emanuela Gionfriddo discusses the two world-class scientists and trailblazer women in separation chemistry and the awards they received at Pittcon 2024.

LCGC spoke with key opinion leaders on the cutting edge of analytical science (both from academia and the private sector) to gauge the evolution of a variety of techniques and the opportunities this evolution will present.

At Pittcon 2024, Massood Kadir, Business Development Manager at Syft Technologies, gave a live demonstration of real-time trace gas analysis by SIFT-MS, a direct mass spectrometry technique.

At Pittcon 2024, LCGC International editor Patrick Lavery sat down with Tom Linz of Wayne State University to talk about the work his laboratory group is conducting.

At Pittcon 2024, LCGC International editor Patrick Lavery sat down with Michael Marty of the University of Arizona to talk about the ongoing work in his laboratory.

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At Pittcon 2024, LCGC International editor Patrick Lavery sat down with Susan Olesik of The Ohio State University to talk about her group’s current work.

LCGC International sat down with John Luck, CCO, and Dirk Bontridder, CEO, of the instrument manufacturer PerkinElmer to discuss trends in the analytical and life sciences industry.

At Pittcon 2024, LCGC International editor Patrick Lavery sat down with John R. Yates of the Scripps Research Institute to talk about his work in mass spectrometry and proteomics.

This year’s conference highlighted how analytical scientists are exchanging research to tackle some of the world’s most critical problems.

At Pittcon 2024, LCGC International editor Patrick Lavery sat down with Wolfgang Lindner of the University of Vienna to talk about his career in liquid chromatography (LC).

At Pittcon 2024, LCGC International editor Patrick Lavery sat down with Omowunmi Sadik of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to talk about the importance of sustainability in future scientific research.

What analytical chemists in both industry and academia can do to make their experiments greener was a common thread throughout this milestone run of the annual conference.

The founder of Wyatt Technology was presented with the 2024 Heritage Award at Pittcon in San Diego, California.

These lectures focused on method development and applications of mass spectrometry for bioanalytical, natural product, and agricultural studies.

Patrick Quinlan, CEO of the lab information management systems provider, spoke about the new company’s strategy during a press conference at Pittcon in San Diego, California.

Professor Omowunmi Sadik’s address officially opening the conference ran the gamut from pain to PFAS.

The instrument manufacturer announced the expansion of the partnership during a press conference at Pittcon in San Diego, California.

A session focusing on important developments in high-throughput analysis in the pharmaceutical sector using LC–MS kicked off Monday morning at Pittcon 2024.

The Dal Nogare Award is presented yearly to an outstanding scientist in the field of chromatography.

At Pittcon 2024, Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award winner John Yates headlined a symposium focusing on perfecting proteome research down to the single-cell level.

Alyssa Sanchez of Florida International University presented her research on profiling the decomposition of heroin from South America, Mexico, Southwest and Southeast Asia.

The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of separation science by a young chemist or chemical engineer from academia, industry, or national laboratories.

On February 25, a Pittcon oral session, titled “Detection of PFAS and other Polyfluorinated Analytes,” took place at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. This session included six talks that covered a variety of analytical techniques currently being used in per- and polyfluoralkyl (PFAS) analysis.

At Pittcon 2024, He Nan of AbbVie gave a lecture on how to monitor N-nitrosamines via gas chromatography–electron capture detection.

Many new HPLC and MS products were launched in 2022–2023. This conference coverage article discusses several of these new products, including their salient features, benefits, and technical specifications.

A general discussion of the megatrends of separation science equipment (both high performance liquid chromatography [HPLC] and mass spectrometry [MS]) and their applications in recent years is presented.

This article provides a look at the new GC products that entered the market in 2022–2023.

Pittcon 2023 revealed that gas chromatography (GC) still has a strong presence at in-person conferences and in literature.