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Click the title above to open the July 2016 issue of Current Trends in Mass Spectrometry, Volume 14, Number 3, in an interactive PDF format.

The Chromatographic Society (ChromSoc) awarded Professor Peter Myers and Professor Iain Wilson the Martin Medal at HPLC 2016 in San Francisco, California, USA.

Emily Hilder and Derek Stevenson were awarded the Jubilee Medal by the Chromatographic Society at HPLC 2016 in San Francisco, California, USA.

Liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS–MS) alongside gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (GC–MS–MS) has been used to analyze 200 pesticides and pesticide metabolites in honeybees.

The 2016 Guiochon Fellowship was presented to Ying Ge at HPLC 2016 in San Francisco, California.

Lloyd Snyder was presented with the Uwe D. Neue Award in Separation Sciences at HPLC 2016 in San Francisco, California.

The session chair for this Wednesday afternoon session is Emily Hilder of the University of South Australia. The session will be held in the Golden Gate Ballroom C, floor B2 level, beginning at 1:30 p.m.

The Georges Guiochon Faculty Fellowship award will be presented at 7:00 pm on Monday, June 20. This year’s awardee is Dr. Ying Ge, who is an associate professor in the Department of Cell & Regenerative Biology and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The presentation of the Martin and Jubilee Medals will take place Monday, June 20, at 7 pm at the Opening Plenary Session in the Golden Gate Ballroom, floor B2 level.

This Tuesday morning Parallel Session will be chaired by Paola Dugo of the University of Messina in Italy. It will take place in the Golden Gate Ballroom C, floor B2 level.

The Wednesday Parallel Session will be hosted by Jonathan Sweedler of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It will take place in the Golden Gate Ballroom C, floor B2 level.

The 2016 Uwe D. Neue Award in Separation Science will be presented at 7:00 pm on Monday, June 20, after the Georges Guiochon Faculty Fellowship Award. This year’s awardee is Lloyd Snyder, who is retired from LC Resources. Synder is known not only for his many important contributions to an understanding of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), but also for his teaching, mentoring, and acclaimed publications.

This Tuesday morning session will be chaired by Milton Lee of Brigham Young University and will be held in the Golden Gate Ballroom A on floor B2 level. The session will begin at 11:15 am.

Today’s free tutorial sessions at the HPLC 2016 conference will cover a range of topics, from trends in sample preparation and the use of high pressures, to fundamentals of ultrahigh pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC), to the role of small-molecule analysis in biopharma.

Today at the HPLC 2016 conference, four free tutorial sessions are offered to HPLC conferees. Today’s talks, from Dave Bell, Fred Regnier, Jonathan Sweedler, and Paul Haddad, cover hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HILIC), protein analysis, manuscript preparation, and HPLC method development.

Multidimensional liquid chromatography strategies are the most widely used method for increasing the number of spatially resolved components and reducing stress on mass spectrometric detection. However, the stress placed on a secondary dimension in a comprehensive on-line methodology is very high. An increasingly attractive approach is the coupling of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with ion mobility spectrometry hyphenated to mass spectrometry (IMS-MS). Tim Causon and Stephan Hann of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Austria, spoke to The Column about their work evaluating this approach and exploring its possibilities for metabolomics.

The Chromatography Society is holding a four-day educational event in the Lake District from 14–17 October at the Wordsworth Hotel in Grasmere. Aimed at post-graduate students and novice chromatographers, the event will focus on the fundamentals of liquid chromatography and its practical application in industry and academia.

Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) may be a viable diagnostic tool for inflammatory arthritis according to research from the University of Amsterdam.

Click the title above to open The Column June 20, 2016 Europe & Asia issue, Volume 12, Number 11, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open The Column June 20, 2016 North American issue, Volume 12, Number 11, in an interactive PDF format.

I believe that most analytical chemists do not appreciate what the world of chemometrics and experimental design statistics can add to their work.

Dwight Stoll, an associate professor of chemistry at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota, was honored recently with two awards: the 2016 Gustavus Faculty Scholarly Achievement Award, presented at the college’s annual Honor’s Day Convocation in May, and the 2016 Palmer Award, presented at the Minnesota Chromatography Forum (MCF) Spring Symposium, also in May.

Proceeds from Pittcon 2016 are distributed by its sponsoring societies, the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP), and the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP).

Appropriate analytical methods are required to evaluate the presence, metabolism, degradation, and removal of specific compounds in complex mixtures. There is an increasing demand to analyze samples with a wide range of polarities in a variety of applications, including environmental analysis, biomarker discovery, and proteomics. Multiple analyses on complementary columns are often needed to cover the separation of all compounds with a large difference in polarity. This article describes a generic method involving an ultrahigh‑pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) system equipped with two external switching valves to connect hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) and reversed-phase LC columns in series for the sequential analysis of polar and apolar compounds.

Understanding how liquid chromatography pumps operate can help streamline solving pump problems.

Nontargeted metabolite profiling by ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (UHPLC–MS) is a powerful technique to investigate the influence of genetic and environmental factors on metabolic phenotypes in plants. The approach offers an unbiased and in-depth analysis that can reveal molecular markers of desirable phenotypic traits that can be complementary to genetic markers in plant breeding efforts. Here, the power of nontargeted metabolite profiling is illustrated in a study focused on the determination of molecular markers in malting barley that are predictive of desirable malting quality for brewing applications.

Leon Blumberg has been at the cutting edge of chromatography since the late 1980s. The Column spoke with him about his contribution to the past, present, and future of chromatography.