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Click the title above to open the LCGC North America April 2016 regular issue, Vol 34 No 4, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open the LCGC North America April 2016 Recent Developments in LC Column Technology Supplement, Vol 34 No s4, in an interactive PDF format.

Eli Grushka, a professor emeritus of analytical chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Chemistry Institute, passed away on March 22 after a brief illness. Grushka was the president of the Israel Society for Analytical Chemistry for many years and served on the organizing committee of the annual Isranalytica meeting, the largest analytical chemistry meeting in Israel.

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This year, LCGC North America is pleased to honour Milton L. Lee, the winner of the 2016 Lifetime Achievement in Chromatography Award.

Dani Instruments SpA and Labindia Instruments Pvt Ltd have announced an exclusive distribution agreement.

A new method for tuberculosis detection using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry has been developed.

The 40th International Symposium in Capillary Chromatography (ISCC) and 13th GC×GC Symposium will be held at the Palazzo dei Congressi, in Riva del Garda, Italy, from 29 May–3 June 2016.

Click the title above to open The Column March 24, 2016 Europe & Asia issue, Volume 12, Number 5, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open The Column March 24, 2016 North American issue, Volume 12, Number 5, in an interactive PDF format.

The Satinder Ahuja Award for Young Investigator in Separation Sciences has been presented to Matthew Miller, Technical Leader at Dow Chemical in the Analytical Science Core R&D group, at Pittcon 2016.

The 31st International Symposium on Chromatography (ISC 2016) will be held from 28 August–1 September 2016 at University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

A team of researchers has developed a high-throughput analysis method for 192 diverse pesticides and 51 environmental contaminants (13 polychlorianted biphenyl [PCB] congeners, 14 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons [PAHs], seven polybrominated diphenyl ethers [PBDE] congeners, and 17 novel flame retardants) in cattle, swine, and poultry meats. The team used a combination of low-pressure gas chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (LP)GC–MS–MS and ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography coupled to tandem MS in the analysis.

The 2016 Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award was presented to Jared L. Anderson, professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, at Pittcon 2016.

The 2016 Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley Dal Nogare Award was presented to Stephen Weber, professor of chemistry and clinical translational science at the University of Pittsburgh, at Pittcon 2016, held this year in Atlanta, Georgia.

I’ve been talking about ‘ToolKit’ method development platforms a lot lately and I have to say I’m not sure we are making the most of this approach.

What is required to produce a highly efficient modern high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system/column combination? This instalment of the LCGC Blog explains more.

Waters Corporation and BioCity have celebrated the opening of a new open access analytical laboratory located in the BioHub at Alderley Park, Cheshire, UK.

A preview of The Chromatographic Society’s first meeting in 2016, which will take place on Tuesday 22 March in London, UK.

Researchers studying necrophargous blowflies for forensic investigations have developed a novel gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) method for the detection of nicotine. Nicotine has been attributed to a number of accidental or sudden, suicidal, and homicidal deaths.

A team of researchers from China and the USA has developed a LC–MS–MS method for quantifying methylergonovine, a semi-synthetic ergot alkaloid used for the treatment and prevention of postpartum haemorrhage in human plasma.

Click the title above to open The Column March 09, 2016 Europe & Asia issue, Volume 12, Number 4, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open The Column March 09, 2016 North American issue, Volume 12, Number 4, in an interactive PDF format.

How suitable is the column plate number for system suitability testing?

Thermal desorption sampling often provides a means for bringing otherwise intractable samples to a gas chromatography (GC) column for separation and detection. In this instalment, John Hinshaw describes the principles of thermal desorption sampling in relationship to other analysis techniques for volatile solutes.

The literature on reversed-phase liquid chromatography of proteins is reasonably well developed, but not taught in the college classroom to a significant degree. So I would like to focus on a stoichiometric displacement model for reversed-phase LC of proteins that I found to be particularly insightful from a practical standpoint.