Good morning, fellow Pittcon conferees, and welcome to Day 2 of LCGC North America's ongoing coverage from Pittcon 2006. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels like the first few days of the conference have gone by like a blur, but there is still a great deal more to come this week.
Victoria L. McGuffin accepted the 2006 Dal Nogare Award on Monday morning. She was honored for contributions to the understanding of the chromatographic process.
Four presentations were given Monday afternoon as part of an ongoing New Product Forum Series at Pittcon 2006. The session, entitled, "Innovations in Ion and Liquid Chromatography" was presided over by David S. Cifrulak. Cifrulak pointed out the importance of the new products and those who develop them. "They answer questions and satisfy needs of those who work at the bench," Cifrulak said.
In the "Smaller Cheaper, Faster, and Smarter Analytical Instrumentation" symposium at Pittcon 2006, arranged and presided over by Vassili Karanassios of the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), the speakers described...
Well-known LCGC Columnists John Dolan and John Hinshaw provide their list of recommended sessions.
Paul S. Cremer will be presented with the Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award. He is being recognized for contributions to the fields of analytical chemistry and applied spectroscopy.
Welcome to the inaugural edition of LCGC's newest offering, the 2006 Pittcon Meeting Report from Orlando, Florida. In our ongoing effort to bring the separations community the most useful and pertinent information possible in as many different media as possible, we are excited to bring you a day-by-day reporting of the events, awards, and technical sessions held this week at the industry's premiere conference, Pittcon.
Dr. Annette Wilson of the Pittsburgh Conference 2006 Organizing Committee introduced today's plenary speaker, Roger Y. Tsien, Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego. Tsien's research has involved designing and building molecules that either report or perturb signal transduction inside living cells.
With 88 oral sessions, 54 poster sessions, 101 short courses, 50 symposia, and 9 workshops to choose from, it is impossible to do it all at Pittcon 2006 - that is, unless one of the brilliant scientific minds here has found a way to be in two different places at once.
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The Chemical Heritage Foundation presented the fifth annual Pittcon Heritage Award to Masao Horiba, the founder of HORIBA, Ltd., on Sunday afternoon at the opening ceremony of Pittcon 2006.
News All the news from March 2006 Opinion Zosimus stumbles into a trial on whether 2D separations are actuallt necessary. Market Trends & Analysis Glenn Cudiamat looks at the importance of life science technologies. Under pressure Gerard Catchpole Meeting Focus This month we preview details on Forum LABO & Forum BIOTECH followed by a look at Analytica 2006 Supplies & services Q&A Professor Hywel Morgan from the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton talks to The Column about dielectrophoresis.
Two LC workshops will be held between 8?10 May at The Rubens at The Palace Hotel, London, UK. The courses are aimed at improving method development and providing solutions to common problems that occur with LC methods. The courses are brought by LC Resources and LCGC Europe, and sponsored by Hichrom.
William Goodman and Heidi Grecsek, PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences
Pepper Computer Inc. has announced a new version of software for its Pepper Pad handheld media computer that brings users major new capabilities, such as integration with Yahoo's industry-leading Flickr photo-sharing community, while giving the Pad quicker performance.
News from the chromatography industry.
Advancements in HPLC Throughput and Data Management
News All the news from February 2006 Opinion Zosimus voices his confusion ocer choosing silica and asks why so many brands are available. Market Trends & Analysis Glenn Cudiamat looks at the increasing demand for capillary electrophoresis systems particularly in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. A new system for high-temperature gradient HPLC of polymers L.C. Heinz, T. Macko, A. Williams, S. O'Donohue and H. Pasch Selective extractions by molecularly imprinted polymers Christine Widstrand, Ecevit Yilmaz, Brian Boyd and Anthony Rees Country focus Find out about the latest developments in the UK and Benelux. Q&A Helmut Schulenberg-Schell, LC marketing manager of Agilent Technologies, talks to The Column about the company's latest LC and LC-MS product launches.
Agilent Technologies has introduced the 1200 Series liquid chromatography system as a successor to its 1100 Series LC. Liquid chromatography represents a $2 billion market and is one of the largest sources of revenue for Agilent's life science and chemical analysis business. Since introducing the 1100 Series instrument in 1995, Agilent has sold more than 400000 modules or 60000 LC systems. To ease the transition to the 1200 Series, the company has made the system reverse-compatible with the 1100 so that customers can combine new and existing modules and continue using existing methods without costly new method development, revalidation or retraining of operators. With more than 60 instrument modules, the system can be configured for all major LC applications, including a rapid-resolution format, preparative scale, standard, narrow, capillary, nanoflow and the company's chip-based liquid chromatography.