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This symposium will honor Zachary Breitbach of AbbVie, the winner of the 2018 Satinder Ahuja Award for Young Investigators in Separation Science. This award is given by the Subdivision of Chromatography and Separations Chemistry of the Analytical Division of the American Chemical Society.

In this Tuesday morning symposium, speakers will present novel analytical strategies focused mainly on real-time, in vivo, and in situ tissue analysis.

The first presentation in this Tuesday morning session will be given by Tadeusz Gorecki of the University of Waterloo and is titled “Comprehensive Multidimensional Separations: Can They Get Better?” Gorecki will discuss both GCxGC and LCxLC separations and will present examples of both approaches.

This Wednesday afternoon session was organized by Gregory D. Smith of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields and covers the latest chromatographic, mass spectrometric, and spectroscopic methods of analyzing natural and synthetic dyes in museum textiles to determine the dye sources, technology, history, and condition of these artifacts.

Eight presentations comprise this Wednesday afternoon session on gas chromatography/mass spectrometry – environmental analysis.

This Thursday afternoon session features eight presentations on the topic of liquid chromatography used in bioanalytical analysis.

This Tuesday afternoon session opens with a presentation by Joan Stevens of Agilent Technologies, titled “Multiresidue Analysis of Pesticides in Cannabis-Infused Oil and Edibles by Various Extractions and Enhanced Matrix Removal Lipid Cleanup.” Stevens will discuss a method for selectively removing lipids from cannabis-infused food products for the analysis of pesticides.

This Tuesday morning oral session will consist of eight presentations on liquid chromatography and its use in pharmaceutical analysis.

This Tuesday morning symposium, organized by Dwight Stoll of Gustavus Adolphus College, brings together experts in liquid chromatography (LC) to discuss recent advances in two dimensional (2D)-LC separations of small and large molecules. Different perspectives from instrument manufacturers, users in the pharmaceutical industry, and academic laboratories will be presented as well as a discussion on some samples related to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical applications.

This Thursday afternoon symposium, organized by Ryan P. Rodgers and Kevin Schug, will address recent analytical advances in the environmental monitoring of petroleum production activities and impact assessment of oil spills. The session will focus on advances in produced water, production chemicals, and oil spill characterization.

The Column spoke to Kirsten Benkendorff, an Associate Professor in Environment, Science, and Engineering and the Co-Deputy Director of the Marine Ecology Research Centre at Southern Cross University in Australia about her work investigating Muricidae molluscs, their use in ceremonial incense and traditional medicines, and the role of chromatography in this research.

Analytica will take place from 10–13 April 2018 at the Messe München, in Munich, Germany. The Analytica conference is Analytica’s scientific highlight and will take place at the International Congress Center (ICM) from 10–12 April 2018. The increasing digitization in the laboratory and the handling of the resulting flood of data are big focus this year. This preview will shed more light on what to expect.

Waters Corporation and Malvern Panalytical have announced a co-marketing agreement to advance the analysis of polymers.

Carolin Huhn was awarded the inaugural 2018 LCGC Europe/HTC Innovation Award on 25 January 2018 at the 15th International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography (HTC-15) in Cardiff, UK.

Researchers from the University of Seville have developed a method for the determination of pollutants in leafy and root vegetables using UAE, d-SPE, and LC–MS/MS.

PharmaFluidics has announced it has raised 7.3 million euros in its bid to expand commercialization of its novel micro-chip device.

A HILIC–MS/MS method to separate and quantify the polar bioactive molecules present in royal jelly has been developed by researchers from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Greece.

Eurofins Scientific has announced the acquisition of Tsing Hua Testing & Analysis Co., Ltd. (Tsing Hua), a leading environmental testing company in Taiwan.

Analytica will take place from 10–13 April 2018 at the Messe München, in Munich, Germany. The Analytica conference is a highlight of Analytica and will take place at the International Congress Center (ICM) from 10–12 April 2018. The increasing digitization in the laboratory and the handling of the resulting flood of data are the big focus this year. This preview will shed more light on what to expect.

Terpenes contribute heavily to the senses of smell and taste and thus are integral to industries like herb and spice producers, essential oil manufacturers, cannabis growers and distributors, breweries, and distilleries, among countless others. Current terpene analysis is performed using gas chromatography–flame ionization detection (GC–FID) and GC–mass spectrometry (MS); however, baseline separation is needed for quantification because many terpenes of interest are isomers, which can lead to relatively long run times. Vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) spectroscopy can spectrally distinguish isomers and quantitatively deconvolve coeluting peaks, allowing for significant reduction in GC run time. This article outlines a method for the analysis of 21 terpenes in a variety of samples with a sub 9-min elution time.

The 10th conference of The World Mycotoxin Forum will take place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 12–14 March 2018. This preview offers a glimpse of what can be expected.

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The American Chemical Society (ACS) 2018 National Awards will be presented at a ceremony on March 20 in conjunction with the 255th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans.

I'm often asked to help with the development of column "screening" platforms and automated development systems. While this covers a large amount of analytical science there are some common elements to this type of approach, perhaps the most important of which is column selection. Unsurprising given that "selectivity" is the most powerful tool we have in chromatography and we all know that the best way to optimize selectivity is to choose the most appropriate stationary phase.

Is that peak “pure”? How do I know if there might be something hiding under there?