LCGC Interviews

Kate Mosford of The Column spoke to Rosa Perestrelo of Centro de Química da Madeira located in Madeira University, Portugal, about wine analysis. She reveals the science behind winemaking and offers her tips for selecting the best analytical method.

The Column spoke to Dr. Rob Haselberg from the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, about his work characterizing proteins using capillary electrophoresis.

DNA can be analyzed by many techniques, including electrophoretic techniques such as gel, capillary, and microchip electrophoresis. In this interview Kevin Dorfman, an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, discusses his research with polymer physics and microfluidic and nanofluidic technologies.

The Column spoke to Rajmund Michalski from the Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Environmental Engineering in Zabrze, Poland, about the application of ion chromatography in speciation analysis.

Dr Kevin Cooper of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, spoke to Kate Mosford of The Column about the importance of accuracy, reliability, and stability in food safety analysis and the role of ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC–MS–MS) in his research.

The Column spoke to Peter Kusch of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences in Rheinbach, Germany, about analyzing failure in the automotive industry.

The Column spoke to Tony Edge of Thermo Fisher Scientific about the development of a new type of stationary phase based on fractal-shaped particles.

LCGC spoke to Paul A. Sutton, a research fellow in the Petroleum and Environmental Geochemistry Group (PEGG) at Plymouth University, about the analysis of crude oil and how high temperature gas chromatography can be used to save millions of dollars for the oil industry.

LCGC recently spoke with Pauline Rudd of University College, Dublin, and The National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) in Dublin, Ireland, about her work using ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) for the characterization of protein glycosylation.

Is "green foodomics" another buzzword or a new direction in food analysis?

John Hinshaw offers his insights into how the current helium shortage will affect gas chromatographers and answers some concerns of LCGC Europe readers selected from the CHROMmunity.

The HPLC 2012 conference was abuzz with talk of "slip flow" following the talk given by Mary Wirth of Purdue University about her groundbreaking work involving protein column efficiency. In this interview, Wirth explains how “slip flow†works and what this discovery can contribute to the application of LC-MS to disease research.

In a new paper to be published in the July issue of LCGC North America, Fabrice Gritti and Georges Guiochon of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee) present results from their latest studies in their research on the kinetic mechanisms of chromatography columns packed with core?shell particles.

A retention index tool called iMatch that aims to reduce the number of false positive results when using gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS ) and comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC×GC-MS) has been developed by a team of researchers from the University of Louisville. Alasdair Matheson, editor of LCGC Europe, spoke to Xiang Zhang to find out more.

High-temperature liquid chromatography (LC) is a hot topic in separation science at the moment. David Collins from the Irish Separation Science Cluster based at Dublin City University, Ireland, describes a new column heater design that aims to enhance the efficiency of high temperature separations.

LCGC recently interviewed Walter J. Krol, Ph.D., of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (New Haven, Connecticut) about his laboratory?s involvement in analyzing samples from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico using a QuEChERS-based method.