CHROMtalks 2025: Essential Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks

Learn how to you troubleshoot your liquid chromatography (LC) and gas chromatography (GC) workflows through all stages to develop an effective “trouble-free” chromatographic method.

Register Free: https://www.chromatographyonline.com/lcgc_w/chromtalks-2025

Event Overview:

Following the enormous popularity of our past CHROMtalks symposia, the event is back!

This year, our focus is in helping you troubleshoot your liquid chromatography (LC) and gas chromatography (GC) workflows through all stages to develop an effective “trouble-free” chromatographic method.

Our experts will provide you with both specific troubleshooting tips as well as explaining the underlying principles to enable you to make the best choices for your separation as well as fixing problem that could arise later. Their tutorial talks–and live question-and-answer (QA) session with our experts–will address the doubts you have and clarify points you did not realize you misunderstood. A few hours at ChromTalks will save you days or weeks of headaches down the road. Attendance is free. The first day will focus on Essential GC Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks. The second will be on Essential LC Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks, and will be moderated by Alasdair Matheson, Executive Editor of LCGC international. Don’t Miss It!


Top Reasons to Attend

• CHROMtalks 2025 will answer the questions you have—and the questions you should have but don’t—about LC and GC troubleshooting
  
• Our experts will guide you through troubleshooting common problems inliquid and gas chromatography
  
• You’ll learn key fundamentals that will empower your own problem-solving skills
  
• A few hours at ChromTalks will save you days—or weeks—in the lab!

Event Agenda
Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
 
Morning Session, 9:00am - 12:00pm EST
GC Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks
9:00am EST New Robust Approaches and Techniques to Encounter Analytical Drawbacks and Improve Current Analytical Methods in GC
Christophe Devos, Senior Scientist, Research Institute for Chromatography (RIC) Group, Kortrijk, Belgium

9:30am EST How Better Sample Preparation Reduces the Need for Troubleshooting in the First Place
Steven Lehotay, Lead Scientist, USDA Agricultural Research Service at the Eastern Regional Research Center, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania

10:00am EST Troubleshooting in GC is Done Before You Inject
Nicholas H. Snow, Thomas and Sylvia Tencza Professor and Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey

10:30am EST Troubleshooting GC x GC Methods Is No Trouble
Mariosimone Zoccali, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences and Earth Sciences, University of Messina, Italy

11:00am EST A Plethora of Possibilities and Pitfalls for Sample Preparation in Gas Chromatography
Erwin Rosenberg, Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, Laboratory for Trace Organic Analysis, Vienna, Austria

11:30am EST Question-and-answer session with speakers

12:00pm EST Session End


Lunchtime Session, 12:30pm - 1:00pm EST
A Training Session from CHROMacademy

12:30pm EST CHROMacademy Tutorial: Troubleshooting Starts a Method Troubleshooting
Phil Ashton, Technical and Training Consultant, CHROMacademy and Element Lab Solutions

1:00pm EST Session End


Afternoon Session, 1:30pm EST - 2:00pm EST
GC Best Practices: Tips and Tricks, and Applications From Our Sponsors

Leading suppliers provide advice on GC Fundamentals, including best practice, tips, tricks, and optimizing GC for specific applications and types of analysis


Thursday, May 29th, 2025

Morning Session, 9:00am - 12:00am EST  
LC Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks
  
9:00am EST LC Troubleshooting: Back to Basics
Oliver Jones, Professor of Analytical Chemistry, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
  
9:30am EST Troubleshooting and Optimizing Sample Introduction in HPLC
Merlin K. K. Bicking, Senior Analytical Scientist and President, ACCTA, Inc, USA
  
10:00am EST Navigating Equilibration and Re-equilibration in HILIC
David S. Bell PhD, Owner/Lead Consultant, ASKkPrime, LLC
  
10:30am EST Mastering 2D-LC: Navigating Common Challenges and Simplifying Complex Issues for New Users
Meng Jing, Research Scientist, The Dow Chemical Company

11:00am EST Development of Green(er) Microextraction Techniques Combines with LC, Trends, Troubleshooting, and Applications
Natalia Manousi, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, Vienna, Austria
  
11:30am EDT Question-and-answer session with speakers

12:00pm EST Session End

Lunchtime Session, 12:30pm - 1:00pm EDT
A Training Session from CHROMacademy  
  
12:30pm EST CHROMacademy Tutorial: HPLC Re-Analysis - Root Cause Analysis
Colin Towers, Technical Support Chemist, CHROMacademy and Element Lab Solutions

1:00pm EST Session End
     
Afternoon Session, 1:30pm EST - 2:10pm EST
LC Best Practices, Tips, Tricks, and Applications From Our Sponsors  

Leading suppliers provide advice on LC Method Development, including best practice, tips, tricks, and optimizing LC for specific applications and types of analysis.

1:30pm EST Accelerating Method Development and Manufacturing of GLP-1 analogs with LC-UV/MS
Duanduan Han, Senior Scientist, Waters Corporation

1:50pm EST Software-assisted Process for Efficient and Expedited Development of Chromatographic Methods (SPEED-CHROM)
Jens Richards, Analytical Scientist, Corteva AgriSciences
  

Speakers:

Christohphe Devos
Senior Scientist
Research Institute for Chromatography (RIC) Group

Steven Lehotay
Lead Scientist
USDA Agricultural Research Service at the Eastern Regional Research Center

Nicholas H. Snow
Thomas and Sylvia Tencza Professor and Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Seton Hall University

Mariosimone Zoccali
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences and Earth Sciences, University of Messina

Erwin Rosenberg
Professor of Analytical Chemistry
Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, Laboratory for Trace Organic Analysis

Phil Ashton
Technical and Training Consultant
CHROMacademy and Element Lab Solutions

Oliver Jones
Professor of Analytical Chemistry
RMIT University

Merlin K. K. Bicking
Senior Anaytical Scientist and President
ACCTA, Inc, USA

David S. Bell, PhD
Owner/Lead Consultant
ASKkPrime, LLC

Meng Jing
Research Scientist
The Dow Chemical Company

Natalia Manousi
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics

Colin Towers
Technical Support Chemist
CHROMacademy and Element Lab Solutions

Duanduan Han
Senior Scientist
Waters Corporation
Jens Richards
Analytical Scientist
Corteva AgriSciences

Register Free: https://www.chromatographyonline.com/lcgc_w/chromtalks-2025