Summary of the Eastern Analytical Symposium 2015.
The 54th Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exhibition was once again held at Garden State Exhibition Centre in Somerset, New Jersey, USA, and proved to be another exceptional meeting of analytical chemists. There was a wide and varied programme of presentations, short courses, and posters on offer with a notable plenary lecture by Nobel Laureate Professor Kurt Wüthrich. The 2015 EAS President Oscar Liu described the Nobel Laureates talk as “inspiring” and was pleased with the “enthusiasm and energy of participants [who] kept the level of engagement high”. However, the EAS does not just exist to provide a venue for cross-disciplinary knowledge sharing, career development, and networking, but also to recognize those individuals who have advanced their respective fields in an exceptional manner. The following individuals were all deemed to have enhanced their fields of study with remarkable work:
2015 American Microchemical Society Benedetti Pichler Award - Apryll Stalcup, Dublin City University, Ireland.
2015 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Mass Spectrometry - Emile A. Schweikert, Texas A&M University, USA.
Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry Award - Professor Chris Enke, Michigan State University, USA.
Outstanding Achievements in Separation Science Award - Professor David S. Hage, University of Nebraska, USA.
Inside the Laboratory: The Gionfriddo Group at the University at Buffalo
March 28th 2024In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” Emanuela Gionfriddo, PhD, an associate professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, discusses her group’s current research endeavors, including using solid-phase microextraction (SPME) coupled to liquid chromatography (LC) and gas chromatography (GC) to further understand the chemical relationship between environmental exposure and disease and elucidate micropollutants fate in the environment and biological systems.
Transferring Methods to Compact and Portable HPLC
February 14th 2024The current trend in laboratory equipment design is the miniaturization of laboratory instruments. Smaller-scale HPLC instruments offer benefits that cannot be matched by analytical-scale equipment, especially in the areas of portability, reduced fluid volumes, and reduced operating costs. Yet, the miniaturization of laboratory equipment has brought with it a unique set of challenges, including transferring methods to compact LC. Capillary LC expands the use of LC to applications not currently done using conventional LC in a wide array of application areas, including pharmaceutical, food and beverage, petrochemical, environmental, and oil and gas. Greg Ward, Axcend’s CEO wrote, “Customers want an HPLC system with a small footprint, low flow rates and green chemistry.” Join his podcast where he shares method transfer in these application areas.