MCF Chromatography Forum
22nd Annual Spring Sympsoium

2001 Technical Program

Tuesday, May 15, 2001

• Courses

Wednesday, May 16, 2001

• Courses (Continued)

• Vendor Technical Presentations

• Posters

Thursday, May 17, 2001

• Schedule

• Keynote Address
  Developments and Perspectives in Capillary Electrochromatography
  Professor Csaba Horvath

• Focus Speakers
  Topic - Capillary Electrophoresis
  Dr. Steven Naylor,Mayo Clinic
  Topic - Ion Chromatography-MS
  Dr. Art Fitchett, Dionex Corporation
  Topic - Capillary HPLC
  Dr. Frank Yang, Microtech
  Topic - Capillary Gas Chromatography
  Professor Richard Sacks, Univ. Michigan

• Undergraduate Award Speaker
  Topic - Myelin Basic Protein Extraction and Purification
  Michael J. Kammerer, University of Iowa

• Program
  Gas Chromatography
  GC-MS and GC-ECD
  GC Applications
  Capillary Liquid Separations (Morning session)
  Capillary Liquid Separations (Afternoon session)
  Capillary HPLC and HPLC
  HPLC & LC-MS
  Fast HPLC
  Ion LC & IC-MS
  Posters

8:00am - 4:30pm Concurrent Intensive Short Courses

Practical Advice for Developing Better GC Methods Instructors:  Cameron George, Technical Support Engineer (Agilent) and Daron Decker, Consumables and Accessories Technical Specialist (Agilent)

Basic LC/MS Techniques and Applications Instructors:  Matthew Dilts, Technical Sales Engineer (Micromass Inc.), Dr. Roger Upham Regional Sales Manager (Micromass, Inc.), and John Van Antwerp, LC/MS Technical Support Manager (Waters)

An Introduction to Ion Chromatography Instructor:  Dr. Arthur Fitchett, Ion Chromatography Evangelist (Dionex Corp.)

8:00am - 12:00pm	Concurrent Intensive Short Courses (continued)
1:00pm - 6:00pm	Exhibits open
1:00pm - 6:00pm	Vendor Technical Presentations
4:00pm - 6:00pm	Free reception in the exhibits Area
1:00pm - 6:00pm	Posters to be displayed
4:00pm - 5:00pm	Authors asked to be with their posters

On Wednesday registration is not required for vendor technical presentations, exhibition, and reception. Thursday's sessions require registration.

Vendor Technical Presentations
Room A
1:00pm	Leap Carl Chatfield HPLC, CAP-LC
2:00pm	Beckman-Coulter David Peterson Base Drug Analysis and Screening with CE and CE-MS/MS
3:00pm	Beckman-Coulter Kevin Hickson Advances in Laboratory Automation and Automated Solid Phase Extraction
4:00pm
Room B
1:00pm		Scientific Software Maureen Stone Knowledge Engineering Software, CyberLAB
2:00pm		Agilent (J&W) Daron Decker & Cameron George Techniques, Tips and Tricks of Troubleshooting Capillary GC Systems:  Common problems and their causes with some diagnostic tests for troubleshooting
3:00pm		Agilent (J&W) Daron Decker & Cameron George Selection of a Capillary GC Column:  Guidelines are given for selecting stationary phase based on column parameters of phase selectivity, polarity, column bleed, temperature limits and column diameter, length and film thickness. Beginner to advanced.
4:00pm
Room C
1:00pm		Shimadzu Curtis Campbell HPLC
2:00pm		Waters
3:00pm		Agilent Jay Pink New Applications for Lab on a Chip technology in Biosciences  (30 minutes)
3:30pm		Chromatography, Inc. Pat Coleman HPLC Column Selection and Troubleshooting Techniques for the Practicing Chromatographer (1 hour, 30 minutes)
5:00pm		Agilent Technologies Dave Judd Meeting the Requirements of 21 CFR Part 11 with Wireless Instrument Control and Biometric Identification  (60 minutes)

7:30am - 8:30am	Registration
8:30am - 10:00am	Opening session
8:30am	Welcome and Introductory remarks
8:45am	Palmer Award presentation
8:55am	Undergraduate Research Grant
9:00am	Keynote Address
10:00am	Refreshments
10:30am - 4:20pm	Oral presentations
10:00am - 4:30pm	Vendor exhibits
12:00pm	Lunch
2:40pm	Refreshments in exhibit area
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Authors asked to be with their posters
4:30pm	Annual Business Meeting

Technical Sessions

9:00am

KEYNOTE ADDRESS Developments and Perspectives in Capillary Electrochromatography Professor Csaba Horvath Yale University

Gas Chromatography
10:30am	FOCUS SPEAKER Richard Sacks, University of Michigan TOF, SAW, MEMS and WIMS - The Alphabet Soup of High-Speed GC
10:50am
11:10am	Practical Fast GC Analyses Through Optimization of the GC Method D. Decker
11:30am	Use of Designed Experiments in the Optimization of Gas Chromatograph Injection Port Parameters Steve Anderson

GC-MS and GC-ECD
1:00pm	Optimizing EPA Volatiles Analysis by GC/MS for Improved Sample Throughput and Increased Productivity C. George
1:20pm	Monitoring Volatiles in Food Contact Packaging by Purge and Trap GC/MS R. Wittrig
1:40pm	An Optimized Dual Column System for the Analysis of Chlorinated Pesticides, Herbicides and PCB’s by GC-ECD C. George

GC Applications
3:00pm	The Utilization of GC Fundamentals to Adapt a General Compendial Method for a Specific Analysis Peter R. Johnson
3:20pm	USP <467>, Improving the Original D. Decker
3:40pm

Capillary Liquid Separations
10:30am	Practical Aspects for High Performance Capillary HPLC Applications B. Bidlingmeyer
10:50am	Capillary HPLC Optimized for High Sensitivity Mass Spectrometry M. Woodman
11:10am	FOCUS SPEAKER Frank J. Yang, Microtech Recent Advances in Electric-Field Assisted Capillary LC and Two-Dimensional Capillary Column IC-LC Technique and Instrumentation for Biological Macromolecules Analysis
11:30am

Capillary Liquid Separations
1:00pm	FOCUS SPEAKER Stephen Naylor, Mayo Clinic Analysis of the Proteome by Capillary Electrophoresis
1:20pm
1:40pm	Capillary HPLC and Micro-Electrospray MS Techniques for Peptide Sequencing and Protein Identification at the Femtomole Level L. Higgins
2:20pm	2000 Undergraduate Awardee Michael J. Kammerer, University of Iowa Myelin Basic Protein Extraction and Purification

Capillary-HPLC and HPLC
3:00pm	HPLC/Photodiode Array Screening and Capillary LC/MS Confirmation of Flavoring Compounds W. Woodman
3:20pm	Plumbing your HPLC to Improve Sensitivity Over 1000-Fold Peter R. Johnson
3:40pm	Ten Tips for Developing a Routine RP-HPLC Method Peter R. Johnson

HPLC & LC-MS
10:30am	Challenges in HPLC and LC-MS for the Analytical Laboratory C. Chatfield
10:50am	A Total Solution to the HPLC Determination Of Carbohydrates C. Young
11:10am	The Analysis of Organic Acids in Foods and Beverages Using Reversed Phase HPLC R. Wittrig
11:30am	Skepticism in Quantitative Analysis by 1H NMR (Can it Compete with Chromatographic Methods?) S. Pathre

Fast HPLC
1:00pm	FOCUS SPEAKER Peter Carr, University of Minnesota Temperature - the Third Dimension in HPLC: Use of Temperature to Make LC Faster and Improve Selectivity
1:20pm
1:40pm	Ultra-Fast Separation of Large Biomolecules Using Superficially-Porous Silica Microspheres and High Mobile Phase Velocities B. Bidlingmeyer

Ion LC & IC-MS
3:00pm	FOCUS SPEAKER Arthur W. Fitchett, Dionex IC-MS: A New Dimension
3:20pm
3:40pm	The Analysis of Commercially Available Poly-Protic Phosphonates by IC-Conductivity and IC-MS B. Leafblad