Advanced HPLC Method Development

November 27th & 28th, 2001 ...

Announcing the MCF’s workshop in Advanced HPLC! The purpose of this workshop is to provide training and insight into advanced applications and method development for HPLC, along with their application to practical industry and laboratory problems. The course will include classroom instruction along with the use of DryLab software for HPLC modeling. There will also be a question and answer session for problems encountered by the students in the class.

For class information, contact Jan Jopke, at (612) 949-2518. 
For further course content information e-mail Derek Southern at derek.southern@lcresources.com.

To register for the course, complete the website registration form and send it with a check for $600, payable to the Minnesota Chromatography Forum.

Note:
If confirmation is not received within 10 business days, contact Jan at (952) 949-2518. Please bring confirmation to first day of class.

Meet the Instructor …

Derek Southern is currently employed with LC Resources Inc. as VP, Director of Training. Derek initially received his B.Sc. at the University of Durham, UK in 1963 and later his MBA at Fairleigh Dickenson University, NJ in 1981. Over the years Derek has been employed at Whatman, BioRad, Beckman Instruments, and Hoefer Scientific managing product lines and product development. In addition, he has participated in Drug metabolism studies by TLC, done GC method development on polyhydric phenols and been QC manager at Cussons in the UK.

Along with his professional chromatography career, Derek participates in university training programs. Since 1982 he has been part of the Onground and Online BA/BS and MBA programs (Marketing, International Management, Mathematics) at the University of Phoenix. He also is part of the Executive MBA program for Taiwanese Executive Management students (in Marketing) at City University, WA.

In his work at LC Resources, Derek participates in a joint venture with LC/GC magazine where he helps manage and support a Chromatography Discussion group. The web location for this forum is www.LCResources.com where folks can have a look and try it.

Derek has written several papers and articles for LC-GC, Journal of Chromatography, Talanta and other international journals. He has also participated in background roles at the MCF’s Spring Symposium and co-taught a previous offering of this same HPLC course!