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20th Annual Spring Symposium! The Minnesota Chromatography Forum invites you to participate in the 20th Annual Spring Symposium and Intensive Short Courses at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Minneapolis, MN, May 18-20,1999. Course registration deadline: May 7, 1999 Short course registration includes luncheon for 2 days and a 1 year MCF membership. Symposium registration deadline: May 7, 1999 (On-site registration is also available.) Please contact Jan Jopke at (612) 949-2518 or jjopke@msn.com for symposium registration and information or visit the MCF website! Invited Speakers: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
FOCUS Speakers
Directions to the Earle Brown Heritage Center: From the West: Take I-94 East and I-694 East to Shingle Creek Parkway exit, follow cloverleaf around, turn left onto Shingle Creek Parkway, left at stoplight (Summit Drive North), left again one block at Earle Brown Drive (first turn), follow around to the main entrance on your right. From the East: Take I-94 West and I-694 West to Shingle Creek Parkway exit, follow cloverleaf around, turn right onto Shingle Creek Parkway, left at second stoplight (Summit Drive North), left again one block at Earle Brown Drive, follow around to the main entrance on your right. From the South: Take I-494 West to Hwy. 100 North, exit at John Martin Drive, at top of exit, cross through intersection 57th Avenue North to John Martin Drive, turn left, continue to first stop sign, turn right onto Earle Brown Drive, continue through next stop sign, watch for main entrance on your left. From the North: Take I-35 South to I-694 West, then to Shingle Creek Parkway exit, follow cloverleaf around, turn right onto Shingle Creek Parkway, left at second stoplight (Summit Drive North), left again one block at Earle Brown Drive, follow around to the main entrance on your right. Rooms available for symposium attendees: Hilton Hotel North AmericInn Motel & Suites Super 8 Motel
1999 Spring Symposium Courses!!! 1) "Effective Technical Presentations"
2) "Chromatographic FT-IR and Raman Spectrometric Methods"
3) "Troubleshooting HPLC Systems" with 'Hands On' Participation*
Spring Quarterly Meeting Review Ravi Ravichandran LABS-ON-A-CHIP – New APPLICATIONS AND Detection Schemes Speaker Prof. Richard P. Baldwin, University of Louisville, April 7, 1999 Prof. Richard P. Baldwin has not done much research in the exciting area of labs on a chip, so he used the opportunity to provide a historical overview. This technology has been around only for 7-8 years. This area is quite new to practicing analytical chemists, but has gained acceptance among bioanalytical chemists, especially in the area of DNA sequencing and is being used in the Human Genome project. One of the applications Prof. Baldwin described achieved separation in about 300 mSeconds! Advantages of DTAS include short analysis times, multiplexing capability and ability to do remote sensing. Professor Baldwin described the ease with which the hardware for DTAS, microfluidics can be fabricated with the advances made by microreplication technology in the semiconductor industry. He is collaborating with the Electrical Engineering department of University of Louisville to fabricate a microfluidic device, a sample of which he passed around for the audience to view. The biggest setback is the inability to have a detector built into the chip. Today, most applications use optical detection, especially laser induced fluorescence detection. While this technique has gained acceptance, it truly does not meet the definition of Lab-on-a-Chip. An electrochemical detector can be successfully incorporated into the chip. It is true that electrochemical detection has not gained acceptance among chromatographers, which Prof. Baldwin feels is simply due to reluctance on the part of the researcher. He has published several papers in the area of CE with electrochemical detection. He described the concept of the On-Column Electrode (OCE) for CE detection, which happens to originate from his laboratory. With a Copper OCE, his group has successfully developed a CE separation and detection of carbohydrates without any chemical derivatization. Thanks to Andrew Dallas, the Director responsible for the Spring Quarterly meeting If you know a good speaker or would like to suggest a special topic for future meetings please contact one of the MCF Directors. Please see www.minnchrom.org for information. Mark your Calendars! Coming July 13-15, 1999! "Beginning GC" It’s time again for the MCF’s three-day workshop in beginning gas chromatography! Taught by two of our most popular instructors, this workshop is offered to provide introductory training in the applications of GC to practical industry and laboratory analytical problems. "Hands On" training with instrumentation from local vendors is included each afternoon! Tentative Agenda: Day One:
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Instructors & Location: The course will be taught by Professor Gary Reineccius (Dept. of Food Science, University of MN), and John Freeburg (Hewlett-Packard) at the University of Minnesota, Food Science & Nutrition Building. Look for the informational flyer coming in the mail this May! For more information, contact Jan Jopke,
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