2 February / March 2016 Foreword
I’d like to wish you a very warm welcome to the first edition of Chromatography Today of 2016. The themes for this edition are gas chromatography and bioanalysis which mirror the two final Chromatographic Society meetings of 2015. Gas chromatography is considered as a mature separation technique when compared to many other branches of separation science, the groundwork having been pioneered by Fritz Prior and Archer Martin in the 1940’s and early 1950’s. I personally find this technique fascinating and there seems to be constant development still taking place - be it core instrumentation, detection, sample preparation or multidimensional approaches as just some of many examples. To reflect some of the latest developments, we have contributions from vendors and industry covering sample preparation and introduction, separation, detection and data manipulation – something for every GC practitioner! I’m particularly interested in the article by Len Sidisky discussing the quantitative analysis of water as this will focus on the use of ionic liquid stationary phases, a column technology I’m sure we’ll see many developments in over the next few years.
A key area where separation science is applied is bioanalysis which is a meeting topic the Society visit biennially through our Reid bioforum. At this point, I would like to recognise the efforts of the outgoing Chair of this team for his stewardship of this key meeting. Professor Ian Wilson has successfully guided the organising team for a number of years, and I wish every success to his successor Tim Sangster. I have every confidence that Tim will continue the success of this group and the meetings that will result from his Chairmanship. The analysis of compounds in biofluids can often be difficult and dominated by the need for often complex sample preparation to minimise the impact of the sample matrix, and as in the GC theme area, there will be a large focus on this topic in this edition. There is also an increasing trend moving towards the use of small sample volumes such as those observed in recent developments in dry blood spot analysis and there will be significant discussion on the use of microsampling techniques for this purpose. Sample clean-up is also accompanied by the frequent use of mass-spectrometric detection to achieve specific and sensitive measurements, but without appropriate sample preparation, the results can be flawed. To discuss these topics in more detail, we have articles covering these important perspectives, including a number from vendors who are at the forefront of the development of analytical solutions in these areas.
Moving onto Chromatographic Society matters, last year was another busy year for us and this year will be no different with us organising another four events and playing an important role in another major international meeting - ISC2016 in Cork in late August/early September. As our readers and Society members will be aware, this is also our 60th anniversary – our Diamond Jubilee so we are undertaking a range of activities, meetings being a key component, but also a number of other activities sharing information
Paul Ferguson - President of the Chromatographic Society
on our history and promoting separation science. Our first meeting of the year is ‘Advances in microcolumn separations’ which will be held on Tuesday 22nd March at the institute of engineering and technology (the IET) in London. We have an excellent set of speakers for the meeting - a preview of which can be found in this edition of Chromatography Today. Our next edition of our members only publication ChromCom will also be available around this time. This meeting will be closely followed by our Spring Symposium which will be held at the pharmaceutical company MSD in Hoddesdon on Tuesday 19th April. The focus for this meeting will be on the automation of separation science in the pharmaceutical industry, and again, a short meeting preview is available in this edition of Chromatography Today. A full list of our other meetings and events can be found on our website in due course.
We have a number of bursary options to aid UK postgraduate researchers to travel to our meetings (through our standard student bursaries), or to international separation science meetings through our John Dolphin fellowships. I would also like to remind UK based separation scientists in industry who work in small and medium sized companies that we also have travel bursaries available which are funded from our PASG industrial bursary scheme. To access these funds, you simply have to be a member of The Chromatographic Society. An application form (and information on all bursary types) can be found on-line through our website at
www.chromsoc.com.
We hope you enjoy this edition of Chromatography Today and look forward to seeing you at our meetings in our Diamond jubilee year.
Paul.
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