20 May / June 2014
Visiting the 13th International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography and Hyphenated Chromatographic Analysers (HTC-13) and the 3rd
Trevor Hopkins, Editor Chromatography Today,
trevor@intlabmate.com
International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques for Sample Preparation (HTSP-3)
The 13th International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography and Hyphenated Chromatographic Analysers (HTC-13) was held in Bruges, Belgium from 29th
to 31st
(International symposium on Hyphenated Techniques for Sample Preparation). HTSP-3 started the day before HTC-13 on 28th a common day on Wednesday 29th
Science Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Bruges a beautiful small town in Western Belgium has a rich history and exhibits it well with its medieval churches and official buildings, squares and cobbled streets, all of which are pristine in appearance after renovations. The oldest habitation of the city dates from the 1st century AD. Today Bruges is a modern shopping town with an extensive selection of fast-food stands, bars, bistros and starred restaurants.
The symposia took place in the Congress Centre Oud Sint-Jan, the large renovated complex of the medieval St. John’s hospital dating from 1188 AD, which was until 1978 when it closed one of the oldest hospitals in Europe. The site is very compact but still housed three parallel sessions, provided ample space for posters and an exhibition with 21 exhibitors on the top level where the cocktail reception, coffee breaks and lunches were located.
As usual, academia, industry and government were all well represented among the speakers and over 306 delegates from 32 different countries were in attendance. The events were again accompanied by a one day short course on 28th
Picture of Oud-Sint-Jan from the bridge by Church of our Lady.
January which featured two sessions on strategies for hyphenated techniques:
• Mass spectrometry: fundamental developments and hyphenation strategies Instructor: Professor E. De Pauw (ULiege) and
• Strategies for efficient hyphenations of (U) HPLC with MS Instructor: Dr G. Rozing
The aims of HTSP-3 were to ‘highlight the prominent place which sample preparation techniques have taken in 21st century chemical analysis and emphasis will be set on the hyphenation with chromatography and with separation techniques in general’. Focus areas for the two day symposium were speed, automation, cost saving and green approaches in sample preparation.
Sample preparation techniques covered during the two day symposium included extraction techniques - solid-phase
extraction (SPE), solid-phase micro- extraction (SPME), molecular imprinted polymers (MIPs), liquid-phase micro- extraction (LPME), sample introduction strategies (e.g. headspace methods; pyrolysis, derivatisation methods) and multi- column methods.
The opening plenary lecture of HTSP-3 was given by Professor Alois Jungbauer (AT) speaking on the subject of ‘Separation of large biomolecular assemblies, viruses, VLP, and protein superstructures’ and was
January 2014. For the third time the HTC conference was organised in conjunction with the HTSP symposium January and shared
January. The symposia were organised jointly by the Royal Flemish Chemical Society (KVCV) and the Separation
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