22 May / June 2014


and two keynote lectures. The oral presentations were given by Szabolcs Fekete (CH) on the ‘Possibilities and limitations of current state-of-the-art column technology’ who discussed the optimum solid core particle size arriving at the conclusion that 1.3µm was optimal, and optimal column lengths for routine analysis of 5cm, high resolution separations of 8cm and 16cm for peptide analysis.


• Jirka Urban (CZ) ‘Hypercrosslinking modification of organic polymer-based monoliths’.


• Fabien Brothier (FR) ‘Miniaturization of selective sorbents: antibody/aptamer- modified monoliths’.


The keynote lectures were by:


• Michael Laemmerhofer (DE) ‘Tailoring chromatographic selectivity’.


Milton Lee in receiving the award


criteria for this award are ‘for outstanding achievements in hyphenated techniques in chromatography and for distinguished service to the international chromatographic community’. The award was presented by Hernan Cortes, president of the selection committee.


Milton Lee in receiving the award discussed Thermal gradient gas chromatography (TGGC) and how it is differentiated from temperature programmed gas chromatography (TPGC), showing how high resolution separations of complex mixtures can be accomplished using short (i.e., less than 1-m) columns. Both theoretical and practical comparisons of TGGC and TPGC demonstrated that innovations in GC and its associated hyphenated techniques are far from over. Milton promised more exciting work on this subject in the future.


After the break two keynote lectures in the session LCn


and GCn chaired by Aviv


Amirav saw Andre De Villiers (SA) discuss the ‘Systematic optimisation and evaluation of LC×LC separation of phenolics: Fundamental aspects and selected applications’ and Professor Luigi Mondello (IT), the chairman of the 38th ISCC and 11th GCxGC to be held in Riva del Garda in May, discuss the ‘Rapid collection of high solute amounts by using an on-line four-dimensional LC-GC-GC-GC preparative instrument’.


The afternoon session selected for review was on “Column technology for sample preparation and HPLC” chaired by Gert Desmet featured three oral presentations


• Deirdre Cabooter (BE) on ‘Detailed characterization of the kinetic performance of first and second generation silica monolithic columns’.


On Thursday morning, to honour individuals deserving special recognition of their innovation or influential work in the field of Separation Science, the John Knox award was presented by John Langley (RSC) to Peter Schoenmakers from the University of Amsterdam, NL who captivated the packed auditorium with a fascinating plenary lecture on selective LCxLC hyphenation. Peter made reference to his history in LC and to the Poppe, Giddings, Knox plot which he jokingly referred to as the ‘IQ 500 plot’. Several other humorous comments including his definition of UHPLC as ‘Ultra high patience liquid chromatography’ when showing a separation which took 30 hours and commenting that ‘with 4 injections a week this was just what PhD students needed’. His wit, interspersed with his deep intellect, had the audience in raptures and produced a solid lecture on the practice and theory of two dimensional liquid chromatography.


During the subsequent two RSC sessions chaired by Ian Wilson, LC-MS and human health and in particular phenotyping were discussed by various protagonists in the field including:


• Jeremy Nicholson (GB) on ‘Large scale metabolic phenotyping of populations and patients’.


• Matthew Lewis (GB) on ‘Mapping the metabolome - large scale phenotyping of human populations’.


• Nicola Gray (GB) on ‘Targeted methods for metabolic phenotyping’.


• Elizabeth Want (GB) on ‘Metabolic phenotyping: training the next generation’.


• Robert Plumb (GB) on ‘Advancing Micro LC/MS and SFC-MS for metabolic phenotyping’.


The final award presented during the closing session, the HTC award, was presented to Dr Frank David, Research Institute for Chromatography, Kortrijk and University of Gent (Belgium). The nomination was based on the lecture ‘New hyphenated techniques for aroma analysis’, the most valuable and innovative contribution of the conference.


Poster prizes were also presented, the first and second of which were awarded to Jelle De Vos, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels (Belgium) and Piotr Alvarez, Ghent University, Ghent (Belgium) for their posters titled, ‘A fundamental study of post-column focusing in liquid chromatography’ and ‘Combining multiplexed gel capillary electrophoresis with liquid chromatography for offline comprehensive analysis of complex oligonucleotide samples’ respectively. The third prize was awarded to Thorsten Teutenberg, Institut für Energie- und Umwelttechnik e.V., Duisburg (Germany) for the poster titled ‘Evaluation of a concept hyphenating flame ionization detection with nano- and capillary liquid chromatography’.


The Conference Chair, Professor Frederic


Lynen Separation Sciences Group University of Gent, summarised the meeting saying, “The ongoing success of the HTC symposium series is closely related to the impressive evolution of both high-end separation techniques and mass spectrometry in the last two decades. Each instrumental or methodological improvement presents new hyphenation challenges which are ideally addressed during the HTC and HTSP conference series”.


A week long instrument and supplies exhibition created the ideal forum to assess the state-of-the-art of modern instrumentation. Furthermore, during 7 product seminars, various sponsoring companies (FMS and Campro Scientific, Shimadzu, Waters Corporation, Gerstel, Peak Scientific, Markes International, and Sigma Aldrich) had the opportunity to go into detail about their new developments and products.


There was a full and lively social program, covering every evening, including two welcome receptions (one for each symposia)


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