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We want to bring together separation scientists from different areas. We also want to bring together theory and practice. And we want to bring together academia and industry by inviting plenary and keynote speakers from university and industrial labs. We have to learn from each other in order to speed up progress in our field. ISC has been established as a conference series that is always held in Europe, but it is certainly not restricted to Europe but presents a truly global conference. We have speakers from Europe, Japan, China, Australia, Russia, South America, USA etc. On the other hand, ISC 2014 is certainly one of the nearest locations for Europeans to present their results to an international audience and to get ‘the whole picture’ of modern separation science within the frame of Analytical Sciences.


As chairpersons we will have the opportunity to give the conference a particular flavour. We have decided to put a strong focus on mass spectrometric detection and its hyphenation with separation techniques. Another very up-to-date focus is multidimensional chromatography and biopharmaceuticals analysis. Mass spectrometry and hyphenation with chromatography is challenged inter alia in the -omics field (metabolomics, proteomics, lipodomics, glycomics, you name it). To shed a proper spotlight on these topics we have invited internationally most renowned plenary speakers.


Jeremy Nicholson will outline a few visions on how this powerful technique could be used in the near future in clinical analysis.


Hans Maurer will present the feasibility and needs of high-resolution MS in forensic toxicological analysis.


Gerard Hopfgartner will introduce us to the realms of ion-mobility mass spectrometry as another dimension in metabolomics and metabolism studies.


Pat Sandra and Govert Somsen will discuss challenges and advances in biopharmaceutical analysis, including CE MS.


Dan Armstrong will give an overview of what can be achieved with ionic liquids in separation sciences in particular GC. Just to name a few highlights.


The tutorials and Short Courses will have a strong focus on separation technologies and sample preparation. Besides UHPLC (Gert Desmet), SFC (Caroline West), HILIC (David McCalley), Separation Techniques in Bioanalysis (Christian G. Huber) ISC 2014 will feature tutorials on LCxLC (Peter Schoenmakers) and GCxGX (Luigi Mondello) as well as specific topics in MS (Quantitative MS by Kevin Schug and CE-MS by Markus Himmelbach).


Karl-Siegfried Boos will highlight the use of LC-MS/MS technology in the clinical labs.


This will be complemented by many keynote lectures of academic and industrial opinion leaders in separation science, mass spectrometry and certain application areas.


In summing up we think that the ISC 2014 Salzburg offers an excellent platform to our colleagues from all over the world to present and to discuss their newest results. Salzburg is a most charming city of very high cultural and scientific level. We look forward to welcoming a large audience at Salzburg Congress in September 2014 and to share an exciting time.


That’s certainly an ambitious agenda. We wish you all the best for Salzburg and beyond that in what seems likely to be an active “retirement”.


Silica Bonded Phases for Polar and Non-polar Molecules


The Cogent TYPE-C™ silica bonded phases, manufactured by MicroSolv Technology Corporation (USA), have a surface populated by silicon-hydride functional groups instead of silanols. Patented bonding technology is then used to produce the Cogent Bidentate C18, Bidentate C8, UDC-Cholesterol, Phenyl and Diamond Hydride (the “Metabolomics Column”) phases, with direct silicon-carbon bonds on the silica hydride surface. These bonded phases have the ability to retain polar solutes at high concentrations of organic solvent by aqueous normal- phase (ANP). In addition, non-polar compounds can also be retained on the same column under reversed-phase conditions. The lack of surface silanols leads to fast equilibration times, excellent peak shape and extended column lifetimes for the assay of a wide range of pharmaceuticals, organic acids, carbohydrates, biochemicals, peptides, metabolites and many other compounds.


For further information and a technical brochure on Cogent TYPE-C silica HPLC columns, email Hichrom Limited at: technical@hichrom.co.uk or Tel: 0118 930 3660 or www.microsolvtech.com


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