Preliminary Program
The Guidebook and the Abstract book can be downloaded below when available. The Guidebook contains the program and all other pertinent conference information.
Keynote Speakers 2024
Dr. Gwen O'Sullivan
Professor & Vice Dean Research & Scholarship, Mount Royal University
Title of Keynote Lecture: From Wildfire Origins to Courtroom Verdicts: Exploring Arson Investigations with Multidimensional Chromatography
Gwen is an environmental chemist specializing in Environmental Forensics, particularly in wildfire forensics, arson investigation, air monitoring, and risk assessment. She combines analytical chemistry and environmental science to study the origins and behavior of pollutants and their environmental impacts. Over the course of her career, in industry, consultancy, and academia, Gwen has developed technical expertise in the areas of wildfire forensics, environmental chemistry, environmental forensics, air quality, and contaminated land and groundwater. She has worked environmental forensic investigations involving compounds of concerns including ignitable liquids, drilling fluids, petroleum hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenlys, polychlorinated dibenso-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans, methane, and nitrates. She has also authored numerous scientific articles, edited book series, and successfully competed for research grants both nationally and internationally.
Professor & Vice Dean Research & Scholarship, Mount Royal University
Title of Keynote Lecture: From Wildfire Origins to Courtroom Verdicts: Exploring Arson Investigations with Multidimensional Chromatography
Gwen is an environmental chemist specializing in Environmental Forensics, particularly in wildfire forensics, arson investigation, air monitoring, and risk assessment. She combines analytical chemistry and environmental science to study the origins and behavior of pollutants and their environmental impacts. Over the course of her career, in industry, consultancy, and academia, Gwen has developed technical expertise in the areas of wildfire forensics, environmental chemistry, environmental forensics, air quality, and contaminated land and groundwater. She has worked environmental forensic investigations involving compounds of concerns including ignitable liquids, drilling fluids, petroleum hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenlys, polychlorinated dibenso-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans, methane, and nitrates. She has also authored numerous scientific articles, edited book series, and successfully competed for research grants both nationally and internationally.
Dr. Sarah Prebihalo
Chemist, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Title of Keynote Lecture: From research to routine analysis - The role of GC×GC in the regulatory space
Sarah Prebihalo is a Chemist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Maryland as a part of the Office of Regulatory Science at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN). Sarah worked as a laboratory technician at Procter and Gamble for 2 years after obtaining her Bachelor’s in Chemistry, before moving to Pennsylvania to obtain her Masters in Forensic Chemistry at Penn State. In 2015 she began working towards her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle, which she obtained in 2020. After completing a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, she transitioned to her current role as Chemist and is involved in non-targeted method development for foods and dietary supplements using GC×GC.
Chemist, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Title of Keynote Lecture: From research to routine analysis - The role of GC×GC in the regulatory space
Sarah Prebihalo is a Chemist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Maryland as a part of the Office of Regulatory Science at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN). Sarah worked as a laboratory technician at Procter and Gamble for 2 years after obtaining her Bachelor’s in Chemistry, before moving to Pennsylvania to obtain her Masters in Forensic Chemistry at Penn State. In 2015 she began working towards her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle, which she obtained in 2020. After completing a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, she transitioned to her current role as Chemist and is involved in non-targeted method development for foods and dietary supplements using GC×GC.
Dr. Qinggang Wang
Scientific Director, Chemical Process Development, Bristol Myers Squibb
Title of Keynote Lecture: Two-dimensional liquid chromatography for small molecule pharmectuical analysis – more knowledge in less time
Qinggang Wang, Ph.D., is a Scientific Director in Chemical Process Development in Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. He received his B.S. in Chemistry and Ph. D. in Analytical Chemistry from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His work has been focused on CMC analytical supports for various projects within BMS portfolio, inclding small molecules, synthetic peptides and oligonuleotides. He has authored or co-authored 18 peer-reviewed publications and three book chapters in analytical science. His research focuses on application of novel analytical techniques to pharmaceutical analysis. He is the recipient of BMS BMSIARC award for outstanding achievement in analytical science in 2019.
Scientific Director, Chemical Process Development, Bristol Myers Squibb
Title of Keynote Lecture: Two-dimensional liquid chromatography for small molecule pharmectuical analysis – more knowledge in less time
Qinggang Wang, Ph.D., is a Scientific Director in Chemical Process Development in Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. He received his B.S. in Chemistry and Ph. D. in Analytical Chemistry from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His work has been focused on CMC analytical supports for various projects within BMS portfolio, inclding small molecules, synthetic peptides and oligonuleotides. He has authored or co-authored 18 peer-reviewed publications and three book chapters in analytical science. His research focuses on application of novel analytical techniques to pharmaceutical analysis. He is the recipient of BMS BMSIARC award for outstanding achievement in analytical science in 2019.
Final Speaker TBD
Title of Keynote Lecture: TBD
Title of Keynote Lecture: TBD
Guided Discussion Groups 2023
Removing the barriers from adoption of comprehensive two-dimensional chromatography
Caitlin N. Cain, Timothy J. Trinklein, Sonia Schöneich, Grant S. Ochoa, and Lina Mikaliunaite
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Soraya Chapel
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Comprehensive two-dimensional gas (GC×GC) and liquid (LC×LC) chromatography are well-established separation techniques that exhibit enhanced resolving power over their one-dimensional counterparts. With improvements in commercial instrumentation and data analysis platforms, performing a GC×GC or LC×LC separation and analyzing its output are easier now than ever before. However, despite these developments, the broader analytical community often perceives comprehensive two-dimensional chromatography as complex, difficult, and intimidating. How do we address this stereotype and make these separation techniques approachable to the broader community? Following each step in the established analytical workflow, this discussion group will identify common misconceptions about instrumentation, method development/optimization, and data analysis. By addressing these concerns, this discussion will aim to instill confidence in analysts and provide them tools for applying these separation methods to various application areas.
Caitlin N. Cain, Timothy J. Trinklein, Sonia Schöneich, Grant S. Ochoa, and Lina Mikaliunaite
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Soraya Chapel
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Comprehensive two-dimensional gas (GC×GC) and liquid (LC×LC) chromatography are well-established separation techniques that exhibit enhanced resolving power over their one-dimensional counterparts. With improvements in commercial instrumentation and data analysis platforms, performing a GC×GC or LC×LC separation and analyzing its output are easier now than ever before. However, despite these developments, the broader analytical community often perceives comprehensive two-dimensional chromatography as complex, difficult, and intimidating. How do we address this stereotype and make these separation techniques approachable to the broader community? Following each step in the established analytical workflow, this discussion group will identify common misconceptions about instrumentation, method development/optimization, and data analysis. By addressing these concerns, this discussion will aim to instill confidence in analysts and provide them tools for applying these separation methods to various application areas.
GCxGC, will it ever be in common use in the petroleum laboratories?
Lenny Kouwenhoven, Jop Bezuijen
Petroleum Analyzer Company
Christina Kelly
LECO Corporation
Jon Sims
Exxon
Legislation, commercial contracts or process control require standardized methods or procedures to ensure product results from all parties involved can be compared to meet contract requirements and resolve disputes.
Standardized method development and adoption is a collaborative process which requires buy-in from many competing interests before new methods are accepted. Innovative or unfamiliar technologies need to overcome market resistance to change, bureaucratic inertia within standardization committees, and the tendency of legacy market suppliers to protect their economic interest. All of these pre-existing stakeholders need to be brought into agreement to allow the new technology into the market space. With these difficulties as background, Lenny Kouwenhoven will talk about her real world experience in bringing the first GCxGC test method for the petroleum market through the ASTM method development process. In addition, the first preliminary ILS data for the GCxGC method will be presented and discussed. The path forward for European and Asian adoption will be overviewed and contrasted with ASTM procedures.
Lenny Kouwenhoven, Jop Bezuijen
Petroleum Analyzer Company
Christina Kelly
LECO Corporation
Jon Sims
Exxon
Legislation, commercial contracts or process control require standardized methods or procedures to ensure product results from all parties involved can be compared to meet contract requirements and resolve disputes.
Standardized method development and adoption is a collaborative process which requires buy-in from many competing interests before new methods are accepted. Innovative or unfamiliar technologies need to overcome market resistance to change, bureaucratic inertia within standardization committees, and the tendency of legacy market suppliers to protect their economic interest. All of these pre-existing stakeholders need to be brought into agreement to allow the new technology into the market space. With these difficulties as background, Lenny Kouwenhoven will talk about her real world experience in bringing the first GCxGC test method for the petroleum market through the ASTM method development process. In addition, the first preliminary ILS data for the GCxGC method will be presented and discussed. The path forward for European and Asian adoption will be overviewed and contrasted with ASTM procedures.