HPLC 2011
Last year, I summarized my HPLC 2010 notes after the meeting. This year I would like to share with you a list of talks I am going to see. If you like, you might share your favorite talks presented on HPLC 2011 (link to program at HPLC2011.com).
Sunday – Opening Ceremony
No discussion. You have to be there and not only because there is welcome reception after that. I am looking forward to seeing both presenters: G. Guiochon and A. Perczel.
Monday
Again – (almost) mandatory plenary lectures (Gy. Vigh, G. Bonn and M. Mobidelli). After that I am going to see section focused on Particle technology with keynote lecture by F. Gritti. J. Omamogho won last year Csaba Horvath Award and I still remember his talk and nice results. I am curious what kind of talk it will be this year. Than I will probably move to Proteomics where Bas Eeltink (my former colleague from Amsterdam) is going to talk about potential of polymer monoliths in analysis of proteins isoforms. On the end again Particle technology and T. Farkas with talk about core-shell particles.
After lunch it is In memory of Uwe Neue (talks of W. Lindner, T. Walter, and M. Gilar) with transfer to Electrodriven methods where I want to see Csaba Horvath Award nominee J. Chin.
Tuesday
Almost the same situation as during Monday’s afternoon – session dedicated to the memory of Csaba Horvath with only one exception which is my colleague drom Pardubice Michal Holčapek in Metabolomics session (and I am still thinking about keynote lecture in Metabolomics presented by R. Kennedy).
Column technology it is after that with two Award nominees (M. Abi Jaoudé and Ivo Nischang) where I am very curious about my former Berkeley’s colleague Ivo’s presentation.
Chemometrics with Microfluidics. First I would like to either J. Kutter talk about carbon nanotube based columns or Y. Vander Heyden talk about experimental design, I don’t know which one yet. Then it will be S. Fanali with monolithic frits in Microfluidcs and J. Boccard and P. Boswell as Award nominees in Chemometrics.
Wednesday
On Wednesday morning I would like to start with purification and characterization of large biomolecules topic presented by A. Jungbauer in Biopharmaceuticals and then move to Retention mechanism for talks by B. Buszewski, G. Desmet, and (Award nominee) S. Bruns.
I am not sure what presentations I am going to see during the second morning session, but it would probably be P. Haddad with recent advances in ion chromatography, V. Kertész with laser ablation and/or G. Dicinoski with talk about chromatography in the prevent acts of terrorism. The talks by U. Tallarek, A. Cavazzini and M. Trudgett will follow.
Thursday
E. Hilder with monoliths, J. Griffith with porous graphitic carbon and E. Uliyanchenko (Award nominee) with fast 2D UHPLC of polymers. All in section Advances in separation technology.
Then, there is no room for anything else than Stationary phases section. I would like to see talk of my boss Pavel Jandera in Multidimensional separations, but I have to be ready for my talk in my section (I would really appreciate if you come and see talk about hypercrosslinked monoliths).
After that I am sure I can really enjoy lunch and plenary lectures presented by P. Schoenmakers (it will be very nice and funny talk, as always), by Frantisek Svec (hyphenation of hypercrosslinked monoliths and NMR to get image of flow inside the column and to detect very fast separations of small molecules) and G. Xu about metabolomics.
And then? Closing ceremony and evening’s train back home.
As I said, I would love to read your pre-selected talks and, additionally, if you are going to be in Budapest and want to talk to me, look for a badge with Jiri Urban on it ;)
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