The Washington Chromatography Discussion Group (WCDG) is merging with the Washington Baltimore Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group (WBMSDG). Future meetings will be held at the Shimadzu Training Center in Columbia, MD. Follow WBMSDG for future meetings.
April 17, 2023 – Joint meeting with WBMSDG at Shimadzu Center in Columbia, MD
Ina Nemet, Cleveland Clinic
March 29, 2023 – at Alfio’s Trattoria, 4515 Willard Ave, Chevy Chase, MD
Denise Heyburn, Waters Corp.
Discover Intuitive Simplicity in HPLC
February 22, 2023 – Joint meeting with CASSS DC DG at IBBR in Rockville, MD
Haibin Luo, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD
Formation of transient highly-charged mAb clusters strengthens interactions with host cell proteins and results in poor clearance of host cell proteins during downstream processing
Kamiyar Rezvani, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD
Leveraging Light Chain Binding Avidity for Control of Mispaired Byproducts During Capture of Bispecific Antibodies
November 16, 2022 –
Tackling the Glycan Isomer Challenge for BioTherapeutics with MOBIE
Jon DeGnore, Mobilion Systems Inc.
Porous Materials for Aqueous Ion Capture
Mercedes Taylor, University of Maryland
Sep 21, 2022 – Ling Hao, George Washington University
Advancing LC-MS-based proteomic and metabolomic techniques to understand neurological disorders
Jun 19-23, 2022 – WCDG sponsored HPLC 2022, the International Symposium and Exposition on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques, held in San Diego, CA. WCDG provided the mariachi band at the opening ceremony. WCDG Georges Guiochon Student Award winner Leena Pade gave an oral presentation and was co-chair for sessions, and winner Jie Li presented a poster and assisted with operations at HPLC 2022. Congratulations and thank you to Leena and Jie!
May 18, 2022 –
Erik Regalado, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co.
Enantioselective UHPLC Screening Combined with In Silico Modeling for Streamlined Development of Ultrafast Enantiopurity Assays
Leena Pade, UMD, 2022 recipient of the WCDG Georges Guiochon Student Award
Deep Proteomics to Uncover Heterogeneity from Limited Embryonic Tissues Using Enhanced Separation Technology
Apr 18, 2022 – Joint meeting with WBMSDG
Glen P. Jackson, West Virginia University
Hair Reveals what People Conceal: Biometric Traits from the Chemical Analysis of Human Hair
Mar 16, 2022 – Pawel Jaruga, NIST
Mass Spectrometry Measurements of Oxidatively-Induced DNA Damage
Georges Guiochon Student Award – Congratulations to Leena Pade for her award winning abstract “Deep Proteomics to Uncover Heterogeneity from Limited Embryonic Tissues Using Enhanced Separation Technology”. Leena will be attending HPLC 2022 to present her research.
Feb 15, 2022 – Joint with CASSS DC Discussion Group
Challenges in Separation Science for the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Recent advances in multi-dimensional liquid chromatography for biopharmaceutical analysis
Dwight Stoll, Gustavus Adolphus College
Insights into the purification of bispecific antibodies on multimodal systems
Sid Parasnavis, AstraZeneca
Towards improved methods consistency: artifacts observed during peptide mapping, HPLC fractionation, and the mitigation strategies
Ben Niu, AstraZeneca
Jan 19, 2022 – Leah G. Dodson, University of Maryland College Park
Ion Source Development for Radiative Association Kinetics Experiments
Nov 17, 2021 – Robert D’Ippolito, NCI Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
Refining the N-Termini of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein and Its Discrete Receptor-Binding Domain
Oct 20, 2021 – Elyssia Gallagher, Baylor University
Rapid H/D exchange-mass spectrometry for the analysis of glycans
Sep 15, 2021 – Tongtong Xu, USP
Detection of undeclared sweeteners in steviol glycosides by LC/MS
May 19, 2021 – Roland F. Hirsch
How Analytical Chemistry, and especially Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry, is enabling progress in understanding climate
Apr 19, 2021 – Stefani Thomas, University of Minnesota
Beyond the BRCA genes: A proteome-centric view of high-grade serous ovarian cancer
Feb 17, 2021 – Nicholas Snow, Seton Hall University
GC in the 21st Century: Re-thinking Basic GC Ideas and Assumptions That We Grew Up With
Jan 20, 2021 – Camille Lombard-Banek, NIST-IBBR
Building a DIA-based Proteomic Workflow for the Characterization of CAR T-cell Therapies
Dec 16, 2020 – Kim Haynes, Waters Corporation
ACQUITY PREMIER: Precision Chemistries for Particles and Surfaces
Nov 18, 2020 – Geoffrey Dubrow, FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
A Survey of Cannabinoids in Hemp-Derived Products from the United States Marketplace
Oct 21, 2020 – Nadja B. Cech, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Challenges and Opportunities in Transitioning from Targeted to Untargeted Analysis in Small Molecule Mass Spectrometry
Sep 16, 2020 – Asif Shajahan, University of Georgia
How advanced mass spectrometry can guide the therapeutic interventions against SARS-CoV-2
Apr 20, 2020 – Ben Neely, NIST
Sea lions and bats and humans, oh my! How to explore mammalian serum proteomes
Feb 19, 2020
Jie Li, University of Maryland College Park
LC-HRMS Based Metabolomic Analysis of Neural-Tissue Fated Cell Clones from Developing Xenopus laevis Embryos
Alexander Zestos, American University
LC-MS/MS Method for Neurochemical Detection in Biological Samples
Jan 15, 2020 – Ed Sisco, NIST
Utilizing Trace Drug Residues in the Forensic Analysis of Opioids
Dec 18, 2019 – Hugh Hayes, NIST
Method development for the quantitation of key analytes in environmental extracts and botanical dietary supplementation reference materials
Nov 14, 2019 – Lane C. Sander, NIST
Stationary Phase Architecture and Molecular Shape Differentiation in Liquid Chromatography
Oct 16, 2019 – Paulina Piotrowski, NIST
Characterizing the Gut Microbiome
Sep 18, 2019 – Annual Poster Session & Vendor Exhibition
Bethesda North Marriott Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Rd, Rockville, MD
Congratulations to Jie Li from University of Maryland for winning the Guiochon Student Award for his poster titled “Metabolic Characterization of Cell Clones in X. laevis Embryos by HPLC-MS”.
May 15, 2019 – Horacio Pappa (USP) and Fadi Alkhateeb (Waters)
Method Lifecycle Management
Apr 15, 2019 – Catherine Fenselau, University of Maryland
Biological Mass Spectrometry: Observations on its Evolution
Mar 13, 2019 – William Craig Byrdwell, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, USDA
Comprehensive Multi-Dimensional Chromatography with Quadruple Parallel Mass Spectrometry for Fat-Soluble Vitamins and Triacylglycerols
Feb 27, 2019 – Erika Portero, University of Maryland College Park
Capillary Electrophoresis Mass Spectrometry for Microanalysis of Proteins and Metabolites in the Developing Vertebrate Embryo
Jan 16, 2019 – James P. Grinias, Rowan University
Increasing Throughput for Pharmaceutical and Bioanalytical Methods Using UHPLC
Dec 12, 2018 – Perry Wang, FDA
Identification and Quantitation of 16 PAHs in Tattoo Inks by UHPLC-APPI-MS/MS with Scheduled Selected Reaction Monitoring
Nov 14, 2018 – Andre Striegel, NIST
Multi-detector Hydrodynamic Chromatography of Colloids and Polymers
Lucas Kimerer, University of Virginia
Oct 11, 2018 – Melissa Phillips, NIST
Application of Chromatography in the Development of Reference Materials for Foods and Dietary Supplements
Sep 19, 2018 – Annual Poster Session & Vendor Exhibition
Bethesda North Marriott Conference Center
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Congratulations to our student poster winner Lucas Kimerer (University of Virginia). He will receive a travel award to attend HPLC 2019 in Milan, Italy, and he will give short oral presentation at a future WCDG meeting.
HPLC 2018
May 29 to August 2, 2018 at Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC
WCDG sponsored the musical entertainment for the opening ceremony and reception. During the opening ceremony, The Conservatory Classic Jazz Band delighted conference attendees with jazz numbers inspired by various regions around the world to celebrate the international community of separation scientists gathered for HPLC 2018. During the evening reception, attendees were serenaded with a vocalist and guitarist. WCDG also congratulates Associate Professor Peter Nemes of UMD for receiving the Georges Guiochon Faculty Award.
May 16, 2018 – Ira Lurie, George Washington University
Recent Developments in the Analysis of Emerging Drugs
Apr 16, 2018 – Melanie Downs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
MS Analysis of Food Allergens: Just Another Proteomics Application or a Whole New Kettle of Fis
Mar 14, 2018 – Mark R. Schure, Kroungold Analytical, Inc., Blue Bell, PA
Multidimensional separations in three and higher dimensions
Sarah Gao, 2017 Student Poster Winner
Feb 15, 2018 – Chunlei Wang, MedImmune
Efficient peak identification for hydrophobic interaction chromatographic separations by 2DLC/MS
Hangu Nam, 2017 Student Poster Winner
Jan 17, 2018 – David Muddiman, North Carolina State University
Innovations in Mass Spectrometry Platform Technologies for Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Research and High Throughput Screening
Dec 6, 2017 – Joseph Zaia, Boston University
How to assign protein site-specific glycosylation
Nov 15, 2017 – Gary Mallard, NIST
Automating GC/MS Analysis – Or at least making it a little easier
Oct 18, 2017 – John Hanover, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD
A Little Sugar goes a Long Way: O-GlcNAc in human disease
Sep 20, 2017 – Annual Poster Session & Vendor Exhibition
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
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Congratulations to our student poster winners Sarah Gao (IBBR) and Hangu Nam (Virginia Tech). They will receive travel awards to attend HPLC 2018, and they will give short oral presentations at a future WCDG meeting.
Aug 22-23, 2017 – Short Course: Capillary Electrophoresis Workshop
Instructor: Brandon Bates, Sciex
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May 17, 2017 – Christian Wolf, Dept. of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Chromatographic and Spectroscopic Analysis of Chiral Compounds
Apr 19, 2017 – Walter B Wilson, Research Chemist, NIST
Liquid and gas chromatographic retention behavior of polycyclic aromatic compounds on stationary phases of different selectivities
Rosemary Onjiko & Erika Portero, 2016 Student Poster Honorable Mentions
Mar 27, 2017 – Robert N. Cole, Assistant Professor Dept. Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Adventures of Capillary Electrophoresis in Proteomics from Top-down to Bottom-up
Feb 15, 2017 – Peter Nemes, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, George Washington University
Capillary Electrophoresis Mass Spectrometry for Understanding Early Vertebrate Embryonic Development One Cell at a Time
Sam Choi, 2016 Georges Guiochon Poster & Travel Award recepient
Jan 18, 2017 – Abigail Turner, National Institute of Standards and Technology
The NISTmAb: Capillary Electrophoresis-based Characterization and Life Cycle Management
Nov 17, 2016 – Mark L. Miller, FBI Counterterrorism and Forensic Science Research Unit
Challenges in Forensic Separations
Oct 19, 2016 – Trina Formolo, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Considerations for Optimization of Multi-Attribute Peptide Mapping Protocols
Sep 21, 2016 – Open House & Poster Session
North Bethesda Marriott Hotel and Conference Center
Congratulations to Sam Choi, our 2016 winner of the Georges Guiochon travel award for best student poster!
Sam Choi from George Washington University won the award for his outstanding poster on “CE-nanoESI-MS for Untargeted Proteomic Characterization of Single Embryonic Cells and Small Neuron Populations”. He will receive complementary travel to a separations-related conference of his choice. Congratulations, Sam!.
Honorable Mentions were Erika Portero and Rosemary Onjiko from George Washington University.
May 18, 2016 – Milton L. Lee, Brigham Young University
Compact Capillary LC Separations
Apr 11, 2016 – Stephen E. Stein, Director of NIST Mass Spectrometry Data Center
Mass Spectral Libraries of Everything
Feb 17, 2016 – Robert diTargiani, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense
Analytical Methods for the Verification of Human Exposure to the Chemical Warfare Agents
Jan 20, 2016 – Steve J. Lehotay, USDA-ARS Eastern Regional Research Center (ERRC), Wyndmoor, PA
Improving the quality of chromatographic peak integration and analytical results without human review in multi-analyte high-throughput methods
Dec 16, 2015 – Ronald E. Majors, LCGC North America, West Chester, PA
Top Ten HPLC/UPLC Column Myths
Nov 18, 2015 – Claude R Mallet, Waters Corporation
Optimized Workflow for Metabolite Identification using 3D LC/MS/MS
Jason Reck, University of Virginia
Oct 21, 2015 – Irving W. Wainer, Mitchell Woods Pharmaceuticals
The adventures of a bioanalytical chemist in the never-never land of antidepressants: Finding a way out of the “ketamine paradigm”
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel
Camille Lombard-Banek (George Washington Univeristy) received Honorable Mention and a $500 award for travel. Contact: clombard@gwu.edu
May 20, 2015 – Jianghao Sun, Food Composition and Method Development Lab Beltsville Human Nutrition Center, USDA-ARS
Fingerprinting and Metabolomics for Botanical Authentication and Identification of Dietary Biomarkers
Apr 15, 2015 – Matthew C. Crowe, The Dow Chemical Company, Philadelphia, PA
Multidimensional Liquid Separations Coupled to Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for the Analysis of Complex Polymers
Mar 10, 2015 – Chromatography Community Mixer at PittCon
Generations Hall, 310 Andrew Higgins Dr, New Orleans, LA
Feb 11, 2015 – Rabih Jabbour, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
Utilization of a Mass Spectrometry Proteomics Method for Detection of Biological Agents and Toxins in Complex Matrices
Jan 21, 2015 – Jeffrey W. Hudgens, NIST
Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry: A Valuable Tool for the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Dec 17, 2014 – Bill LaCourse, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Adventures in Analysis: New Approaches to Old Problems
Nov 12, 2014 – Abul Hussam, George Mason University
Measurement of Noncovalent Association and Partitioning of Volatile Solutes by Equilibrium Headspace Gas Chromatography: Applications in Solvent Extraction, Surfactants, and Nanoparticles
One of our most prestigious members has passed away. Georges Guiochon, a previous WCDG President, after defeating pneumonia finally succumbed to neuromuscular failure due to Post Polio Syndrome on October 21, 2014. He was 83 years old and still working at UT Knoxville until the day before he entered intensive care on October 7.
Arrangements are underway for Memorials to be held in Paris, Buffalo, and UT Knoxville.
With warmest regards from another previous WCDG President, Lois Ann Beaver, surviving spouse of Georges Guiochon.
A remembrance from Journal of Chromatography A: www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-chromatography-a/news/professor-georges-guiochon-1931-2014-passed-away-on-october/
Oct 15, 2014 – Peter Nemes, George Washington University
Metabolic Analysis of Single Cells in Embryos by Mass Spectrometry
May 21, 2014 – Theodore Juarez, Uniformed Services University
Inter-variability of INFICON HAPSITE ER Instruments (man-portable Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer) operated with Manufacturer Provided Calibration Curves
Apr 14, 2014 – Maureen Kane, University of Maryland, School of Pharmacy
The use of fast HPLC multiplexing MRM3 for retinoic acid quantitation in complex matrices
Pittcon Mixer
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
5:30 – 8:30 PM
Buddy Guy’s Legends, 700 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
Resolution of Sialylated Glycopeptides Using a Pentafluorophenylpropyl (PFP) Stationary Phase
Feb 12, 2014 – Fabrice Gritti, University of Tennessee
Importance and constraints of the recent progress made in column and instrument technologies for accurate sample quantification by HPLC
Dec 11, 2013 – Isiah Warner, Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
GUMBOS: Tunable Materials for Biomedical Applications
Nov 13, 2013 – Tony Brand, Agilent Technologies
Do we really know what the left and right are up to? Supercritical Fluid Chromatography is now the tool to tell, with some help from an MS
Oct 23, 2013 – Benjamin Place, NIST
Multi-Dimensional Chromatography as a Quantitative Tool
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
May 22, 2013 – Christopher Okunji, USP
High Speed Counter-Current Chromatography: An Efficient Technique for Large-Scale Isolation of Pharmacopeia Reference Standards
Apr 15, 2013 – Michael Boyne, FDA
Modern Analytics for the Analysis of Complex Drug Products: Physicochemical Characterization using MS
Feb 20, 2013 – Andrew Alpert, PolyLC
Advantages of HILIC and ERLIC for Proteomics
Jan 16, 2013 – Kevin Siek, LECO Corporation
Sharpening Chromatographic and Spectral Resolution to Reveal More in Metabolomic, Food Safety, Environmental, and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dec 12, 2012 – Jeff Rohrer, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Ion Chromatography for Pharmaceuticals
Nov 13, 2012 – Len Sidisky, Supelco
Advances in Ionic Liquid Stationary Phases for Capillary Gas Chromatography
Oct 11, 2012 – Jessica Reiner, NIST
Temporal and Spatial Trends of Current-use and Legacy Persistent Organic Pollutants in Marine Mammals
Sep 12, 2012 – Open House & Poster Session
May 16, 2012 – Pierluigi DelMonte, Office of Regulatory Science Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA
Investigation of comprehensive LCxLC for the separation of phytochemicals in dietary supplements
Apr 18, 2012 – Mark Lowenthal, NIST
Developing LC-MS methods for qualitative characterization of NIST Standard Reference Materials
Mar 21, 2012 – John Van Antwerp, Waters Corporation
Fundamentals and Advancements in Analytical SFC
Feb 15, 2012 – Rick Lake and Ty Kahler, Restek Corporation
Characterizing Stationary Phase Selectivity – A Practical Look at Column Selection
Jan 18, 2012 – Ruin Moaddel, National Institute on Aging, NIH
Bioaffinity Chromatography: The Study of Drug-Protein and Protein-Protein Interactions
Nov 16, 2011 – Cynthia Tyburczy, Ph.D., FDA-CFSAN
Covalent Adduct Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry for the Identification of Fatty Acid Methyl Ester Double Bond Configuration
Apr 20, 2011 – Manuela Gradl, NIST – Walking on Ceilings: Chemistry of Insect Adhesion to Various Surfaces
Jacolin Murray, NIST – Field Sampling and Detection Using a Novel Portable Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer
Mar 21, 2011 – Kevin Schug, University of Texas Arlington
Five Years, Three Boys, and Some Analytical Chemistry
Feb 16, 2011 – Lane Sander, NIST
Order and Disorder in Chromatography