Confirmed Speakers

Plenary Lectures

Daniel W. Armstrong
R.A. Welch Distinguished Professor | University of Texas at Arlington
Title: Importance of D-Amino Acids in Biological Systems: Detection and Analysis

Purnendu (Sandy) Dasgupta
Professor, Hamish Small Chair in Ion Analysis | University of Texas at Arlington
Title: Ion Separations in Hollow Tubes: Mirage or Oasis?

Robert Kennedy
Hobart H. Willard Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacology | University of Michigan
Title: Exploring the Limits of Speed and Resolution in Liquid Chromatography

Keynote Speakers

David Chen
Professor | The University of British Columbia
Title: Current State of Erythropoietin (EPO) Analysis in Doping Control and the Potential of Liquid Chromatography/Capillary Electrophoresis Mass Spectrometry as a Better Alternative

Saiful M. Chowdhury
Associate Professor | University of Texas at Arlington
Title: Advancing Proteomics: Efficient Mass Spectrometry Techniques for Analyzing Protein Interactions and Modifications

Lisa Holland
Professor | West Virginia University 
Title: Capillary Electrophoresis for Biomolecular Analyses Under Physiological Conditions

Firas Kobeissy
Professor | Morehouse School of Medicine, Associate Director, Center for Neurotrauma, MultiOmics & Biomarkers (CNMB)
Title: Promise of MitoQuinone in TBI Therapeutics: Lessons from Clinical TBI Trajectories  

Takuya Kubo
Professor | Kyoto Prefectural University
Title: Specific Interactions in Liquid Phase Separations                                                                                     

Peng Li
Associate Professor | West Virginia University
Title: Coupling 3D-Printed Microfluidic Devices with Mass Spectrometry for Advanced Liquid Chromatography Separation

Katarína Maráková 
Associate Professor Faculty of Pharmacy | Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Nuclear Pharmacy | Comenius University Bratislava
Title: Capillary Zone Electrophoresis in Quantitative Analysis of Intact Proteins in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Samples 

Dimitri Pappas
Professor & Department Chair | Texas Tech University 
Title: Cell Separations in Sepsis and Cancer

Ziad El Rassi
Regents Professor | Oklahoma State University
Title:Octadecyl Monolith for the Reversed-Phase Capillary Electrochromatography of Pre-column Derivatized Mono- and Oligosaccharides with Three Different Ultraviolet Absorbing Tags

Kevin A. Schug
Shimadzu Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry | University of Texas at Arlington
Title: Targeted and Untargeted Analysis of Psilocybin Mushrooms using LC-MS

Stephen Valentine
Eberly Professor of Chemistry | West Virginia University
Title: Vibrating sharp-edge spray ionization: A new paradigm for coupling condensed-phase separations with mass spectrometry

Richard Willson
Huffington-Woestemeyer Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Biology & Biochemistry, and Biomedical Engineering | University of Houston
Title: New Approach to Lateral-Flow Immunochromatographic Assay

Adam Woolley
Dean, Graduate Studies | Brigham Young University
Title: 3D Printed Microfluidic Devices Integrating Solid-Phase Extraction and Electrophoretic Separation

Speakers

Saba Aslani
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry | The University of Texas at Arlington
Title: Investigation of Chiral Separation of α‐Hydroxy Acid Biomarkers via SPP‐Teicoplanin

Laura Casto-Boggess
Assistant Professor | The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Title: High Sensitivity Analysis of Biosignatures using Capillary Electrophoresis and Laser-induced Fluorescence

Michael Bowser
Professor | University of Minnesota
Title: Applications of Micro Free Flow Electrophoresis

Tom Cardwell
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments
Title: Considerations and Capabilities of Ion Chromatography

Doug Carlton
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments
Title: Can Automation Help you be a Better Separation Scientist?

Shourjo Ghose
Bruker Daltonics
Title: Bruker Daltonics – 4D Proteomics Update De-risking Discovery

Joe Lopez
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments
Title: LC Hardware Considerations for Better Biomolecule Separations

Giacomo Musile
Department of Chemistry | University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Title: A Custom-made Autosampler for Capillary Electrophoresis

William Russell
Associate Professor, UTMB Mass Spectrometry Director | University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Title: Slow Your Flow for Improved Top-down Analysis of Proteins

Jorge Smith
Waters Corporation
Title: Improve Chromatographic Performance Towards Metal-Sensitive Analytes using UPLC

Touradj Solouki
Professor | Baylor University
Title: Advances in Multidimensional Mass Spectrometry for Resolving Complex Biological and Environmental Sample Mixtures

M. Farooq Wahab
Research Engineering Scientist V | The University of Texas Arlington
Title: Digital Restoration of Chromatographic Data for Signal-to-Noise Enhancement

Beixi Wang
Applications Scientist, Small Molecule and Metabolomics | Bruker Daltonics
Title: The Power of PASEF in Lipidomics Research

A. Paige Wicker
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments
Title: Advance your LC Experience with SFC

Aref L. Zayed
Associate Professor of Analytical Sciences
Title: HPLC Methods Studying Drug-Drug Interactions: Quantifying Drugs In Vitro and In Vivo