Education
Year of Education in Separation Science: Activities Portal
This is the central "Activities Portal" for the
Year of Education in Separation Science. Read all the latest news and keep updated on all our activities!
[August 11, 2010]
Year of Education in Separation Science: Free Webinar Series
Click here to register (for free) to attend the Year of Education educational webinars, run in conjunction by separationsNOW and Chromedia.
[August 10, 2010]
Year of Education in Separation Science: Webinar #5
Sports Drug Testing: Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry-Based Approaches
In this fifth webinar of the Year of Education, Professor Mario Thevis will present on the fundamentals of sports drug testing. A selection of compounds, new challenges, and methods currently employed in doping control laboratories will be discussed.
[August 9, 2010]
Year of Education in Separation Science: Tutorial Competition - Win an iPad!
Do you have an existing tutorial that you would like to share with
a worldwide community? Do you feel inspired to create a new tutorial? The
Year of Education in Separation Science has launched this competition to facilitate and encourage the creation and sharing of educational material from within our communities of readers. The entrant judged to have produced the best tutorial will win an iPad!
[July 26, 2010]
Year of Education in Separation Science: Webinar #4 - Introduction to Sample Preparation
In this fourth webinar in the Year of Education, Professor Nick Snow focuses on general principles of sampling and sample preparation for chromatography and an overview of key concepts for several major sample preparation techniques including: Liquid-liquid and liquid-solid extractions (LLE and LSE); Static headspace extraction (SHE); Solid phase extraction (SPE); Sorptive micro-extractions (SPME and SBSE).
[April 21, 2010]
Pittcon 2010 Video Blog: Pittcon Editors' Awards for Best New Product
Read about the Editors' Choice Awards, and who won them, in the separationsNOW Pittcon 2010 video blog!
[March 4, 2010]
Pittcon 2010 Video Blog: Waters Corporation News and Interviews
Read about the latest product launches by Waters Corporation at Pittcon 2010, in the separationsNOW video blog!
[March 2, 2010]
Year of Education in Separation Science: Webinar #3 - Liquid Chromatography Master Class
In this third webinar of the Year of Education, Dr Lee Polite and Professor Peter Schoenmakers re-visited the fundamentals of liquid chromatography by: answering your questions to the "Introduction to LC" webinar; explaining the concept of "resolution in LC" in more detail; and answering more live questions from the audience.
[February 17, 2010]
Year of Education in Separation Science: Webinar #2 - Introduction to Liquid Chromatography
In this second webinar in the Year of Education, Professor Peter Schoenmakers gives an interactive lecture on the basics of liquid chromatography.
[January 19, 2010]
Year of Education in Separation Science: HTC-11 / HTSP Conference Tutorial Award
We are pleased to announce that the Year of Education will sponsor the best tutorial award at the forthcoming International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography and Hyphenated Chromatographic Analyzers and International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques for Sample Preparation, which will be held in Bruges, Belgium, 26 - 29 January 2010.
[December 9, 2009]
Year of Education in Separation Science: Webinar #1 - Introduction to Gas Chromatography
In this first webinar in the Year of Education, Professor Harold McNair gives an interactive lecture on the basics of gas chromatography. The webinar has been recorded and is now available for free on-demand viewing.
[October 28, 2009]
Year of Education in Separation Science: Welcome!
The
Year of Education in Separation Science came about through discussions between 3 professors who actively teach chromatography. View this article to read more about the background to this project.
[October 2, 2009]
Bringing Mass Spec to the Masses - From niche tool to necessity: the history of MS in the pharmaceutical industry
This article on the history and impact of mass spectrometry in the pharmaceutical industry is the first in a new series for
Pharmaceutical Formulation & Quality, the premier source of news and information for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry professionals.
[September 1, 2009]
Chromedia Chromatogram Generator Tool
[registered users only]
This tool is brought to you by Chromedia - a new on-line community for today's practical chromatographers. Jeroen Billen and Gert Desmet of the Vrije Universiteit of Brussels have developed with Peter Schoenmakers an optimization tool for chromatographers.
[April 2, 2009]
Chromedia Resolution Equation Tool
[registered users only]
This tool is brought to you by Chromedia - a new on-line community for today's practical chromatographers. The tool has been created to help you intuitively understand the resolution factor.
[April 2, 2009]
An introduction to protein microarrays
[registered users only]
In this free chapter from "Protein Microarray Technology" Dev Kambhampati focuses on the driving forces that are causing a revolution in the field of protein biomolecular interactions and the corresponding microarray screening tools that are used for extracting their expression behavior.
[October 1, 2005]
An overview of the basics of proteomics
[registered users only]
In this free chapter from "Industrial Proteomics: Applications for Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals" Daniel Figeys gives a basic overview of proteomics
[September 29, 2005]
Proteomics Glossary
A glossary of common terms in proteomics, reproduced with the permission of Cambridge Healthtech Institute
[September 28, 2005]
Bioinformatics Primer
Bioinformatics is the amalgamation of mathematics, computer science and experimental biology, creating a science for the accomplishment of these diverse objectives. Find out more in this feature from Dr Amna Butt.
[September 28, 2005]
For more education articles, see the links directory....
Many external websites have excellent tutorials, application notes and "hints & tips" features. We've collected some of these in our links directory - click on "links" at the top of the page.
[October 1, 2001]