Monday, 08 September 2025

Time:
10:30
Place:
t.b.a.
Presenter:
Janusz Pawliszyn, University of Waterloo, Canada

Course Description

In this course, several microextraction technologies will be discussed, namely solid phase microextraction (SPME), thin film microextraction (TFME), and needle trap devices (NT). The main principles of these techniques, different calibration methods, coupling strategies to GC, LC, and MS, method development steps, and the advantages and disadvantages of each microextraction approach will be covered. In addition, this short course will describe recent advances, developments, and applications of each technique in fields such as forensic, environmental, food and flavor, and clinical analysis. Other topics that will be covered involve the application of SPME for the determination of free concentration, binding studies, in vivo chemical biopsy sampling of freely moving animals for pharmacokinetic and metabolomic studies, direct tissue analysis, and automation of SPME and related technologies in a high-throughput format including direct MS.

Target Audience

This course is designed for new and current SPME, TFME, and NT users. The topics that will be covered in this course will be of interest to analytical chemists, laboratory supervisors, scientists, and industry regulators in the environmental, food, flavor and fragrance, pharmaceutical, clinical, cosmetic, forensic, and other fields interested in effective high throughput determination of target analytes in complex matrices. In vivo chemical biopsy sampling features will particularly interest biologists and life scientists.