3^rd International Conference and Exhibition on Advances in Chromatography & HPLC Techniques July 13-14, 2017 Berlin, Germany

Graduated with an honour Master of Chemical Engineering from the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. PhD Thesis at Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague. DSc Thesis (allowed to submit only after political change in 1989) at Slovak Academy of Sciences and Slovak Technical University Bratislava. Employed at Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences (PI SAS) in Bratislava since 1960. 1992-1995 elected member of the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Served as President of the Slovak Chemical Society, Chairman of the Czecho-Slovak and Slovak National Committee of Chemistry for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and as Member of the Board of the Federation of European Chemical Societies. Corresponding member of the Central European Academy of Sciences, Bucharest, Roumania, and member of the Learned Society of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia. Former titular member of IUPAC Polymer division and Chairman of Subcommittee of molecular chararacterization of synthetic polymers. Topics: Thermodynamics and hydrodynamics of multicomponent polymer systems; liquid chromatography of synthetic polymers - author of five original methods for separation of complex polymer systems; preparation and application of microporous carbon fibers. Author or co-author of two monographs on liquid chromatography and 250+ scientific papers in extenso published in refereed periodicals (150+ in the Current Contents covered Journals), and in proceedings and chapters of books, as well as 60+ patents (four of them were licensed) - cited more than 2,000 times in SCI journals and monographs. Presented over one hundred and ten invited plenary, key and main lectures, as well as over 900 lectures short communications and poster contributions during congresses, symposia and conferences and during lecturing tours to over fourty countries. Elected „Slovak scientist of the year 1999“ and „Slovak innovator of the year 2001“.

Polymer sciences Separation Sciences HPLC

Gerhard Kratz has completed his studies at University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. His dissertation was about Planning, calculation and construction of a Fluidized bed reactor. Deepening during his studies was Water economy, chemical technology, plastic technology, varnish and paints, oil processing. First positions in industry were in pharmaceutical industry doing HPLC method development on various HPLC brands. Specialized in HPLC column selection and teaching customers in troubleshooting all over the world he is supporting several internet forums for HPLC questions. He is interested in troubleshooting.

HPLC Troubleshooting Analytics

Vladimir Matveevich Gruznov, Doctor of Sciences (Chromatography, Geophysics), Science Deputy Director of Trophimuk Institute of petroleum geology and geophysics Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk). Field of work: substance and elemental analysis for explosives detection, geophysics and ecological monitoring. Developed the concept for high-speed highly sensitive gas chromatography detection of EXPLOSIVES and chemical control of the environment. The concept is implemented in the portable devices of the world level. Publications: over 190 research papers including 3 monographs and 16 patents.

Substance and elemental analysis for explosives detection, geophysics and ecological monitoring

Dr. Rogatsky serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Chromatography and Separation Techniques (OMICS publishing group). During the last 10 years (from 2005), Dr. Rogatsky has published over 30 scientific papers in per-reviewed journals (mostly as the first author) and has presented over 50 posters and lectures. Overall, he has made more than a hundred scientific presentations and publications. Dr. Rogatsky completed his M.Sc. in physical chemistry at Belarus State University (former USSR) in 1990. He completed his PhD in bioanalytical chemistry (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) in 1998. At the end of 1999, he started his post-doctorate at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and became a faculty member since 2001 and was a mass spectrometry director at the Biomarker Analytical Resource Core. From October 2015 Dr. Rogatsky is a supervisor of the Chemical Threat Laboratory in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences at Wadsworth Center, Albany NY, USA.

HPLC Analytical Chemistry Protein Chemistry

Oleg Shpigun received Ph.D. (1974) and Doctor of Sciences (1990) degrees in chemistry from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU). He is the corresponding-member of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) (2006), full professor in the Department of Chemistry, MSU, the head of laboratory of chromatography, the head of Analytical Center of MSU. His research program is concerned with basic studies and applications of chromatographic methods of analysis. He has published more than 300 papers in reputed journals. He is the head of the Commission on Chromatographic Methods of Analysis of Scientific Council on Analytical Chemistry of RAS. He has been (since 1995 until now) the Director of 11 projects of Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Russian Science Foundation. He has received different awards, including “Russian State Price Winner in Science” (1991), “Emeritus Professor of Moscow State University” (2005).

Novel approaches to creation of separation materials for HPLC

Oleg Shpigun received Ph.D. (1974) and Doctor of Sciences (1990) degrees in chemistry from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU). He is the corresponding-member of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) (2006), full professor in the Department of Chemistry, MSU, the head of laboratory of chromatography, the head of Analytical Center of MSU. His research program is concerned with basic studies and applications of chromatographic methods of analysis. He has published more than 300 papers in reputed journals. He is the head of the Commission on Chromatographic Methods of Analysis of Scientific Council on Analytical Chemistry of RAS. He has been (since 1995 until now) the Director of 11 projects of Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Russian Science Foundation. He has received different awards, including “Russian State Price Winner in Science” (1991), “Emeritus Professor of Moscow State University” (2005).

Novel approaches to creation of separation materials for HPLC

Bill Whitford is Sr. Manager, Cell Culture, GE Healthcare in Logan, UT with over 20 years experience in biotechnology product and process development. He joined the company 13 years ago as a team leader in R&D developing products supporting biomass expansion, protein expression and virus secretion in mammalian and invertebrate cell lines. Products he has commercialized include defined and animal product-free hybridoma media, fed-batch supplements, and aqueous lipid dispersions. An invited lecturer at international conferences, Bill has published over 250 articles, book chapters and patents in a number of fields in the bioproduction arena. He now enjoys such industry activities as serving on the editorial advisory board for BioProcess International.

Biotechnology HPLC Proteomics

Dr. Caglar is a Senior Research Associate at the Istanbul University, Faculty of Pharmacy Department of Analytical Chemistry. She conducted post-doctoral research at Medical Center of Munich University, Institute of Laboratory Medicine Laboratory of BioSeparation with a main focus of hyphenation of mass spectrometry with on-line sample processing between the years 2011-2013. She studied Chemical Engineering and had Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees at Istanbul University, Institute of Health Sciences Department of Analytical Chemistry on drug analysis in pharmaceutical formulations and biological fluids by spectrophotometry and liquid chromatography.

Dr. Caglar is eager to expand on knowledge in the field of biological/clinical mass spectrometry through both observation and experimentation methodologies. Recent experience with on-line sample processing coupled with liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry in the pharma/clinical arena, focusing on biological fluids analysis. She has researches under review in drug analysis in biological fluids by liquid chromatography mass spectrometry, on-line solid phase extraction coupled liquid chromatography, multidimensional chromatography and publications in drug analysis in pharmaceutical formulations and biological fluids by high performance liquid chromatography, spectrophotometry and spectrofluorimetry, also degradation, pharmacokinetic and validation studies.

A leading expert on Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs) and biosensors Sergey Piletsky is a Professor of Bioanalytical Chemistry at University of Leicester and Head of Leicester Biotechnology Group. Leicester Biotechnology Group is prime centre involved in research and development of MIPs and their application in biosensors for environmental, clinical, industrial and food applications. Molecular imprinting of polymers represents the most generic, versatile, scalable and cost-effective approach to the creation of synthetic molecular receptors. Prof. Piletsky supervised work of numerous MSc and PhD students and published over 270 peer-reviewed papers and patent applications. Prof. Piletsky is Visiting Professor in Jinan and Huazhong Universities, China, Toulon University, France, member of Editorial Board of ACS Combinatorial Sciences, Scientific Board of Society of Molecular Imprinting, Fellow of the Society of Biology, Secretary General of the International Union of Advanced Materials.

Biomimetic molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) Computational design and molecular modelling Bioanalytical chemistry - design of sensors and assays for clinical and environmental diagnostics Nanoparticles for diagnostics and therapeutic applications