By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• The driving forces for improvements in sample preparation
• Trends in sample preparation technologies
• Miniaturization of liquid- and solid-phase extraction
• Nan fluidics and lab-on-a-chip technology
• New techniques such as stir-bar sorptive extraction and matrix solid phase extraction

Laboratory managers, analytical chemists, medical scientists, laboratory supervisors, research and development scientists, microbiologists, food technologists and quality assurance/control managers

Part I

• Why do we need better sample preparation techniques?
• Sources of error generated during chromatographic analysis
• Time spent on typical chromatographic analysis; where improvements can be made
• What are the trends in sample preparation—not the same old grind!
• Why are miniaturized sample prep technologies getting so much attention?
  
  

Part II

• What are some of the newer extraction technologies for liquid samples?
• Are the days of separatory funnels are numbered?
• Micro-extractions     Solid-phase microextractions     Single-drop microextractions     Levitated drop microextractions—how is this accomplished?
• Flow-injection extraction
• Membrane extraction technologies
  
  

Part III

• What's new in solid phase extraction?
• SPE micropipette tip extraction of microliter- and smaller-sized samples
• What problems can be solved with pipette-tip configurations?
• 96-well SPE plates—do they continue to have a role in high throughput sample prep automation of biological fluids
• What about 96-well filtration plates (compared to SPE plates)?
• On-line solid-phase extraction
• Stir-bar sorptive extraction
  
  

Part IV

• What are some new sample prep techniques for specialized applications?
• Nan fluidics and lab-on-a-chip technology
• Removal of proteins from biological fluids using affinity phases
• Matrix-solid phase dispersion for novel extractions

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.