How to Take Care of Your LC Column
Key Learning Points:
- Understand best practices upon opening a new LC Column
- Learn how to clean and regenerate an LC Column
- Find out about additional products and practices that can be used to minimize contamination getting onto LC columns
Who Should Attend:
- Any LC user who would like to ensure that their LC columns are properly cared for to make sure to get most life out of it that is possible.
Presenter: Genevieve Hodson (Senior Manager, Technical Support & Applications, Phenomenex)
Genevieve graduated from the University of Texas with a BS in Chemistry located in her home town of Austin Texas. She spent 2 years of her undergraduate performing research in an Organic Chemistry Lab synthesizing intermediates. Out of school she spent 4 years as an Analytical Chemist in the QC and R&D Department of Cerilliant (a Sigma Millipore Company). There she worked with many analytical instruments but became an expert at LC by performing purity analysis, customer specific methods, validations, qc testing and stability studies on a wide range of small molecules including pharmaceuticals, pesticides, explosives and illegal substances. From there she moved to Los Angeles California where she worked at Johnson and Johnson and then a small dietary supplement company. After Genevieve spent a year living abroad in Israel raising her first son, she moved back to LA where she got hired as a Technical Specialist at Phenomenex. At Phenomenex she enjoys continuing to learn about chromatography every day through helping customer with all their chromatography needs!
