The HTC symposium series started in 1990 and is the ideal meeting place for scientists and practitioners from academia and industry as well as vendors to discuss and gather new insights into emerging separation technologies, chromatographic and mass spectrometric instrumentation, analytical workflows, and applications. Organized under the auspices of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Ghent University (UGhent), and the Separation Science Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), HTC-19 is expected to gather over 300 participants.

The conference program will comprise six plenary lectures, twenty keynote lectures by renowned experts in the field of hyphenated separation and detection techniques. Sixty oral presentation slots are foreseen for the open abstract submission. The oral and Keynote presentation sessions will include, among others, the following sessions:

• Current state of the art in Gas Chromatography (GC)
• Dedicated session on Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC)
• Novel fundamental chromatographic research (LC, GC)
• Novel LC, GC, and SFC column technology
• Novel detector technology (LC, GC)
• The power of the Hyphen (RSC session)
• Predicting the Future (RSC session)
• Protein-based bio-therapeutics: innovative separation and detection approaches
• State-of-the-art in bio-therapeutics analysis: oligonucleotides
• Exploiting AI & modelling in separations and detection
• Innovations in LC, GC and HRMS based non-targeted analysis
• Implementing next-level hyphenated techniques for ultra-sensitive metabolomics
• Advances in hyphenated (green) sample preparation (EuChemS-DAC session)
• State-of-the-art in 2D-LC and 2D-GC
• Advances in natural product and food analysis
• Data mining and curation of hyphenated chromatographic data

Extensive time is scheduled to allow for rich and interactive poster sessions. Highlighted posters will also get special attention during poster flash presentations. A separation debate will take place on Tuesday with focus on the developing needs in industry with respect to hyphenated techniques. On Wednesday, an interactive chromatographic SLAM, Tube & Quiz session will take place allowing young researchers, dynamic chromatographers, new kids on the block and vibrant companies in the fields to showcase their work. Continuing HTC’s long tradition of rich, pleasant, and convivial social programs, every conference day will end with a reception, a Belgian Beer Event, or a banquet.

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