GPC & SEC Workshop 2025

Science meets practice on 21 November in Berlin

Register free of charge now until 12 November 2025!

On 21 November 2025, we cordially invite you to the GPC & SEC Workshop 2025 in Berlin – a Germany-wide networking event and, at the same time, a high-calibre specialist conference on size exclusion chromatography (GPC & SEC). You can look forward to exciting insights, practical applications and intensive exchanges with experts from research and industry.

What you can expect:

• High-quality specialist presentations on biomacromolecules, polymers, separation techniques and new EU regulatory requirements
• Current developments from industry and university research
• Networking among GPC/SEC users and system providers
• Ideal platform for knowledge exchange and new collaborations
• News about column materials
• Laboratory and factory tour at KNAUER in Berlin

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For german speaking only.

Our speakers

Chemical fragmentation of intact mucin from pig stomachs – monitoring the progress of the reaction using SEC-HPLC

• Prof. Dr. Hans Henning von Horsten – HTW Berlin – Adlershof Campus

Chromatography columns for new fields of application in polymers, proteins and degradation products in the range 8 Å – 800 nm

• Dr Christian Dauwe – AppliChrom GmbH

News on the Polymer REACH Regulation and initial results from the large-scale GPC interlaboratory test

• Dr Timo Beskers – BASF, Polymer REACH Division

SEC – Glycocalyx mimetics against pathogenic infections

• Dr Ulla Gerling-Driessen – University of Freiburg, Polymer Research
• Dr Luca-Cesare Blawitzki – Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Hartmann Research Group

Antimicrobial polymers and methods for characterising them in order to better understand them

• Dr Matthias Hartlieb – University of Potsdam, Polymer Institute

Modern GPC/SEC with triple detection – comprehensive characterisation of synthetic polymers and biopolymers with multi-angle light scattering (MALS), viscosity detection and concentration detection

• Dr Gerhard Heinzmann – Postnova Analytics Ltd

Who is the workshop suitable for?

• Users from biomacromolecule or polymer research and development
• Laboratory managers, analysts and quality managers
• Scientists from universities and research institutions
• Anyone interested in modern methods and regulations for GPC and SEC

Register now & stay informed!

• 📅 Date: 21 November 2025 (registration possible until 12 November)
• 🕙 Time: Admission at 9:30 a.m., start: 10:00 a.m., end: 4:00 p.m.
• 📍 Location: KNAUER Scientific Instruments Ltd., Hegauer Weg 38, 14163 Berlin
• 💬 Language: German
• 📝 Participation: Free of charge – places are limited!

Be there when the GPC & SEC community meets in Berlin!