How To Start Up and Shut Down LC and LC-MS Instruments

Overview

• Getting your system ready
• LC System Start Up and Shut Down
• LC-MS System Start Up and Shut Down
• On and Off System Column Storage

Key Learning Points

• Best practices for getting your LC system prepared before you turn it on.
• A general, system egnostic, approach to starting and stopping both a LC and LC-MS system.
• How to store a column both on and off of a system as well as how to clean the column to best protect it from premature degradation

Who Should Attend

Any user newer to Liquid Chromatography or using a Mass Spectrometer that would like to have a better understanding of protecting their column during system start up and shut down.

Presenter: Genevieve Hodson (Technical Manager, 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