Programme
Tuesday 27 June
11.00 - 12.15   Registration
12.15 - 13.00   Lunch
13.00 - 13.15 Session 1 Course aims (Gordon Dear)
13.15 - 14.00 Session 2 The physicochemical properties of drugs: part I (Angus Nedderman)
14.00 - 14.50 Session 3 Opening tutorial (ice breaker)
14.50 - 15.30 Session 4 The physicochemical properties of drugs: part II (Angus Nedderman)
15.30 - 15.45   Tea break
15.45 - 16.30 Session 5 Fundamentals of mass spectrometry (MS): part I (Dave Berry)
16.30 - 17.00 Session 6 Retention mechanisms (John Allanson)
17.00 - 17.45 Session 7 Fundamentals of mass spectrometry (MS): part II (Benno Ingelse)
 
19.00   Evening meal and mixer
 
Wednesday 28 June
09.00 - 09.30 Session 8 Fundamentals of Liquid Chromatography (LC): part I (John Allanson)
09.30 - 10.15 Session 9 Tutorial on basic HPLC
10.15 - 11.00 Session 10 Fundamentals of Liquid Chromatography (LC): part II (John Allanson)
11.00 - 11.15   Coffee break
11.15 - 12.15 Session 11 Quantitative mass spectrometry (MS) (Dave Berry)
12.15 - 13.15   Lunch
13.15 - 14.15 Session 12 Sample preparation (John Allanson)
14.15 - 15.15 Session 13 Tutorial on quantitative mass spectrometry (MS)
15.15 - 15.30   Tea break
15.30 - 16.00 Session 14 Alternative Liquid Chromatography (LC) approaches (Mohammed Abrar)
16.00 - 17.00 Session 15 Tutorial on Sample Preparation
 
19.00   Evening meal
 
Thursday 29 June
09.00 - 09.30 Session 16 Introduction to metabolite identification (Angus Nedderman)
09.30 - 10.30 Session 17 Metabolite identification: part I (Gordon Dear)
10.30 - 10.45   Coffee break
10.45 - 11.45 Session 18 Metabolite identification: part II (Gordon Dear)
11.45 - 12.30 Session 19 Tutorial on metabolite identification
12.30 - 13.30   Lunch
13.30 - 14.00 Session 20 Optimising Liquid Chromatography (LC) methods (Mohammed Abrar)
14.00 - 14.45 Session 21 Biopharmaceutical analysis: part I – LC/MS of intact peptides and oligonucleotides (Mohammed Abrar)
14.45 - 15.00   Tea break
15.00 - 16.00 Session 22 Biopharmaceutical analysis: part II – Large biomolecule analysis using signature peptides (LC/MS) and comparison with ligand binding (Benno Ingelse)
16.00 - 17.00 Session 23 Tutorial on biopharmaceutical analysis
17.00 - 17.45 Session 24 Metabolite identification strategies (Gordon Dear)
 
19.00   Course dinner
 
Friday 30 June
09.00 - 10.00 Session 25 Strategies for method development: part I (Mohammed Abrar)
10.00 - 10.15   Coffee break
10.15 - 11.15 Session 26 Strategies for method development: part II and Q&A (Mohammed Abrar, John Allanson, Dave Berry)
11.15 - 12.00 Session 27 Tutorial on LC/MS pitfalls & method development
12.00 - 12.15 Session 28 Closing remarks (Gordon Dear)