From sample to insight: Smarter GC–MS workflows for non-target screening

Non-target screening lets you look beyond a predefined list of compounds to uncover unexpected components, differences between samples and the chemistry driving those differences. Achieving confident results, however, depends on the whole analytical workflow – from sampling and enrichment through to separation, detection and data analysis.

This seminar explores how sample enrichment techniques such as (thermal desorption, Headspace, SPME, sorptive extraction), GC–MS, GC×GC and advanced data analysis can strengthen the non-target workflow to reveal meaningful chemical differences between samples – from capturing and separating more components to comparing complex datasets and identifying the compounds that matter.

Drawing on technologies from Markes and SepSolve, the session will combine practical insights, real-world applications and live demonstrations.

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Location: Markes SepSolve Offices, Peterborough, UK

Why attend

• Learn how to optimise your workflow: See how sampling, enrichment, separation, detection and data analysis can be combined for more confident non-target screening.
• Hear from guest speakers: Gain practical insights from researchers at leading UK laboratories using TD, SPME, Headspace, HiSorb, GC×GC–MS and chemometrics.
• See live demonstrations: Get a first look at new software tools designed to simplify complex data comparison and accelerate interpretation.
• Tour the laboratories: See advanced analytical workflows in action at our demo facilities.

Whether you’re already working with non-target screening or looking to expand your analytical capabilities, you’ll leave with practical ideas for extracting more information – and more confidence – from every sample.

Agenda

9:30 Coffee & Registration

10:00 Welcome & Introduction

10:10 Introduction to VOC and SVOC analysis: fundamentals and recent advances in sample introduction technologies

• Dr Paul Morris, Markes

11:00 Reverse-engineering tyres: compound separation in multiple dimensions

• Nick Molden, Emissions Analytics

11:30 Coffee

11:45 Finding what you didn’t know was there: Exploring complex samples with GC×GC–TOF MS

• James Ogden, SepSolve 

12:15 Lunch

13:00 Laboratory tour

13:30 Finding the differences that matter in GC–MS data: An interactive demo of new workflows in ChromCompare+ v3.0

• Dr Laura McGregor, SepSolve

14:00 From garden to forest to living room: Analysis of flower scents and oud smoke

• Dr Luciana da Costa Carvalho, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford

14:30 Coffee

14:45 Making scents of urban greenspaces

• Dr William Kay, Department of Biology, University of Oxford

15:15 Breath biomarker discovery of pulmonary exacerbations in adult cystic fibrosis

• Dr Waqar Ahmed, University of Manchester

15:45 Q&A, Final Remarks

16:00 Close