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February brings focus back on HPLC troubleshooting basics.
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Overview of Webinars
Thursday, February 10
11:00 SGT/ 14:00 AEDT
Thursday, February 17
11:00 SGT/ 14:00 AEDT
Thursday, February 24
11:00 SGT/ 14:00 AEDT
Peak Issues
HPLC Troubleshooting
HPLC Column Maintenance
With Dr. Helen Whitby,Technical Specialist, Phenomenex United Kingdom
With Dr. Rajesh Babu Dandamudi
Technical Manager, Phenomenex
With Swetha Kotikalapudi
Technical Manager, Phenomenex
Key Learning Points:

  • Signal to noise improvement
  • Unknown/ ghost peaks/ carryover Peaks 
  • Split peaks/ peak fronting/ double peaks 
  • Peak Tailing/ broad peaks/ flat peaks 
  • Irreproducible peak heights and peak areas
Key Learning Points:

  • General troubleshooting approach
  • General chromatographic problems
  • Peak problems
Key Learning Points:

  • What to do when you receive a new column? 
  • How to Increase column lifetime 
  • When to say goodbye  
Our Speakers
Dr. Helen Whitby
Technical Specialist
Phenomenex United Kingdom
Dr. Rajesh Babu Dandamudi
Technical Manager, Phenomenex
With Swetha Kotikalapudi
Technical Manager, Phenomenex
Helen graduated from the University of Manchester with a First-Class Bachelor of Science with honors in Chemistry and subsequently completed her PhD also at the University of Manchester in synthetic organic chemistry specializing in analogues of Shikimic acid to treat malaria. Following her PhD, Helen moved to Chicago as a Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Illinois in Chicago to research on electron-deficient divalent reactive intermediates, specifically nitrenium ions, for the development of antiviral agents to treat Ebola. 

After finishing her post doc, Helen joined Phenomenex UK as a technical sales consultant and spent 10 years as the Bulk Media and Preparative specialist for the UK and Ireland, supporting large purification companies with their production scale applications. In her 2 years as the HPLC product manager, Helen supported the UK team in all aspects of HPLC. Helen joined the Technical Department in 2017 as a technical specialist with a focus on the rapidly expanding bio industry and this is where her interest and expertise within the technical department remain today. 
Rajesh Babu has more than 11 years of chromatography experience and is an expert in practical HPLC/UHPLC/LC-MS/GC-MS method development and troubleshooting. Before joining Phenomenex, Dr. Rajesh worked as a Faculty member at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Deemed University. He was instrumental in establishing a state-of-the-art mass-spec core facility consisting of GC, HPLC, GC-MS, LC-MS/MS, and HRMS systems. His research work was in the area of clinical metabolomics. 
Swetha Kotikalapudi has over 16 years of chromatography experience and is an expert in practical HPLC/UHPLC/LC-MS/GC-MS method development and troubleshooting. Prior to joining Phenomenex, Swetha worked as a Senior Research Associate with DuPont, Hyderabad, where she led efforts in establishing state-of-the-art facility corporate Centre of Analytical Sciences and was involved with multiple HPLC, LC-MS, and GC method development for small molecules, polymers and polysaccharides. Swetha joined Phenomenex in 2018 as the Technical Manager for India and is a member of the global technical team at Phenomenex, USA. In her current role, Swetha provides technical, application development and troubleshooting support to chromatographers worldwide. Swetha has earned a master’s degree in Analytical chemistry from Osmania University, Hyderabad and brings with her vast experience in analytical method development, validations and structural elucidations using NMR for various small molecules.
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