Program of the 44th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography and 21st GCxGC Symposium
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The 44th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography (ISCC), the premier meeting for pressure and electrodriven microcolumn separations and related techniques, will be held May 17 – 22, 2026 in the Congress Centre, Riva del Garda, Italy.
The program will include plenary lectures, keynote lectures by young scientists, prominently featured poster presentations, an instrument exhibition displaying the latest instrumental innovations, and a highly attractive social program offering opportunities to meet with world-renown scientists.
The 21st GCxGC Symposium will be organized jointly with the ISCC meeting to allow scientists to attend both meetings. The symposium will start with a short course on Sunday May 17 covering the fundamentals and applications of comprehensive GCxGC and with a plenary session on Monday May 18. Key-note lectures and posters will be included in the program of the ISCC meeting.
This year particular emphasis will be directed to all Comprehensive Separation Technologies and MS Hyphenation and to capillary chromatography and 2D GC with various forms of MS from unit-mass to high resolution, and from single to hybrid analyzers, nano and capillary LC, miniaturized sample preparation by introducing a strong focus on data analytics and sustainable technology while emphasizing practical applications.
Program
44th ISCC program
Tuesday, 19 May
09:00 – 09:25 Opening Address 44th ISCC
- Location: Room Garda
09:25 – 10:35 Session 1 | Awards Presentation and Lectures
- Location: Room Garda
09:25 – 10:00 M.J.E. Golay Award Presentation and Lecture
- Sponsored by Chromaleont and RIC Group.
10:00 – 10:35 ASAC Fritz Pregl Medal Presentation and Lecture
- Assigned by Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry (ASAC).
10:35 – 11:05 Coffee Break
11:05 – 13:00 Session 2 | NANO AND CAPILLARY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY
- Location: Room Garda
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:20 Session 3 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL AND OTHER COMPREHENSIVE TECHNIQUES
- Location: Room Garda
15:20 – 16:50 Coffee Break – Exhibition – Vendor Seminars – Posters
- LECO
- SPECTRA Analysis
16:50 – 18:35 Session 4 | SUPERCRITICAL FLUID CHROMATOGRAPHY AND CONTAMINANTS
- Location: Room Garda
Wednesday, 20 May
09:00 – 10:50 Session 5 | CAPILLARY GC 1
- Location: Room Garda
09:00 – 10:50 Session 6 | HYPHENATED TECHNIQUES
- Location: Room Dolomiti
10:50 – 12:30 Coffee Break – Vendor Seminars – Exhibition – Posters
- Shimadzu
- RESTEK
- ENTECH Instruments
- LNI
- GERSTEL
- NIMFAST Technologies
12:30 – 13:30 IUPAC Project Round Table Discussion
Greenness of official sample preparation methods
- Location: Room Dolomiti
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:20 Session 7 | COLUMN TECHNOLOGY
- Location: Room Garda
14:00 – 15:20 Session 8 | BIO - PHARMA
- Location: Room Dolomiti
15:20 – 16:40 Coffee Break – Vendor Seminars – Exhibition – Posters
- Agilent
- VUV Analytics
- Da Vinci
16:40 – 18:10 Young Session 1
- Location: Room Garda
16:40 – 18:10 Young Session 2
- Location: Room Dolomiti
Thursday, 21 May
09:00 – 11:05 Session 9 | DAC SAMPLE PREPARATION STUDY GROUP AND NETWORK
- Location: Room Garda
09:00 – 11:05 Session 10 | CAPILLARY GC 2 - AUTOMATION - SAMPLING SYSTEM
- Location: Room Dolomiti
11:05 – 12:30 Coffee Break – Vendor Seminars – Exhibition – Posters
- MERCK
- SRA Instruments
- JEOL
12:30 – 13:30 Round Table
Capillary LC Separations - On the Horizon and Beyond
- Location: Room Dolomiti
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:35 Session 11 | MINIATURIZED SAMPLE PREPARATION 1
- Location: Room Garda
14:00 – 15:35 Session 12 | METABOLOMICS - ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE
- Location: Room Dolomiti
15:35 – 16:55 Coffee Break – Vendor Seminars – Exhibition – Posters
- Waters Corporation
- SEPSOLVE (MARKES)
- F-DGSi
16:55 – 18:25 Young Session 3
- Location: Room Garda
16:55 – 18:25 Young Session 4
- Location: Room Dolomiti
Friday, 22 May
09:00 – 10:20 Session 13 | NATURAL PRODUCTS, FOOD, FLAVOURS AND FRAGRANCES
- Location: Room Garda
09:00 – 10:20 Session 14 | MINIATURIZED SAMPLE PREPARATION
- Location: Room Dolomiti
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee Break – Exhibition
10:50 – 12:10 Session 15 | INSTRUMENTATION
- Location: Room Garda
10:50 – 12:10 Session 16 | ELECTROMIGRATION METHODS
Location: Room Dolomiti
12:10 – 12:50 Closing Address 44th ISCC
- Location: Room Garda
Presentation of the:
- GENZO SHIMADZU Oral Awards
- ABC Springer Best Poster Awards (Young Scientists)
- Analytical Methods RSC Best Poster Award (Young Scientists)
- Green Analytical Chemistry Elsevier Best Poster Awards
- Molecules MDPI Best Oral Award (Young Scientists)
21st GCxGC program
Monday, 18 May
08:30 – 08:45 Opening Address 21st GC×GC
- Location: Room Garda
08:45 – 10:50 Session 1 | Awards Presentation and Lectures
- Location: Room Garda
08:45 – 10:00 Lifetime Achievement Award Presentations and Lectures
- Sponsored by SepSolve Analytical, Markes International and LECO.
10:00 – 10:50 John Phillips Award Presentations and Lectures
- Sponsored by LECO
10:50 – 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 – 13:15 Session 2 | FUNDAMENTALS 1
- Location: Room Garda
11:20 – 13:15 Session 3 | FOOD 1
- Location: Room Dolomiti
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch Break
14:15 – 16:10 Session 4 | ENVIROMENTAL
- Location: Room Garda
14:15 – 16:10 Session 5 | BIO-ANALYTICAL - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- Location: Room Dolomiti
16:10 – 16:40 Coffee Break
16:40 – 18:50 Young Session 1
- Location: Room Garda
16:40 – 18:50 Young Session 2
- Location: Room Dolomiti
Tuesday, 19 May
11:05 – 13:00 Session 6 | FUNDAMENTALS 2 AND FOOD 2
- Location: Room Dolomiti
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:20 Session 7 | PETROCHEMICAL
- Location: Room Dolomiti
15:20 – 16:50 Coffee Break - Exhibition – Vendor Seminars – Posters
- LECO
- SPECTRA Analysis
16:50 – 18:35 Session 8 | INDUSTRY - VOCs
- Location: Room Dolomiti
18:35 – 18:50 Closing Address 21th GC×GC
- Location: Room Dolomiti
Presentation of the:
- RICHARD SACKS BEST POSTER AWARDS (sponsored by LECO)
- GENZO SHIMADZU Oral Awards
- ABC Springer Best Poster Award (Young Scientists)
- Separations MDPI Best Oral Award (Young Scientists)
