Agilent - Microplastics in the Environment Virtual Symposium 2021

In our Microplastics Symposium, hear from industry experts and peers working within the field of Microplastics.

With a mixture of live talks across various topic areas and product demonstrations, this event is a great opportunity to uncover more about microplastics analysis in the lab. We will also have our experts available to chat live on the day, allowing you to further increase your knowledge and skills on this topical issue.

What topic areas can you expect to see on the day?

• Microplastics Analysis with the 8700 LDIR with a focus on the marine environment;
• Quantification of Microplastics with GC/MSD;
• Current activities in the world of standardization;
• Microplastics Analysis with the GC/Q-TOF;
• And more.

Agenda Live Sessions

08:30 BST | 09:30 CET Plastic Pollution - Sources, Pathways and Solutions

Presenter: Joao Frias (Marine litter and microplastic researcher Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology)

09:00 BST | 10:00 CET Microplastic Analytics: Current Activities in the World of Standardisation

Presenter: Claus Gerhard Bannick (Head of wastewater technology research at the Federal Environment Agency)

09:30 BST | 10:30 CET Status of microplastics characterization via ICP-mass spectrometry

Presenter: Eduardo Bolea-Fernandez (Postdoctoral Researcher | Ghent University)

10:00 BST | 11:00 CET Mass Balance Measurements in Microplastics: An Analytical Comparison of Thermal Extraction, Pyrolysis, and Thermal Extraction – Desorption GC/MS

Presenter: Kurt Thaxton (International Product Manager, Thermal Desorption and Pyrolysis | Gerstel)

10:30 BST | 11:30 CET Detecting microplastics in environmental samples – examples from sludge, mussels, and release experiments

Presenter: Anders Baun (Head of Department | DTU Environment)

11:00 BST | 12:00 CET Approaches for the Evaluation of FTIR images

Presenter: Jana Weisser (Scientist PhD | Technical University of Munich (TUM))

11.30 BST | 12:30 CET Thermal analytical methods for Microplastics Analysis

Presenter: Ulrike Braun (Head of department | German Environmental Agency)

12.00 BST | 13:00 CET Analysis of microplastics and organic contaminants in marine matrices

Presenter: Laure Papillon (Engineering Administrative Technician | Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography; Mélanie Ourgaud, Post-doc | Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography)

13:00 BST | 14:00 CET Microplastics in aqueous samples – Requirements for sample preparation and analysis

Presenter: Svenja Mintenig (Phd Student | University of Wageningen)

13:30 BST | 14:30 CET Nano- and Microplastics Analysis via LDIR and ICP-MS

Presenter: Lars Hildebrandt (Researcher - Inorganic Environmental Chemistry | Helmholtz-Zntrum Hereon)

14:00 BST | 15:00 CET Looking beyond the polymer: Characterisation of Microplastics by Thermal Desorption GC/MS

Presenter: Helen Martin (Business Unit Manager - Thermal Desorption Instruments | Markes International)

14:30 BST | 15:30 CET Purency- Machine Learning vs. Databases: A question of speed, accuracy and scalability

Presenter: Benedikt Hufnagl (Chief Technology Officer at Purency | Vienna University of Technology)

15:00 BST | 16:00 CET Screening of Plastic Addititves and Organic contaminates in microplastics exposed to the Marine Environment by GC-QTOF and LC-QTOF

Presenter: José Benito Quintana (Associate Professor | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

15:30 BST | 16:30 CET Effective Digestion of Fish Stomachs and subsequant microplastics by LDIR

Presenter: José Manuel Andrade-Garda (Professor of Analytical Chemistry | University of Coruna)

16:00 BST | 17:00 CET Environmentally relevant weathered polymer libraries: The current absence, the urgent need, and the potential usage

Presenter: Rick McCumskay, PhD (Researcher | University of Hull)

16:30 BST | 17:30 CET Analysis of microplastics in the gastro-intestinal tract of fishes using LDIR chemical imaging

Presenter: Florian Breider (Head of Unit | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL)