CFDV Symposium 2026: Poster Session Information

Thursday, April 16, 2026
About This Symposium

 

2026 CFDV Annual Symposium

General Poster Session & Student and Young Professionals Poster Competition

 

 

Poster Session Guidelines

Posters may encompass work that is completed or in progress. Separation science need not be the primary focus of the project, but relevance to those in the practicing chromatography community should be evident. For example, chromatography could be an important component in achieving the project's main objective, or the project could advance ancillary technologies, techniques or concepts. Posters should be created in landscape view with dimensions of approximately 30 inches high x 40 inches wide, to be displayed on typical poster boards.

 

 

Email abstracts and posters to chromforumdv@gmail.com  

 

 

The email address the abstract is received from will become your primary contact with CFDV. Include all presenters' names and their academic or business affiliations. Team presentations are welcome. Poster titles will be displayed on this site for symposium attendees’ viewing.

 

 

 

 

This year's symposium theme is

“Broadly Examining Method Development in Chromatographic Techniques”

Thursday, April 16th, 2026

The Inn at Swarthmore

10 S. Chester Road

Swarthmore, PA 19081

Click here for general symposium information.


 

 

Student and Young Professionals Poster Competition

Each Spring, since times long past, the Chromatography Forum of Delaware Valley has invited young scientists to showcase their work at our annual symposium. Successful presenters have come from a surprising range of backgrounds and have typically demonstrated a high degree of passion, creativity and skill in their work. The symposium brings together leading experts in separation sciences from academia and industry, so the poster session provides presenters with a great opportunity to discuss their research and applications, get feedback on their projects, develop important career skills and build their professional network. 

 

The poster competition is open to all:

Undergraduate students

Graduate students

Postdoctoral research fellows

Professionals with ≤ 5 years of experience

A total of $500 in awards will be granted to presenters for the top three outstanding projects!


 

The Chromatography Forum of Delaware Valley welcomes you and sincerely appreciates your participation in the 2026 Poster Session and Student and Early Career Professional Competition. It is important to CFDV that it's a positive, encouraging and valuable experience for our poster session participants.

 

Number

Title

Authors

Institution(s)

1

Improved Separation of Nitazenes by Tandem-Column High Performance Liquid Chromatography (TC-HPLC)

Casey Rech1, Marianne Staretz1, Michelle Dawes2, Thomas Brettell1

1Department of Forensic Science & Justice Studies, Cedar Crest College

 

2Bristol Myers Squibb

2

Investigating the Stability & Degradation of Psilocybin & Psilocin in Mushroom Gummies Analyzed by LC-MS/MS

Alyssa Ricca, Marianne Staretz, Mia Bercier, Thomas Brettell

Department of Forensic Science & Justice Studies, Cedar Crest College

3

Development of a Mixed-Mode Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Method for Measuring Short- to Long-Chain Acyl-CoAs

Daniel S. Kantner, Nathaniel W. Snyder

 

Aging & Cardiovascular Discovery Center, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University

 

4

Compact Capillary LC for the Analysis of Samples with Complex Matrices

Eliza Hanson, Dakota Neuls, Noelle Simmons, John Boughton, Samuel Foster, Christopher Piccolo, Matthew Morse, Elisabeth Gates, Milton Lee, James P. Grinias

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University

5

Method development for the determination of Fentanyl and its cutting agents in whole blood using LC-MS/MS.

Revathi Variar1, Katherine Hayner1, Lisa Mundy1,2, Constantinos Pistos1

1 Department of Chemistry, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

 

2Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office

6

Assessing Comparability of Sustainable Squalene Sources for Vaccine Adjuvant Formulations

Mayank Bhavsar1, Mackenzie Smith1, Velabo Mdluli1, Jing Zhen1, Jeffery Smith2, David Boyd3, Jillian Acevedo-Skrip1, Emory Payne1, David Foley1

1 Vaccine Analytical Research & Development, Merck & Co., Inc.

 

2 Vaccine Drug Product Development, Merck & Co., Inc.

 

3 VAX Process Research & Development, Merck & Co., Inc.

7

Method development for the determination of Fentanyl and its cutting agents in whole blood using GC-MS.

Sarah Heinrichs1, Paige Ickes1, Constantinos Pistos1, Lisa Mundy1,2

1 Department of Chemistry, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

 

2Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office

8

Developing a Sustainable Generic LC Method Using Capillary-Scale Chromatography

Elizabeth Hartnett1, Matthew Swoyer2, Kaitlin Grinias2

1Department of Chemistry, Drexel University

 

2Analytical Development , GSK

9

An Integrated Robotic–Sonication Approach for Automated Amine Derivatization

Sadeepa Mallikarachchi,  Siddhi Patel

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University