Restek Learning Network

Well-trained chromatographers make productive analysts — and the widely acclaimed Restek Learning Network (RLN) offers training solutions to fit every level of expertise, budget, schedule, and analytical topic. From day-long, comprehensive seminars to shorter, focused webinars, the RLN provides a variety of educational and networking opportunities to help you reduce guesswork, improve throughput and reliability, and raise your confidence in generated data.

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Seminars: Each full-day course delivers a wealth of information and networking opportunities in a professional, non-promotional, multimedia format with animated illustrations and problem-solving exercises that reinforce your understanding of important principles. In-person, instructor-led training (ILT) features a mixture of introductory, intermediate, and advanced elements that makes these presentations suitable for chemists of all experience levels, from beginners in chromatography to experienced analysts.

Webinars: These popular, quick-hitting events offer chromatographers a free, informal option for staying current with cutting-edge products, applications, and analytical techniques. Ranging from 1 hour to 1/2 day in length, our interactive webinars are intended to complement the RLN seminar course program, but they also can be attended separately. A remote, Bellefonte-based trainer presents subject matter to a live audience. You'll receive content-packed, audio/visual training with the ability to interact with your instructor via text chat while avoiding the hassle of traveling. (Some webinars are also available as on-site lunch & learns to offer you additional networking opportunities.)

On-Site Training: Bring the RLN right to your lab! Our on-site seminars provide an excellent opportunity to train multiple analysts at once with reduced costs and no travel time. Restek experts can present existing seminars or teach material customized to tackle your specific analytical challenges based on your direction. Dates, duration, and topics are incredibly flexible. Contact RLNSeminars@restek.com for more information!

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Listing of our seminars and free live webinars by date.

Comprehensive Capillary GC

Live Seminar w/instructor on location

This course is a solid initiation into the fundamentals and best practices of this widely used technique. You can gain practical knowledge of GC inlets and injection techniques, GC column selection, detector systems, and maintenance and troubleshooting.

No dates are currently available for this course. Please contact Rick Parmely for additional information.

Comprehensive HPLC

Live Seminar w/instructor on location

This course is solid initiation into the fundamentals and best practices of this widely used technique. The course encompasses practical information for analysts of all experience levels, beginner to veteran.

No dates are currently available for this course. Please contact Rick Parmely for additional information.

Environmental Analyses

Live Seminar w/instructor on location

Topics include sample preparation, cleanup, and analysis of extractables (semivolatile organics, organochlorine pesticides, PCBs), sample introduction and analysis of purgeables (volatile organics), ambient air sampling of volatile and semivolatile organics, and air sampling materials.

No dates are currently available for this course. Please contact Rick Parmely for additional information.

Food and Food Safety Analyses

Live Seminar w/instructor on location

This one-day course provides an overview of popular chromatographic methods for the analysis of food and food safety analytes. From sample preparation, to inlet optimization and column selection, course participants will learn modern chromatographic approaches to the analysis of complex food matrices. This course is designed for chemists who work in the food and food safety industry.

No dates are currently available for this course. Please contact Rick Parmely for additional information.

GC Hands-On Maintenance and Troubleshooting

Live Seminar w/instructor on location

This seminar gives chromatographers first-hand experience in proper column installation, leak checking, injection port maintenance, FID maintenance and troubleshooting exercises in the lab with hands-on practice using demonstration equipment.

No dates are currently available for this course. Please contact Rick Parmely for additional information.

GC-MS Fundamentals

Live Seminar w/instructor on location

Gain practical knowledge of mass spectrometric detectors, GC inlets and injection techniques, GC column selection, basic spectral interpretation, and maintenance and troubleshooting.

Course DateLocationPresenter(s) 
Jun 04, 2012Research Triangle Park (RTP), NCRick Parmely, Jason HerringtonView Details
Jun 06, 2012Atlanta, GARick Parmely, Jason HerringtonView Details
Sep 17, 2012Columbus, OHRick Parmely, Neil MosesmanView Details
Sep 19, 2012Pittsburgh, PARick Parmely, Neil MosesmanView Details
Sep 21, 2012Buffalo, NYRick Parmely, Neil MosesmanView Details

GC-MS Inlet Optimization

Free Live Webinar

A gas chromatograph with mass spectrometer is a very expensive and complex piece of instrumentation, and detecting low-level target analytes with mass spectra confirmation is advantageous in numerous fields of study. Unfortunately, analysts often overlook getting analytes into the gas phase so that they can be properly analyzed. While this oversight is a source of many data problems, it is easily resolved by understanding the mechanisms behind the various injection techniques and knowing how to optimize your GC inlet based on the injection technique used.

Course DateLocationPresenter(s) 
Jun 05, 2012Remote Log InChris EnglishView Details
Jun 07, 2012Remote Log InChris EnglishView Details
Sep 18, 2012Remote Log InMichelle MisselwitzView Details
Sep 20, 2012Remote Log InMichelle MisselwitzView Details

Headspace Fundamentals

Live Seminar w/instructor on location

Topics include definitions and background, basic principles of headspace analysis, partitioning and equilibrium, sample introduction and preparation, column and system maintenance and troubleshooting, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and forensic headspace applications and new technologies.

No dates are currently available for this course. Please contact Rick Parmely for additional information.

LC Column Selection for Mass Spectrometry

Free Live Webinar

This webinar is designed for chemists looking to create LC-MS separations efficiently and effectively as part of method development. We will focus on selecting reversed phase and aqueous normal phase columns, effectively adjusting mobile phases, and performing scouting gradients to quickly find suitable MS-friendly separations.

No dates are currently available for this course. Please contact Rick Parmely for additional information.

LC Method Development

Live Seminar w/instructor on location

This course provides the knowledge and tools necessary for the chromatographer to understand why a particular stationary phase would be chosen for separating various analytes, and how to improve selectivity by choosing the proper eluent.

No dates are currently available for this course. Please contact Rick Parmely for additional information.

LC-MS Fundamentals

Live Seminar w/instructor on location

This seminar is an excellent introduction to this rapidly growing technique. Course topics include principles and theory of HPLC, modes of separation, overview of LC-MS, LC-MS interfaces, types of mass analyzers, LC-MS method development, basic spectral interpretation, and troubleshooting and maintenance of an LC-MS system.

Course DateLocationPresenter(s) 
Jul 31, 2012Groton, CTJulie Kowalski, Randy RomesbergView Details
Aug 01, 2012Cambridge, MAJulie Kowalski, Randy RomesbergView Details
Aug 03, 2012Albany, NYJulie Kowalski, Randy RomesbergView Details

Oil Spill Fundamentals

Free Live Webinar

There are a variety of methods available for the determination of different types of crude oils. This webinar will discuss the analysis and characterization of crudes for volatiles, semivolatiles, and biomarkers using many of these methods. Tar balls collected on Florida beaches from the time the first Deepwater Horizon oil began to appear through the present day will be evaluated and characterized.

No dates are currently available for this course. Please contact Rick Parmely for additional information.

Petrochemical Fundamentals

Live Seminar w/instructor on location

Overview of Petrochemical Testing, Basic Gas Chromatography Fundamentals and Theory, GC Detector Design and Function, Sample and Switching Valve Basics, Laboratory and Process Analytical Procedures for Petroleum Products.

No dates are currently available for this course. Please contact Rick Parmely for additional information.

Practical Application of LC-MS for Clinical Analyses

Live Seminar w/instructor on location

This seminar will introduce both chromatography and mass spectrometry for clinical applications. Topics will include: theory of liquid chromatography, chromatographic systems, LC column selection, introduction to MS and MS/MS, and practical method development for LC-MS and LC-MS/MS applications. The main focus of this seminar will be the practical use of LC-MS/MS in clinical laboratories.

No dates are currently available for this course. Please contact Rick Parmely for additional information.

QuEChERS Sample Prep

Free Hands-On Demo w/instructor on location

This free half-day course builds on our Comprehensive GC seminar, offering demonstration and hands-on sample preparation instruction.

No dates are currently available for this course. Please contact Rick Parmely for additional information.

Using Selectivity to Create Fast and Effective LC Separations

Free Live Webinar

Understanding selectivity—the most powerful and least understood parameter of a separation—is crucial for method-developing chemists. This webinar will offer a practical approach to creating selectivity by focusing on reversed phase and aqueous normal phase column selection, effective mobile phase adjustments, and scouting gradients.

Course DateLocationPresenter(s) 
Jul 30, 2012Remote Log InRick LakeView Details
Aug 02, 2012Remote Log InRick LakeView Details