POSTPONED LCMS Training: A Hands on Approach Kenya July 2020

Professor Dr. Mathias Schäfer
Department of Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry, University Cologne Germany
 
Since 1999 Professor Dr. Mathias Schäfer, FRSC heads the Mass Spectrometry Plattform of the Department of Chemistry at the University Cologne, Germany. The research interests of Mathias Schäfer span from classic structure elucidation of synthetic compounds as well as of natural products to gas-phase chemistry and ion spectroscopy. A strong focus has been the development of new reagents for chemical cross-linking experiments, i.e. specific peptide and protein derivatization chemistry for the effective protein 3D structure investigations. Besides that state-of-the- art techniques are applied to understand the fundamentals of chemical structure-reactivity relationships of important reaction intermediates. The experimental studies comprise tandem-MS experiments, ion-molecule reactions, as well as action spectroscopy approaches. Mathias Schäfer has co-authored two textbooks on Mass Spectrometry and GC-MS and has published over 100 articles in peer reviewed journals.

Local Trainer for the GC-MS training Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya He holds a B.Sc degree in Chemistry from University of Nairobi, M.Sc degree in Analytical Science and Ph.D in Analytical Chemistry from The University of Hull, UK in 1991. He the proceeded to University of Plymouth for Post-Doctoral fellowship, in a project on fabrication and design of flow through chemiluminescence detector for application in flow injection and liquid chromatography. Prof Gachanja is the Head of the Analytical Laboratory at Jomo Kenyatta university of Agriculture and Technology, with a vibrant research group. The group is involved in environmental and analytical research in areas of air and water quality: now working on emerging pollutants e.g. pharmaceuticals and homecare products in the environment, pesticide residues, use of Nano cellulose in water purification, gaseous and particulate pollution in air. Prof Gachanja has been working with the RSC and GSK to train researchers in Africa on GC-MS instrumentation and application. He is among the “175 faces of Chemistry” He is a visiting scientist at the University of Plymouth (UK) and Jyvaskyla University (Finland)

Martin Murigi is a final year MSc student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and works in Prof. Anthony Gachanja’s lab. His work involves development of nanocellulose filters from rice straw for adsorption of active pharmaceutical ingredients in surface water and waste water. He has worked with GCMS and LC/MSMS in the course of his work and has tremendously benefited from several GCMS trainings offered at JKUAT. He has been instrumental in assisting other researchers working with GCMS in Prof Anthony’s lab.

Elijah Ngumba, PhD, is an assistant lecturer in the Department of Chemistry Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya. He graduated with PhD in Environmental Technology in 2018 from University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He also holds BSc. Chemistry (2006) and MSc. Chemistry (2011) both from JKUAT. He has been working on analytical method development for emerging environmental contaminants based on solid phase extraction and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (SPE-LC-MS/MS). He has published and presented in local and international conferences on analytical method development as well as occurrence and control of emerging environmental contaminants