Talk Title : Valve-free on-line digestion strategies for enhanced bottom-up analysis of protein biomarkers by capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry
Fernando Benavente is currently full professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry of the University of Barcelona (UB), member of the Nutrition and Food Safety Research Institute of the UB (INSA-UB), and the principal investigator of the group of Bioanalysis. He has also done doctoral and postdoctoral research at The RW Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute (Raritan, New Jersey, USA), The National University of Rosario (Rosario, Argentina), the University of Leiden (Leiden, The Netherlands), The National University of La Plata (La Plata, Argentina), and the University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada).
His research is focused on the development and application of high-performance separation techniques coupled to mass spectrometry to solve complex analytical problems related to targeted and untargeted omics sciences applied to biomedicine, pharmaceutical, and agri-food industries. He is especially interested in the improvement of the separation, the sensitivity, the characterization, and the reproducibility in the analysis of peptides, proteins, glycoproteins, oligomeric proteins, metabolites, microRNAs, and other bioactive compounds in biological samples, biopharmaceuticals, and food using LC-MS, CE-MS, and related techniques, as well as in the interpretation of the data with chemometrics tools of deconvolution and multivariate data analysis. He is an internationally recognized expert on the development and application of on-line solid phase extraction capillary electrophoresis mass spectrometry (SPE-CE-MS).
His contributions include more than 140 international peer-reviewed publications, several book chapters, and more than 220 presentations at national and international conferences. In 2014 the journal The Analytical Scientist included him in its ‘top 40 under 40’.