--- title: Advances in Forensics and Toxicology On Demand eSeminar description: An eSeminar covering the latest advances in forensics and toxicology for those using chromatography, mass spectrometry and related techniques. --- [Chromatography Forum](http://www.chromforum.org/) [Analytical Training Solutions](https://www.analytical-training-solutions.com) [日本語](https://www.sepscience.com/japan) [![Separation Science](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hubfs/Sepscience_Dec2016/images/-resized-strch-SepSci_WebHeader_v3.png)](https://www.sepscience.com/) [Chromatography Forum](http://www.chromforum.org/) [Analytical Training Solutions](https://www.analytical-training-solutions.com) [日本語](https://blog.sepscience.com/japan) [Sign Up for Newsletter](https://www.sepscience.com/subscribe/) # \[On-demand\] Advances in Forensics and Toxicology eSeminar  Below you'll find the full list of presentations from the eSeminar. ### **Drugs of Abuse in Oral Fluids: Automated SPE Extraction and LC/MS/MS Determination using A Robotic Autosampler** **![Fredrick_Foster.png](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hs-fs/hubfs/eSeminars/Forensics_2017/Fredrick_Foster.png?width=70&name=Fredrick_Foster.png "Fredrick_Foster.png")Presenter: **Fredrick Foster, GERSTEL Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, USA **Outline:** This presentation will provide you with an insight into the automation of solid-phase extraction and sample preparation techniques as well as their use during the analysis of oral fluid samples for drugs of abuse.   [![View Fred Foster's presentation >>](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2322077/468fa838-87b9-4397-b6b3-0e9af1ae5b29.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2322077/468fa838-87b9-4397-b6b3-0e9af1ae5b29)    ### A Modified QuEChERS Methodology for the Extraction of Drugs of Abuse in Biological Samples **![Emanuele_Alves_75.png](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hs-fs/hubfs/eSeminars/Forensics_2017/Emanuele_Alves_75.png?width=70&name=Emanuele_Alves_75.png "Emanuele_Alves_75.png")Presenter:** Emanuele Alves, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil and Appalachian State University, USA **Outline:** This presentation will provide you with an understanding about the modified QuEChERS extraction of biological samples using GC/MS as an analytical technique using a faster and greener QuEChERS methodology. [![View Emanuele Alves' presentation >>](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2322077/8e9cf59b-7885-469a-8d9a-4656b4fe87b2.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2322077/8e9cf59b-7885-469a-8d9a-4656b4fe87b2)    ### A Modified QuEChERS Approach for the Extraction of Common Prescription and Illicit Drugs from Liver Prior to LC/MS-MS Analysis **![Tina_Fanning.png](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hs-fs/hubfs/eSeminars/Forensics_2017/Tina_Fanning.png?width=70&name=Tina_Fanning.png "Tina_Fanning.png")Presenter:** Tina Fanning, UCT, Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA **Outline:** This presentation will show you how to apply a QuEChERS method for sample clean-up of one of toxicology’s more difficult specimens to handle, post-mortem liver, for the analysis of several common prescription and illicit drugs.   [![View Tina Fanning's presentation >>](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2322077/375fcc8d-fd6e-4b5e-8dfa-eaec5515c9a3.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2322077/375fcc8d-fd6e-4b5e-8dfa-eaec5515c9a3)    ### Feasibility of FTIR Chemical Imaging for Forensic Analysis of Suspected Illicit Materials on Blotter Papers: LSD vs. 25-C-NBOMe **![Sabra-Botch-Jones-75.png](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hs-fs/hubfs/eSeminars/Forensics_2017/Sabra-Botch-Jones-75.png?width=70&name=Sabra-Botch-Jones-75.png "Sabra-Botch-Jones-75.png")Presenter:** Sabra Botch-Jones, Boston University School of Medicine, Biomedical Forensic Sciences, USA **Outline:** In this presentation you will learn more aboout the N-(methoxybenzyl)-phenethylamine (NBOMe) compounds, their prevalence in forensic casework, effects, and toxicity. You will also gain an understanding of the analytical processes used for these compounds using FTIR chemical imaging and be introduced to the data obtained via chemical imaging.   [![View Sabra Botch-Jones' presentation >>](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2322077/49e0f377-2861-4748-8801-cb74865b70b4.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2322077/49e0f377-2861-4748-8801-cb74865b70b4)    ### Optimising Existing Techniques to Enhance the Detection of New Psychoactive Substances in Biological Matrices **![Lorna-Nisbet_75.png](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hs-fs/hubfs/eSeminars/Forensics_2017/Lorna-Nisbet_75.png?width=70&name=Lorna-Nisbet_75.png "Lorna-Nisbet_75.png")Presenter:** Lorna A. Nisbet, Anglia Ruskin University, UK **Outline:** In this presentation you will learn about different sample preparation techniques and their application to extract NPS from biological matrices. You will also learn how to make slight tweaks to existing methods to improve the chances of detecting NPS compounds.  [![View Lorna Nisbet's presentation >>](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2322077/35993646-dd89-433e-a8d0-b51c2cd42ea8.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2322077/35993646-dd89-433e-a8d0-b51c2cd42ea8)     ### **Rapid Identification of Explosives and Other Substances of Forensic Interest** **![Richard-Sleeman_75.png](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hs-fs/hubfs/eSeminars/Forensics_2017/Richard-Sleeman_75.png?width=70&name=Richard-Sleeman_75.png "Richard-Sleeman_75.png")Presenter:** Richard Sleeman, Mass Spec Analytical Ltd, Bristol, UK **Outline:** This presentation will provide you with an understanding of how explosive traces can be accurately detected in seconds without sample preparation. It will also demonstrate a process involving the use of thermal desorption methods for rapid identification of explosives and other substances of forensic interest.  [![View Richard Sleeman's presentation >>](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2322077/bd83c87c-e4d6-48f5-a4a8-36564da63f61.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2322077/bd83c87c-e4d6-48f5-a4a8-36564da63f61)   ### **Forensic Toxicology in the Age of Fentanyl and Fentanyl Analogs** **![Kevin_Shanks_75.png](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hs-fs/hubfs/eSeminars/Forensics_2017/Kevin_Shanks_75.png?width=70&name=Kevin_Shanks_75.png "Kevin_Shanks_75.png")Presenter: **Kevin G. Shanks, AXIS Forensic Toxicology, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA **Outline:** In this presentation you will learn about the fentanyl and designer opioids/fentanyl analogs via discussion of their pharmacology and toxicology. Furthermore, you will discover the role of these compounds in intoxications and fatalities in the USA in 2016-2017 and an analytical method for the detection of these compounds in post-mortem human blood. [![View Kevin Shanks' presentation >>](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2322077/a0068f9b-73e9-448a-99d3-583cf2532dca.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2322077/a0068f9b-73e9-448a-99d3-583cf2532dca)    ## in collaboration with  ![SponsorLogos.png](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hubfs/eSeminars/Forensics_2017/SponsorLogos.png) ## Sponsor Resources Simply click on the image to download the resource.   **[![Document_Web.png](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Logos/Document_Web.png?width=60&name=Document_Web.png "Document_Web.png")](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hubfs/eSeminars/Forensics_2017/Gertel_fully-automated-SPE-GC/MS-determination-of-THC.pdf)\[Application Note\] Fully Automated SPE-GC/MS Determination of Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and its Metabolites in Serum Samples**   **[![Document_Web.png](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Logos/Document_Web.png?width=60&name=Document_Web.png "Document_Web.png")](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hubfs/eSeminars/Forensics_2017/Gerstel-drugs-of-abuse-in-oral-fluids-automated-SPE-extraction-and-LCMSMS-determination-using-a-robotic-autosampler.pdf)\[Application Note\] Drugs of Abuse in Oral Fluids: Automated SPE Extraction and LC/MS/MS Determination using a Robotic Autosampler**   **[![Document_Web.png](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Logos/Document_Web.png?width=60&name=Document_Web.png "Document_Web.png")](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hubfs/eSeminars/Forensics_2017/Anal-Bioanal-Chem-408-2016-4379-4388.pdf)\[Research Paper\] Development and validation of an automated liquid-liquid extraction GC/MS method for the determination of THC, 11-OH-THC, and free THC-carboxylic acid (THC-COOH) from blood serum** *Reference*: Kirsten Purschke, Sonja Heinl, Oliver Lerch, Freidoon Erdmann & Florian Veit, *Anal. Bioanal. Chem.,*(2016) 408:4379–4388. DOI 10.1007/s00216-016-9537-5 [Creative Commons license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)   **[![Document_Web.png](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Logos/Document_Web.png?width=60&name=Document_Web.png "Document_Web.png")](https://webinar.sepscience.com/hubfs/eSeminars/Forensics_2017/A_Modified_QuEChERS_Approach_for_the_Extraction_of_Common_Prescription_and_Illicit_Drugs_from_Liver_Prior_to_LC-MS_Analysis.pdf)\[Application Note\] A Modified QuEChERS Approach for the Extraction of Common Prescription and Illicit Drugs from Liver Prior to LC/MS-MS Analysis**     Eclipse Business Media Ltd, Regd in England, No. 06513189, Woodview, Bull Lane Industrial Estate, Sudbury, CO10 0FD, United Kingdom, T +44 (0)161 818 7434, [info@sepscience.com](mailto:info@sepscience.com)   Eclipse Business Media Ltd needs the contact information you provide to us to contact you about our products and services. 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