Title: What exactly is in a plate and why we should consider doing away with it in liquid phase separations

David Da Yong Chen is a professor in the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia, as well as an Associate Member of the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics in the Faculty of Medicine.  In December 2013, he was appointed Distinguished Guest Professor at the Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Nanjing Normal University. Dr. Chen’s research interests include investigation of principles of fluid migration and chemical separation, development of novel separation methods and purification systems, and coupling micro separation systems to mass spectrometry.  Dr. Chen was given the 2002 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Award in Analytical Separation Methods, and the 2003 Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research, a gold medal given to the most outstanding young scientist at UBC.  For his contribution in analytical chemistry, Dr. Chen received the W. A. E. McBryde Medal in 2008 and the Maxxam Award from the Canadian Society for Chemistry in 2015.