Alexis St-Gelais, Author at Tisserand Institute

About Alexis St-Gelais

Alexis St-Gelais is the Scientific Director at Laboratoire PhytoChemia in Canada. While completing his master degree in natural products chemistry, Alexis launched Laboratoire PhytoChemia, with his colleagues Laurie Caron and Hubert Marceau, in 2013. The laboratory has since then become one of the North American references in the field of essential oils analysis. In addition to supervising the routine analytical procedures and building up the internal databases, Alexis contributes to furthering scientific knowledge by publishing peer-reviewed papers in the field of oils analysis and regularly contributes to PhytoChemia’s blog [http://www.phytochemia.com/en/blog/] to popularize his work. He is also currently pursuing doctoral studies on natural-inspired molecules targeting cancer cells in culture.

The Highs and Lows of GC-MS in Essential Oil Analysis

by Alex St-Gelais Anyone seeking information about essential oil quality soon learns about the existence of gas chromatography (GC) testing. Quite often GC and GC-MS (gas chromatography / mass spectrometry), are discussed as if they were synonymous. This is not the case, as GC and MS are two separate pieces of equipment, each with its

August 14th, 2017|