Your guide to the ACS Fall 2019 National Meeting in San Diego
C&EN’s editors pick the speakers and symposia to catch
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Must-see presenters
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)
Deciphering the role of reactive electrophiles in cell signaling
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China
Tracking nanoparticles in living systems
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Expanding what tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy can do
University of Virginia
Synthesizing boron- and germanium-containing hybrid materials
University of California, Los Angeles
Engineering materials for tissue regeneration
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Measuring plastics recovered from beaches and marine animals
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology
Turning artificial cells into protein drug factories
University of New Hampshire
Characterizing the structure and function of antifreeze proteins
California State University, Chico
Tracking water quality after the 2018 Camp Fire in California
University of Michigan–Flint
Keeping the Flint water crisis on scientists’ and society’s radar
Your scheduling assistant
There are so many symposia to choose from. Here are a few to get you started.
Water, Health & Environmental Justice in Marginalized Communities
Sunday AM/PM
This symposium examines issues of water sanitation facing people around the world, including homeless encampments in the US.
Hybrid Energy Techniques: Catalysts to Vehicle
Sunday AM/PM, Monday AM
Learn about advances in fuel cells and batteries for hybrid vehicles and other applications.
Molten Salt Reactor Chemistry (NUCL) & Molten Salt Chemistry (I&EC)
Sunday AM/PM, Monday AM, Tuesday AM/PM, Wednesday AM
There’s renewed interest in molten salts for use in nuclear reactors and for solar energy concentration.
Celebrating Sir Martyn Poliakoff: From Blue Matrix to Green Chemistry & Everything in Between
Sunday PM
This session honoring chemistry’s YouTube star wraps up with a Q&A moderated by C&EN.
Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Research: New Paradigms for Integration of Theory & Experiment
Monday AM/PM
Theorists and experimentalists will talk about their collaborations, followed by multiple student-led panel discussions.
Drug Discovery Beyond the Rule of 5
Tuesday AM
If we’re ever to hit so-called undruggable targets, we need to move beyond designing drugs with Lipinski’s rule in mind.
Tuesday PM
At this mini film festival, you can view award-winning films from a competition sponsored by ACS’s Committee on Environmental Improvement and Division of Environmental Chemistry.
One Million Crystal Structures: A Wealth of Structural Chemistry Knowledge
Tuesday PM, Wednesday AM/PM
Come celebrate the milestone of Cambridge Structural Database’s 1 millionth structure by learning about how people use the resource.
Geochemistry of the Urban & Lived Environment
Wednesday AM
Learn about the impact that humans and cities have on the geochemistry around them.
Wednesday AM/PM
You’ve got a flow-based synthesis for your drug molecule. How do you scale it up? Pharma scientists talk about the challenges.
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