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NERM June 2 - 5, 2010 POTSDAM
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The 37th Northeast Regional Meeting (NERM 2010) of the American Chemical Society will take place on June 2-5, 2010. It will be hosted by the Northern New York section of the ACS, and held in Potsdam, NY on the SUNY Potsdam campus. Our theme is "Chemistry for a Sustainable World." Please join us!

Registration can be done on-site.

Late changes

• Dr. Berkeley Cue's plenary session will be held in Kellas 106, rather than in the Snell Theatre. However, the comedy musical will still be performed in the Snell Theatre.
• The career workshops will now begin earlier in a new location - at 8:00am on Thursday, in Stowell 211.

The full technical program is now available as a PDF file (titles only at present).

New page: The restaurants page will help you choose a place for breakfast or dinner.

Conference outline

• Wednesday, June 2nd: 6pm plenary address by Dr. Catherine Hunt, followed by the opening reception, poster session and recruitment fair.
• Thursday, June 3rd: All-day technical sessions, vendor exhibition, career events. Plenary address by Dr. Berkeley W. Cue, followed by evening performance (free!) of a comedy musical.
• Friday, June 4th: ACS Governance breakfast, then all-day technical sessions & vendor exhibition. Evening awards banquet, followed by the Aria Reed Trio in Concert.
• Saturday, June 5th: Events for K-12 teachers and their students, leadership training, and a visit to the Sunfeather Soap factory.

Plenary speakers

Dr. Hunt

• Dr. Catherine T. Hunt, 2007 ACS president and Director of Technology Collaboration Development, Dow Chemical Company:
  • "Science for a Sustainable World: Education, Collaboration, Innovation!"
• Dr. Berkeley W. Cue, BWC Pharma Consulting, LLC.
  • "Sustainability: Will It Be Sputniks or Boiled Frogs?"

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Prof. Vicki Colvin is no longer able to present.

Preliminary program

A program schedule is available for oral presentations, as well as a list of invited speakers. Come and join us at NERM 2010 for these symposia:

General symposia

• Analytical chemistry (oral & poster), organized by Prof. Ewa Pater, SUNY Plattsburgh.
• Environmental chemistry (oral & poster), organized by Prof. Ning Gao, St. Lawrence University, and Prof. Anthony Molinero, SUNY Potsdam.
• Inorganic chemistry (oral & poster), organized by Prof. Matthew Maye, Syracuse University.
• Organic chemistry (oral & poster), organized by Prof. Steven T. Diver, SUNY Buffalo, and Prof. Fehmi Damkaci, SUNY Oswego.
• Physical chemistry (oral & poster), organized by Prof. Nikolay Dimitrov, SUNY Binghamton.
• General papers (oral) covering other topics, organized by Prof. Matthew Skeels, St. Lawrence University.
• General posters covering other topics, organized by Prof. Clifford Rossiter, SUNY Potsdam, and Prof. Anthony Molinero, SUNY Potsdam.
• Undergraduate and graduate student poster session, organized by Dr. Silvana Andreescu and Dr. Andrea Ferro, both of Clarkson University.

Special symposia

• Smart polymer materials & hybrid systems, organized by Prof. Sergiy Minko, Clarkson University.
• Novel materials and nanomaterials for energy conversion, organized by Prof. Oumarou Savadogo, École Polytechnique de Montréal.
• Nanotechnology & the environment, organized by Prof. Dan Goia and Prof. Suresh Dhaniyala, Clarkson University.
• Analytical chemistry for emerging contaminants in the environment, organized by Prof. Diana S. Aga, SUNY Buffalo.
• New trends in chromatography, organized by Dr. Yong Guo, Johnson & Johnson, Raritan, NJ.
• Nanotechnology: Emerging analytical/bioanalytical & medical applications, organized by Prof. Chuan-Jian Zhong, SUNY Binghamton.
• Bioelectronics and biosensors, organized by Prof. Evgeny Katz, Clarkson University.
• Scanning probe microscopy in modern nanotechnology, organized by Prof. Igor Sokolov, Clarkson University.
• Metals in living systems, organized by Prof. Wolff M. Kirsch, MD, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA.
• Metal ions and metalloproteins, organized by Prof. Fadi Bou-Abdallah, SUNY Potsdam
• Metal ion complexes in biological imaging, organized by Prof. Janet Morrow, SUNY Buffalo.
• Oxidative stress and antioxidants: diagnosis and therapy, organized by Prof. Silvana Andreescu, Clarkson University.
• Biology and physiology of stem cells in the CNS, organized by Prof. Margot Mayer-Pröschel, University of Rochester.
• Detection of protein biomarkers for medical applications, organized by Prof. Jim Rusling, University of Connecticut.
• Biochemistry and biophysics of proteins and membranes, organized by Prof. Edward Moczydlowski, Clarkson University
• Organometallics and main group chemistry, organized by Prof. James Spencer, Syracuse University
• Synthetic organic chemistry: the next generation, organized by Prof. Hélène Lebel, University of Montreal
• Cope Scholar Symposium honoring John A. Porco, Jr., organized by Prof. Corey Stephenson, Boston University.
• Metals in organic synthesis, organized by Prof. Steven T. Diver, SUNY Buffalo.
• Green chemistry in industry for a sustainable world, organized by Dr. Berkeley "Buzz" Cue, BWC Pharma Consulting, LLC & the Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable.
• The chemistry of natural products, organized by Prof. José L. Giner, SUNY-ESF
• Biofuel combustion for residential and commercial space heating, organized by Prof. Philip Hopke, Clarkson University and Ellen Burkhard, Ph.D, NYSERDA.
• Chemistry and the war against cancer, organized by Dr. Vinay Likhite, Baroda Cancer Research
• Drug development and design, organized by Dr. Jason Herr, Albany Molecular
• Chemical Education in the Northeast: looking back and projecting forward, organized by Prof. Julianne Smist, Springfield College.
• K-12 education, organized by Dr. Dana Barry, Clarkson University. This Saturday session is especially suitable for high school chemistry teachers.

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Please contact Prof. Martin Walker (conference chair), Prof. Maria Hepel (program chair) or Prof. Devon Shipp (exhibition chair) for more information. Follow us on Twitter at #NERM2010.