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32CEN.ACS.ORG MARCH 2, 2015
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Emily Weiss*Quantum-dot queen,
Northwestern
Plenary:Peter Kareiva
Clean water promoter, Nature Conservancy
Plenary:Carolyn Koh
Gas hydrate guru, Colorado School of
Mines
Plenary:Paul Bryan
Advanced biofuels advocate, UC Berkeley
WHAT TO DO IN DENVER: TOURIST SITES
Adam Cohen*Master of membrane
measurements, Harvard
Cathy TwayEnergy-savings expert,
Dow Chemical
Chady StephanNanotech risk
evaluator who’s gotta wear shades, PerkinElmer
Christopher Austin*Translational science
champion, NIH
Claire WhiteCarbon storage
strategist, Princeton
Craig HawkerRadical polymerizer,
UC Santa Barbara
Donald TruhlarDynamical calculation
dynamo, U of Minnesota
Guihua Yu2-D materials
master, UT Austin
Marc HillmyerMacromolecular
machinist, U of Minnesota
Gary Molander*Boron baron,
UPenn
Larry BowersCSO of the U.S.
Anti-Doping Agency to discuss testing
athletes
Richmond Sarpong*Complex alkaloid
synthesizer, UC Berkeley
F. Dean Toste*Catalyst explorer, UC
Berkeley
Stephen Boyer“Big data” manager,
IBM Research
Floyd Romesberg*Genetic alphabet expander, Scripps
James LiebermanProtecting marijuana workers everywhere,
Environmental Information Services
Sunney Xie*Single-molecule
sage, Harvard
Theodore BetleyCatalytic converter,
Harvard
Laura KiesslingCell surface surveyor,
U of Wisconsin
Coors Brewery TourSample some beer on Sunday or Monday.
Dinosaur RidgeTake the family to snap a photo of dinosaur tracks.
Buffalo Herd OverlookIt’s a 20-mile drive west of the city to see the herd hangout.
Denver MintSee how coins are made, and take a gander at some gold bars.
Red = Natural Resources
(meeting theme)
* 2015 ACS National Award
Winner
Note: This list is not comprehensive.
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DENVER NATIONAL MEETING MANIA!
C&EN reviews who’s who at chemistry’s MILE-HIGH SHINDIGMITCH ANDRÉ GARCIA, C&EN WASHINGTON
33CEN.ACS.ORG MARCH 2, 2015
UP & COMING SKI LIFT
Douglas WeibelDestroyer of
pathogenic bacteria,U of Wisconsin
WHAT TO DO IN DENVER: LOCALS’ PICKS
Benjamin DavisCarbohydrate
constructor, U of Oxford
Neil Garg*Trendsetting teacher of organic chemistry,
UCLA
Karen WooleyCopolymer conqueror,
Texas A&M
Jaqueline Kiplinger*Actinide architect, Los Alamos National Lab
Daniel AlessiWizard of wastewater
management, U of Alberta
Seth RasmussenMaterials science historian, North Dakota State U
William DichtelSupramolecular builder, Cornell
Michael Marletta*Former Scripps CEO
to discuss partnership between chemistry
and biology
Jeffery KovacChemical weapons
historian, U of Tennessee
Spencer DreherHigh-throughput
enthusiast, Merck & Co.
Véronique Gouverneur*Fluorination phenom,
U of OxfordDarleane HoffmanHeavy-element chaser,
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Jotham Coe*Chantix inventor,
Pfizer
Emmanuel Ohene AfoakwaCuckoo for cocoa-bean processing, U of Ghana
Kenneth HansonSolar-energy
converter, Florida State
Zev GartnerDecipherer of cell-cell interactions, UC San
FranciscoEmily BalskusMicrobe maven,
Harvard
Keith VillaBlue Moon’s beer
master and founder will talk about running a craft
brewery
Ruth Wexler*Executive director at Bristol-Myers Squibb to share
lessons learned in cardiovascular drug
discovery
Thomas Colacot*Discovering catalysts at
Johnson Matthey since 1995
Larimer SquareA historic neighborhood with a lively nightlife.
Stranahan’s Colorado WhiskeyVisit the first microdistillery to make whiskey in Colorado.
Little Man Ice CreamCome enjoy scoops of unique flavors of ice cream until midnight.
Museum of Contemporary ArtA small museum with a rooftop bar and café.
William MoernerStanford
Ahmed ZewailCaltech
Arieh WarshelUSC
Richard SchrockMIT
Robert GrubbsCaltech
El-ichi NegishiPurdue
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WHO, WHAT, WHERENotable ACS Denver speakers to check out, along with talk title, time, and location
NAME DAY DATE TIME HOTEL ROOM TALK TITLE
Adam Cohen Tuesday 3/24 10:05 AM Colorado Convention Center Room 607 Bringing bioelectricity to light
Ahmed Zewail Tuesday 3/24 3:00 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 607 4D electron microscopy: Developments and applications
Arieh Warshel Monday 3/23 1:30 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 507 Modeling the function of molecular motors and other challenging biological systems
Benjamin Davis Monday 3/23 1:30 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 407 Sugars and proteins: Exploring and exploiting sugar chemical biology
Benjamin Davis Tuesday 3/24 9:15 AM Colorado Convention Center Mile High Ballroom 1C
Sugars and proteins: Building glycoproteins
Carolyn Koh Sunday 3/22 3:05 PM Colorado Convention Center Bellco Theatre Fundamentals of gas hydrates and their role in energy transportation and storage
Carolyn Koh Sunday 3/22 1:30 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 401 Molecular studies of gas clathrate hydrates
Cathy Tway Wednesday 3/25 8:00 AM Colorado Convention Center Room 607 Global energy and emissions reduction poten-tial of new materials development
Chady Stephan Wednesday 3/25 10:40 AM Colorado Convention Center Room 711 Single particle ICP-MS (SP-ICP-MS) for the detection of metal-based nanoparticles in environmental matrices
Chady Stephan Wednesday 3/25 8:25 AM Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown Convention Center
Aspen Room B SP-ICP-MS for nanoparticle detection and size distribution determinations: Current state of the art and future perspectives
Christopher Austin Wednesday 3/25 4:15 PM Colorado Convention Center Mile High Blrm 1A/1B
Getting The Chemistry Right: Catalyzing trans-lational innovation at NIH
Claire White Wednesday 3/25 1:30 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 712 Uncovering the local atomic structure of a hy-drated amorphous magnesium carbonate: The computational chemistry and total scattering iterative methodology
Craig Hawker Tuesday 3/24 3:30 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Governor's Square 14
New approaches to designer polymers
Craig Hawker Sunday 3/22 10:15 AM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Governor's Square 16
New strategies for living radical polymerization
Daniel Alessi Tuesday 3/24 2:50 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 709 Identifying gaps in hydraulic fracturing wastewater management practices across four North American basins
Darleane Hoffman Tuesday 3/24 8:30 AM Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown Convention Center
Crestone Blrm A
Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology (1990-2015)
F. Dean Toste Tuesday 3/24 11:05 AM Colorado Convention Center Four Seasons Blrm 2&3
Concepts and catalysts for enantioselective reactions of carbon-carbon multiple bonds
Donald Truhlar Sunday 3/22 8:00 AM Colorado Convention Center Room 503 Potential energy surfaces for dynamics calcula-tions
Douglas Weibel Sunday 3/22 3:20 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 304 Exploring the mechanism of small molecule metal ion chelators as chemotherapeutic agents against pathogenic bacteria
Ei-ichi Negishi Monday 3/23 1:25 PM Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown Convention Center
Crystal Ball-room B/C
On the magical power of d-block transition metals as exemplified by ZACA (Zr-catalyzed asymmetric carboalumination of alkenes) – lipase-catalyzed acetylation – transition metal-catalyzed cross-coupling for highly enantioselective synthesis of various types of chiral organic compounds
Emily Balskus Sunday 3/22 9:00 AM Colorado Convention Center Mile High Blrm 1A/1B
Gut reactions: Understanding and manipulat-ing chemistry from the human microbiota
Emily Balskus Sunday 3/22 2:30 PM Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center
Capitol Blrm 4 Gut reactions: Understanding radical enzymes from the human microbiota
Emily Weiss Monday 3/23 11:15 AM Colorado Convention Center Bellco Theatre Colloidal quantum dots: Where d10 ions go to glow
NAME DAY DATE TIME HOTEL ROOM TALK TITLE
Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa
Tuesday 3/24 1:25 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 112 Effects of pod storage and fermentation dura-tion on total polyphenols, o-diphenols, and anthocyanin concentrations in cocoa (Theo-broma cacao) beans
Floyd Romesberg Sunday 3/22 8:30 AM Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center
Capitol Blrm 4 Expansion of the genetic alphabet
Gary Molander Monday 3/23 4:10 PM Colorado Convention Center Four Seasons Blrm 2&3
Novel mechanistic paradigm for organoboron cross-coupling
Guihua Yu Wednesday 3/25 1:05 PM Colorado Convention Center Mile High Ballroom, 4B
Chemically integrated graphene/inorganic hybrid 2D materials as advanced energy stor-age electrodes
Guihua Yu Monday 3/23 1:30 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Directors Row H
Hierarchically porous conductive hydrogels as a novel material platform for energy storage and biosensor technologies
James Lieberman Monday 3/23 1:40 PM Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown Convention Center
Silverton Blrm 1
Taking care of Mary Jane’s workers
Jaqueline Kiplinger Wednesday 3/25 1:20 PM Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown Convention Center
Crestone Blrm A
Advances in organometallic chemistry at the bottom of the periodic table
Jaqueline Kiplinger Monday 3/23 8:30 AM Colorado Convention Center Bellco Theatre Understanding and predicting the behavior of the actinides through organometallic chemistry
Jeffrey Kovac Tuesday 3/24 3:45 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Tower Court D Ethics of chemical weapons research
Jotham Coe Tuesday 3/24 11:10 AM Colorado Convention Center Four Seasons Blrm 1
Discovery of Chantix (varenicline tartrate), an aid to smoking cessation
Karen Wooley Sunday 3/22 1:30 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Governor's Square 16
Targeted applications as inspirations to develop strategies toward polymer materials and nanoscopic devices derived from natural products
Karen Wooley Tuesday 3/24 9:00 AM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Governor's Square 15
Advance of sequential controlled polymeriza-tions for the design of molecular brush block copolymers: Sophisticated functional single molecule materials and hierarchically-assem-bled cluster properties
Karen Wooley Tuesday 3/24 10:35 AM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Governor's Square 14
Importance of the intricate linkage of the needs of particular biomedical applications to the design characteristics of functionally-sophisticated nanoscopic macromolecules to achieve efficacy
Keith Villa Sunday 3/22 3:40 PM Grand Hyatt Denver Mt. Elbert B Operation of a craft brewery within a major brewery: An overview of Blue Moon Brewing Company
Kenneth Hanson Sunday 3/22 4:45 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 203 Photon upconversion and photocurrent gen-eration via self-assembled bilayers on metal oxide surfaces
Larry Bowers Monday 3/23 1:55 PM Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown Convention Center
Cripple Creek Blrm 1
Deterring performance-enhancing drug use in sports: The role of science
Laura Kiessling Monday 3/23 5:35 PM Colorado Convention Center Bellco Theatre Us vs. them: Distinguishing humans from microbes with carbohydrate
Laura Kiessling Tuesday 3/24 9:05 AM Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center
Capitol Blrm 4 Chemistry-directed stem cell pluripotency and differentiation
Marc Hillmyer Sunday 3/22 8:05 AM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Governor's Square 12
Poly(β-methyl δ-valerolactone) as a scalable and renewable soft segment for aliphatic poly-ester block polymers
Marc Hillmyer Sunday 3/22 11:15 AM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Governor's Square 16
Controlling sequence, stereochemistry, and functionality in linear polymers prepared by ring-opening metathesis polymerization
Marc Hillmyer Wednesday 3/25 4:30 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Governor's Square 15
Nanostructured membranes by in situ block polymer synthesis
Michael Marletta Sunday 3/22 7:00 PM Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center
Capitol Blrm 4 At the interface between chemistry and biol-ogy: Two examples
NAME DAY DATE TIME HOTEL ROOM TALK TITLE
Neil Garg Wednesday 3/25 9:35 AM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Silver Nickel-catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling in a green alcohol solvent for an undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory
Paul Bryan Sunday 3/22 3:45 PM Colorado Convention Center Bellco Theatre Four horsemen of the advanced biofuels apocalypse: Sustainability, technology, profit-ability, and politics
Peter Kareiva Sunday 3/22 4:25 PM Colorado Convention Center Bellco Theatre Water in the Anthropocene: too much, too little, too dirty
Richard Schrock Monday 3/23 1:40 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 207 Synthesis of stereoregular polymers through ROMP
Richmond Sarpong Tuesday 3/24 2:20 PM Colorado Convention Center Four Seasons Blrm 2&3
Strategies and tactics for chemical synthesis inspired by complex alkaloids
Robert Grubbs Sunday 3/22 3:45 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Governor's Square 16
Synthesis of functional materials using ROMP initiators
Robert Grubbs Monday 3/23 3:30 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 207 Selective reactions of olefins
Ruth Wexler Tuesday 3/24 11:20 AM Colorado Convention Center Mile High Blrm 2A/2B
Adventures in cardiovascular drug discovery: New frontiers and lessons learned
Seth Rasmussen Monday 3/23 10:15 AM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Tower Court D From honey wine to cultivation of the grape: An early history of fermented beverages
Seth Rasmussen Monday 3/23 4:00 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Tower Court D Modern materials in antiquity: An early history of the art and technology of glass
Spencer Dreher Monday 3/23 10:20 AM Colorado Convention Center Four Seasons Blrm 1
Nanomolar scale high throughput chemistry for complex molecules synthesis
Stephen Boyer Tuesday 3/24 9:05 AM Colorado Convention Center Room 110 Globalization of Big Data: Access, integration, and quality control issues
Sunney Xie Tuesday 3/24 8:05 AM Colorado Convention Center Room 607 Single molecule biophysical chemistry: Life at the single molecule level
Theodore Betley Monday 3/23 4:05 PM Colorado Convention Center Bellco Theatre Radical frontiers in catalysis
Thomas Colacot Monday 3/23 4:40 PM Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown Convention Center
Crystal Ball-room B/C
Story of Pd-catalyzed coupling: The reactions of the 21st century
Véronique Gouverneur Sunday 3/22 4:20 PM Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown Convention Center
Silverton Blrm 1
Expanding the range of 18F-tags for PET ap-plications
William Dichtel Monday 3/23 10:20 AM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Governor's Square 11
Design principles for charge storage within redox-active covalent organic frameworks
William Dichtel Sunday 3/22 2:00 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Governor's Square 15
Synthesis of novel aromatic architectures through the benzannulation of aryl acetylenes
William Dichtel Sunday 3/22 3:15 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
Governor's Square 16
Polymerization in 2- and 3D
William Moerner Wednesday 3/25 8:30 AM Marriott City Center Denver Colorado I/J Detecting biomolecular interactions and photodynamics in solution by suppression of Brownian motion
Zev Gartner Tuesday 3/24 10:15 AM Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center
Capitol Blrm 4 Nucleic acids as chemical probes of cell-cell interactions
NOTE: Dates, times, and rooms are subject to change.