SERMACS 2009 - Program
Nobel Laureates Lectures and Plenary Speakers
For the Final Scientific Program click here.
Nobel Laureates Lectures
Thursday, 22 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, Ballroom A.
8:30 am
Roald Hoffmann
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,
The Chemical Imagination at Work in Very Tight Places (Abstract)
1:30 pm
Harry Kroto
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL,
Architecture in NanoSpace (Abstract)
Plenary Speakers
Wednesday, 21 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 101-B.
Analytical Chemistry Symposium I - Applied Analytical Chemistry
1:05 pm Michael J. Sepaniak, Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Nanomechanical-Based Chemical Sensors
1:55 pm Zheng Ouyang, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Miniature Mass Spectrometry Analysis Systems with Direct Sampling Capability
Wednesday, 21 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 103-A.
New Trends in Boron Chemistry
1:00 pm John A. Soderquist, Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR,
Reagent Control in New “Asymmetric Allylboration” Reactions with the Amazing 9-Borabicyclo[3.3.2]Decanes
Thursday, 22 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 104-B
Process Technologies in Bio-Pharmaceutical Industry
10:00 am Robert A. Singer, PhD, Chemical Research and Development, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, Development of Pd-Catalyzed Processes for Industry
10:35 am John W. Wong, PhD, Pfizer Global Research and Development, Pfizer, Groton, CT, Biocatalysis in Drug Synthesis
Thursday, 22 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 104-C
Current Trends in Inorganic Chemistry
10:00 am Omar M. Yaghi, Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Reticular Chemistry Where Geometry Becomes Beautifully Real and Useful
3:00 pm Susumu Kitagawa, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto 600-8810, Japan,
Soft Porous Crystals From Porous Coordination Polymers
Thursday, 22 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 102-A
New Polymeric Materials and Applications
10:00 am Seth Marder, Department of Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Polymers for Optoelectronics and Nanolithography
Thursday, 22 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 208-A
Physical Chemistry Symposium I
10:00 am So Hirata, Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Computational Quantum Chemistry: Two Extremes
2:55 pm Garegin A. Papoian, Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Multi-Scale Approach to Understanding Physics of DNA and Nucleosome
3:45 pm Linda Columbus, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
A Biophysical Approach to Understanding Bacterial Invasion
Thursday, 22 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 102-B
Frontiers in Nucleic Acid Chemistry I
10:30 am Angel E. Garcia, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Simulations of the Folding/Unfolding Equilibrium of an RNA Tetraloop
Thursday, 22 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 102-C
Nanotechnology: From Energy to Medicine I
4:05 pm Qian Wang, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Nanocenter, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Alignment of Bio-Nanorods and the Application in Tissue Engineering
Friday, 23 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 102-B
Frontiers in Nucleic Acid Chemistry II
8:50 am Jim Maher III, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN
What Makes DNA Stiff and What Do Cells Do about It?
Friday, 23 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 204
Biochemistry Symposium
8:35 am Giuseppe Melacini, Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Dynamically Driven Ligand Selectivity in Cyclic Nucleotide Binding Domains
1:15 pm Esteban Ballestar, Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Programme (PEBC), Chromatin and Disease Group, The Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain
Epigenetic Covalent Modifications in Gene Regulation
Friday, 23 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 208-A
Physical Chemistry Symposium II
8:30 am Jon Camden, Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
Plasmonic Nanostructures for Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy: From Single Molecules to Non-Linear Optics
Friday, 23 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 102-A
Current Trends in Environmental Chemistry
8:35 am Frank M. Dunnivant, Assoc. Professor at Whitman College, Department of Chemistry, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Electronic-Media Resources for Teaching Environmental Chemistry
Friday, 23 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 102-C
Nanotechnology: From Energy to Medicine II
10:05 am Tianquan Lian, Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Ultrafast Multiple Exciton Dissociation in Quantum Dots
11:20 am Duck J. Yang, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Eco-Friendly Synthesis of Nanomaterials, and Immobilization of Nanomaterials
Friday, 23 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 203
Supramolecular Science and Self-Assembly (Click for Program)
4:40 pm Julius Rebek Jr., Department of Chemistry, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology & The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
The Inner Space of Molecules
Friday, 23 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 104-A
Current Interdisciplinary Trends in Organic Chemistry
1:35 pm Albrecht Berkessel, Department of Chemistry, Cologne University, Cologne, Germany,
Oxidation Catalysis by Hydrogen Bonding
2:15 pm Wilhelm J. Baader, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Chemiluminescence: Mechanisms and Applications
3:15 pm Avelino Corma, Instituto de Tecnología Química (UPV-CSIC), Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Catalysts Design for Environmentally Friendly Chemical Processes
Saturday, 24 October 2009, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 208
AAAS-Caribbean Division Annual Conference
9:00 am Antonio Lezcano, Department of Biology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Darwin and Microorganisms
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