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NERM June 2 - 5, 2010 POTSDAM
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The 37th North East 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. Please join us!

On Monday, February 1st, the site will open up for abstract submissions and registration.

Plenary speakers

• Prof. Paul Anastas, Yale University, plans to attend and give a keynote address on green chemistry.
• Prof. Vicki Colvin, Rice University, will speak on Eco-responsible Nanotechnology: Safety by Design.
• Dr. Catherine T. Hunt, Dow Chemical Company, and former president of the ACS.

Preliminary program

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.
• Inorganic chemistry (oral & poster), organized by Prof. Matthew Maye, Syracuse University.
• Organic chemistry (oral & poster)
• 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.

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, 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Please contact Prof. Martin Walker (conference chair), Prof. Maria Hepel (program chair) or Prof. Devon Shipp (exhibition chair) for more information.