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96th
Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition |
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May 26 - 30, 2013 |
Chemistry Without Borders |
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The
17th Annual Andrew H. Weinberg Symposium |
Michael
C. V. Jensen, MD |
Enhancing the IQ of Chimeric
Antigen Receptor |
Redirected T cells for Cancer
Immunotherapy |
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013 |
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm |
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Yawkey 306 |
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, |
35 Binney St, Boston, MA, 02115 |
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Harvard's
Sunney Xie Receives the Harrison Howe Award
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Sunney
Xie (Harvard University), at
right, receives the Harrison
Howe Award from David McCamant
(University of Rochester) at
NERM.
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| The 2012 Harrison Howe
Award from the Rochester
Section of the ACS was presented
to Xiaoliang Sunney Xie,
Mallinckrodt Professor of
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
at Harvard University, at
the Northeast Regional Meeting
(NERM) on October 2. The
Award, which recognizes outstanding
contributions to research
in chemistry by a young scientist
with potential for further
achievement, consists of
a plaque and an honorarium.
The Award citation reads,
“In recognition of his major
contributions to the emergence
of the field of single-molecule
biophysical chemistry and
its application to biology,
as well as to the development
of coherent Raman scattering
microscopy.” |
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leader in research at the
interface of several disciplines
where he is striving to develop
new physical and chemical
tools to solve compelling
biological problems, Prof.
Xie presented the keynote
lecture, “The Quest for Non-linear
Coherent Optical Imaging
for Biology and Medicine,”
at a symposium in his honor,
which also featured talks
by Edward Brown (University
of Rochester), Haw Yang (Princeton
University), and Peng Chen
(Cornell University), and
a public lecture, “Life at
the Single Molecule Level.” |
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Xie received a B.S. from
Peking University in 1984
and a Ph.D. from the University
of California-San Diego in
1990. After a postdoctoral
at the University of Chicago,
he received an appointment
at Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory in 1992, and joined
Harvard in 1999. He is a
Fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences and
a member of the National
Academy of Sciences. |
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Award honors the memory of
Harrison E. Howe (1881-1942),
an alumnus of the University
of Rochester and a chemist
at Bausch and Lomb Optical
Company. He was also employed
by Arthur D. Little in Boston
and Montreal, and served
as a colonel in the Chemical
Warfare Reserve of the U.
S. Army during World War
I. As chair of a National
Research Council division,
he was instrumental in raising
the funds necessary to build
and furnish the Marine Biological
Laboratories at Woods Hole.
Howe also served 21 years
as editor of the ACS journal,
Industrial and Engineering
Chemistry. |
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Award was presented to Prof.
Xie by David McCamant of
the Department of Chemistry
of the University of Rochester. |
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| About
the Harrison Howe Award |
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Report from Cape Cod Science Café |
| This was our sixth Science Café.
We had several objectives: the first
was to engage our NESACS members in
the Southeastern Massachusetts portion
of our territory and the second was
to engage the public in interesting
scientific topics. |
| We selected the Chemistry of Wine
as the topic as a result of comments
received following the successful Chemistry
of Beer Science Café in October 2011.
Not only did we have NESACS members
from SE MA but we had several NESACS
members from NH. The local public outreach
was helped by articles in the Cape
Cod Times http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121101/NEWS/211010326 ,
the Barnstable Patriot and the BarnstableEnterprise.
We had 80 people (2 seatings) at the
Centerville Historic Museum below,
but we had to close the registration
because of space limitations. |
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Centerville Historic Museum |
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| Shirley Corrigher, a food science
expert, flew in from Atlanta to lecture
on wine pairing. She was joined by
wine expert Diane Slater from the Cape
Cod Package Store. “To start, she handed
out an apple wedge, a lemon slice and
a dash of salt. Then, she invited participants
to take a bite of their little treat,
followed by a sip of wine.” |
| Sweet makes wine stronger. Lick the
lemon and take a sip. It’s milder.
Sour makes wine milder. Lastly, have
a little salt and the wine becomes
much smoother. Salt is an amazing bitterness
suppressor. |
| We had a number of questions about
wine making and wines from different
parts of the world. Many people were
asking when the next Science Café was
and what the topic would be. One of
our NESACS members, Stan Hutchins,
makes beer and wine at home. This was
his first NESACS meeting. He was a
speaker on home brewing at the Science
Café NH in March 2013 http://sciencecafenh.org/index.php/2013/01/science-of-beer-and-brewing/. |
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Jack
Driscoll co-organizer & PR
chair of NESACS- Opening the
Science Café (photo
by Morton Hoffman) |
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This was a very successful science
café since we met some new NESACS members
and many members of the public audience
(75% of the attendees) have a new appreciation
for science. |
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NERM 2013 |
October 23 - 26, 2013 |
The 2013 Northeast
Regional Meeting (NERM) will be held on October
23-26, 2013, at the Omni Hotel in New Haven,
Connecticut. The meeting website is now active
at <http://nerm2013.sites.acs.org/>, and
shows the preliminary program with a
call for abstracts for oral and poster presentations
in technical sessions (Analytical Chemistry,
Inorganic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Organic
Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, and Undergraduate
Research), as well as for specialized symposia
across
the spectrum of chemistry and chemical education,
and in nanoscience, intellectual property, entrepreneurship,
art conservation, and alternative fuels. In addition,
Northeast Region awards for volunteer service,
advancing diversity, research achievements, excellence
in high school teaching, and industrial innovation
will be presented. |
NERM 2013 will also
be the occasion for a visit to Boston and New
Haven by a delegation of twelve German graduate
students and three accompanying persons (Dr.
Elisabeth Kapatsina, Coordinator of Education,
German Chemical Society; Anna Hofmann, University
of Konstanz, Chair, Jungchemikerforum; Prof.
Alfred Flint, University of Rostock) as part
of the NESACS German Exchange. After four days
in Boston, during which time the group will be
hosted by the Northeastern Section Younger Chemists
Committee (NSYCC) for academic and industrial
laboratory visits, cultural events, and good,
old-fashioned New
England gemütlichkeit, they will travel to New
Haven for NERM, at which they will make oral
and poster presentations about their research,
and experience all that a regional ACS meeting
has to offer. |
At NERM, the three
accompanying persons in the German delegation
and members of the NESACS German Exchange Steering
Committee will be joined by ACS President Marinda
Wu as speakers in a NESACS-sponsored symposium,
“International Chemistry Connections,” that has
been organized by Morton Hoffman and Heidi Teng,
members of the Steering Committee. The symposium
will showcase the Exchange, and will chronicle
its history since its origins with the first
German
visit in April 2001. Topics to be discussed,
among others, will include the global initiatives
of the ACS, research opportunities and chemistry
education at all levels in Germany, development
of American small chemical business abroad, international
and
domestic NSYCC activities, and the impact of
the Exchange Program on the evolution of participants’
careers. |
| Be sure to put NERM
2013 on your calendar, bookmark its website,
consider submitting an abstract, and definitely
attend. See you in New Haven! |
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