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SC IENCE & TECHNOLOGY
DENVER NATIONAL
MEETING MANIA!
C&EN reviews who’s who at chemistry’s MILE-HIGH SHINDIG
MITCH ANDRÉ GARCIA, C&EN WASHINGTON
Red = Natural
Resources
(meeting theme)
* 2015 ACS
National Award
Winner
Theodore Betley
Catalytic converter,
Harvard
Christopher Austin*
Translational science
champion, NIH
Laura Kiessling
Cell surface surveyor,
U of Wisconsin
Chady Stephan
Nanotech risk
evaluator who’s gotta
Claire White
wear shades,
Carbon storage
PerkinElmer
strategist, Princeton
Craig Hawker
Radical polymerizer,
UC Santa Barbara
Donald Truhlar
Dynamical calculation
dynamo, U of
Minnesota
Plenary:
Carolyn Koh
Gas hydrate guru,
Colorado School of
Mines
Plenary:
Paul Bryan
Advanced biofuels
advocate, UC Berkeley
Cathy Tway
Energy-savings expert,
Dow Chemical
Emily Weiss*
Quantum-dot queen,
Northwestern
James Lieberman
Protecting marijuana
workers everywhere,
Environmental
Information Services
Larry Bowers
CSO of the U.S.
Anti-Doping Agency
to discuss testing
athletes
Floyd Romesberg*
Genetic alphabet
expander, Scripps
Gary Molander*
Boron baron,
UPenn
Dinosaur Ridge
Take the family to snap a
photo of dinosaur tracks.
C EN.ACS.ORG
F. Dean Toste*
Catalyst explorer, UC
Berkeley
Stephen Boyer
“Big data” manager,
IBM Research
Richmond Sarpong*
Complex alkaloid
synthesizer,
UC Berkeley
Guihua Yu
2-D materials
master, UT Austin
WHAT TO DO IN DENVER: TOURIST SITES
Coors Brewery Tour
Sample some beer on Sunday
or Monday.
Adam Cohen*
Master of membrane
measurements,
Harvard
Buffalo Herd Overlook
It’s a 20-mile drive west of the
city to see the herd hangout.
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Marc Hillmyer
Macromolecular
machinist,
U of Minnesota
Note:
This list is not
comprehensive.
Denver Mint
See how coins are made, and
take a gander at some gold bars.
COORS/SHUTTERSTOCK (REST)
Plenary:
Peter Kareiva
Clean water promoter,
Nature Conservancy
Sunney Xie*
Single-molecule
sage, Harvard
UP & COMING SKI LIFT
Benjamin Davis
Carbohydrate
constructor, U of
Oxford
Seth Rasmussen
Materials science
historian, North
Dakota State U
Daniel Alessi
Wizard of wastewater
management,
U of Alberta
Emily Balskus
Microbe maven,
Harvard
Kenneth Hanson
Solar-energy
converter,
Florida State
Jaqueline Kiplinger*
Actinide architect, Los
Alamos National Lab
Karen Wooley
Copolymer conqueror,
Texas A&M
Darleane Hoffman
Heavy-element chaser,
Lawrence Berkeley
National Lab
Thomas Colacot*
Discovering
catalysts at
Johnson Matthey
since 1995
Ruth Wexler*
Executive director
at Bristol-Myers
Squibb to share
lessons learned in
cardiovascular drug
discovery
Spencer Dreher
High-throughput
enthusiast,
Merck & Co.
Jotham Coe*
Chantix inventor,
Pfizer
Jeffery Kovac
Chemical weapons
historian, U of
Tennessee
Keith Villa
Blue Moon’s beer
master and founder
will talk about
running a craft
brewery
EL
NOB E
G
LOD
Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey
Visit the first microdistillery to
make whiskey in Colorado.
CEN.ACS.ORG
Richard Schrock
MIT
El-ichi Negishi
Purdue
Robert Grubbs
Caltech
Ahmed Zewail
Caltech
William Moerner
Stanford
MORE ONLINE
For dates, times, locations for speakers, visit
http://cenm.ag/denver15. Or find “C&EN Must-See
Presenters” on the ACS meeting mobile app, coming soon!
WHAT TO DO IN DENVER: LOCALS’ PICKS
Larimer Square
A historic neighborhood with
a lively nightlife.
Véronique Gouverneur*
Fluorination phenom,
U of Oxford
Arieh Warshel
USC
Douglas Weibel
Destroyer of
pathogenic bacteria,
U of Wisconsin
William Dichtel
Supramolecular
builder, Cornell
Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa
Cuckoo for cocoa-bean
processing, U of Ghana
Michael Marletta*
Former Scripps CEO
to discuss partnership
between chemistry
and biology
Little Man Ice Cream
Come enjoy scoops of unique
flavors of ice cream until midnight.
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Museum of Contemporary Art
A small museum with a rooftop
bar and café.
LITTLE MAN ICE CREAM/MCA
DE NV ER/SHUTTERSTOCK (REST)
Neil Garg*
Trendsetting teacher
of organic chemistry,
UCLA
Zev Gartner
Decipherer of cell-cell
interactions, UC San
Francisco
WHO, WHAT, WHERE
Notable ACS Denver speakers to check out, along with talk title, time, and location
NAME
ROOM
TALK TITLE
Adam Cohen
Tuesday
DAY
3/24
DATE
10:05 AM
TIME
Colorado Convention Center
HOTEL
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
Benjamin Davis
Monday
3/23
1:30 PM
Colorado Convention Center
Room 407
Modeling the function of molecular motors and
other challenging biological systems
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
Carolyn Koh
Sunday
3/22
1:30 PM
Colorado Convention Center
Room 401
Fundamentals of gas hydrates and their role in
energy transportation and storage
Molecular studies of gas clathrate hydrates
Cathy Tway
Wednesday 3/25
8:00 AM
Colorado Convention Center
Room 607
Chady Stephan
Wednesday 3/25
10:40 AM
Colorado Convention Center
Room 711
Chady Stephan
Wednesday 3/25
8:25 AM
Embassy Suites Denver Downtown Convention Center
Aspen Room B
Christopher Austin
Wednesday 3/25
4:15 PM
Colorado Convention Center
Mile High Blrm
1A/1B
Getting The Chemistry Right: Catalyzing translational innovation at NIH
Claire White
Wednesday 3/25
1:30 PM
Colorado Convention Center
Room 712
Uncovering the local atomic structure of a hydrated 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
Donald Truhlar
Sunday
3/22
8:00 AM
Colorado Convention Center
Four Seasons
Blrm 2&3
Room 503
Concepts and catalysts for enantioselective
reactions of carbon-carbon multiple bonds
Potential energy surfaces for dynamics calculations
Douglas Weibel
Sunday
3/22
3:20 PM
Colorado Convention Center
Room 304
Ei-ichi Negishi
Monday
3/23
1:25 PM
Embassy Suites Denver Downtown Convention Center
Crystal Ballroom B/C
Exploring the mechanism of small molecule
metal ion chelators as chemotherapeutic
agents against pathogenic bacteria
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 manipulating 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
Global energy and emissions reduction potential of new materials development
Single particle ICP-MS (SP-ICP-MS) for the
detection of metal-based nanoparticles in
environmental matrices
SP-ICP-MS for nanoparticle detection and size
distribution determinations: Current state of
the art and future perspectives
NAME
DAY
DATE
TIME
HOTEL
ROOM
TALK TITLE
Emmanuel Ohene
Afoakwa
Tuesday
3/24
1:25 PM
Colorado Convention Center
Room 112
Floyd Romesberg
Sunday
3/22
8:30 AM
Hyatt Regency Denver at
Colorado Convention Center
Capitol Blrm 4
Effects of pod storage and fermentation duration on total polyphenols, o-diphenols, and
anthocyanin concentrations in cocoa (Theobroma cacao) beans
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 storage electrodes
Guihua Yu
Monday
3/23
1:30 PM
Sheraton Denver Downtown
Hotel
Directors
Row H
James Lieberman
Monday
3/23
1:40 PM
Embassy Suites Denver Downtown Convention Center
Silverton
Blrm 1
Hierarchically porous conductive hydrogels as
a novel material platform for energy storage
and biosensor technologies
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
Karen Wooley
Tuesday
3/24
10:35 AM
Sheraton Denver Downtown
Hotel
Governor's
Square 14
Advance of sequential controlled polymerizations for the design of molecular brush block
copolymers: Sophisticated functional single
molecule materials and hierarchically-assembled cluster properties
Importance of the intricate linkage of the
needs of particular biomedical applications
to the design characteristics of functionallysophisticated 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
Larry Bowers
Monday
3/23
1:55 PM
Laura Kiessling
Monday
3/23
5:35 PM
Embassy Suites Denver Downtown Convention Center
Colorado Convention Center
Cripple Creek
Blrm 1
Bellco Theatre
Photon upconversion and photocurrent generation via self-assembled bilayers on metal
oxide surfaces
Deterring performance-enhancing drug use in
sports: The role of science
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
Marc Hillmyer
Sunday
3/22
11:15 AM
Sheraton Denver Downtown
Hotel
Governor's
Square 16
Marc Hillmyer
Wednesday 3/25
4:30 PM
Sheraton Denver Downtown
Hotel
Governor's
Square 15
Poly(β-methyl δ-valerolactone) as a scalable
and renewable soft segment for aliphatic polyester block polymers
Controlling sequence, stereochemistry, and
functionality in linear polymers prepared by
ring-opening metathesis polymerization
Nanostructured membranes by in situ block
polymer synthesis
Michael Marletta
Sunday
7:00 PM
Hyatt Regency Denver at
Colorado Convention Center
Capitol Blrm 4
3/22
At the interface between chemistry and biology: 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 crosscoupling 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, profitability, 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 Ballroom 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 applications
William Dichtel
Monday
3/23
10:20 AM
William Dichtel
Sunday
3/22
2:00 PM
Sheraton Denver Downtown
Hotel
Sheraton Denver Downtown
Hotel
Governor's
Square 11
Governor's
Square 15
Design principles for charge storage within
redox-active covalent organic frameworks
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
Zev Gartner
Tuesday
10:15 AM
Hyatt Regency Denver at
Colorado Convention Center
Capitol Blrm 4
Detecting biomolecular interactions and
photodynamics in solution by suppression of
Brownian motion
Nucleic acids as chemical probes of cell-cell
interactions
3/24
NOTE: Dates, times, and rooms are subject to change.