WRM2011 Technical Program and Events

 Registration will open and the first technical sessions for WRM2011 will begin on the afternoon of Thursday, November 10, 2011. The entire program will be complete by the end of Saturday afternoon.

Thursday evening, a special program will be hosted by the Beckman Center at Caltech. The Legacy of Arnold Beckman Symposium will celebrate the life and the lasting impact of this remarkable scientist and entrepreneur, featuring an invited talk by Dr. Leroy Hood. Friday sessions will begin at 8 AM and there will be plenary lectures both in the morning and in the afternoon on new developments in biological chemistry and chemistry of new energy technologies, respectively. In the late afternoon, a reception with hors dourves and drinks will be held adjacent the largest of WRM2011's three poster sessions. Saturday will feature a symposium on computational chemistry organized by UCLA's Kendall Houk. Workshops on education, intellectual property and vendor-sponsored technical topics will be held Saturday as well as a series of presentations and advising sessions by Career Services.

Anyone wishing to make an oral or poster presentation must register for the meeting.
To submit abstracts, go to the ACS Program Abstract Creations System (PACS) portal at

http://abstracts.acs.org

WRM2011 is listed as "43RD WESTERN REGIONAL MEETING (PASADENA, CA)"

(If you do not have an ACS login ID, create one using the link labeled "Registering is Easy"
on the login page. Abstract submission may precede registration, but no submission will
be accepted for inclusion in WRM2011 before the presenting author has registered.)
Direct questions about abstract submission and symposium sponsorship and workshop presentation to Jim Kilgore, WRM2011 Program Chair

Technical Sessions and Workshops
THURSDAY
November 10		 FRIDAY
November 11		 SATURDAY
November 12
  PM AM PM AM PM
  Systems Biology Non-Invasive Monitoring of Drugs and Other Compounds in vivo Atmospheric Chemistry Throughout the Solar System Special Symposium Understanding Chemical Reactivity through Computational Chemistry Business Program: So You Want to Start a Company?
  Way Beyond Plastic: The Powers of Modern Materials Recent Developments in Organic Synthesis: From Asymmetric Catalysis to Natural Product Synthesis Elucidating Mechanisms for Natural Products Biosynthesis in Multifunctional Enzyme Systems Elementary and high school teachers' workshops Workshop on IP Issues for Business (fee)
  Chemistry of Beer and Wine Microfluidics and Other Highly-Multiplexed Techniques for Bioanalysis Designing Novel Bio-functional Materials Using Transition Metal Complexes

Incorporating Concepts and Technologies from Emerging Research Fields in Undergraduate Curriculum

 Middle school teachers' workshop
  History of Chemistry: A Southern California Perspective Natural Products Chemistry - Standardizing Approaches for Analysis of Ingredients and Adulterants Biotechnological Approaches to Energy - Biofuel Feedstocks and Production Processes Workshop on Intellectual Property (fee paid)  
  New Synthetic Methods in Traditional and Non-Traditional Media Peptide Therapeutics: Past, Present and Future Biomolecular Engineering and Design of Drug Carriers    
  (Environmental: Soil and Water Chemistry) Structural Biology of Proteins at Cell Surfaces ACS PRF-Funded Research in the Geosciences    
    Green Chemistry Organometallic Chemistry    
    (Physical Chemistry/Spectroscopy) Biopolymer Chemistry: Protein Engineeering    
  Plenary Lecture : TBA (David Tirrell, Caltech) Plenary Lecture : Pushing Organic Solar Cells to Compete With Silicon
(Mark Thompson, USC)		    

Special Event Hosted by the Beckman Center (Caltech)
Legacy of Arnold Beckman Symposium

Friday Late Afternoon and Evening Events

 More Saturday Events
6:00 - 7:00 PM Reception (buffet dinner)
6:15 - 7:45 PM		 Reception and Main Poster Session Career Services: advising, on resumes, networking interviewing techniques, job search strategies Undergraduate Program: visit to Huntington Library



7:00 - 8:30		 Introduction, Historical Perspectives on Beckman's Life and Work, and Invited Address: Systems Biology and Emerging Technologies. Catalyzing the Transition from Reactive to Proactive Medicine. (Leroy Hood - ISB) Friday Evening 8 -10 PM      
8:30 - 9:30 Undergraduate reception