New Developments in Medicine, Environment, Food, and Agriculture to be Reported
Symposia on the origin of elements in the solar system, pesticide residues in eggs, Gulf Coast environmental problems and food and chemistry in the next millenium are among topics to be discussed at the 218th national meeting August 22-26 of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.
The ACS meeting will highlight new developments in chemical research in 34 specialty areas of chemistry, including medicinal, environmental, nuclear, cellular, geochemical, and agricultural and food chemistry. More than 5,600 papers are scheduled for presentation to an expected 12,000 scientists. The more than 650 technical sessions will be held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center and surrounding hotels.
The meeting is open to the news media. A preliminary program and schedule of papers to be presented can be accessed from the ACS web page at www.acs.org/meetings/neworleans. Also, as information becomes available, news releases will be posted on EurekAlert! at www.eurekalert.org.
Reporters seeking to make arrangements to attend the meeting should contact Pam Wilkerson, ACS Office of Communications at 202-872-4451 or at newsroom@acs.org. The deadline for advance registration and housing is Friday, July 23.
Other symposia and topics include:
- Assessing environmental health risks to children
- New approaches to treating addictions - alcoholism, cocaine and other drug addictions
- Environmental issues in the Gulf Coast region
- Food in the next Millennium - How chemistry is improving food
- Antibiotic resistance: Vancomycin and beyond -progress in developing drugs to combat antimicrobial resistance
- New experiments to resolve the origin and abundance of elements found in the solar system
From Monday through Wednesday during the meeting, more than 250 companies will be exhibiting products and services of interest to the chemical community.
A nonprofit organization with a membership of nearly 159,000 chemists and Chemical engineers as its members, the American Chemical Society publishes scientific journals and databases, convenes major research conferences, and provides educational, science policy and career programs in chemistry. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio. www.acs.org