LVACS Meeting
Dates for 2008-2009 Academic Year
Next Meeting:
803rd Meeting of the LVACS
Lafayette College
On Deck
Past Meetings:
Next Meeting:
803rd Meeting of the LVACS
Lafayette College
Date:
September 24, 2008
Location: Faculty Dining Hall, Lafayette College
Reception: 5:30, cheese and fruit
Dinner: 6:00
Meeting: At the conclusion of dinner
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting, Hugel Science Center, Jaqua Auditorium (Rm 103)
Menu: Chicken Cordon Blue or Beef Brisket, Roast Garlic Potatoes, Fresh Green Beans, Coffee/Tea/Soda, Chocolate Layer Cake; Vegetarian Option- Portabello Stacks.
Cost: members $20, students & retirees $10
Contact: Debbie Bastinelli at 610-330-5213 or bastined@lafayette.edu by September 19
Directions: On the web at http://www.lafayette.edu/community/directions.html
Speaker: Scott McN. Sieburth
Dr. Scott McN. Sieburth is a professor of chemistry at Temple University. Scott received his BS degree from Worcester Polytechnical Institute in 1977 and his PhD from Harvard University in 1983. He worked for FMC Corporation for seven years in their Agricultural Chemical group. Before he moved to his present position at Temple University, he was professor of chemistry at SUNY-Stony Brook. He has diverse interests in organic chemistry, especially the [4+4] photocycloaddition reaction, and the synthesis and biological activity of silanediols (http://astro.temple.edu/~sieburth/). Scott received the 2008 Philadelphia Organic Chemists' Club Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to organic chemistry and service to the scientific community.
Location: Faculty Dining Hall, Lafayette College
Reception: 5:30, cheese and fruit
Dinner: 6:00
Meeting: At the conclusion of dinner
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting, Hugel Science Center, Jaqua Auditorium (Rm 103)
Menu: Chicken Cordon Blue or Beef Brisket, Roast Garlic Potatoes, Fresh Green Beans, Coffee/Tea/Soda, Chocolate Layer Cake; Vegetarian Option- Portabello Stacks.
Cost: members $20, students & retirees $10
Contact: Debbie Bastinelli at 610-330-5213 or bastined@lafayette.edu by September 19
Directions: On the web at http://www.lafayette.edu/community/directions.html
Speaker: Scott McN. Sieburth
Dr. Scott McN. Sieburth is a professor of chemistry at Temple University. Scott received his BS degree from Worcester Polytechnical Institute in 1977 and his PhD from Harvard University in 1983. He worked for FMC Corporation for seven years in their Agricultural Chemical group. Before he moved to his present position at Temple University, he was professor of chemistry at SUNY-Stony Brook. He has diverse interests in organic chemistry, especially the [4+4] photocycloaddition reaction, and the synthesis and biological activity of silanediols (http://astro.temple.edu/~sieburth/). Scott received the 2008 Philadelphia Organic Chemists' Club Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to organic chemistry and service to the scientific community.
Abstract
Using Silicon to Design New Pharmaceuticals
Silicon is the second most abundant element, and the element closest to carbon in its properties. Despite more than a century of organosilane research, only two silanes are produced commercially because of their biological activity, with silicon replacing a quaternary carbon. Unlike carbondiols (X=C) that dehydrate to ketones, silanediols (X=Si) do not dehydrate to give silanones. We have employed this property to design protease inhibitors where a silanediol mimics a hydrated amide carbonyl. These are more complex than any silanediols previously prepared and they have stimulated a broad investigation of organosilane chemistry.
Protease inhibitors are an important class of drugs, applicable to almost any disease. Our silanediols have been found to be reliable protease inhibitor design components, leading to low nanomolar inhibitors of an aspartic protease (HIV protease) and metalloproteases (thermolysin, angiotensin-converting enzyme).
Using Silicon to Design New Pharmaceuticals
Silicon is the second most abundant element, and the element closest to carbon in its properties. Despite more than a century of organosilane research, only two silanes are produced commercially because of their biological activity, with silicon replacing a quaternary carbon. Unlike carbondiols (X=C) that dehydrate to ketones, silanediols (X=Si) do not dehydrate to give silanones. We have employed this property to design protease inhibitors where a silanediol mimics a hydrated amide carbonyl. These are more complex than any silanediols previously prepared and they have stimulated a broad investigation of organosilane chemistry.
Protease inhibitors are an important class of drugs, applicable to almost any disease. Our silanediols have been found to be reliable protease inhibitor design components, leading to low nanomolar inhibitors of an aspartic protease (HIV protease) and metalloproteases (thermolysin, angiotensin-converting enzyme).
On Deck
804th Meeting of the LVACS
Lehigh University
Date:
November 12, 2008
Location: Lehigh University
Times and rooms TBA
Location: Lehigh University
Times and rooms TBA
Strengthening
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Foundations:
Report from an NSF ADVANCE Project On the Status of Women Chemistry
Faculty in
Doctoral Granting Universities
Sally
Chapman, Professor of
Chemistry,
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paucity of tenured
women faculty members in doctoral granting universities, the
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Past Meetings:
Please note: Retirees and students
may attend
meetings
at half price. Should a retiree wish to pay full price the
additional
funds will be donated to the scholarship fund
Social: 6:00-7:30 PM - Barley Creek Back Deck- Open Bar - Complimentary beer and house wines 6:00-8:00 PM (other alcoholic beverages available as cash bar). Jalapeno Pockets, Bruschetta, Crake Cake Bites, Cheese and Crackers, Wings. Shuffle board, darts, chess and other games available. Come have fun and let off some steam!
Beer Tasting: 7:00 PM - The Brewmaster of Barley Creek Brewing Company will lead us in sampling the fine beers the brewery has to offer. Discussion of brewing ingredients and techniques will make this worth the drive!
Brewery Tours: Throughout the evenign with the BCB Brewmaster
Dinner: 7:30 PM - Newly remodeled Barley Creek Back Deck
Menu: House salad, Choice of:
8 oz top sirloin topped with sautéed mushrooms, served with mashed potatoes and seasonal vegetables, Chicken Parmigiana served over linguini Penne Ala Vodka served with Garlic Bread, Dessert - Stout Cheesecake or Apple Pie
Meeting: Business meeting during dinner
Cost: $28, spouses, students and retirees $18
Contact: Michelle Jones-Wilson by 4PM, Friday May 9. Please provide choice of entree and affiliation. mjwilson@po-box.esu.edu or 570-422-3703 - email contact preferred.
Directions: Barley Creek Brewing Company, Sullivan Trail & Camelback Road, Tannersville, PA http://www.barleycreek.com/find_us/index.shtml
About The Barley Creek Brewing Co:
Located in Tannersville, right off route 80's exit 299 in between the Crossings Outlet Stores and Camelback Ski area (Camelbeach Water Park, Barley Creek is the Pocono Mountains' Original Brewpub and Restaurant, where you can always find great food, freshly brewed beer, a comfortable atmosphere, friendly people, and a unique place to kick back, relax and have a great time. Bring your friends, bring your family, bring your friends' families. Cheers!
803rd LVACS Meeting:
Moravian College
Student Awards and Undergraduate Poster Session
Date: Tuesday, April 22
Location: Moravian College - North Campus
Reception: 5:00 – 6:15 pm, Lobby Collier Hall of Science
Dinner: 6:15 pm – UBC Room, Haupert Union Building
Meeting and Student Awards Presentation: 7:30 pm Dana Lecture Hall, Collier Hall of Science
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting - Dana Lecture Hall, Collier Hall of Science
Menu: Buffet featuring Baked Chicken Breast with Pineapple/Orange Sauce and Pasta Primavera
Cost: members $20, students & retirees $10
Contact: LouAnn Vlahovic by Noon, Thursday, April 17th. Please include your name, affiliation, and for students whether they are an awardee, poster presenter or both. Registration can be made by phone (610-861-1300) or by email melnv01@moravian.edu (the last two digits are numbers). Please put LVACS Registration in the subject line. (Note: email registrations will be confirmed by a return email.)
Directions: Directions to Moravian can be found on the web at http://www.moravian.edu/admission/directions.htm. Suggested parking is in Lots M, N, & O, along Locust Street. A campus map is available at http://www.moravian.edu/campusMaps/north.htm.
Speaker: Madeline Jacobs, Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer ACS
Madeleine Jacobs is Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the American Chemical Society (ACS). As Executive Director and CEO, Jacobs has worked closely with the ACS Board of Directors, ACS volunteers and members, and the Society’s nearly 2,000 employees to help reinvent ACS and prepare it to serve its members and the chemical profession during a time of radical change in the chemical enterprise. She is working closely with other organizations around the world to enhance ACS collaboration in the chemical sciences.
Jacobs received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry at George Washington University (with honors and distinction) in 1968. She completed course work for a Master’s Degree in organic chemistry at the University of Maryland in 1969. Jacobs received an honorary Doctor of Science from George Washington University in 2003.
Prior to her selection by the ACS Board of Directors as Executive Director and CEO, Jacobs served for eight and a half years as Editor-in-Chief of Chemical & Engineering News magazine, the weekly newsmagazine of the chemical world published by ACS, and two years as Managing Editor. She has held other senior management positions in a wide variety of scientific and educational organizations including the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Smithsonian Institution, where she served as the director of Public Affairs at the world’s largest museum complex.
Major honors include the Smithsonian Institution Secretary’s Gold Medal (1993), the New York Academy of Sciences Women History Month Award (2001), the 75th Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference Lecturer (2002), the ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences (2003), and the American Crystallographic Association Public Service Award (2004). A much-honored science journalist, she has also received more than three dozen awards for outstanding science writing from national organizations. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the ACS Board of Directors, and a founding member of the Board of the Rosalind Franklin Society, dedicated to promoting women in the sciences. She is also a member of the Board of Governors of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Jacobs’ professional interests include trends in the chemical industry, the public image of chemistry, employment trends, minority representation, and gender equality of scientists. She has given speeches on these topics for more than 35 years and is a sought-after speaker.
Talk: “Improving people’s lives through the transforming power of chemistry.”
Chemistry remains the unifying and enabling science to help solve the world’s most pressing problems: ensuring sufficient energy, clean water, health care, security, and food, while achieving a sustainable planet. As long as these challenges exist, chemists will be essential to providing solutions. The American Chemical Society is dedicated to providing chemists of all ages with the lifelong learning tools, programs, and services that will ensure a rewarding career while fulfilling the ACS vision, “Improving people’s lives through the transforming power of chemistry.”
802nd LVACS Meeting - High School Teacher's Night:
Lafayette College
Date: Friday, March 28
Location: Lafayette College
Reception: 6:00 PM, 102 Phenning - Wilson Room Please note this is a new location!
Dinner: following reception
Meeting: following dinner
Talk: 8:00 PM 224 Oechsle Lecture Hall Please note this is a new location!
Menu: Grilled Flank Steak, Herb Crusted Chicken, Eggplant Roulade
Cost: Members ($20.00), Student Members ($5.00), Guests & Non-Members ($25.00)
Contact: Mike Popule, (610) 481-6677 populemp@airproducts.com
Directions: visit the Lafayette College website at www.lafayette.edu
Speaker: Professor John Chen, Dean Emeritus Lehigh University
Talk: The World's Energy and Environmental Challenges
801st LVACS Meeting:
Muhlenberg College
Reception: 5:30 - 6:00pm in Seegers Union room 111
Dinner: 6:00pm
Meeting: 7:00 pm in Trumbower 130
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting
Menu: Chicken Supreme, or Sesame Beef with Asian vegetables
Cost: $20.00 members and guests; students and retirees $10.00
Contact: LuAnn Feist, 484-664-3260; email feist@muhlenberg.edu by noon Feb 25th, with name, affiliation, menu choice and phone number.
Directions: visit the Muhlenberg website at www.muhlenberg.edu
Speaker: Dr. Tom Lectka
Tom Lectka obtained his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1985. He studied under John McMurry at Cornell, receiving his Ph.D. in 1990. After one year of study in Heidelberg with a Humboldt Fellowship, he became an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard in Dave Evans's group. Since 1994, he has been in the Chemistry Department at Johns Hopkins, having been promoted to Professor in 2002. His recent awards include Dreyfus, Sloan, and J.S. Guggenheim Fellowships, and a Merck Faculty Development Award. His interests span problems in asymmetric and polyfunctional catalysis, solid-phase based reactions, and mechanistic chemistry.
Talk:
o-Benzoquinones constitute a diverse class of reactive molecules whose asymmetric chemistry has been scantily explored. From pure synthesis to medicine to biology, o-benzoquinones play important and mechanistically interesting roles. In this talk, we wish to present new catalytic, asymmetric reactions of o-benzoquinones, spanning the reactivity spectrum from simple o- quinones to benzoquinone imides and dimines, as well as o-quinone
methides. These reactions give rise to useful products such as alpha- hydroxyesters, unusual alpha-amino acid derivatives, and biologically relevant polycyclic skeletons. In many cases, products are produced in almost complete enantiomeric excess, as well as in excellent yields.
800th LVACS Meeting:
Cedar Crest College
Date: Tuesday, January 22
Location: Harmon Hall of Peace, Cedar Crest Campus
Reception: 6 - 6:30 pm
Dinner: 6:30 -7:30 pm
Meeting: At the conclusion of dinner
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting
Menu:
Cost: $20.00 members and guests; students and retirees $10.00.Vegetarian choice available, $18.00
Contact: Lesley @cedarcrest.edu or 610-606-4666 ext. 3457 by noon, on January 18, 2008 . Please given Name affiliation and phone number or e-mail.
Directions: visit the Cedar Crest website at www.cedarcrest.edu
Speaker: Dr. Lawrence T. Sein
Dr. Sein is Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA. Born and raised in Philadelphia, he received his B.S. in chemistry from Charter Oak State College in 1996, M.A. in chemistry from Temple University in 1998, and Ph.D. in inorganic /physical chemistry (also from Temple) in 2000. He completed post-doctoral terms at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Pennsylvania in computational biophysics. He has been an invited speaker at the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Agricultural University of Wroclaw, Poland; and Princeton University in the United States. After having taught at Temple University, Philadelphia University, Cabrini College, and Montgomery County Community College, Dr. Sein joined the faculty at Cedar Crest College in the fall of 2005. He teaches courses in inorganic chemistry and the quantum mechanics (Physical Chemistry II) course. He developed a new inorganic synthesis laboratory in 2005, and wrote an inorganic chemistry textbook emphasizing concepts from group theory. His research interests include conducting polymers, computational chemistry, and heterogeneous catalysis. He is co-author on 28 publications.
Talk: Aniline Trimers with Hydroxyl Groups
Polyaniline is a widely studied, versatile material, which conducts electricity when suitably doped. It is also effective at inhibiting corrosion of metal surfaces. Aniline trimers are convenient models for polyaniline, more effective than the polymer at corrosion inhibition, but non-conducting. Assorted functional groups can be readily incorporated into the trimer backbone, and the results studied both experimentally and computationally. The presentation will discuss new work on the incorporation of hydroxyl groups onto aniline trimers, and the resulting effects.
799th LVACS Meeting:
Lehigh University
Date: Wednesday, November 14
Location: Asa Packer Dining Room of the Lehigh University Center.
Reception: 6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Meeting: At the conclusion of dinner ~7:30 PM
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting ~7:45 PM
Menu: Meat and vegetarian buffet featuring maple whiskey glazed chicken and Yankee pot roast with salad, mixed vegetables, baked potato, and old fashioned apple pie for dessert
Cost: $20.00 members and guests; students and retirees $10.00
Contact: JoAnn Desalvatore at (610) 758-3471 or jmd207@Lehigh.edu. Reservations must be booked by close of work on November 5th. Due to charges to LVACS uncancelled reservations will be billed to the member.
Directions: consult the map and directions on the website http://www3.lehigh.edu/about/maps/default.asp
Speaker: James J. Bohning, Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University
James J. Bohning is professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Wilkes University, where he was a faculty member from 1959 to 1990. He served there as chemistry department chair from 1970 to 1986 and environmental science department chair from 1987 to 1990. He was chair of the American Chemical Society’s Division of the History of Chemistry in 1986, received the Division’s Outstanding Paper Award in 1989, and has presented more than 45 papers before the Division at national meetings of the Society. He was on the advisory committee of the Society’s National Historic Chemical Landmarks Program from its inception in 1992 through 2001, and is currently a consultant to the committee. Beginning in 1985 he developed the oral history program of the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, and was the Foundation’s Director of Oral History from 1990 to 1995. From 1995 to 1998 he was a science writer for the News Service group of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C. In May 2005 he received the Joseph Priestley Service Award from the Susquehanna Valley Section of the American Chemical Society. He is currently a Visiting Research Scientist and CESAR Fellow at Lehigh University, where he is working on a biography of Eckley Brinton Coxe.
Talk: Madder on the Monacacy: Eighteenth-century Moravian dye works in Pennsylvania
When Moravian missionaries settled in 1741 on the banks of the Monacacy Creek in a town they named Bethlehem, they quickly developed a complex of more than 30 industries that included mills, tanneries and dye houses. Using natural materials such as indigo, madder, logwood and fustic, the Moravians dyed locally made fabrics, especially wool and linen, for almost a century before operations ceased. A 2007 grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will be used to stabilize the ruins of the original building, which may be the last remaining dye house of its age in the country.
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CANCELLED! No Meeting
May Meeting Announcement: 804th LVACS Meeting: East Stroudsburg University at Barley Creek Brewing Co 2nd Annual Pub Night - Year End Celebration! Spouse’s Night! Date: Tuesday, May 13th  |
Social: 6:00-7:30 PM - Barley Creek Back Deck- Open Bar - Complimentary beer and house wines 6:00-8:00 PM (other alcoholic beverages available as cash bar). Jalapeno Pockets, Bruschetta, Crake Cake Bites, Cheese and Crackers, Wings. Shuffle board, darts, chess and other games available. Come have fun and let off some steam!
Beer Tasting: 7:00 PM - The Brewmaster of Barley Creek Brewing Company will lead us in sampling the fine beers the brewery has to offer. Discussion of brewing ingredients and techniques will make this worth the drive!
Brewery Tours: Throughout the evenign with the BCB Brewmaster
Dinner: 7:30 PM - Newly remodeled Barley Creek Back Deck
Menu: House salad, Choice of:
8 oz top sirloin topped with sautéed mushrooms, served with mashed potatoes and seasonal vegetables, Chicken Parmigiana served over linguini Penne Ala Vodka served with Garlic Bread, Dessert - Stout Cheesecake or Apple Pie
Meeting: Business meeting during dinner
Cost: $28, spouses, students and retirees $18
Contact: Michelle Jones-Wilson by 4PM, Friday May 9. Please provide choice of entree and affiliation. mjwilson@po-box.esu.edu or 570-422-3703 - email contact preferred.
Directions: Barley Creek Brewing Company, Sullivan Trail & Camelback Road, Tannersville, PA http://www.barleycreek.com/find_us/index.shtml
About The Barley Creek Brewing Co:
Located in Tannersville, right off route 80's exit 299 in between the Crossings Outlet Stores and Camelback Ski area (Camelbeach Water Park, Barley Creek is the Pocono Mountains' Original Brewpub and Restaurant, where you can always find great food, freshly brewed beer, a comfortable atmosphere, friendly people, and a unique place to kick back, relax and have a great time. Bring your friends, bring your family, bring your friends' families. Cheers!
803rd LVACS Meeting:
Moravian College
Student Awards and Undergraduate Poster Session
Date: Tuesday, April 22
Location: Moravian College - North Campus
Reception: 5:00 – 6:15 pm, Lobby Collier Hall of Science
Dinner: 6:15 pm – UBC Room, Haupert Union Building
Meeting and Student Awards Presentation: 7:30 pm Dana Lecture Hall, Collier Hall of Science
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting - Dana Lecture Hall, Collier Hall of Science
Menu: Buffet featuring Baked Chicken Breast with Pineapple/Orange Sauce and Pasta Primavera
Cost: members $20, students & retirees $10
Contact: LouAnn Vlahovic by Noon, Thursday, April 17th. Please include your name, affiliation, and for students whether they are an awardee, poster presenter or both. Registration can be made by phone (610-861-1300) or by email melnv01@moravian.edu (the last two digits are numbers). Please put LVACS Registration in the subject line. (Note: email registrations will be confirmed by a return email.)
Directions: Directions to Moravian can be found on the web at http://www.moravian.edu/admission/directions.htm. Suggested parking is in Lots M, N, & O, along Locust Street. A campus map is available at http://www.moravian.edu/campusMaps/north.htm.
Speaker: Madeline Jacobs, Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer ACS
Madeleine Jacobs is Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the American Chemical Society (ACS). As Executive Director and CEO, Jacobs has worked closely with the ACS Board of Directors, ACS volunteers and members, and the Society’s nearly 2,000 employees to help reinvent ACS and prepare it to serve its members and the chemical profession during a time of radical change in the chemical enterprise. She is working closely with other organizations around the world to enhance ACS collaboration in the chemical sciences.
Jacobs received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry at George Washington University (with honors and distinction) in 1968. She completed course work for a Master’s Degree in organic chemistry at the University of Maryland in 1969. Jacobs received an honorary Doctor of Science from George Washington University in 2003.
Prior to her selection by the ACS Board of Directors as Executive Director and CEO, Jacobs served for eight and a half years as Editor-in-Chief of Chemical & Engineering News magazine, the weekly newsmagazine of the chemical world published by ACS, and two years as Managing Editor. She has held other senior management positions in a wide variety of scientific and educational organizations including the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Smithsonian Institution, where she served as the director of Public Affairs at the world’s largest museum complex.
Major honors include the Smithsonian Institution Secretary’s Gold Medal (1993), the New York Academy of Sciences Women History Month Award (2001), the 75th Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference Lecturer (2002), the ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences (2003), and the American Crystallographic Association Public Service Award (2004). A much-honored science journalist, she has also received more than three dozen awards for outstanding science writing from national organizations. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the ACS Board of Directors, and a founding member of the Board of the Rosalind Franklin Society, dedicated to promoting women in the sciences. She is also a member of the Board of Governors of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Jacobs’ professional interests include trends in the chemical industry, the public image of chemistry, employment trends, minority representation, and gender equality of scientists. She has given speeches on these topics for more than 35 years and is a sought-after speaker.
Talk: “Improving people’s lives through the transforming power of chemistry.”
Chemistry remains the unifying and enabling science to help solve the world’s most pressing problems: ensuring sufficient energy, clean water, health care, security, and food, while achieving a sustainable planet. As long as these challenges exist, chemists will be essential to providing solutions. The American Chemical Society is dedicated to providing chemists of all ages with the lifelong learning tools, programs, and services that will ensure a rewarding career while fulfilling the ACS vision, “Improving people’s lives through the transforming power of chemistry.”
802nd LVACS Meeting - High School Teacher's Night:
Lafayette College
Date: Friday, March 28
Location: Lafayette College
Reception: 6:00 PM, 102 Phenning - Wilson Room Please note this is a new location!
Dinner: following reception
Meeting: following dinner
Talk: 8:00 PM 224 Oechsle Lecture Hall Please note this is a new location!
Menu: Grilled Flank Steak, Herb Crusted Chicken, Eggplant Roulade
Cost: Members ($20.00), Student Members ($5.00), Guests & Non-Members ($25.00)
Contact: Mike Popule, (610) 481-6677 populemp@airproducts.com
Directions: visit the Lafayette College website at www.lafayette.edu
Speaker: Professor John Chen, Dean Emeritus Lehigh University
Talk: The World's Energy and Environmental Challenges
801st LVACS Meeting:
Muhlenberg College
Reception: 5:30 - 6:00pm in Seegers Union room 111
Dinner: 6:00pm
Meeting: 7:00 pm in Trumbower 130
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting
Menu: Chicken Supreme, or Sesame Beef with Asian vegetables
Cost: $20.00 members and guests; students and retirees $10.00
Contact: LuAnn Feist, 484-664-3260; email feist@muhlenberg.edu by noon Feb 25th, with name, affiliation, menu choice and phone number.
Directions: visit the Muhlenberg website at www.muhlenberg.edu
Speaker: Dr. Tom Lectka
Tom Lectka obtained his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1985. He studied under John McMurry at Cornell, receiving his Ph.D. in 1990. After one year of study in Heidelberg with a Humboldt Fellowship, he became an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard in Dave Evans's group. Since 1994, he has been in the Chemistry Department at Johns Hopkins, having been promoted to Professor in 2002. His recent awards include Dreyfus, Sloan, and J.S. Guggenheim Fellowships, and a Merck Faculty Development Award. His interests span problems in asymmetric and polyfunctional catalysis, solid-phase based reactions, and mechanistic chemistry.
Talk:
o-Benzoquinones constitute a diverse class of reactive molecules whose asymmetric chemistry has been scantily explored. From pure synthesis to medicine to biology, o-benzoquinones play important and mechanistically interesting roles. In this talk, we wish to present new catalytic, asymmetric reactions of o-benzoquinones, spanning the reactivity spectrum from simple o- quinones to benzoquinone imides and dimines, as well as o-quinone
methides. These reactions give rise to useful products such as alpha- hydroxyesters, unusual alpha-amino acid derivatives, and biologically relevant polycyclic skeletons. In many cases, products are produced in almost complete enantiomeric excess, as well as in excellent yields.
800th LVACS Meeting:
Cedar Crest College
Date: Tuesday, January 22
Location: Harmon Hall of Peace, Cedar Crest Campus
Reception: 6 - 6:30 pm
Dinner: 6:30 -7:30 pm
Meeting: At the conclusion of dinner
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting
Menu:
Cost: $20.00 members and guests; students and retirees $10.00.Vegetarian choice available, $18.00
Contact: Lesley @cedarcrest.edu or 610-606-4666 ext. 3457 by noon, on January 18, 2008 . Please given Name affiliation and phone number or e-mail.
Directions: visit the Cedar Crest website at www.cedarcrest.edu
Speaker: Dr. Lawrence T. Sein
Dr. Sein is Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA. Born and raised in Philadelphia, he received his B.S. in chemistry from Charter Oak State College in 1996, M.A. in chemistry from Temple University in 1998, and Ph.D. in inorganic /physical chemistry (also from Temple) in 2000. He completed post-doctoral terms at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Pennsylvania in computational biophysics. He has been an invited speaker at the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Agricultural University of Wroclaw, Poland; and Princeton University in the United States. After having taught at Temple University, Philadelphia University, Cabrini College, and Montgomery County Community College, Dr. Sein joined the faculty at Cedar Crest College in the fall of 2005. He teaches courses in inorganic chemistry and the quantum mechanics (Physical Chemistry II) course. He developed a new inorganic synthesis laboratory in 2005, and wrote an inorganic chemistry textbook emphasizing concepts from group theory. His research interests include conducting polymers, computational chemistry, and heterogeneous catalysis. He is co-author on 28 publications.
Talk: Aniline Trimers with Hydroxyl Groups
Polyaniline is a widely studied, versatile material, which conducts electricity when suitably doped. It is also effective at inhibiting corrosion of metal surfaces. Aniline trimers are convenient models for polyaniline, more effective than the polymer at corrosion inhibition, but non-conducting. Assorted functional groups can be readily incorporated into the trimer backbone, and the results studied both experimentally and computationally. The presentation will discuss new work on the incorporation of hydroxyl groups onto aniline trimers, and the resulting effects.
799th LVACS Meeting:
Lehigh University
Date: Wednesday, November 14
Location: Asa Packer Dining Room of the Lehigh University Center.
Reception: 6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Meeting: At the conclusion of dinner ~7:30 PM
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting ~7:45 PM
Menu: Meat and vegetarian buffet featuring maple whiskey glazed chicken and Yankee pot roast with salad, mixed vegetables, baked potato, and old fashioned apple pie for dessert
Cost: $20.00 members and guests; students and retirees $10.00
Contact: JoAnn Desalvatore at (610) 758-3471 or jmd207@Lehigh.edu. Reservations must be booked by close of work on November 5th. Due to charges to LVACS uncancelled reservations will be billed to the member.
Directions: consult the map and directions on the website http://www3.lehigh.edu/about/maps/default.asp
Speaker: James J. Bohning, Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University
James J. Bohning is professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Wilkes University, where he was a faculty member from 1959 to 1990. He served there as chemistry department chair from 1970 to 1986 and environmental science department chair from 1987 to 1990. He was chair of the American Chemical Society’s Division of the History of Chemistry in 1986, received the Division’s Outstanding Paper Award in 1989, and has presented more than 45 papers before the Division at national meetings of the Society. He was on the advisory committee of the Society’s National Historic Chemical Landmarks Program from its inception in 1992 through 2001, and is currently a consultant to the committee. Beginning in 1985 he developed the oral history program of the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, and was the Foundation’s Director of Oral History from 1990 to 1995. From 1995 to 1998 he was a science writer for the News Service group of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C. In May 2005 he received the Joseph Priestley Service Award from the Susquehanna Valley Section of the American Chemical Society. He is currently a Visiting Research Scientist and CESAR Fellow at Lehigh University, where he is working on a biography of Eckley Brinton Coxe.
Talk: Madder on the Monacacy: Eighteenth-century Moravian dye works in Pennsylvania
When Moravian missionaries settled in 1741 on the banks of the Monacacy Creek in a town they named Bethlehem, they quickly developed a complex of more than 30 industries that included mills, tanneries and dye houses. Using natural materials such as indigo, madder, logwood and fustic, the Moravians dyed locally made fabrics, especially wool and linen, for almost a century before operations ceased. A 2007 grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will be used to stabilize the ruins of the original building, which may be the last remaining dye house of its age in the country.
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798th
LVACS
Meeting: At the DaVinci Science Center in Allentown, PA Wednesday, October 24, 6-8 PM Celebrate National Chemistry Week with LVACS at the DaVinci Center! www.davinci-center.org Kids - Bring your parents or grandparents! |
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Activities for kids
and private open access to the Science Center for members and their
families! Poster Contest!
Kids:
Make a National Chemistry Week Poster and get a prize! Complete
Activities and earn a Chemistry Activity Patch!Activity Patches! Goodie Bags! Goodie bags for the kids will be available featuring Moles and all kinds of cool chemistry stuff! |
| RSVP
by October 15 to Michelle
Jones-Wilson, please provide the number of children who will attend
and youth t-shirt size. |
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No kids to bring? Come anyway! - the Da Vinci center is fun for all ages. Snacks and beverages will be provided. See the October issue of the Octagon for activity information including poster contest rules and information and Activity Patch information. No charge for members and their guests. |
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797th
LVACS
Meeting:
Lafayette College
Date: September 20, 2007
Location: Faculty Dining Room, Lafayette College
Dinner: 6:00 PM
Meeting: At the conclusion of dinner
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting
Menu: Frenched Chicken Breast – (Sautéed with a Whole Grain Dijon Mustard Sauce), Mixed green salad served with rolls, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Seasoned Green Beans, Vegetarian Option – Portabella Torte, (A Thick tort made from layers of portabellas, oven roasted tomatoes, spinach, fresh mozzarella and roasted peppers), Chocolate Cake, Coffee/Tea Cost:
Cost: members $15, students & retirees $10.00
Contact: Debbie Bastinelli at (610) 330-5213 or bastined@lafayette.edu bu 9/14
Directions: on the web at http://www.lafayette.edu/community/directions.html
Speaker: Joel P. Schneider
Dr. Joel Schneider is associate professor of Chemistry at the University of Delaware. A native of Ohio, Joel received his BS from the University of Akron in 1991 and his Ph.D. from Texas A&M in 1995. He was the George W. Raiziss Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania for three years. He began his independent career at the University of Delaware in 1999, working in the fields of bioorganic and materials chemistry. He has a wide range of research interests (http://www.udel.edu/chem/Schneider/) including the development of antibiotics and self-assembling hydrogels useful as tissue scaffolds. He has recently been the recipient of the DuPont Young Faculty Award and the National Science Foundation Career Award.
Talk: De Novo Designed Peptide-based Materials
Our research interests are centered on developing biological materials for use in delivery and tissue regenerative therapies. We are developing peptide-based hydrogels, heavily hydrated materials, which are finding use in the delivery of therapeutics (e.g. small molecules, biomolecules, and cells) and as extracellular matrix substitutes. Specifically, we have designed “smart” peptides that undergo sol-gel phase transitions in response to biological media enabling minimally invasive delivery of the material in-vivo. When dissolved in aqueous solutions, these peptides exist in an ensemble of random coil conformations rendering them fully soluble. The addition of an exogenous stimulus results in peptide folding into -hairpin conformation. This folded structure undergoes rapid assembly into a highly crosslinked hydrogel network whose nanostructure is defined and controllable. Peptides can be designed to fold and assemble in response to changes in pH or ionic strength, the addition of heat or even light. In addition to these stimuli, DMEM cell culture media is able to initiate folding and consequent self-assembly. DMEM-induced gels are cytocompatible towards NIH 3T3 murine fibroblasts, mesenchymal stem cells, hepatocytes, osteoblasts and chondrocytes. As an added bonus, many of these hydrogels possess broad spectrum antibacterial activity suggesting that adventitious bacterial infections that may occur during surgical manipulations and after implantation can be greatly reduced. Lastly, when hydrogelation is triggered in the presence of a therapeutic, gels become impregnated with the therapeutic. A unique characteristic of these gels is that when an appropriate shear stress is applied, the gel will shear-thin, becoming an injectable low viscosity gel. However, after the application of shear has stopped, the material quickly self-heals producing a gel with mechanical rigidity nearly identical to the original hydrogel. This attribute allows therapeutic-impregnated gels to be delivered to target tissues via syringe where they quickly recover complementing the shape of the tissue defect. Therapeutic release, whose rate can be possibly controlled, follows. If cells have been impregnated into the gel, this shear-thin delivery method is a convenient way to introduce cells to wound sites.
In addition to gel design, we are also interested in designing peptides that fold into bioactive conformations at material surfaces such as hydroxyapatite. For these peptides, the material surface triggers intramolecular folding. This allows function to be potentially turned on with spatial resolution only at the material’s surface.
Lafayette College
Date: September 20, 2007
Location: Faculty Dining Room, Lafayette College
Dinner: 6:00 PM
Meeting: At the conclusion of dinner
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting
Menu: Frenched Chicken Breast – (Sautéed with a Whole Grain Dijon Mustard Sauce), Mixed green salad served with rolls, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Seasoned Green Beans, Vegetarian Option – Portabella Torte, (A Thick tort made from layers of portabellas, oven roasted tomatoes, spinach, fresh mozzarella and roasted peppers), Chocolate Cake, Coffee/Tea Cost:
Cost: members $15, students & retirees $10.00
Contact: Debbie Bastinelli at (610) 330-5213 or bastined@lafayette.edu bu 9/14
Directions: on the web at http://www.lafayette.edu/community/directions.html
Speaker: Joel P. Schneider
Dr. Joel Schneider is associate professor of Chemistry at the University of Delaware. A native of Ohio, Joel received his BS from the University of Akron in 1991 and his Ph.D. from Texas A&M in 1995. He was the George W. Raiziss Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania for three years. He began his independent career at the University of Delaware in 1999, working in the fields of bioorganic and materials chemistry. He has a wide range of research interests (http://www.udel.edu/chem/Schneider/) including the development of antibiotics and self-assembling hydrogels useful as tissue scaffolds. He has recently been the recipient of the DuPont Young Faculty Award and the National Science Foundation Career Award.
Talk: De Novo Designed Peptide-based Materials
Our research interests are centered on developing biological materials for use in delivery and tissue regenerative therapies. We are developing peptide-based hydrogels, heavily hydrated materials, which are finding use in the delivery of therapeutics (e.g. small molecules, biomolecules, and cells) and as extracellular matrix substitutes. Specifically, we have designed “smart” peptides that undergo sol-gel phase transitions in response to biological media enabling minimally invasive delivery of the material in-vivo. When dissolved in aqueous solutions, these peptides exist in an ensemble of random coil conformations rendering them fully soluble. The addition of an exogenous stimulus results in peptide folding into -hairpin conformation. This folded structure undergoes rapid assembly into a highly crosslinked hydrogel network whose nanostructure is defined and controllable. Peptides can be designed to fold and assemble in response to changes in pH or ionic strength, the addition of heat or even light. In addition to these stimuli, DMEM cell culture media is able to initiate folding and consequent self-assembly. DMEM-induced gels are cytocompatible towards NIH 3T3 murine fibroblasts, mesenchymal stem cells, hepatocytes, osteoblasts and chondrocytes. As an added bonus, many of these hydrogels possess broad spectrum antibacterial activity suggesting that adventitious bacterial infections that may occur during surgical manipulations and after implantation can be greatly reduced. Lastly, when hydrogelation is triggered in the presence of a therapeutic, gels become impregnated with the therapeutic. A unique characteristic of these gels is that when an appropriate shear stress is applied, the gel will shear-thin, becoming an injectable low viscosity gel. However, after the application of shear has stopped, the material quickly self-heals producing a gel with mechanical rigidity nearly identical to the original hydrogel. This attribute allows therapeutic-impregnated gels to be delivered to target tissues via syringe where they quickly recover complementing the shape of the tissue defect. Therapeutic release, whose rate can be possibly controlled, follows. If cells have been impregnated into the gel, this shear-thin delivery method is a convenient way to introduce cells to wound sites.
In addition to gel design, we are also interested in designing peptides that fold into bioactive conformations at material surfaces such as hydroxyapatite. For these peptides, the material surface triggers intramolecular folding. This allows function to be potentially turned on with spatial resolution only at the material’s surface.
Social: 6:00-7:30 PM - Barley Creek Back Deck- Open Bar - Complimentary beer and house wines (other alcoholic beverages available as cash bar). Wings, Jalapeno Poppers, Assorted Cheese and Crackers and Stuffed Celery. Shuffle board, darts, chess and other games available. Come have fun and let off some steam! Beer Tasting: 7:00 PM - The Brewmaster of Barley Creek Brewing Company will lead us in sampling the fine beers the brewery has to offer. Discussion of brewing ingredients and techniques will make this worth the drive! Brewery Tours: Throughout the evenign with the BCB Brewmaster Dinner: 7:30 PM - Barley Creek Back Deck Menu: House salad, Choice of: 8 oz top sirloin topped with sautéed mushrooms, served with mashed potatoes and seasonal vegetables OR Cajun grilled salmon filet, served with rice and topped with a creamy dill sauce, Veg option - Penne a la Vodka with garlic bread Dessert - New York cheese cake Cost: $26, spouses, students and retirees $18 Contact: Michelle Jones-Wilson by 4PM, Monday May 7. Please provide choice of entree and affiliation. mjwilson@po-box.esu.edu or 570-422-3703 - email contact preferred. Directions: Barley Creek Brewing Company, Sullivan Trail & Camelback Road Tannersville, PA 18372, 570.629.9399; http://www.barleycreek.com/find_us/index.shtml About
Barley Creek Brewing Co
Located in
Tannersville, right off route 80's exit 299 in between the
Crossings Outlet Stores and Camelback Ski area (Camelbeach Water Park,
Barley Creek is the Pocono Mountains' Original Brewpub and Restaurant,
where you can always find great food, freshly brewed beer, a
comfortable atmosphere, friendly people, and a unique place to kick
back, relax and have a great time. Bring your friends, bring your
family, bring your friends' families. We are open every day at 11:01am,
and serve dinner till about 10pm. On Friday and Saturday we are serving
dinner till about 11:00pm. The bar stays open a little longer (so you
can finish your fun if you ordered food just before the kitchen closed)
Cheers!
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795th
LVACS Meeting
Moravian College - Student Poster Session and Undergraduate Student Awards Night
Students are encouraged to Attend
Date: Tuesday, April 24thMoravian College - Student Poster Session and Undergraduate Student Awards Night
Students are encouraged to Attend
Reception and Student Poster Session: 5:00 – 6:15 pm, Lobby Collier Hall of Science
Dinner: 6:15 pm – UBC Room, Haupert Union Building
Meeting & Student Awards Presentation: 7:30 pm Dana Lecture Hall, Collier Hall of Science
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting - Dana Lecture Hall, Collier Hall of Science
Menu: Buffet featuring Baked Chicken Breast with Pineapple/Orange Sauce and Pasta Primavera
Cost: members $20, students & retirees $10
Contact: Reservations: LouAnn Vlahovic by Noon, Thursday, April 19th. Please include your name, affiliation, and for students whether they are an awardee, poster presenter or both. Registration can be made by phone (610-861-1300) or by email melnv01@moravian.edu (the last two digits are numbers). Please put LVACS Registration in the subject line. (Note: email registrations will be confirmed by a return email.)
Directions: Directions to Moravian can be found on the web at http://www.moravian.edu/admission/directions.htm. Suggested parking is in Lots M, N, & O, along Locust Street. A campus map is available at http://www.moravian.edu/campusMaps/north.htm.
Speaker: Les McQuire
Les McQuire was born in Dundee, Scotland and completed both his undergraduate degree and PhD at his home town University. He received a Fulbright Scholarship to travel to the University of Texas at Austin where he carried out Post-doctoral work with Prof. Phil Magnus culminating in the total synthesis of Strychnine. Les then moved to Ciba Pharmaceuticals (now part of Novartis) in 1992 where he was part of the Arthritis and Bone Group. He has initiated and led several projects including the Novartis Cox-2 and MMP efforts. In 2003 he switched to the Cardiovascular disease area and help build the Novartis chemistry group in Cambridge, MA. Les is very active in ACS, having chaired the North Jersey Section, and is currently a councilor for that section. He is active in several ACS Divisions and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Talk: Drug Discovery: A Life in a Day
The talk with provide an overview of drug discovery, the challenges and opportunities. It will also discuss how research is carried out and scientists interact in an industrial setting.
794th
LVACS Meeting
DeSales University - High School Teacher's Night
Date: Friday, March 23rdDeSales University - High School Teacher's Night
Reception: 5:15 PM, Trexler Room
Dinner: 6:15 PM, Trexler Room
Meeting: 7:15 PM , Trexler Room
Talk: Trexler Room, at the conclusion of the meeting
Menu: Reception - assorted cheeses and crackers, fresh strawberries and grapes, nonalcoholic champagne, and assorted sodas Dinner - salad, baked ham, white fish with fresh, tomatoes and spinach, garnish, chicken medallions, pasta, rice pilaf, fresh green beans, baby carrots with cinnamon butter, tarismu, chocolate cheese cake, strawberry shortcake and beverages
Cost: $ 18.50, spouses, students and retirees $10.00
Contact: Reservations are made with Mrs. Renee Fair at {610} (282-1100, Ext.1386) or Renee.Fair@desales.edu
Reservation deadline: Tuesday, March 20, 2007, at 4:00 p.m.
Directions:
Speaker: Mr. Gerard Caprio, M.S.
Mr. Caprio is a Forensic Scientist I at theNew Jersey State Police – Office Of Forensic Sciences, Central Regional Laboratory. He received his Master of Science degree (M.S.) in Biotechnology from William Paterson University of New Jersey. Wayne, NJ in 2001 and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology. and Chemistry from DeSales University in 1999.
Talk: A Killer Presentation: Forensics Utilizing Chemistry and Mitochondrial DNA Biology.
In forensic cases where nuclear DNA testing is not an option due to the nature of the evidence, it can be beneficial to pursue mitochondrial DNA testing. Due to its abundance in our cells, mitochondrial DNA can be tested in samples that lack cellular material such as teeth, bones, and hair shafts. Since crime scenes reveal evidence of this nature, its demand in forensics has escalated, which consequently, has caused a backlog for cases requiring mitochondrial DNA testing. For that reason, the FBI decided to establish a program that would alleviate the backlog for mitochondrial DNA case submission while offering no cost testing to outside agencies. This presentation will outline the FBI Regional Mitochondrial DNA Program, discuss mitochondrial Biology and its forensic applications, and also discuss chemical principles relevant to mitochondrial DNA analysis.
793rd
LVACS Meeting
Cedar Crest College
Cedar Crest College
Date: Tuesday February 27, 2007
Reception: 6:00-6:30 PM in Alcove A of the Tompkins College Center
Dinner: 6:30-7:30 PM in the 1867 Room of the Tompkins College Center
Meeting: 7:30 in the 1867 Room with the talk at the conclusion of the meeting
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting
Menu: Beef Burgundy or a vegetarian option is available upon request
Cost: $ 15.00 , spouses, students and retirees $8.00
Contact: Lesley Jones at 610-606-4666 ext 3457 or Lesley@cedarcrest.edu by noon on Wednesday Feb 21, 2007
Please give your name, affiliation and phone number.
Directions: consult the map and directions at http://www.cedarcrest.edu/Redesign/Home%20Page/ataglance_frameset.asp
Speaker: Thomas A. Brettell, Ph.D., D-ABC
Reception: 6:00-6:30 PM in Alcove A of the Tompkins College Center
Dinner: 6:30-7:30 PM in the 1867 Room of the Tompkins College Center
Meeting: 7:30 in the 1867 Room with the talk at the conclusion of the meeting
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting
Menu: Beef Burgundy or a vegetarian option is available upon request
Cost: $ 15.00 , spouses, students and retirees $8.00
Contact: Lesley Jones at 610-606-4666 ext 3457 or Lesley@cedarcrest.edu by noon on Wednesday Feb 21, 2007
Please give your name, affiliation and phone number.
Directions: consult the map and directions at http://www.cedarcrest.edu/Redesign/Home%20Page/ataglance_frameset.asp
Speaker: Thomas A. Brettell, Ph.D., D-ABC
Dr.
Brettell is Assistant Professor in the Chemical and
Physical Sciences Department at Cedar Crest College. Tom
received his BA degree (1973) in Chemistry from Drew
University, Madison, NJ; a MS degree (1975) in Chemistry from Lehigh
University
in Bethlehem, PA; and a Ph.D. degree (1987) in Analytical Chemistry
from
Villanova University, Villanova, PA.
Talk: Measuring Alcohol in Blood and Breath for Forensic Purposes - A Historical Perspective
The first scientific investigations into the fate
of alcohol
in the human body started about 150 years ago.
Since that time significant technical innovations have evolved
to make
the analysis and measurement of ethanol in biological specimens
scientifically
reliable for medico-legal purposes. This
presentation will discuss important events and trends in the evolution
of
chemical tests for alcohol intoxication.
A historical perspective of the development of methodology will
be
described which includes the pioneer wet chemical methods and the
present
state-of-the-art instrumentation.
Quantitative methods for the determination of alcohol in the
blood,
breath, and urine appeared early in the twentieth century.
Around 1935 in the
792nd
LVACS Meeting
Muhlenberg College
Muhlenberg College
Date: Thursday Jan 25th
Reception:
Dinner: 6:00 pm
Meeting:
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting
Menu: Lemon barbecue Flank steak, or
Cost: $20 per member or guest, $10 for students and retirees
Contact: Contact LuAnn Feist at 484-664-3260 or feist@muhlenberg.edu by
Directions: http://www.muhlenberg.edu/muhlinfo/directions.html#toBerg
Speaker: Phil Henderson
Dr. Henderson is
Manager of the
Reactive Gas Applications Group in the
Talk:
Ionic Liquids:
Beyond the Green
Ionic liquids are materials containing only ions with a melting point below 100°C. Although known since 1914, intensive exploration of this class of compounds began about 15 years ago with the preparation of ionic liquids resistant to hydrolysis. Although originally developed as improved electrolytes, the majority of the published literature concerning these compounds focuses on their use as “green” (or environmentally friendly) solvents. Ionic liquids have been labeled as green because of their low volatility and recyclability; however, their toxicity is generally no better or worse than conventional solvents. At Air Products, we have identified a subclass of ionic liquids that exhibit weak chemical interactions with gases allowing us to develop new applications for ionic liquids as gas storage and delivery media as well as high quality absorbents. This presentation will provide an introduction to this facinating class of compounds and their applications beyond use as green industrial reaction chemistry solvents.
791st
LVACS Meeting
Lehigh University - Spouse's night!
Lehigh University - Spouse's night!
Date: Thursday November 16, 2006
Location: Asa Packer Room, University Center
Reception: 6:00 crudite and refreshments
Dinner: 6:30 Buffet
Meeting: At the conclusion of dinner
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting
Menu: Selections from salads, Crab Stuffed Baked Flounder with Tomato Bruschetta and Cheese Tortellini Alfredo Primavera, assorted steamed vegetables, orange rice, sunshine lemon tart dessert, tea and coffee.
Cost: $20, spouses, students and retirees $10.00
Contact: Please call [(610) 758-3471] to reserve your place before close of work Friday, November 10th
Directions: consult the map and directions on the website www.lehigh.edu
Speaker: Salvatore J. Salamone Ph.D.
Chairman and CEO, Saladax Biomedical Inc.
Salvatore J. Salamone, Ph.D., is the Chairman & Chief Scientific Officer of Saladax Biomedical. Dr. Salamone has over twenty years' experience in the healthcare and medical device industry. At Roche Diagnostics, where he served for seventeen years, Dr. Salamone's most recent position was Vice President of Research and Development from which he managed all of Roche's North American Research and Development efforts for the Laboratory Systems division. He was also responsible for establishing the Research Center of Excellence in Indianapolis, Indiana, after the acquisition of Boehringer Mannheim by Roche. Dr. Salamone's efforts during his tenure resulted in the launch of seven major reagent product lines (Abuscreen OnTrak, TesTcup, OnLine DAT, OnLine II TDM/DAT, Fluorescent Polarization TDM line, TesTstik, Integra DAT/TDM line) which account for over 70 FDA approved products and 200 instrument applications. Dr. Salamone is world-recognized in the field of drug monitoring with well over 100 publications, chapters, books and patents in the area. After leaving Roche, Dr. Salamone joined OraSure Technologies, Inc. as Senior Vice President, Research and Product Development where his research group was responsible for the development of a new technology with applications in the field of drug monitoring and support of the OraQuick HIV 20 minute assay. Dr. Salamone is also Founder and President of Advance BioTech Consulting, LLC, where he provides guidance and direction to the biotechnology industry in technology assessment, strategic planning and product development. His clients include the top diagnostic players as well as multiple smaller biotech companies. Before joining Roche Diagnostics in 1984 Dr. Salamone was a post-doctoral fellow at Oxford University, England where he studied in the area of bioorganic chemistry He received two B.S. degrees (Chemistry and General Science) from Villanova University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from Rutgers University.
Talk: Advances in Chemotherapy Management: Making drugs more effective and less toxic
Maintaining a patient's blood level in a precise therapeutic range is a big part of making that pharmaceutical maximally effective for that patient. Often in combination therapies -- where more than one drug is part of the dosage regimen -- the clearance kinetics will differ substantially. New advances in diagnostic medicine allow monitoring to insure the patient's levels are optimum and that the chance for therapeutic benefit is thereby improved.
Location: Asa Packer Room, University Center
Reception: 6:00 crudite and refreshments
Dinner: 6:30 Buffet
Meeting: At the conclusion of dinner
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting
Menu: Selections from salads, Crab Stuffed Baked Flounder with Tomato Bruschetta and Cheese Tortellini Alfredo Primavera, assorted steamed vegetables, orange rice, sunshine lemon tart dessert, tea and coffee.
Cost: $20, spouses, students and retirees $10.00
Contact: Please call [(610) 758-3471] to reserve your place before close of work Friday, November 10th
Directions: consult the map and directions on the website www.lehigh.edu
Speaker: Salvatore J. Salamone Ph.D.
Chairman and CEO, Saladax Biomedical Inc.
Salvatore J. Salamone, Ph.D., is the Chairman & Chief Scientific Officer of Saladax Biomedical. Dr. Salamone has over twenty years' experience in the healthcare and medical device industry. At Roche Diagnostics, where he served for seventeen years, Dr. Salamone's most recent position was Vice President of Research and Development from which he managed all of Roche's North American Research and Development efforts for the Laboratory Systems division. He was also responsible for establishing the Research Center of Excellence in Indianapolis, Indiana, after the acquisition of Boehringer Mannheim by Roche. Dr. Salamone's efforts during his tenure resulted in the launch of seven major reagent product lines (Abuscreen OnTrak, TesTcup, OnLine DAT, OnLine II TDM/DAT, Fluorescent Polarization TDM line, TesTstik, Integra DAT/TDM line) which account for over 70 FDA approved products and 200 instrument applications. Dr. Salamone is world-recognized in the field of drug monitoring with well over 100 publications, chapters, books and patents in the area. After leaving Roche, Dr. Salamone joined OraSure Technologies, Inc. as Senior Vice President, Research and Product Development where his research group was responsible for the development of a new technology with applications in the field of drug monitoring and support of the OraQuick HIV 20 minute assay. Dr. Salamone is also Founder and President of Advance BioTech Consulting, LLC, where he provides guidance and direction to the biotechnology industry in technology assessment, strategic planning and product development. His clients include the top diagnostic players as well as multiple smaller biotech companies. Before joining Roche Diagnostics in 1984 Dr. Salamone was a post-doctoral fellow at Oxford University, England where he studied in the area of bioorganic chemistry He received two B.S. degrees (Chemistry and General Science) from Villanova University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from Rutgers University.
Talk: Advances in Chemotherapy Management: Making drugs more effective and less toxic
Maintaining a patient's blood level in a precise therapeutic range is a big part of making that pharmaceutical maximally effective for that patient. Often in combination therapies -- where more than one drug is part of the dosage regimen -- the clearance kinetics will differ substantially. New advances in diagnostic medicine allow monitoring to insure the patient's levels are optimum and that the chance for therapeutic benefit is thereby improved.
790th LVACS
Meeting:
Albright College
Date: Wednesday October 25, 2006
Location: Center for the Fine Arts Mezzanine (social hour and dinner);Merner-Pfeiffer Hall of Science Room 221 (speaker).
Reception: 5:30 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Meeting: At the conclusion of dinner ~ 8:00 PM
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting
Menu: Assorted Bread Sticks w/ Butter, Pear Salad with Spring Greens, Sauté Chicken Breast with Artichoke Hearts and Sun dried Tomatoes* OR Grilled Fresh Fish Served with Sauce Maltaise*, Wild Rice with Pine Nuts, Stir Fry Vegetables, Chocolate/Raspberry Mousse Parfait, *Please specify a choice of entrée
Cost: $23.00, students and retirees $12.00
Contact: Reservation by4:00
P.M. Wednesday
October 18, 2006 through Nancy Kerper at (610) 921-7720 or
Pam Artz
at partz@alb.edu
(E-mail is preferred with LVACS as the subject). Please specify a
choice of
entrée.
Directions: Available at http://www.albright.edu/about/directions.html
Speaker: Gaylen Bradley, Ph.D., Visiting Professor of Pharmacology and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology PennState College
of
Medicine, Hershey , PA.
Milton
S. Hershey
Medical Center June 30, 2005 at which time he returned to active
bench research. Prior to relocating to
Penn State Hershey in
1999, he was Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of
Maryland
Biotechnology Institute, and Dean of Basic Health Sciences and Chair of
Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical College of Virginia,
Virginia
Commonwealth University. He received his
baccalaureate training at Missouri
State University Northwestern University
Talk: Issues in Scientific Ethics Today
Hardly a day passes without seeing an article in Chemical and Engineering News or the popular press about breaches in responsible conduct of research. Charges of plagiarism have been levied at students, faculty and administrators. Research workers have been charged with allowing their personal financial interests to influence their design, conduct and reporting of research. Scientists, particularly clinical investigators, have been alleged to endanger human participants in clinical trials. As a result, academic institutions, research organizations, and state and federal agencies have established rules to guide or prohibit conduct of research. The principles that guide responsible conduct or research will be explored. The processes for establishing regulations will be evaluated, as well as the factors that lead scientists to engage in unethical practices. The public holds scientists in high regard. Is the public trust warranted? This presentation will identify some of the current issues in scientific ethics and the principles that are invoked in reports addressing specific or general behavior of members of the scientific community.
Albright College
Date: Wednesday October 25, 2006
Location: Center for the Fine Arts Mezzanine (social hour and dinner);Merner-Pfeiffer Hall of Science Room 221 (speaker).
Reception: 5:30 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Meeting: At the conclusion of dinner ~ 8:00 PM
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting
Menu: Assorted Bread Sticks w/ Butter, Pear Salad with Spring Greens, Sauté Chicken Breast with Artichoke Hearts and Sun dried Tomatoes* OR Grilled Fresh Fish Served with Sauce Maltaise*, Wild Rice with Pine Nuts, Stir Fry Vegetables, Chocolate/Raspberry Mousse Parfait, *Please specify a choice of entrée
Cost: $23.00, students and retirees $12.00
Contact: Reservation by
Directions: Available at http://www.albright.edu/about/directions.html
Speaker: Gaylen Bradley, Ph.D., Visiting Professor of Pharmacology and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Penn
Talk: Issues in Scientific Ethics Today
Hardly a day passes without seeing an article in Chemical and Engineering News or the popular press about breaches in responsible conduct of research. Charges of plagiarism have been levied at students, faculty and administrators. Research workers have been charged with allowing their personal financial interests to influence their design, conduct and reporting of research. Scientists, particularly clinical investigators, have been alleged to endanger human participants in clinical trials. As a result, academic institutions, research organizations, and state and federal agencies have established rules to guide or prohibit conduct of research. The principles that guide responsible conduct or research will be explored. The processes for establishing regulations will be evaluated, as well as the factors that lead scientists to engage in unethical practices. The public holds scientists in high regard. Is the public trust warranted? This presentation will identify some of the current issues in scientific ethics and the principles that are invoked in reports addressing specific or general behavior of members of the scientific community.
789th LVACS
Meeting:
Lafayette College
Date: September 28, 2006
Location: Faculty Dining Room, Lafayette College
Reception: 5:30 PM -6:00 PM, Assorted cheese & crackers, soda
Dinner: 6:00 PM
Meeting: At the conclusion of dinner
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting
Menu: Tossed Green Salad with Blue Cheese & Italian Dressing, Assorted Rolls & Butter, Crabcakes, Grilled Flank Steak with a Whiskey Barbecue Sauce, Portobello & Spinach Ravioli with roasted tomato sauce (Vegetarian Option), Orzo & Wild mushroom herbs, Haricot Vert Green Beans, Dessert: Peanut Butter Pie
Cost: members $25, students & retirees $12.50
Contact: Debbie Bastinelli at (610) 330-5213 or bastined@lafayette.edu bu 9/21
Directions: on the web at http://www.lafayette.edu/community/directions.html
Speaker: Professor Jack Norton of Columbia University.
Talk: H• Transfer from Transition Metal Hydrides. Applications to Polymers and to Synthesis
Details will be published as they become available.
Lafayette College
Date: September 28, 2006
Location: Faculty Dining Room, Lafayette College
Reception: 5:30 PM -6:00 PM, Assorted cheese & crackers, soda
Dinner: 6:00 PM
Meeting: At the conclusion of dinner
Talk: At the conclusion of the meeting
Menu: Tossed Green Salad with Blue Cheese & Italian Dressing, Assorted Rolls & Butter, Crabcakes, Grilled Flank Steak with a Whiskey Barbecue Sauce, Portobello & Spinach Ravioli with roasted tomato sauce (Vegetarian Option), Orzo & Wild mushroom herbs, Haricot Vert Green Beans, Dessert: Peanut Butter Pie
Cost: members $25, students & retirees $12.50
Contact: Debbie Bastinelli at (610) 330-5213 or bastined@lafayette.edu bu 9/21
Directions: on the web at http://www.lafayette.edu/community/directions.html
Speaker: Professor Jack Norton of Columbia University.
Talk: H• Transfer from Transition Metal Hydrides. Applications to Polymers and to Synthesis
Details will be published as they become available.
On Deck !