Technical Program

MARM Schedule of Symposia and Other Activities

• Synthetic Chemistry Across the Border (Victor Snieckus, Queen's University)
• Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology of Anticancer Agents (Jamie Talisman and Sanjay Malhotra, NIH)
• New Approaches to Teaching Chemistry I (Scott Sinex, Prince George's County Community College)
• Frontiers of Structure and Dynamics Using NMR Spectroscopy; Protein Structure and Dynamics (Kwaku Dayie, University of Maryland)
• Supramolecular Chemistry and Molecular Recognition (Jeff Davis, University of Maryland)

• Advances in Organic Synthesis (Christian Wolff, Georgetown University)
• New Approaches to Teaching Chemistry II (Scott Sinex, Prince George's County Community College)
• Chemistry of Graphitic Materials (Yuhuang Wang, University of Maryland)
• Frontiers of Structure and Dynamics Using NMR Spectroscopy; RNA Structure and Dynamics (Kwaku Dayie, University of Maryland)
• Nanoparticle Metrology (Michael Zachariah, University of Maryland and NIST)
• Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology of Anticancer Agents (Jamie Talisman and Sanjay Malhotra, NIH)
• Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Biochemistry (Herman Sintim and Steve Rokita, University of Maryland)

• Career Development Workshop (Jamie Talisman, NIH)
• Graduate Research Opportunities in Government Laboratories Workshop (John Fourkas, University of Maryland)
• Environmental Health and Safety Workshop (Russell Phifer, WC Environmental LLC)
• Building the NSF Grant Proposal Workshop (Robert Porter, University of Tennessee)

Plenary Lectures - Emerging Problems in the 21st Century


• Eric Wachsman
  William L. Crentz Centennial Chair in Energy Research and
  Director, University of Maryland Energy Institute
  University of Maryland
  "Energy Issues in the 21st Century"


• Clifton E. Barry, III
  Chief, Tuberculosis Research Station
  National Institutes of Health
  "The Re-emergence of Infectious Diseases"


• Joyce Penner
  Ralph J. Ciccerone Distinguished University Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences
  College of Engineering
  University of Michigan
  "Climate Change Issues in the 21st Century"

• Food Safety: New Technologies for Protection of the Food Supply I (Kim Morehouse, FDA)
• ACS Careers Workshop (ACS)
• New Technologies for Lithium Ion Batteries I (Peter Kofinas, University of Maryland)
• Cheminformatics and Bioinformatics: Working Together to Address Systems Chemical Biology (Rajarshi Guha, NIH)
• Validation of Chromatographic Methods in Pharmaceutical Chemistry Workshop (Kim Huyn Ba)
• Advances in Terahertz and IR Spectroscopy (Anis Rahman, Applied Photonics)
• How to Be a More Effective Chemical Hygiene Officer (Russell Phifer, WC Environmental LLC)
• Science in Startup Companies (Philip DeShong, University of Maryland)

• Bioactive Small Molecule Design and Discovery (Craig Thomas, NIH)
• Redefining the Kilogram and Avogadro's Number (Robert L. Watters Jr., NIST)
• Expiration of Patent Protection: A Major Challenge Facing the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries in the 21st Century (Justin Hansford, Finnegan LLC)
• Facilitating Improved Lab-Scale Purification Workshop (Michael Early, Grace Davison Discovery)
• Applied Methods of Separation Sciences (Kim Huyn Ba, United States Pharmacopeia)
• Metal-Mediated Small Molecule Activation and Functionalization (Larry Sita, University of Maryland)
• Chemistry and Materials Composition of Cultural Heritage Materials (Fenella France, Library of Congress)
• Ambient Ionization Methods for Biological Mass Spectrometry (Akos Vertes, George Washington University)
• CFDV Student Award Symposium for Separation Science (Delaware Section)
• New Technologies for Ion Lithium Batteries II (Peter Kofinas, University of Maryland)
• Food Safety: New Technologies for Protection of the Food Supply II (Kim Morehouse, FDA)