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Kick off your meeting experience on Sunday with the Priestley Medalist Address. Then join us on Monday and Tuesday for the Kavli Foundation Lecture Series.听
Priestley Medalist Award Address and Open Board Session听
Sunday, March 23 |听4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PT |听San Diego Convention Center听Room 6A/B听
A Random (Mostly) Uphill Walk
Professor Frances Arnold
California Institute of Technology
Frances Arnold is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology and the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018). Arnold pioneered directed enzyme evolution and has used directed evolution to optimize biocatalysts for applications in alternative energy, chemicals, and medicine. Her methods are used throughout the world to engineer enzymes and other proteins. The Arnold lab now focuses on expanding DNA-encoded chemistry by discovery and optimization of new-to-nature enzyme activities and developing methods for AI and machine-learning-guided enzyme evolution and discovery. Her research has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National Academy of Engineering (2011), the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2011), and the Millennium Technology Prize (2016).
Dr. Arnold will be recognized for contributions to the development of directed evolution as a method for chemical and biological design.听Dr. Arnold will be officially honored as the 2025 Priestley Medalist on Tuesday, March 25 during the ACS National Awards Banquet and Ceremony at the听Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego.
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The Kavli Lecture Series
Supported by
The Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry
Monday, March 24 | 5:00 - 6:00 PM PT | San Diego Convention Center听Room 6A/B
A Quantum Mechanical Frontier for Polymer Science听
Professor Nicholas Jackson
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US听
Prof. Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and leader of the Beckman Institute's AI for Materials Group at UIUC. He obtained his B.A. in Physics from Wesleyan University in 2011, followed by a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Northwestern University in 2016, working with Prof. Mark Ratner and Prof. Lin Chen.听He was subsequently a Named Fellow and Assistant Scientist in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, working with Prof. Juan de Pablo. His research group works on problems at the interface of soft materials, quantum mechanics, and machine learning, with specific interests in the development of coarse-grained electronic structure methods, conjugated materials theory, and sustainable polymer design.
The Fred Kavli Innovations in Chemistry
Tuesday, March 25 | 5:00 - 6:00 PM PT | San Diego Convention Center听Room 6A/B
Macromolecular Engineering by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization听
Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Carnegie Mellon University, US听
Krzysztof (Kris) Matyjaszewski is J.C. Warner University Professor of Natural Sciences and director of the Center for Macromolecular Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1994 he discovered Cu-mediated atom transfer radical polymerization, commercialized in 2004 in US, Japan and Europe. He synthesized many precisely controlled various advanced materials for biomedical, environmental, and energy-related applications. He has co-authored >1,300 publications and 72 US patents. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, European, Australian, and Polish Academies of Sciences. He received 2023 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, 2017 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry, 2015 Dreyfus Prize in Chemical Sciences, 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, 5 major Awards from the American Chemical 中国365bet中文官网, and thirteen doctorates honoris causa.
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