FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEÂ |Â July 18, 2019
Highlights for the 2019 American Chemical Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø national meeting in San Diego
WASHINGTON, July 18, 2019 â€� Journalists who register for the American Chemical Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø’s (ACSâ€�) Fall 2019 National Meeting & Exposition in San Diego will have access to more than 9,500 presentations on the meeting’s theme, “Chemistry & Water,â€� and topics such as food, nutrition, medicine, health, nanotechnology, space science, energy and the environment. The meeting, one of the largest scientific conferences of the year, will be held Aug. 25 to 29 in San Diego.
Nobel Prize winner Frances Arnold, Ph.D., of the California Institute of Technology and Thomas Markland, DPhil, of Stanford University will deliver the two Kavli Foundation lectures on Aug. 26.
Presentations related to the meeting’s theme of “Chemistry and Water� will include:
- Agriculture and water scarcity
- Biology and chemistry of waterborne diseases
- Water, health and environmental justice in marginalized communities
- Plastics in aquatic environments
- Water sustainability through nanotechnology
- New materials and approaches to water purification and desalination
- Stormwater treatment and green infrastructure
The more than 9,500 presentations also will cover:
- Geochemistry of the urban and lived environment
- New herbicides and their modes of action
- First-time disclosures of clinical candidates
- Nanotechnology for food and agriculture
- Emerging targets for treating drug abuse
- The chemistry of disasters
- Chemistry of aged beer and spirits
Looking for something else? Search the meeting’s abstracts.
ACS will operate a press center with press conferences, a news media workroom fully staffed to assist in arranging interviews and free Wi-Fi, computers and refreshments.
Embargoed copies of press releases and a press conference schedule will be available in mid-August. Reporters planning to cover the meeting from their home bases will have access to the press conferences on YouTube at .
ACS considers requests for press credentials and complimentary registration to national meetings from reporters (staff and freelance) and public information officers at government, non-profit and educational institutions. See the registration website for details.
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The American Chemical Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø (ACS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1876 and chartered by the U.S. Congress. ACS is committed to improving all lives through the transforming power of chemistry. Its mission is to advance scientific knowledge, empower a global community and champion scientific integrity, and its vision is a world built on science. The Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø is a global leader in promoting excellence in science education and providing access to chemistry-related information and research through its multiple research solutions, peer-reviewed journals, scientific conferences, e-books and weekly news periodical Chemical & Engineering News. ACS journals are among the most cited, most trusted and most read within the scientific literature; however, ACS itself does not conduct chemical research. As a leader in scientific information solutions, its CAS division partners with global innovators to accelerate breakthroughs by curating, connecting and analyzing the world’s scientific knowledge. ACSâ€� main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
Registered journalists can subscribe to the to access embargoed and public science press releases. For media inquiries, contact newsroom@acs.org.
Note: ACS does not conduct research but publishes and publicizes peer-reviewed scientific studies.
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