Dear Colleagues:

Call for Abstracts and Preprints, deadline May 2, 2003 

POLY Symposium on "Biocatalysis in Polymer Science" American Chemical Society Fall 
Meeting
New York, Sept. 7-11, 2002

This symposium will highlight the latest advances in the use of enzymes and micro-
organisms in polymer science. The following topics will be included: 1. Novel 
synthesis of monomers or polymers with enzymes or micro-organisms.
2. Polymer modification reactions, using biocatalysts (microbes or enzymes), 
including fiber/surface modification 3. Degradation of materials, e.g., microbial 
or enzymatic hydrolysis 4. Tools in biocatalysis (e.g., immobilization methods, 
directed evolution of enzymes, metabolic engineering, in vitro or whole cell 
strategies) 5. Reactor design and reaction parameters 

The following is a list of confirmed speakers: 
Hideki Abe, RIKEN Institute, Japan
Kurt Brandstadt, Dow Corning Corp.
Doug Cameron, Cargill Dow Polymers
H. N. Cheng, Hercules Incorporated
Ashok Cholli, Univ. of Mass - Lowell
C. B. Conboy, Dow Chemical Company
Paul DeAngelis, Univ. of Oklahoma
Jonathan S. Dordick, RPI
Holger Frey, Univ. of Mainz
Richard A. Gross, Polytechnic Univ.
Andreas Heise, DSM
J.C.M. van Hest, Univ. of Nijmegen
You Lo Hsieh, Univ. of Calif., Davis
Noda Isao, Procter & Gamble
James Kellis, Genencor International
Ole Kirk, Novo Nordisk A/S
Shiro Kobayashi, Kyoto Univ.
Ajay Kumar, Diagnostic Sys. Labs
Barry L. Marrs, Fraunhofer Center of Molecular Biotechnology Lisa Miller, 
Brookhaven Nat'l Lab
Jeremy Minshull, Maxygen
Greg F. Payne, Univ. of Maryland
Richard J. Riehle, Hercules Incorporated Friedrich Scienc, Univ. of Minnesota
Peng George Wang, Wayne State Univ.
David B. Wilson, Cornell Univ.

If you are interested in submitting a paper or a poster, you can enter it into the 
OASys system at this web site:
http://oasys.acs.org/oasys.htm
Select program: POLY.
Then select topic: Oral or Poster: "Biocatalysis in Polymer Science"; click on the 
"submit topic selection" at the bottom of the page. Follow the instructions to 
submit title, author(s), abstract, and preprint. 

Organizers

Richard A. Gross
Polytechnic Univ.
Phone: (718) 260-3024
email: rgross@poly.edu

H. N. Cheng
Hercules Incorporated
Phone: (302) 995-3505
email: hcheng@herc.com