Biocatalysis in Polymer Science

238th ACS National Meeting & Exposition
Washington, D.C., August 16-20, 2009

 

Dear colleagues

 

I am delighted to inform you that H.N. Cheng and I are organizing the 5th ACS Symposium entitled ÒÓ to be held as part of the Fall 2009 ACS conference in Washington D.C. (August 16-20th). Please help us spread the word!

 

The conference will run for 3-days during the ACS conference with 6 full sessions (over 30 oral presentations). There will also be what is always a well attended poster session which, last year, had greater than 25 contributions.

 

If you are interested in presenting an oral and/or poster at the upcoming meeting in Washington D.C. please let me know so I can reserve a space for you on the program. A tentative title would be appreciated.

 

The symposium will be inclusive of these topics that interweave concepts of polymers, materials and biocatalysis:

 

Biobased materials

- Example: chemical methods to polymerize or modify agroproducts such as lipids and carbohydrates
--Whole cell, plant and cell-free biotransformations
--Novel bioprocesses and products
--Biocatalytic and chemo-enzymatic routes to monomer, prepolymers, macromers and polymers.
--Enzyme-catalyzed surface modifications
--Fiber bioprocessing (e.g. biopolishing)
--Enzyme-polymer bioconjugates
--Biocatalyst engineering (enzyme-engineering, metabolic pathway engineering) to prepare monomers and polymers
--Enzyme immobilization
--Interactions between enzymes and surfaces that influence catalytic properties.

Additional details will follow as we move closer to the event.

 

 

Sincerely,
Rich

Richard A. Gross
Professor and Herman F. Mark Chair
Director: NSF Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing of Macromolecules
Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences
Polytechnic Institue of NYU Six Metrotech Center
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201
rgross@poly.edu

phone: 718-260-3024
Fax: 718-260-3075
http://www.poly.edu/grossbiocat