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ISACS8: Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry is fast approaching!

Editor Robert Eagling will be joining conference Chair Professor Doug Stephan and a host of top speakers at this important event, taking place in Toronto on 19-22 July. 

The programme is now online and features plenary lectures from François Gabbaï, Joseph Hupp and Kyoko Nozaki, to name but a few. Download the programme to find out who else will be there. 

If you’d like to take part in this significant global event, the good news is that we’ve managed to hold registration open for a few more days. Register now before it is too late! 

ISACS8 is part of the 2012 ISACS series, which commenced with the highly acclaimed ISACS7: Challenges in Organic Chemistry & Chemical Biology in Edinburgh last month.

Over 300 people turned up to enjoy 17 fantastic plenary lectures, 11 invited talks and extensive poster and networking sessions. But don’t just take my word for it – here’s what some of the delegates had to say:

Read one delegate’s blog on the conference: The Challenges and the Rewards: International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences 7

Also to come for 2012 – ISACS9: Challenges in Nanoscience

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Last week, some of the world’s leading and emerging scientists in the field of chemical biology gathered in Manchester, UK, for ISACS5: Challenges in Chemical Biology. The conference had a lot to live up to after the success of previous ISACS meetings and it certainly did not disappoint.

RSC President David Phillips opened the conference by awarding RSC Honorary Fellowships to Professors Thomas Steitz (Yale University, USA) and Venki Ramakrishnan (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK). The two Honorary Fellows then kicked off the conference proper with the first two plenary lectures, both related to their studies of the structure and function of the ribosome, for which they won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2009. Movies with music were a prominent and enjoyable feature of both talks and were much discussed at the following welcome reception.

Of course, in between these awards there were 26 more great talks, two poster sessions and lots of networking. My colleague Phillip Broadwith (acting Features Editor, Chemistry World) has written an interesting roundup of some of his highlights of the conference, available on the Chemistry World Blog.

My ISACS journey has ended for this year but Robert Eagling, Managing Editor of Chemical Science, will be in Beijing next month for ISACS6: Challenges in Organic Materials & Supramolecular Chemistry. The registration deadline for ISACS6 is today so you’ll have to be quick if you’d like to attend.

I’d like to thank the conference committee, all the speakers, poster presenters and delegates for making ISACS5 a highly interactive, high quality and enjoyable meeting.

This exciting conference will review current research developments in renewable energy and highlight future challenges.

The recently released ISACS4 programme details a full schedule over the entire four days – take a look and discover those all important lecture titles from a series of outstanding plenary speakers.

Submit your poster abstract now – deadline 27 May 2011

Abstracts are invited for poster presentation within the themes of the conference:

• Bioinspired systems
• Battery technology
• Electrochemistry
• Photocatalysis
• Solar harvesting
• Energy storage

This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your work – submit a poster before it’s too late!

Registration deadline 3 June 2011