ACS: Nobel laureate book club
I only have time for a quick post before I run off to David Schwartz's talk on 'Environmental genomics and human health.' I just left the H.C. Brown Legacy Symposium, where Professor Sharpless talked about 'click' chemistry, azido-phobia, pandas, and Kevin Kelly's Out of Control (which he highly recommended). Needless to say, it was a great talk and I learned a few new things about 'click' chemistry: it turns out that the Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition works pretty well in Jack Daniel's whiskey and in human plasma...
I also bumped into Mark Peplow, who used to work at Nature and is now the editor of Chemistry World. He's blogging about the conference, and he's not alone: the ACS, Tenderblog, the Chem Blog, and Chemical Forums are here too... Update: C&EN and Peter Murray-Rust are also blogging from the conference.
Joshua
Joshua Finkelstein (Associate Editor, Nature)
Comments
Another blogger who's there is Peter Murray-Rust from the University of Cambridge Chemical Laboratory.
Posted by: Andrew Walkingshaw | September 12, 2006 12:13 PM
Thanks for the shout out Josh :-)
Posted by: Mark | September 12, 2006 04:51 PM
Josh and other Nature bloggers: when do you plan on being at the Nature booth?
Mitch
Posted by: Mitch | September 12, 2006 05:35 PM
Hi Mitch,
I'm sorry I missed you earlier this week - I'll swing by the booth tomorrow (Wed) and hang out from 4 to 5 PM. I'd love to chat with you or anyone else who's free - the NPG booth is 1333 & 1335.
Hope to see you there,
Josh
Posted by: Joshua | September 12, 2006 09:20 PM
Apologies to anyone who tried to swing by the exhibition hall this afternoon to chat - I thought they were open until 5 PM, but it looks like they closed it at 1 PM. Sorry about that!
Posted by: Joshua | September 13, 2006 08:18 PM