{"id":2096,"date":"2007-03-30T09:42:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T09:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2007\/03\/acs-slow-writer-part-1.html"},"modified":"2007-03-30T09:42:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T09:42:54","slug":"acs_slow_writer_part_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2007\/03\/acs_slow_writer_part_1.html","title":{"rendered":"ACS: Slow writer (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I’ve never been one to follow the trend, so I decided to write about the ACS<\/span> after it was actually over. Forget this real-time blogging stuff! (and if you’re only reading this blog for the ACS<\/span> content, keep reading for the next few days).<\/p>\n

I wanted to offer my congratulations to Drs. Puglisi<\/a> and Williamson<\/a> for putting together a great series on the Biophysics of RNA<\/span>. I went to 2 different sessions (both were outstanding), and the remaining sessions were always high on the list of the 5 concurrent sessions I wanted to go to. On Tuesday afternoon, I caught Dan Herschlag<\/a>’s talk, who “wants to set forth principles and physical organic parameters to make RNA<\/span> folding less mysterious.” And indeed, his talk was a great tour through different forces and conditions that need to be considered in elucidating RNA<\/span> folding. He was also very gracious when I went up after the talk and asked, basically, “can you explain your whole field to me during the coffee break?” In fact, he and the other speakers I cornered got me pretty interested in the topic, so if I ever leave my current job you may find me back at the bench in an RNA<\/span> lab.<\/p>\n

Aside from just being nice people in general, the RNA<\/span> crowd made a nice counterpoint to the person who found my phone and promptly downloaded nearly $300 worth of games (and as you can imagine, it wasn’t in an attempt to spruce it up for me before giving it back…). I guess I’m learning to appreciate all those silly contraptions people have for keeping their phone nearby, as my track record with phones and the ACS<\/span> isn’t so great<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Well, here’s hoping the next ACS<\/span> organizers keep up the good work, or at least that I stop losing things…<\/p>\n

Catherine (associate editor, Nature Chemical Biology<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I\u2019ve never been one to follow the trend, so I decided to write about the ACS after it was actually over. Forget this real-time blogging stuff! (and if you\u2019re only reading this blog for the ACS content, keep reading for the next few days).  Read more<\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-reports","category-other-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}