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Board of Directors

Board of Directors meetings are held the 2nd Thursday night of each month (September through May) in the clubhouse at Glen Echo Country Club, Map to Glen Echo CC map unless you see a special date or location announced on the home page events calendar. Social hour starts at 5:30, dinner and officers’ reports at 6:30, and the business meeting at 7:15. Meetings are open to all section members, but attendees must pay for their own dinners. The usual cost is $24; officers and chairs of major committees who are post-docs or unemployed, $12. There is no cost to attend only the business meeting. Elected officers and committee chairs have the right to vote; others in attendance have voice but no vote.

Dinner reservations are required by noon on the Monday before the meeting. Contact the section Chair to make a reservation.

The Continuity Dinner

is a fancier than average board meeting held in December. At this event, there is usually a brief General Meeting of the Section to conduct general-meeting business; the Distinguished Service Award is announced (but not conferred until March); and the gavel is officially passed from the outgoing chair to the incoming chair.

Chromatography Discussion Group

Chair: Bruce Ritts, bruce_ritts@steris.com

The St Louis Chromatography Discussion Group appreciates the financial support of:
Agilent Technologies
Dionex Corporation
Grace Davison Discovery Sciences
Shimadzu
Waters Corporation

Computational Chemistry Discussion Group

CCDG meetings are held at Tripos, Inc., 1699 South Hanley Road, St Louis, MO 63144.

For more information about the meetings or if you would like to speak at a future meeting contact Philippa Wolohan (314-647-8837 x 3201 or pwolohan@tripos.com) or Mitchell Polley (314) 647-8837 x 3358 or mpolley@tripos.com

Educational Topics Discussion Group

Discussion group leader: Sandy Mueller of John Burroughs School (smueller@jburroughs.org).

If you would like your name, or colleagues’ names, added to the Education Topics Discussion Group e-mail list, email Hal Harris, hharris@umsl.edu.

General Topics

Contact Greg Wall, (314) 772-0037 for more information.

Midwest Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group

This is now Info Central for what’s happenin’ in the Midwest Mass Spec Discussion Group. Bookmark www.stlacs.org/meetings.html#msdg and check here regularly. Talks on tap:

Jan 5, 6:00 pm
Anas El-Aneed
University of Saskatchewan, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition
Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Small Organic Pharmaceuticals, from the Unique Formation of [M-H]+ Species to the Development of Novel Quantification Methods
WU Danforth Campus Lab Sciences LS 250

Jan 24, 9:30 am
Sam Payne
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
TBA
WU Medical School, Southwest Tower, SW-728

Mar 28, 3:45 pm
Josh Heazlewood
Lawrence Berkeley Labs
TBA
Danforth Plant Science Center

Apr 3
Oliver Fiehn
University of California - Davis
TBA
Danforth Plant Science Center

Apr 25, 6:00 pm
Scott McLuckey
Purdue University
TBA

The following venues are used for almost all Mass Spec Discussion Group meetings. Note the campus maps available to help you locate the venue.
SW 728
Southwest Tower, the same structure that houses Barnes-Jewish Emergency Department (see the Medical School campus map). You can park on Kingshighway or the St Louis Children’s Hospital (lower level of Northwest Tower). Alternatively, you can take Metrolink to the Central West End stop and walk to the Southwest Tower. Enter Wohl Clinic from the drive connecting to Children’s Place. Follow the main hallway south and watch for a sign on the right to “Emergency.” Turn right at sign and then left through next doorway. Proceed to Southwest Tower elevators on your right and go to the 7th floor.
McMillen 311
McMillen Laboratory Building (key #71 on the Danforth Campus map, 3 MB pdf). Enter the campus from Forest Park Parkway at Throop Drive. Make a left turn into Milbrook parking garage, #85. Park as far east as possible, and exit the parking garage at the easternmost pedestrian exit and cross Throop Drive. The entrance to the McMillen Laboratory Building is to your left, down a short flight of stairs and then to your right. Take the elevator or stairs to the 3rd floor. Room 311 will be to your left as you exit the elevator.
LS 250
Laboratory Science Building (key #57 on the Danforth Campus map, 3 MB pdf). Enter the campus from Forest Park Parkway at Throop Drive. Make a left turn into Milbrook parking garage, #85. Exit the parking garage at the center pedestrian exit; the entrance to the Laboratory Science Building will be immediately across the street. Enter there, and go up the gentle ramp towards the end of the hall. LS 250 will be on your right.

The Midwest Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group is made possible with sponsorship by the following organizations:
Advion
Anaspec
Agilent Technologies
AB Sciex
Bruker Daltonics, Inc
Covidien
Eksigent Technologies
JEOL USA
LECO
Monsanto
Peak Scientific
Pfizer
Shimadzu
Sigma-Aldrich Corporation
ThermoFisher Scientific
Varian
Waters Corporation
Washington University Department of Chemistry
Center for Biomedical and Bioorganic Mass Spectrometry: An NIH-Supported Resource Center
St Louis Section–ACS

For more information, contact Henry Rohrs at the Washington University NIH/NCRR Mass Spectrometry Resource, (314) 935-8164 or rohrs@wustl.edu, or visit the website, msr.dom.wustl.edu/MWMS_Discussion_Group/index.htm

NMR Discussion Group

Lots of ways to stay informed:

St Louis Section–American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Our brothers and sisters on the engineering side of the divide host an active monthly program featuring a guest speaker or special event. For up-to-date information, visit the AIChE website, and check out the current newsletter and schedule of future events.

St. Louis Rubber Group

Contact Paul Pfaff at Weskem-Hall for further information (314) 725-2600.

Women Chemists Committee

For more information contact Leah O'Brien, (618) 650-3562 or e-mail lobrien@siue.edu.

Younger Chemists Committee

Ycc's Facebook page

Next event:

Resources for Career Management for Chemists in a Challenging Market: IX — Straight from the Recruiters
Tuesday December 6th, 2011, at Washington University, McMillen Laboratory Sciences 311

Program:

$3 cash on site to attend. RSVP to Eric Bruton at ycc@stlacs.org by Dec 5th. Print the parking pass for this event. Keep up-to-date with the Facebook event link.

For information about YCC membership or programs, contact Eric Bruton, eric.bruton@gmail.com.

College and university seminar series

Area colleges and universities host seminar series throughout their academic year calendars. Details of each seminar are often unavailable until shortly before the event, so it is best to consult the website or email the faculty seminar coordinator for the most up-to-date information.

Saint Louis University

Seminars are on Fridays at 12 noon in Carlo Auditorium, Tegeler Hall, unless noted otherwise. Refreshments follow.
For more information, contact Ryan McCulla, rmccull2@slu.edu. The Chemistry Department’s seminar page has a schedule of the semester’s topics/speakers.

University of Missouri–St Louis

Seminars are held on Mondays at 4:00 pm in Room 451 Benton Hall unless otherwise specified. Refreshments 15 minutes prior to seminar time. Check the Chemistry Department’s seminar page for current information.

Washington University

Seminars are in McMillen 311 at 4 pm unless otherwise noted. Coffee is available 20 minutes prior to the talk, and refreshments follow. For information, contact: Liviu Mirica, mirica@wustl.edu. An up-to-date list of seminars is available on the Chemistry Department’s seminar page.

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