AOCS Division Newsletter




	printer-friendly version . send feedback on this newsletter AOCS Biotechnology Division Newsletter September 2007 99th AOCS Annual Meeting & Expo May 18-21, 2008 Washington State Convention and Trade Center Seattle, WA Our Division will have a very full Program of sessions at the 99th Annual Meeting. Right now, we have sessions planned on: Biocatalysis 1 & 2, Ching Hou, Session Chair Sterols 1 & 2, Robert Moreau and David Nes, Session Chairs Bioprocessing, joint with Processing Division, Hans Holm, Session Co-Chair Structured Phospholipids, joint with Phospholipid Division, Xuebing Xu, Session Co-Chair Analytical Methods in Biotechnology and Functional Genomics, joint with Analytical Division, Randy Weselake, Session Co-Chair Biosurfactants and Biobased Products, Doug Hayes, Session Co-Chair General Biotechnology, Ramesh Patel, Session Chair Poster Session Many talks are invited, but some sessions can accept volunteer papers. In addition to our Division sessions, on Tuesday morning there will be several Hot Topics Fora. Following are important dates and deadlines to keep in mind: October 1, 2007 Declaration of Intent Deadline October 19, 2007 Hot Topic submissions due (for inclusion in AM2008 Technical Program) January 7, 2008 Online Registration and Housing opens January 8, 2008 Final abstracts due March 1, 2008 Web discounts through online registration end April 11, 2008 Deadline to receive special hotel rates April 18, 2008 Early registration deadline April 25, 2008 Deadline for Hot Topics (but limited publicity) May 9, 2008 Last day for advance registration Additional Meeting information is available at http://www.aocs.org/meetings/annual_mtg/index.asp?page=am08_home.htm Also in this newsletter: Notes From the Chair, by Tom McKeon Minutes of Biotechnology Division Board Meeting Crop Biotech News, by David Hildebrand 3rd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Biotechnology and Biocatalysis 2007 Biotechnology Division Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Dr. Yuji Shimada Biotechnology Division web page AOCS, 2710 S. Boulder, Urbana, IL 61802-6996 USA	Division Officers Chairperson Thomas McKeon phone: 1-510-559-5754 fax: 1-510-559-5768 Vice Chair/Prog. Comm. Ramesh Patel phone: 1-732-519-2026 fax: 1-732-519-1166 Secretary/Treasurer Daniel Solaiman phone: 1-215-233-6476 fax: 1-215-233-6795 Member-at-Large Yuji Shimada phone:81-669638073 fax: 81-669638079 Member-at-Large Randall Weselake phone: 1-780-492-4401 fax:1-780-492-4265 Member-at-Large Hans Christian Holm phone: 45-44423499 fax: 45-44491050 Member-at-Large Xuebing Xu phone: 45-45252773 fax: 45-45884922 Immed. Past Chair David Hildebrand phone: 859-257-7319 fax: 859-257-2185