Call for papers: 2025 Western Regional Meeting

Abstracts for oral and poster presentations are now being accepted for the 2025 Western Regional Meeting. The meeting will take place October 25–28 at the Signia by Hilton Hotel in San Jose, California.

Visit the meeting website at wrm2025.org for details, including names and contact information for the organizing committee.

The meeting theme “Building Bridges” represents the process of fostering cooperation and collaboration, which is particularly characteristic of the San Francisco Bay area, renowned as a worldwide hub for technology and innovation. The meeting will feature three plenary speakers: William Tarpeh of Stanford University presenting “Electrochemical Wastewater Refining: Building Bridges Across Length Scales”; Judy Giordan, managing director of ecosVC, presenting “Where Has the Trust Gone: Changing Attitudes in America’s Trust in Science and Scientists”; and Christopher Sarko of Novartis Biomedical Research, speaking on “Overcoming the Challenges of Drug Discovery in Global Health: Novel Approaches to Malaria and Cryptosporidiosis.”

The symposia will highlight advances in all areas of chemistry. The technical symposia include five memorial symposia honoring John I. Brauman, Neal D. Byington, Robert H. Grubbs, Attila E. Pavlath, and Harry S. Mosher. The meeting also features two poster sessions, an exposition, and several special events such as a “Chemistry of Beer” dinner, trivia night, and careers in industry and academia panel discussions. A full day of programming geared toward undergraduate students majoring in chemistry and related fields at regional universities and community colleges is also scheduled.

The 34 technical symposia are organized in 14 distinct tracks, which will run in 8 concurrent sessions: “Agricultural and Food Chemistry,” “Analytical Chemistry,” “Biochemistry and Chemical Biology,” “Chemical Education,” “Chemistry Entrepreneurship,” “Chemistry and the Law,” “Chemistry and Our Communities,” “Chemical Safety,” “Energy and Fuels,” “Inorganic and Materials Chemistry,” “Medicinal Chemistry,” “Organic Chemistry,” “Polymer Chemistry,” and “Physical and Computational Chemistry.” For the full list of symposia, please visit the meeting website.

The deadline to submit abstracts is July 28. ACS’s Meeting Abstracts Programming System (MAPS) opens on April 21 for submissions. Please visit the symposium website or MAPS to submit an abstract.