The 250th ACS National Meeting starts on Sunday in Boston. Here's what's planned for chemical and laboratory safety; the Division of Chemical Health & Safety has its usual CHAS-At-A-Glance ready for printing. You can also find CHAS and the Committee on Chemical Safety in the Expo at booth 425.
SUNDAY
Morning
- Division of Chemical Health & Safety Executive Committee meeting; here's the agenda book; breakfast at 8:00 AM, meeting 8:30-11:30 AM, Seaport Hotel, Seaport Ballroom A
- Designing Safer Chemicals; 8:00-11:35 AM, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, St. James Room (ENVR)
- On the design of safer commercial chemicals: Past, present, and future perspectives
- Predicting cytotoxity based on EPA ToxCast data and designing safer chemicals
- Framework to guide selection of chemical alternatives
- Designing safer chemicals: Application of the principles of green chemistry in a chemical company
- Predictive tools for bioavailability and oxidative stress based on spectroscopic data
- Exploiting enhanced non-testing approaches to meet the needs for sustainable chemistry
- Advancing safety assessments of chemicals through biological read across using multidimensional in vitro toxicity testing
- Need for safer chemicals and rapid screening tools: The 2014 Freedom Industries chemical spill, West Virginia, USA
- No substitutes allowed: Chemical processes that have thus far eluded a green alternative
- Toxicology and Environmental Impact in the Chemistry Curriculum: Science and Strategies for Educators - State of the Art Symposium; 8:30 AM-12:05 PM, Convention Center, Room 253B (CHED)
- Opportunities to incorporate toxicology into the chemistry curriculum: Report from the field
- Toxicology of "low doses": Understanding endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Designing safer chemicals: Environmental attributes in chemical design
- Combining Scientific Evidence for Health Policy and Regulation; 8:50-11:50 AM, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Arlington Room (AGRO)
- Accounts table, a tool for structuring the integration and interpretation of evidence regarding causation of toxic effects from chemical exposure
- Integration of mechanistic and epidemiologic evidence in the identification and classification of human carcinogens
- Weight of evidence and quantitative data integration using multicriteria decision analysis
- New model to track strawberry harvester activity and predict pesticide exposure
- Consideration of the weight of evidence in local antipesticide initiatives: The Montgomery County, Maryland experience
- Pesticide use on medical marijuana: An emerging crop that has no EPA-registered plant protection agents
Afternoon
- Lab Safety 25 Years After Promulgation of the OSHA Laboratory Standard; 1:30-4:15 PM, Seaport Hotel, Waterfront 1A/1B (CHAS)
- University laboratory safety in 2015: Was it the lab standard or what?
- Enhancing safety culture through collaborative development of laboratory specific chemical hygiene plan (LSCHP) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- What constitutes a laboratory? Princeton laboratory safety programs today and beyond
- From accident analysis to accident prevention at UCLA
- Impact of the OSHA Laboratory Standard on basic laboratory safety education for undergraduates
- Where are we with lab safety education: Who, what, when, where, and how?
- Should science departments have their own safety departments? An assessment of a centralized approach
- 21st Century Chemistry Education: Formal and Informal; 1:30-5:00 PM, Convention Center, Room 158 (PRES)
- A community for teachers of chemistry by teachers of chemistry
- Young chemists in action: The benefits of informal chemistry education
- Promoting excellence in chemistry teaching through in-service professional development
- Making connections: Mentoring, networking, and presenting makes a difference for us and others as educators
- Teacher-tested, but student-blackbox online professional development for chemistry teachers
- Engaging researchers and students as partners in education and outreach
- Toxicology and Environmental Impact in the Chemistry Curriculum: Science and Strategies for Educators - State of the Art Symposium; 1:30-5:25 PM, Convention Center, Room 253B (CHED)
- How training chemist in 21st century toxicology contributes to the design of lower toxicity products
- Evolution of structure-activity relationship (SAR) methodology in 21st century toxicity prediction
- Harnessing toxicity testing in the 21st century to help train chemists
- Designing Safer Chemicals; 1:30-5:25 PM, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, St. James Room (ENVR)
- Alerts about toxicity alerts
- Chemical design process at the crossroads of product efficacy and risk assessment
- Use of computational toxicology for evaluating potential endocrine bioactivity and exposure
- Assessing the accuracy of software predictions of mammalian and microbial metabolites
- Quantitative structure-functional ingredient relationships (qFIRs): Development of a data-driven workflow for alternatives ingredient assessments for in silico molecular repurposing
- Quantitative structure-activity relationships for predicting toxicity and biodegradability of biosynthetic and bio-inspired glycolipid surfactants
- Screening/prioritization of chemicals and QSAR "Benign by Design" approach: The cumulative PBT index model in QSARINS
- Analysis of xenobiotic properties leading to electrophilic or radical activation of Nrf2-keep1 pathway in ToxCast
- Quantum chemistry blueprints for greener chelating agents
- Coupling the power of high throughput zebrafish screening and synthetic chemistry to design safer chemicals
- Division of Chemical Education Safety Committee Meeting; 7:00-5:30 PM, Seaport Hotel, Cambridge 1
MONDAY
Morning
- Committee on Chemical Safety Executive Meeting; 8:30 AM-12:00 pm, Sheraton Boston Hotel, Back Bay C
- Toxicology and Environmental Impact in the Chemistry Curriculum: Science and Strategies for Educators - State of the Art Symposium; 8:30-11:25 AM, Convention Center, Room 253B (CHED)
- Infusing toxicology throughout the chemistry curriculum at South Dakota State University
- Teaching toxicology and environmental impact: A toxicology course for chemistry majors at Simmons College
- Teaching toxicology through a laboratory safety program
- Integrating toxicology and green chemistry into a single course? Yes, it can be done
- Incorporating principles of toxicology and environmental health into the chemistry curriculum at UC Berkeley
- Introducing chemical toxicology in the organic chemistry curriculum
- Lab Safety 25 Years After Promulgation of the OSHA Laboratory Standard; 8:30-11:35 AM, Seaport Hotel, Waterfront 1A/1B (CHAS)
- Reflections of an OSHA regulator on the Laboratory Standard
- Meandering towards OSHA's lab standard compliance
- "Compliance" does not mean "safe"
- Developing a model for chemical safety literacy in the lab
- Chemical hygiene plans: The vision and the reality
- DOE Energy Innovation Hub's effort to influence laboratory safety among its funded researchers
- UMMS: Multiphase laboratory relocation and 3-2-1 process
- Laboratory safety: Engaging 600+ research groups
Afternoon
- Chemical Health & Safety Awards; 1:30-4:25 PM, Seaport Hotel, Waterfront 1A/1B (CHAS)
- Musings of a founder of the Chemical Health and Safety Division
- Laboratory safety in the 21st century
- 12,000 thoughts on laboratory safety in 20 minutes or less
- SafetyStratus Collegiate Safety Award
- From the safety beat: The UCLA fatality and beyond (by yours truly)
- Science, safety, and human suffering
- Citizens First: Using Real-World Contexts for Engaging Students in Learning Chemistry; 1:30-4:55 pm, Convention Center, Room 253C (CHED)
- Ethics and spirituality: What are they doing in my science textbook?
- Making water personal
- Using the climate debate to teach general chemistry
- Experiential learning through course development and implementation of green general chemistry labs
- Application based service learning in the first year chemistry sequence
- Community-based learning in environmental chemistry: Arsenic testing in rural Maine
- Development of laboratory experiences that build a foundation in chemistry for pre-health students: Using context, pedagogy, and chemical principles
- Fighting with food: Battling chemical toxicity with good nutrition
- Spreading the industrial safety culture into classrooms: The role of corporate volunteer programs
TUESDAY
Morning
- Transforming University-Industry Partnerships for an Innovative Future; 8:15-12:10 PM, Westin Boston Waterfront, Burroughs (PRES)
- Future of industrial - academic partnerships
- Spectrum of engagement for research, collaboration, and innovation
- Making the most of university-industry alliances
- Alignment, development, and sustainment of the strategic research partnership
- Role of the federal government
- Current Topics in Chemical Safety Information; 9:00-11:30 AM, Seaport Hotel, Waterfront 1A/1B (CHAS)
- Organizing chemical information to support lab safety
- Keeping your kids away from poisonous chemicals: Chemical safety in the household
- Updating NFPA 45: Fire protection for laboratories using chemicals
- Blueprint for successful chemical management at Yale's West Campus
- Chemistry lab safety information resources for academic user
- Teaching future chemists how to create meaningful risk assessment tools
Afternoon
- Transforming University-Industry Partnerships for an Innovative Future; 1:30-5:00 PM, Westin Boston Waterfront, Burroughs (PRES)
- Creating structures for fruitful university- industrial research partnerships
- National network for manufacturing innovation
- Building a co-creation system for focused innovation
- Engaging Value Chain members to improve new product launch success
- Balancing the university's overarching policy for openness and dissemination of information with industry=E2=80™s need for confidentiality for translational R
- University of Cincinnati Simulation Center: A UC Engineering and P&G collaboration
- Current Topics in Chemical Safety Information; 1:30-5:00 PM, Seaport Hotel, Waterfront 1A/1B (CHAS)
- Designing a hazard and risk assessment protocol for undergraduate instruction and use
- Experience with data handling in large chemical databases
- Ensuring that lessons learned are not forgotten: Leveraging ELN to transform the safety paradigm
- Encoding reactive chemical hazards and incompatibilities in an alerting system
- Biological and ecological toxicity of engineered nanomaterials
- eNanoMapper: A database and ontology framework for nanomaterials design and safety assessment
- Data, data everywhere, nor any bit processable: Opportunities for amalgamating and opening up chemical data and information relevant to hazard recognition and safety planning
- It's all in how you do it: Annotating process conditions in laboratory chemical hazard recognition and risk management