71st Southeastern Regional Meeting

The 71st Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS) will be held Oct. 20–23 at the Savannah Marriott Riverfront hotel in Savannah, Georgia. The meeting theme is “Chemistry on the Coast.” Technical program. Among the meeting highlights will be a keynote talk on Monday afternoon by historian and author John Laurence Busch, who specializes in steam-powered vessels. In addition, more than 70 half-day sessions will span the major disciplines of chemistry. Technical sessions will include “Applications of Mass Spectrometry for Drug Discovery and Precision Medicine,” “Frontiers in Nucleic Acid Chemistry,” “Catalysis in Aqueous and Alternative Media,” “Teaching, Creating, and Sustaining a Safety Culture,” “Diversity: Minority-Serving Organizations,” “Computational Chemistry Applied to Interesting Problems,” “Entrepreneurs Tool Kit,” “Plastics and Microplastics in the Environment,” “Aquatic Biogeochemistry,” “The Past, Present, and Future of the Periodic Table,” “Advances in Phosphorous-Based Ligands,” “Patent Law for Chemists: What You Need to Know,” “Nanophotonics for Chemical