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Meeting Round-up
The 2012 Annual Meeting was held in Boston, Mass., July 28 through August 1. (785) participants presented 258 posters and 294 lectures at the beautiful Westin Waterfront Hotel. Thirty-nine exhibitors participated in the Exhibit Show, beginning with the Opening Reception on Saturday and running through Tuesday evening.
Attendees traveled from 30 different counties with 23% of the total participants coming from outside the USA. Young scientists (students and post-docs) represented 32% of the total meeting attendance.
Eleven posters were selected for poster prizes, sponsored by the ACA and seven other groups. Nine students were selected to receive the Margaret C. Etter Student Lecturer Award. Each was invited to give a lecture and was presented with a certificate and monetary award.
The meeting was financially supported by 33 organizations (scroll down for complete list) whose contributions were used to support young scientists, speakers and social events. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of our meeting sponsors whose support sustains the high caliber of our meetings that our attendees have come to expect.
Marius Krawiec (Vertec Pharmaceuticals) won free membership for 2013 by attending the Business Meeting. Winners of the free hotel room raffle were: Ming Dong (U. of Delaware), Gary Angles (New Mexico Highlands U.), Annet Bodenheimer (North Carolina State U.), Miguel Garcia-Garibay (U. of California, L.A.), and Bobby Barnett (U. of Cincinnati).
ACA would like to thank all those who made this year's meeting in Boston possible. We gratefully acknowledge the diligence and perseverance of our Program Chairs, Bruce Foxman and Bruce Noll (the Bruces). Kudos and thanks go to Peter Mueller, Local Chair (the baby arrived the day after the meeting ended, so thank you baby Anna too!), Ilia Guzei, Poster Chair and his Poster Judges, the Student Workers (the guys in red), Session Chairs and Invited Speakers for their efforts in making this meeting an all around success.
Full session summaries will appear in the Fall issue of ACA RefleXions. Photos are viewable on our Facebook page & http://web.mit.edu/pmueller/www/ACA2012/ |
Thank You Exhibitors: Agilent #430 Anton Paar #330 Area Detector Systems #327 Art Robbins Instruments #411 Australian Synchrotron #334 Blake Industries, Inc. #410 Bruker AXS #321, 325 CCP4 #439 Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre #332 Cryo Industires of America #326 Dectris Ltd. #524 Douglas Instruments Ltd #427 Formulatrix #211 IMCA-CAT #510 Incoatec GmbH #425 International Union of Cr #438 Labcyte #419 Advanced Light Source #532 MacCHESS-Cornell #530 Microlytic N.A. #305 Mitegen, LLC #319 Molecular Dimensions #310 NatX-ray #406 NUFO #224 Oak Ridge National Lab #534 Oxford Cryosystems Inc. #304 Rayonix #514 RCSB PDB and SBKB #339 Rigaku Americas #315 SERCAT #338 STOE & Cie GmbH #431 TA Instruments #404 Thermo Scientific NanoDrop #205 TTP LabTech Ltd. #311 Univ. of Georgia #226 XENOCS SA #433 | |
