Review of the Student Learning Experience in Chemistry

The Higher Education Academy commissioned a series of National Subject Profiles to cover the areas of Materials, Biochemistry Microbiology and Media and Communications.

The Physical Sciences Centre consider chemistry and physics to be such vital subjects that two subject reviews, one for chemistry and one for physics and astronomy, have been independently funded.

Find the reviews at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/home/projects/subjectreviews

NeSC newsletter

September 2009's issue at http://www.nesc.ac.uk/news/newsletter/index.html

Includes information about the e-Science Institute call for new Theme proposals and a summary of Jul09 StoMP (stochastic dynamical modelling for prokaryotes) workshop, when "microbiologists and physical and computational scientists joined forces to expose the inner workings of bacteria."

10th European Conference on Research In Chemistry Education (ECRICE)

In July 2010 the Pedagogical University of Kraków organizes the 10th European Conference on Research In Chemistry Education (ECRICE) and 4th International Conference Research in Didactics of the Sciences (DidSci).

More information at:

http://ecrice2010.ap.krakow.pl
http://didsci2010.ap.krakow.pl

First Call for Papers - Computational Aspects of Metabolomics

239th ACS National Meeting
San Francisco, March 21-25, 2010
CINF Division

Submissions invited for talks about computing, informatics as well as chemical information aspects of metabolomics. Topics could include the analysis of metabolomics experiments, metabolomics databases, computer-assisted structure elucidation of metabolites and more.

Abstracts may be submitted via http://abstracts.acs.org. The metabolomics session is part of the CINF division symposiums.

Deadline is October 19, 2009.

SciFinder e-seminar - Exploring What’s New with SciFinder

Exploring What’s New with SciFinder®!

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
18:00 – 19:00 GMT

Wednesday, November 11, 2009
18:00 GMT

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
11:00 GMT & 14:00 GMT

To register, visit: http://casevents.webex.com

* Learn how to limit reaction searches by a specific solvent or group of solvents and get similar reactions based on reaction centers
* Explore substance property enhancements such as refine substances by physical property values
* Introduce new collaboration tools for sharing information with SciFinder users within your research site
* Discover new content such as 13C-NMR Spectra for 25 million substances
* Share new performance and usability enhancements

Fifth Joint Sheffield Conference on Chemoinformatics - July 2010

13th - 15th July 2010.
University of Sheffield

The conference is being sponsored by the Chemical Structure Association Trust and the Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society.

The call for papers will be announced in the autumn and further details will be placed at http://cisrg.shef.ac.uk/shef2010/

Beilstein update

The latest update of the Beilstein database, 2009/03, was made available on Thursday 3rd September.

Statistics for the new Beilstein database are as follows:

Number of compounds: 11,196,514
Number of citations: 2,239,376
Number of reactions: 22,732,872

There are no changes to the DST files from the previous version, 2009/02.