The 2026 American Chemical Society Central Regional Meeting (CERM) is seeking paper submissions. The meeting will take place Nov. 14–17 at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, Kentucky.
Details, including names and contact information for program and session chairs, can be found on the meeting website.
The meeting will highlight the pivotal role that chemistry, as a foundational science, plays in addressing critical global issues such as climate change, public health, and sustainable development. There will be 26 technical symposia and a poster session, as well as three plenary lectures (Omar Farha, Jie Xu, and Mickey Rogers), a career workshop, and an instrument exhibition.
The symposium sessions include “Advanced Fluorescent Imaging”; “Advanced Polymer Characterization Workshop”; “Advances in Transition Metal Catalysis: From Mechanism to Application”; “AI [Artificial Intelligence] in Higher Education”; “AI / Machine Learning and Molecular Modeling of Chemical Systems”; “Bioinorganic Chemistry”; “Biological Imaging and Sensing: Emerging Materials and Methods for Biological Sensing”; “Biological Imaging and Sensing: Next-Generation in-situ Sensing”; “Biomass Conversion for Sustainable Chemicals and Materials”; “Catalysis for the 22nd Century”; “Chemical Biology and Therapeutic Innovations: From Basic Science to Human Translation”; “Supramolecular Chemistry Across Interfaces: From Molecules to Materials and Biology”; “Innovations in Chemistry Education: A Symposium in Memory of Susan Hershberger”; “Nanomaterials”; “NSF [US National Science Foundation] Center for Bioanalytic Metrology (CBM) Student Research Symposium”; “New Advances in Porous Materials”; “Photochemistry for Biology and Energy: Celebrating 30 Years of Contributions by Claudia Turro and Her Research Group”; “Photochemistry in Constrained Media”; “Polymers and Soft Matter”; and “Structural Biology.”
The deadline to submit a paper is Aug. 10. You can submit an abstract by visiting the symposium website or ACS’s Meeting Abstracts Programming System (MAPS).
