The 7th SEC Annual Meeting took place from 2 - 4 May 2018 in Weimar. The conference was held at the Leonardo Hotel in Weimar. 208 participants had registered for the conference. The concept of a "conference hotel" instead of a congress centre proved to be very successful. Weimar was the conference of short distances.
The evaluation of the conference by the participants is very good to excellent! The selection of presentations, the overall organisation (SEC and GDCh conference team) and Weimar as a conference venue (all average rating of 1.1!) stood out in particular. With two exceptions, the average of all evaluations was below 2.0. We made a good choice with the Leonardo Hotel. The response rate for the reviews was around 50%!A report on the conference and selected photos will be published here shortly.
Supporting programmeThe lectures on the afternoon of 2 May were supplemented in the evening by a Thuringian evening, a social gathering to get to know each other. After the lectures on Thursday morning (3 May), guided tours of Weimar took place in the afternoon. This was followed by a festive evening with an evening lecture (Dagmar Schipanski) and a banquet. On Friday morning (4 May), lectures took place again, but this time with pupils who we had invited with their teachers from the Weimar area.
Poster
Posters were presented throughout the event. They came from young chemists, young food chemists and senior citizens.
Many, but not all presentations are available as PDF files. If you are interested, please send an email to Wolfgang Gerhartz
| Chemistry as a problem solver for global change: From seniors and juniors | Markus Antonietti |
| World economy without fossil raw materials: Illusion, Vision and Reality - Securing Mobility in an Ageing Society | Martin Bertau |
| Possibilities of Cancer Therapy in Old Age with Targeted Agents | Andreas Hochhaus |
| Plastic Batteries for Future Generations | Ulrich S. Schubert |
| From the depths of the mountains to the nebulous stars of space - Goethe and the natural sciences* | Volker Hesse |
| Artificial organs from the test tube - solutions for an ageing society | Thomas Scheper |
| Demographic change - a major challenge for modern biomedicine a major challenge for modern biomedical diagnostics | Jürgen Popp |
| Consolidation in the pharmaceutical industry | Axel Kleemann |
| Evolution in synthesis: A new generation of manufacturing processes by combining chemo- and biocatalysis | Harald Gröger |
| Research and education for shaping Germany's future - our generational mission | Dagmar Schipanski |
| Chemical defence in leaf beetles: A model system for evolution and adaptation | Wilhelm Boland |
| Possibilities of detecting doping-relevant substances in youth and senior sports | Mario Thevis |
| Age, they've shrunk the lab | Detlev Belder |
| Chili - some like it hot - even in old age? | Klaus Roth |
* The publication by Volker Hesse "Goethe's Jena science teachers and partners" is largely congruent with the lecture by V. Hesse. It can be ordered for a nominal fee of 3 euros from the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Jena; e-mail address: heike.schaft@med.uni-jena.de.