JUSTIN Winery is a family owned and operated winery making estate grown and produced wines. The property was founded in 1981 by Justin and Deborah Baldwin when they planted their 160 acre property in the major Bordeaux varietals and created their Estate vineyard.

The winery is located in the Paso Robles appellation of California’s Central Coast. The region’s first grapes were planted in 1779 by Franciscan missionaries and today the area is home to the third highest concentration of wineries in the United States.

The Baldwins’ desire is to make world class wines that reflect the unique soils and climate of their California Central Coast property. Emphasis is placed on making Bordeaux-style blends and single varietals, combining Old World tradition with New World techniques.

The Fall Luncheon

and Recognition of 50-Year Members

12 Noon, Saturday, October 3, 2009

Stella Mare’s Event Center

3302 McCaw Avenue, Santa Barbara

Members of more than 50 years in ACS are invited to attend at a discounted rate of $15 per person.

The menu will include

The Featured Speaker will be

Mark H. Norman, Ph.D.

Department of Chemistry Research & Discovery

Amgen, Thousand Oaks

 Speaking on

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Vanilloid receptor-1 (VR1 or TRPV1) is an ion channel expressed predominantly on pain-sensing neurons and is a therapeutic target for the management of pain. The goal of our research program has been to identify and develop potent and selective small molecule TRPV1 antagonists.  This presentation will describe the results of these investigations, which started from an initial high throughput screening hit and culminated in the identification of our first TRPV1 clinical candidate, AMG 517.

Dr. Norman received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of New Hampshire in 1982 and his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987, under the direction of Clayton Heathcock where he studied synthetic methodology and natural product synthesis.  He has over 22 years of drug discovery and development experience in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology sector with Amgen, Glaxo Wellcome, and Burroughs Wellcome.  In 1996 he was recruited to Amgen to participate in the building of their small molecule drug discovery department and is currently a Director of Medicinal Chemistry there.

Directions to Stella Mare’s Event Center  3302 McCaw Ave.  Santa Barbara

From the South: Take Highway 101 North to Santa Barbara. Exit at Las Positas Road.  Turn Right onto Las Positas Road and go ~0.5 miles.  Turn Left onto McCaw Avenue just past the golf course.  Stella Mare’s is immediately on the Right.

From the North: Take Highway 101 South to Santa Barbara. Exit at Las Positas Road.  Turn Left onto Las Positas Road and go ~0.5 miles.  Turn Left onto McCaw Avenue just past the golf course.  Stella Mare’s is immediately on the Right.

Fall Dinner Meeting

6:45 p.m. Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Camarillo Library Community Room

4101 Las Posas Road, Camarillo

with ACS Tour Speaker

Dr. Thomas C. Werner

Professor Emeritus

Union College, Schenectady, NY

Speaking on

Doping in Sports:

How chemists catch the "cheaters" (sometimes)

 

"Doping is to sport what criminality is to society, and there will always be criminality in society."

                                     --Jacques Rogge, President, International Olympic Committee

The alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs is increasingly tainting athletic accomplishment. Examples of this sports “doping” problem appear almost daily in the news: pro cycling is brought to its knees by doping allegations, resulting in the loss of sponsorship, the BALCO case and the Mitchell Report pummel Major League Baseball with evidence of steroid use and drug testing concerns become a higher profile issue at the Olympics. The talk will focus on the methods that chemists use to detect sports doping with substances such as amphetamine, steroids, human growth hormone and EPO. Limitations of these methods will be discussed, along with a listing of some of the enormous challenges facing chemists as newer doping substances and methods become available. The talk is based on a course entitled Chemistry and Athletic Performance, which was developed by the speaker with the aid of Dr. Don Catlin and staff at the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory and Anti-Doping Research, Inc. 

Send in this Form by Friday, Sept. 11, 2009

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Speaker Dr. Thomas C. Werner
Biographical Sketch:
 Tom Werner received a B.S. in chemistry from Juniata College and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from MIT. After postdocs at Harvard and Tufts Medical Schools, he taught for 36 years at Union College (Schenectady, NY), retiring as Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Physical Sciences Emeritus in December, 2007. Werner has served as Principal Investigator on several external grants awarded for the support of undergraduate research including funding from Petroleum Research Fund, Research Corporation, NSF-ILI, NSF-AIRE and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. Werner served as Chair of the Board of Governors of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), as Director of the NCUR/LANCY Initiative and as a NCUR Board Member. In 2002, he received the American Chemical Society Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution. Over the past three years, he has developed a course entitled Chemistry and Athletic Performancethat combines his expertise in analytical chemistry, his interest in sports and his goal to teach chemistry with more social relevance. The course syllabus was developed with input from Dr. Don Catlin and his staff at the UCLA Olympic Analytical Lab and Anti-Doping Research, Inc.

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June Meeting

The Santa Clara Valley and the California Los Padres Sections of the American Chemical Society Present a Joint Meeting

at the

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, MBARI.

3 pm., Saturday, May 2, 2009

MBARI
7700 Sandholdt Road
Moss Landing, CA 

“Measuring Climate Change in the Oceans”

Ken Johnson, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, MBARI

The event will include a tour of MBARI beginning at 3 pm.
A reception (including light appetizers) at 4 pm.
and Dr. Johnson’s presentation at 5 pm.

The cost for the reception will be $15 per person.
See Flyer Here

CALPACS has arranged bus transportation to MBARI for the May 2nd Event.
Cost: $20 per person.

The Pick up Schedule will be:

Directions to MBARI can be found at http://www.mbari.org/about/directions/directions.html.

(Note that this event is at MBARI and NOT  THE MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM.)

Please make your reservations by Wednesday, April 29, 2009, by emailing calpacs@chem.ucsb.edu.  More information can be found at this website, or by calling James Pavlovich at 805-893-4252.

Abstract

Spring Lunch Meeting

12 noon, Saturday, April 25, 2009
Westmont College, Founder’s Dining Room
955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara

with

         Gianni Torraca

                   Dept. of Analytical Sciences
                   Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks

Speaking on 

Forensic Investigation of
Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Incidents.

Abstract and Biography

A Luncheon Buffet, including sandwiches and salads will be served.

Please return the form with payment by Monday, April 20

Directions to Westmont can be found at this link

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