The EWOC Mid-Atlantic and NYConn chapters are hosting a series of regional coffee hours! The Philadelphia session will be held at the Penn Chemistry building at 8:30am on Friday, June 12. If interested, please register using the QR code or link below!

THANK YOU to all who participated in the POCC 80th Anniversary Symposium last week! >100 people attended to hear from our incredible seminar speakers and network with the greater POCC community. We hope that everyone had a great year, and we will see you in the Fall to kick off the 2026-2027 season!

Friendly reminder that TOMORROW (May 21st) is our final meeting of the 2025-2026 season as well as the POCC 80th Anniversary Symposium! Details and speaker lineup are on the flyer below. We are excited to see you there tomorrow!

Be sure to help us celebrate next Thursday (May 21!!) at the 80th Anniversary of POCC and special symposium event. We are excited to see everyone there at our last meeting of the season!

Join us on May 21st for our final meeting of the 2025-2026 season at the POCC 80th Anniversary Symposium! This special event will run from 3-9pm, with award and keynote lectures from both industry and academia (see the flyer below for more details!) We hope to see you there!

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 POCC Poster Symposium! Top poster presenters were Tyler Moyer (Ursinus), Olivia Beddow (St. Joseph's), and Ryan Kashatus (Temple). Be sure to attend POCC next month (May 21) to hear from POCC Travel Award winner, Catherine Mudd (UDel)!

Thanks to all who came out last Thursday for the Industrial Award Lecture from Dr. Jonathan Reeves from Boehringer Ingelheim, and for attending the POCC poster session! Stay tuned for an announcement highlighting the poster session winners!

Friendly reminder that tomorrow evening (April 16) is the joint POCC poster session and seminar from Dr. Jonathan Reeves from Boehringer Ingelheim. We hope to see you there!

Join us next Thursday (April 16) for our Industrial Award Lecture featuring Dr. Jonathan Reeves from Boehringer Ingelheim! This lecture will take place after our POCC Poster Symposium, so please note the slight time change for the seminar. We hope to see you there!

There is ONE WEEK left to sign up for the POCC Poster Session that will be held on April 16th concurrently with our Industrial Award Lectureship! Make sure to get your abstracts in by next Monday, April 6th!!

Thanks to all who came for our seminar from Professor Sharon Neufeldt! Mark your calendars for next month's meeting (April 16) featuring Industrial Award Lecturer Dr. Jonathan Reeves from BI and our POCC Poster Symposium! Friendly reminder to get those abstracts in before the April 6 deadline!!

Be sure not to miss our March POCC meeting where we will hear from Professor Sharon Neufeldt from Montana State University! See you there tomorrow!

Mark your calendars to help us celebrate 80 years of POCC by attending our 80th Anniversary Symposium on May 21st! We will be featuring multiple speakers from both industry and academia at this special session. We hope to see you there to finish off an amazing 2025-2026 season!

Join us on March 19th for our first academic seminar of the Spring semester starring Professor Sharon Neufeldt from Montana State University, where she will be discussing all things cross-coupling! The talk starts at 7:30pm, with a reception, at 6:30pm. We hope to see you there!

Sign up for the POCC Poster Symposium, held on the same night as our Industrial Award Lecture in April! There will be prizes given to top posters, and one winner will receive a POCC Travel Award for a national conference of their choice. There are 40 poster slots, sign up soon!

Thanks to everyone who came out on Thursday for our seminar featuring Dr. Sue Zultanski from Merck! We hope to see you again in a few weeks (March 19th) for a lecture from Professor Sharon Neufeldt from Montana State University!

Be sure not to miss our February POCC meeting where we will hear about peptide-based therapeutics from Dr. Sue Zultanski from Merck! We hope to see you there tomorrow!

Join us at Temple University for "Fluasterone and Cancer, Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity" by Temple Professor Emeritus and former POCC chair John Williams. The lecture about his career and work will be on Thursday, April 9th, at 4 PM in Speakman Hall, Room 112. Reception to follow!

Please join us again on February 19th to learn about peptide-based drug discovery at Merck from Dr. Sue Zultanski! As usual, the seminar will begin at 7:30pm, with a reception at 6:30pm. Check out our website for more information and we hope to see you in a two weeks!

Thanks again to all that came out to join us last week for our first meeting of the new year at our 2026 Women in Chemistry lecture featuring Dr. Callie Bryan from Johnson & Johnson! Join us again later this month (February 19) to hear from Dr. Susan Zultanski from Merck!

Now that the snow has cleared, be sure to head over to UPenn tomorrow, January 29th, for our first seminar of the Spring semester! Join us for the Women in Chemistry Lecture featuring Dr. Callie Bryan, we hope to see you there!

Help us ring in the new year with our first seminar of 2026 featuring Dr. Callie Bryan from Johnson & Johnson! Our Women in Chemistry lecture will be held on January 29th, and will be led by our EWOC representative Dr. Ali Bodnar (also from J&J). We hope to see you there!

While our next official POCC meeting isn't until January, be sure to tune in this week for the 2025 Madeleine M. Joullié Lecture featuring Professor László Kürti from Rice University! The lecture is this Friday, December 5, at 1pm in the Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall at UPenn!

We had a fantastic turn out last week at our Allan Day Award Lecture featuring Professor Scott Miller! Our seminar series will start back up in the New Year on January 22nd featuring Dr. Callie Bryan from J&J! Stay tuned for more details!

Don't miss out on our last seminar of the Fall semester! Join us this Thursday, November 20th, for the Allan Day Award Lecture featuring Scott Miller, we hope to see you there!

Please join us again on November 20th (one week before Thanksgiving!) to attend our Allan Day Award Lecture, where we will hear about selectivity in peptide-based catalysis from Professor Scott Miller from Yale University! We hope to see you there!

We hope everyone had a great time at our seminar last week featuring Dr. Andrew DeAngelis from FMC and some special Mole Day treats! Stop by again next month (November 20) to hear some chemistry from Professor Scott Miller!

The long-awaited 2nd POCC lecture of the season is tomorrow (October 23) at 7:30pm, with a reception beginning at 6:30pm! We hope to see you there!

Join us on October 23rd for our first industry seminar of the semester starring Dr. Andrew DeAngelis from FMC, where he will be sharing the discovery of bicyclic carboxamides and their role in pest control! We hope to see you there in a few weeks!

We hope everyone had a great time last night at our kickoff seminar of the 2025-2026 series, our Student Choice Lecture featuring Courtney Roberts! Tune in again next month (October 23rd) to hear some more incredible chemistry shared by Dr. Andrew DeAngelis from FMC!

Join us at our first meeting of the 2025-2026 POCC season THIS Thursday, September 18th, for the Student Choice Lecture featuring Courtney Roberts from the University of Minnesota. We hope to see you there later this week!

Add a little (pumpkin) spice to your Fall semester by attending our first seminar of the season! Professor Courtney Roberts will be speaking on all things arynes at our Student Choice Lecture on September 18th, 2025, at 7:30pm. Check out our website for more information and we hope to see you there!

Add a little (pumpkin) spice to your Fall semester by attending our first seminar of the season! Professor Courtney Roberts will be speaking on all things arynes at our Student Choice Lecture on September 18th, 2025, at 7:30pm. Check out our website for more information and we hope to see you there!

If you attended the ACS meeting in DC last week and are looking to keep the chemistry flowing, look no further! POCC is BACK for another year of outstanding seminars with an excellent lineup for the 2025-2026 season, chaired by Chris Kelly (@ckellzchem.bsky.social). We hope to see you in September!

Brush up on your lab safety at an upcoming workshop, ACS CHAS Empowering Academic Researchers To Strengthen Safety Culture happening on Thursday, May 29, during the ACS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting (MARM) at Seton Hall University! www.eventbrite.com/e/acs-chas-e...

Last week we had a phenomenal talk from Dr. Emma Parmee for our Women In Chemistry lecture. Dr. Parmee shared about recent advancements and new modalities and how they can now drug some of the most difficult targets. Thank you to all who attended!

Oh we are so back

This is what you’ll come back to in lab the morning after you come to POCC!

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POCC has joined Bluesky, be on the look out for updates on this year's seminars!