2018 Weimar
The 7th SEC annual meeting took place from 2–4 May 2018 in Weimar. The venue for the conference was the Leonardo Hotel in Weimar. 208 participants registered for the conference. The concept of a “conference hotel” instead of a congress centre proved very successful. Weimar was a conference of short distances.
Participants’ assessment of the conference was very good to excellent! The choice of presentations, the overall organisation (SEC and GDCh conference team) and Weimar as the conference venue were particularly well received (all with an average score of 1.1!). With two exceptions, the average score for all evaluations was below 2.0. We made a good choice with the Leonardo Hotel. The response rate for the evaluations was approximately 50%!
A report on the conference and selected photographs will appear here shortly.
The presentations on the afternoon of 2 May were followed in the evening by a Thuringian evening, a social gathering to get to know one another. After the presentations on Thursday morning (3 May), city and themed tours took place in Weimar in the afternoon. This was followed by a formal evening with an evening lecture (Dagmar Schipanski) and a gala dinner. Presentations were held again on Friday morning (4 May), this time for school pupils whom we had invited, together with their teachers, from the surrounding area of Weimar.
Posters were presented throughout the event. They came from young chemists, young food chemists and senior chemists.
Many, but not all, lectures are available as PDFs. If you are interested, please send an email to Wolfgang Gerhartz
| Chemistry as a problem-solver for global change: From seniors to juniors | Markus Antonietti |
| The global economy without fossil resources: Illusion, vision and reality – securing mobility in an ageing society | Martin Bertau |
| Options for cancer treatment in old age using targeted active substances | Andreas Hochhaus |
| Plastic batteries for future generations | Ulrich S. Schubert |
| From the depths of the mountains to the misty stars of the universe ‒ Goethe and the natural sciences* | Volker Hesse |
| Artificial organs from the laboratory – solutions for an ageing society | Thomas Scheper |
| Demographic change – 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 through the combination of chemo- and biocatalysis | Harald Gröger |
| Research and education for shaping Germany’s future – our responsibility to future generations | Dagmar Schipanski |
| Chemical defence in leaf beetles: a model system for evolution and adaptation | Wilhelm Boland |
| Methods for detecting doping-relevant substances in youth and senior sport | Mario Thevis |
| Ageing – they’ve shrunk the laboratory | Detlev Belder |
| Chilli – some like it hot – even in old age? | Klaus Roth |
* Volker Hesse’s publication "Goethe's Jena natural science teachers and partners" corresponds in large part to V. Hesse’s lecture. It can be ordered for a nominal fee of 3 euros from the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Jena; email address: heike.schaft@med.uni-jena.de.