FAME Conference
Our largest event is our annual FAME (Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition) where chemists from all over Florida and even across the US meet to present their research, attend valuable workshops, and networking/social events. FAME is an excellent place for students at all levels to present their work
Not an ACS member yet? it’s easy to apply. Your membership will help support FAME and the Florida local section. Abstracts are due August 22, 2025. Early Registration ends August 29, 2025. Here is the current Program-at-a-glance
NOTE: You must be registered to present posters or oral talks.
Reserve your room at Innisbrook ! The earlier you book the cheaper the rate!
Registration Fees
- ACS members $150 early, and$250 late
- ACS nonmembers $300 early, and $450 late
- Retired ACS Members $75 early, and $100 late
- HS and MS teachers $75 early, and $100 late
- Undergraduate student: $50 early, and $60 late
- Graduate student: $60, and $75 late
- ACS 50+ year service $50
Onsite payment? If your institution can not pay via Paypal or any other methods we use, please register, but with the onsite payment method. We can accept cash and checks.
Onsite Registration and payment? Add $50 to your registration fee if you do not take this option above to register online for an On site payment (i.e. if you do not register at all online, you will have an additional fee. It is best to register online). We can accept cash and checks.
Invited speakers are being organized for the following symposia: Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biophysical Chemistry, Chemical Education, Computational Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Natural Products Chemistry, Mass Spectrometry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, and Polymer Chemistry.
During the meeting, exhibitors will be provided spaces in the foyer of the convention center to provide the best access to meeting participants. Space will allow for about 10-15 exhibitors. The registration for a table is $1,000. This needs to be submitted by August 22, 2025.
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The Fame Committee is pleased to announce the inaugural FAME conference plenary lecture will be by Dr Wayne Jones, the current Chair of the ACS Board of Directors! Wayne E. Jones Jr. is a faculty member at the University of New Hampshire where he has served as dean and provost over the past eight years. He earned a B.S. from St. Michael’s College in 1987 and a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991. He has been a member of ACS since 1989.
Inaugural Plenary Lecture
The Fame Committee is pleased to announce the inaugural FAME conference plenary lecture will be by Dr Wayne Jones, the current Chair of the ACS Board of Directors! Wayne E. Jones Jr. is a faculty member at the University of New Hampshire where he has served as dean and provost over the past eight years. He earned a B.S. from St. Michael’s College in 1987 and a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991. He has been a member of ACS since 1989.
Florida Award
The 2025 Florida Award is please to announce Dr Hans-Conrad zur Loye as the recipient! Dr Hans-Conrad zur Loye is the David W. Robinson Palmetto Professor and Carolina Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of South Carolina; he holds a joint appointment at Savannah River National Laboratory. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree at Brown University in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 under the supervision of Prof. Angela Stacy. He spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University with Prof. Duward Shriver before starting as an assistant professor in the Chemistry Department of MIT in 1989. In 1996 he moved to the University of South Carolina. He has published over 500 papers and reviews. He is currently the director of the DOE EFRC, the Center for Hierarchical Waste Form Materials, where his group works on the crystal growth of new complex oxides and fluorides for sequestering actinide elements. He was an associate editor for the Journal of Solid State Chemistry from 1997-2022. He was elected to the rank of Fellow of the AAAS in 2009 and to the rank of Fellow of the ACS in 2011. He is the recipient of the Exxon Award in Solid State Chemistry, the IPMI Henry J. Albert Award, the Southern Chemist and the Charles H. Stone Award. In 2016 he received the South Carolina Governor’s Award for Excellence in Scientific Research. He is a member and past President of the South Carolina Academy of Science, which promotes science education in South Carolina.
Florida Showcase Symposium
Florida Showcase Symposium – The Florida Showcase Symposium is to showcase senior members of the Florida local section and the breadth and quality of their research or educational activities. We are pleased to reestablish this honor showcase after a break initiated by the Covid pandemic.
Professor Joe Schlenoff is Robert O. Lawton Professor of Chemistry and Mandelkern Professor of Polymer Science at Florida State University. After a brief stint at Polaroid Corporation (Cambridge, MA), he completed a Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1987. He joined the faculty of FSU in 1988. With support from various Federal and State agencies, he has researched the fundamental chemistry of polyelectrolyte complexes as thin films and bulk solids.
He has co-edited a volume on layer-by-layer assembly, published by Wiley-VCH, now in its second edition (2011). He holds ca. 43 U.S. patents. He was Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at FSU from 2007-2011 and oversaw the construction of FSU’s new $72M Chemistry building. He held the Gutenberg Chair at the University of Strasbourg in 2011, won the Florida Award of the American Chemical Society in 2013, was a U.S. Fulbright Fellow in France in 2019, is a Fellow of the PMSE Division of the American Chemical Society and the National Academy of Inventors. From 2014-2020 he was Senior Associate Editor of Langmuir, the ACS journal of colloid and surface science.
Professor Daniel Seidel received his Diplom from the Friedrich-Schiller Universität at Jena, Germany in 1998, after having completed his final year of the program at UT Austin as a fellow of the Trans-Atlantic Student Exchange program. He returned to Austin to perform his graduate studies in the lab of Prof. Jonathan L. Sessler, obtaining his Ph.D. in 2002 for the development of new methods for the synthesis of expanded porphyrin analogues. From 2002–2005, Daniel was an Ernst Schering Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Prof. David A. Evans at Harvard University, focusing on the development of new metal catalysts for catalytic enantioselective transformations. He started his independent career at Rutgers University in August of 2005. In 2017, his group moved to the University of Florida where he is currently the Katritzky Term Professor in Heterocyclic Chemistry. His research interests focus on the development of new synthetic methodologies, in particular in the areas of C–H bond functionalization, heterocycle synthesis, and asymmetric catalysis.
Professor Dmitry M. Kolpashchikov is a Chemistry Professor at the University of Central Florida. He received PhD in bioorganic chemistry in 1999 from the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia. This was followed by his postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Genetics, Japan, and at Columbia University in the City of New York. His interests include biochemistry of nucleic acids, hybridization probes, DNA nanotechnology and molecular diagnostics.
FAME 2025 Schedule
Friday September 12, 2025
1 pm – Registration Opens
1 – 4 pm Workshops
1 – 4 Poster set up
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Plenary Lecture. Dr Wayne Jones
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Poster Session
Saturday September 13, 2025
8:30 am – 12 pm Oral Sessions
Biochem
Inorganic
Polymer/Organic
Computational
12 – 1 pm lunch on your own
1 pm – 2:30 pm Showcase Symposium
2:30 – 4 pm Oral Session
Physical
Chem Ed
Analytical/Additive Manufacturing
Special Inorganic Florida Award Session
4:30 – 5:30 pm Florida award Lecture
6 pm – 7 pm FL-ACS General Meeting
Strategic plan update
Senior Chemist 50+ Recognition
Sponsorship recognition
Awards (best oral/poster presentations by a student Best high school award 7 pm – 9 pm Joint Reception – 100 year celebration