Princeton ACS Meeting Announcement

Education Night: Joint Meeting of the Princeton and Trenton ACS Sections
 

Our speakers, Jonathan Chun, Leslie Loberger, Arka Mukherjee and Jennifer Sasaki, will answer:

• Why did you major in science - specifically chemistry?
• What do you do now in your career? (Technical) How did you "get" here?
• How did your studies prepare you (or not) for what you do now?
• A word of "wisdom" for students or those starting out their careers
 

Jonathan Chun is currently the Director of Technology at Alliance Technologies a contract research laboratory near Princeton. He received a BS in Chemistry from the University of Hawaii-Manoa and a PhD in Chemistry from Princeton University. After a post-doc at Princeton, Dr. Chun moved to i-STAT, a medical device company, developing electrochemical sensors for the rapid determination of analytes in blood. Dr. Chun later joined FMC Corporation's corporate Chemical Analytical Technology group as a Research Chemist and later managed that group. Alliance Technologies, LLC was formed at the end of 2001 as a partnership between Dr. Chun and Mr. Tony Nemzer and offers corporate-type analytical services to a wide variety of clients and industries.

Leslie Loberger holds a BA in Chemistry from Georgetown College and an MS in Natural Products/Analytical Chemistry from the University of Virginia. Her 15 years in the industry include a laboratory and technical support position with Biotage, a Quality Control position with Amylin Pharmaceuticals, a Methods Development role at Banner Pharmacaps, a Laboratory Manager at Croda and Technical Sales positions for Polymer Laboratories and Varian. Leslie is also currently pursuing an MBA from Rutgers University.

Arka Mukherjee, Founder and CTO at Global ID’s, brings management experience from companies such as IBM, Accenture and KPMG, with expertise in sales, consulting, finance and technology. Prior to founding Global IDs, Mr. Mukherjee was a Principal in IBM's Business Intelligence Practice and led the ERP Data Warehousing area. He was responsible for selling multi-million dollar data integration projects to Fortune 2000 companies around the globe. Mr. Mukherjee earned his PhD from Princeton University.

Jennifer Sasaki is Director of Investigative Toxicology for Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development in Raritan, NJ. She has over ten years of experience as an industrial toxicologist in project leader, study director and supervisory roles in the pharmaceutical and personal care industries on the East Coast (Clairol, Pfizer) and in Europe (Tibotec, UCB Pharma). Jennifer received her PhD in Environmental Toxicology from the University of California, Riverside and post-doctoral training in analytical chemistry and computational biology from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She also holds undergraduate and Master’s degrees in Chemistry and Science Education, respectively, from Rutgers University. Previous to graduate school, she worked as an analytical chemist for Mobil Oil in Pennington, NJ.
 

Reservations: The meeting will be held in Bowen Auditorium, room 222, Princeton University. The seminar is at 6 PM followed immediately by dinner at Bowen Atrium, Princeton University. Bowen Hall is located on Prospect Street, between Olden St. and Fitzrandolph St. Parking is available in nearby lot 3 or North garage. The seminar is free and open to the public. Reservations are required for dinner, which is $15 for members and $10 for students. All reservations will be billed, for the section pays on the number of reservations, not the number of attendees.  Please contact Denise D’Auria at denised@princeton.edu or (609) 258-5202 or by Wednesday, November 11 to make or cancel reservations.