1/15/2015

American Chemical Society[Edition 1, Volume 1]

Editorial Advisory Board Quarterly Newsletter
Welcome inaugural Editorial Advisory Board
members for ACS Central Science
We are excited to start the2015 launch year of our
exciting new journal. Our
editorial team has been
incredibly busy establishingthe infrastructure to kick start
the first issue, planned forMarch of this year.
One of the most importantcomponents of that process
has been putting together apowerful and diverse first
board of editorial advisors toserve as champions of thejournal, guides for its uniquevision and its manuscriptspeer reviewers. So first off, letme thank each of you for yourcritical service to ACS CentralScience.
Next, I would like to update
everyone on our activities.
Since late last year, when I

asked you to join me on
as we embark on thisexciting new venture, wehave:

Selected our five senior
editors (see panel atright).

Openedthesubmission portal andwelcomed more thanfifty manuscripts!

Identified
stimulating
front matter stories andcommissioned C&EN
writers to provide thebest content possible.

Filmedabeautiful
video introducing thejournal. Check it out
here:
http://bit.ly/1xzEQuG“We envision ACS Central Science as theprimary venue for reporting the mostimportant advances in chemistry and inallied fields wherein chemical concepts
and tools play a major role.”
Carolyn Bertozzi, Editor-in-Chief

Meet our Senior Editors•••Chris Chang,
UC Berkeley
New chemical tools
for imaging andproteomics in thebrain and central
nervous system;
new molecular,
biological, and materials catalysts forenergy conversion and solar fuels.
http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/cjcgrp/
Ben Davis,
University of OxfordChemical understanding and exploitation of biomolecularfunction, especiallycarbohydrates andproteins.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~dplb0149/index.html
Monica Olvera
de la Cruz,
Northwestern
University
Developing theoretical models todetermine thethermodynamics,
statistics and dynamics of macromolecules in complex environments.
http://aztec.ms.northwestern.edu/resea
rch.html
David Tirrell,
CaltechMacromoleculararchitectures throughgenetic encoding,unnatural aminoacids andapplications of novel
materials.
https://tirrell-lab.caltech.edu/

Be an Ambassador for the Journal
You are the key in making ACS Central Science a
blockbuster success!
The most critical role you canplayrightnowisas
ambassadors for the journal.
Here’s how:
Encourage colleagues atyour institutions and withinyour fields to submit their very
best manuscripts. Get theword out to your trainees,
past and present.

@ACScentsci &@CarolynBertozzi
Together we can makeACS Central Science thego-to journal for groundbreaking research in thechemical sciences andbeyond. I look forward toworking with you!

We would also like to engage
your professional networks.
WehaveincludedaPowerPoint slide highlighting
the groundbreaking nature ofACS Central Science andproviding contact information
for the journal. I encourage
you to include these slides inyour upcoming talks.
If you are active on social
media, please engage with us:

Be sure to mark your calendars for our very first
Editorial Advisory Board Meetingat the Spring 2015 ACS National Meetingin Denver, CO
Tuesday, March 24, 20158-10 AM, breakfast provided(more information forthcoming)

Prof. Carolyn R Bertozzi
Editor-in-Chief, ACS Central Science
Howard Hughes Medical Institute andUniversity of California, Berkeley(Stanford University as of April 1, 2015)

Meet our Senior Editors•••Dongyuan Zhao
Fudan University
Design, synthesis
and characterizationof new materials with
an emphasis onunderstanding thefundamental issues of structuralassembly.
http://www.mesogroup.fudan.edu.cn/51
18/list.htm

Inaugural Editorial
Advisory Board•••
Adah Almutairi • Frances H. Arnold •Alán Aspuru-Guzik • Ryan C. Bailey •Phil S. Baran • Clifton E. Barry, III •James D. Batteas • Hagan Bayley •Donna G. Blackmond • Steven G.
Boxer • Emily Carter • Frank Caruso •Xiao-Ming Chen • Xing Chen • Jason
Chin George M. Church • Seth M.
Cohen Emily D. Cranston • Bianxiao
Cui Gideon Davies • Huw Davies •Joseph DeSimone • Laura Gagliardi •Giulia Galli • Justin P. Gallivan • Lila
M. Gierasch • Rainer Haag • Itaru
Hamachi John F. Hartwig • Chuan He• Taeghwan Hyeon • Matthew W.
Kanan • Neil L. Kelleher • Susumu
Kitagawa Michael J. Krische Z • David
A. Leigh • David Liu • E.W. Meijer •Jeffrey S. Moore • Corey Nislow •Colin Nuckolls Sarah O’Connor • VirgilPercec • Kimberly A. Prather • GavinSacks Kevan M. Shokat • Shannon S.
Stahl Samuel I. Stupp • Shana J.
Sturla Michael J. Therien • Zhong-Qun
Tian Dirk Trauner • Wilfred A. van derDonk Jan van Hest • Zhong Lin Wang
Christopher Welch • Douglas B.
Weibel Stephen G. Withers • Yi Xie •Nanfeng Zheng • Xiaowei Zhuang