Dr. Zhang Bo was invited to attend The 2015 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem) that took place in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 15-20, 2015. The conference is sponsored jointly by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC), the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ), the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry (NZIC), the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), the Korean Chemical Society (KCS), and the Chinese Chemical Society (CCS). The American Chemical Society is the host society for the 2015 Congress. Pacifichem 2015 will be the seventh in the series of successful cosponsored scientific conferences of Pacific Basin Chemical Societies. Founded in 1984, these conferences have been held in Honolulu, Hawaii about every five years.
The theme of Pacifichem 2015 is Chemical Networking: Building Bridges across the Pacific, emphasizing the collaborative nature of chemistry as a multidisciplinary science and the opportunities to network with Pan-Pacific research groups at the Pacifichem meetings. Pacifichem 2015 has 11 Topic Areas that consists of 343 symposia, distributed over a wide multidisciplinary area of research chemistry.
Dr. Zhang Bo gave an oral presentation titled as Changes in aroma-related volatiles and genes expression during peach fruit ripening and postharvest storage on symposia of Analysis of Flavors in Specialty Asian Foods (# 58). Moreover, he introduced Fruit Quality Biology Team of Zhejiang to global scientists.
