Compiled by Bill Beggs A NEW MONTHLY TECHNOLOGY COLUMN FEATURING TIMELY TECH TRENDS, TIPS AND UPDATES Brown Smith Wallace To Host Virtual Trade Show Brown Smith Wallace Consulting Group will host a Virtual Tech Fair in mid-September. Slated for Sept. 12-13, the event is targeted to wholesale distributors or supply chain companies looking to replace or upgrade technology, keep up-to-date on technology and attend education programs. Companies like the idea of being able to replicate physical shows via the Web so customers who can’t attend can still participate. Some annual user conferences, attended by some 5,000 companies, are extremely expensive. Going every other year, for example, as well as taking advantage of the virtual trade show, could save millions of dollars. Traditionally, Brown Smith Wallace has provided research and consulting services on technology, specifically software, to the wholesale distribution and supply chain marketplace. The firm is talking with leading software companies about using this format to replace or supplement annual user conferences and partner meetings. What’s In a Name? For New SLU Research Building, a $30 Million Gift Saint Louis University’s new biomedical research building, a $67 million tower in the heart of Midtown St. Louis and a key part of the continuing rebirth of the city’s Midtown corridor, on June 9 was formally named the Edward A. Doisy Research Center. Edward A. Doisy Research Center at Saint Louis University Doisy, for five decades a professor at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, won the 1943 Nobel Prize for discovering the chemical nature of vitamin K. The Doisy family committed a record total of $30 million for completion of the biomedical research facility. Divergence Receives $280,000 in SBIR Grants For its fight against parasitic nematodes, one of the world’s major pest groups, Divergence Inc. has been awarded three Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grants. Two were awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and one by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), for a total of $280,000. Why nematodes? The roundworms annually cause billions of dollars in damage to crops, including soybeans, cotton, strawberries and bananas. The three grants fund projects aimed toward developing complementary aspects of a new platform technology “that likely has broad applications in crop traits,” says James P. McCarter, M.D., Ph.D., president and chief scientific officer of Divergence. “We are hopeful that discoveries made by Divergence will lead to the first safe, broadly applicable products for the prevention of nematode damage in crops.” Since 2001, Divergence has been awarded 12 SBIR grants totaling more than $2.5 million. FOR INCLUSION IN TECH TIDBITS: Please e-mail your tech information as a press release to: meg@sggdesign.com

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