Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Coalesce Research Group Aims to "Create Ideal Platform for Scientific Community"

Coalesce Research Group purports to be "an US based" publisher and conference organizer, but the basis for this claim is not clear. The spam contains British spellings and has such telltale constructions as "then revert us back" and "We concern for your privacy." The Linked In page explains that "Coalesce Research Group thrive for excellence in delivering the easier and better networking to move forward in getting the scientific analysis & research work from Academia to Industry & Vice versa."

The address seems to be that of a virtual office in South Carolina. (See https://flakyj.blogspot.com/2019/08/coalesce-research-group-aims-to-create.html.) The key employees named on the company's Linked In page have profiles that place them or their employer in Hyderabad, India. They are Sindoora Jalagam (Offshore Manager), Akhil Srikanth (Social Media Executive), Rezina Alves (Program Manager), K SNEHA (Offshore Project Manager), and Rajesh Varma k (Offshore Operations head). Mr. Srikath came to Coalesce from "OMICS International Conference," where he was "Business Development Executive." (Ms. Alves' profile is different. She thinks that Coalesce is in Brooklyn, where she resides.)*

The journals are mostly nonexistent, but there are a slew of advertised conferences, congresses, and summits. (Please don't ask me what the differences between these types of gatherings are.) Although the subject areas are disparate, the gatherings seem to come in clumps of three held in the same hotel during the same days.

Email

  • From: mailer@scientistinnovations.com; on behalf of; NSMW 2019 [nanoscience@coalesceconferences.com]
    Date: 27 Aug 2019 11:04 AM Subject: Nanoscience and Materials World Congress|Barcelona|Europe
    Dear Colleague,
    Good Wishes. As Conference Executive Director, it is my great pleasure to invite you as a Plenary Speaker to the International conference on Nanoscience and Materials World (NSMW 2019) held in Barcelona, Spain on 18-19 November 2019. [← Trepidation would be more appropriate than pleasure when inviting someone with absolutely no expertise in the field to be a plenary speaker.]
    NSMW 2019 provides the premier interdisciplinary forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners [of what?] to present their latest research results, ideas, developments and applications in all areas of Nanotechnology and Materials Stream. The conference will bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars in the domain of interest from around the world. The conference will focus on evidence-based benefits proven in clinical trials and scientific experiments.
    Our Competence in the field is our competitive advantage. [← "Competence," as in proposing "clinical trials" for nanoscience research?] It is characterised by our professionalism, expertise, and our excellent relationship with our former representatives. [← "former representatives" of what?] We produce cutting edge conferences, expos and summits, bringing together Senior Research scientists, industry leaders and solution providers at a top notch level, creating the opportunity to partner, network and knowledge share.
    It would be our honour and pleasure if you accept this invitation and join us. We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona (Spain) in November.
    Best Regards
    Dr.Richard Limner
    Executive Director | Coalesce Research Group
    33 Market point Dr, Greenville,SC 29607,USA Email: nanoscience@coalesceconferences.com
    Disclaimer: If you do not wish to receive any email in future from Nano and materials events then revert us back. We concern for your privacy.
  • From: NSMW 2019 [nanoscience@coalesceconferences.com]
    Date: 24 Sept 2019 11:26 AM
    Subject: Follow up: INSMW Summit 2019 - Barcelona, Spain
    Dear Colleague,
    Good wishes. Hope you are doing great. I contacted you earlier on your kind participation towards our esteemed congress, but we didn’t get any response. As Conference Executive Director, it is my honour to invite you again as a Plenary Speaker to the International conference on Nanoscience and Materials World (NSMW 2019) held in Barcelona, Spain on 18-19 November 2019.
    I will personally support your accommodation with meals during conference days on nominal registration; I will schedule your talk on your convenient time, your 30min of plenary session will be remarkable [← That's for sure -- I know nothing about the field] and be rewarding both for you and to our research community as a whole. ... It would be our honour if you accept this invitation and join us. We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona (Spain) in November.
    Best Regards
    Dr Richard Limner
    Executive Director | Conference Secretariat
    Coalesce Research Group 33 Market point Dr, Greenville, SC 29607, USA
    Email: nanoscience@coalesceconferences.com
NOTE
* Thanks to "Smut Clyde" for pointing out the employees on Linked In.

Thursday, August 8, 2019

United Scientific Group will promulgate the noble research findings

United Scientific Group (USG) "will promulgate the noble research findings ... to make a step-change in the fields of science and technology." Despite such phrasing on the USG website, the address is in Texas ("8105, Suite 12, Rasor Blvd, Plano, TX 75024 USA") and the phone numbers are 408-426-4832 and 844-395-4102. The website lists Sudhakar A Yakkanti as "associate vice president" and Kenneth Blum as "founding president."

Both have substantial academic credentials, but Wikipedia reports that in addition to founding USG, Dr. Blum has sold dietary supplements to treat "reward deficiency syndrome," a term he coined but that has not been validated. The OMICS Group (widely regarded as a predatory publisher and conference organizer) was pleased to appoint him their 200th editor-in-chief. Indeed, OMICS called him "the father of Psychiatric Genetics," although Quackwatch has a less grandiose description.) He also keeps busy as an editor for Peerztech (which appointed a dog to one of its editorial boards), Austin Publishing Group, and ScienceForecast, not to mention writing an entire journal for USG devoted to his "reward deficiency syndrome" theory.

To join Dr. Blum at USG, Dr. Yakkanti "resigned his position as Editor-in-Chief .. and as member of other positions held at OMICS Group journals and conferences to pursue a new direction closer to his heart." The press release adds that "Dr. Yakkanti is appreciative of the time he spent with OMICS Group journals ... ."
Email
  • From: Medpath-2020 (secretary@medpathologyconference.com)
    Date: 6 August 2019 1:11 PM
    Subject: Medpath-2020 Houston
    Good Morning! We request your presence at the International Conference on Medical Pathology (MedPath-2020) which has been scheduled for February 17 - 19, 2020 in Houston, TX, USA. Medpath-2020 is a three-day event specifically designed for the discussion on rapidly evolving global Pathology research and industry. We would like to know the availability of you to share your recent research findings as podium presentation.
    Our Speakers Line-up:
    Gene P. Siegal, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
    Sridevi Devaraj, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
    John Hicks, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
    Mari Mino-Kenudson, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
    Carl Morrison, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
    Andy N.D. Nguyen, University of Texas-Houston, Houston, TX
    Herbert Budka, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
    Jun Teruya, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
    Meenakshi B. Bhattacharjee, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX
    Rudolph Castellani, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
    Awaiting your positive response. Thank you.
    Best Regards,
    Ramya Chelikani
    Conference Manager Medpath-2020
  • From: From: MedPath|Houston, TX [secretary@medpathologyconference.com]
    Date: 30 October 2019 8:23 AM
    Subject: Dr. David Kaye: Please Acknowledge
    Dear Dr. David Kaye,
    Good Morning! We tried to reach you several times to know your availability at International Conference on Medical Pathology scheduled for February 17 - 19, 2020 in Houston, TX, USA. We would like to know if you are interested to share your recent research findings as either podium or poster presentation at Medpath-2020. For more details please see: ...
    Note: We support your two nights accommodation at the conference venue hotel: Doubletree by Hilton Houston Intercontinental Airport. As we are planning to finalize scientific program kindly confirm your participation before November 05, 2019. We look forward to hearing back from you soon.
    Best regards,
    Ramya Chelikani
    Conference Manager Medpath-2020
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