Last Updated: March 28, 2012

NEWS AND RELEVANT MEETINGS

• MONTHLY NATURAL PRODUCTS REVIEW

Each month we provide a brief summary of new publications related to natural product discovery research. These publications are identified by queries within the ISI Web of Science database and then compiled by Dr. Dwight Baker. The query terms employed include: natural products, discovery, bioprospecting, and biofuels. Occasionally Dwight will come across additional interesting publications in his own research at the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas and include these here as well. Each month he will select a small number of publications to highlight by providing his thoughts on the content of the research described. If you have suggestions for modifications to the queries or comments on his highlights, you can contact dwight.baker@tamu.edu.

• ICBG IN THE NEWS

• Seaweed a source of potential antimalarial drug
  February 21, 2011
  Science NOW
• Vietnam likely to produce Tamiflu from anise next year
  March 21, 2006
  Peoples Daily Online
• Fogarty Announces Awards for Biodiversity-based Drug Discovery Research
  January 3, 2006
  National Institutes of Health Press Release
• New, non-radioactive screen for antimalarial compounds
  February 16, 2004
  EurekAlert Press Release
• U researchers search Papua New Guinea for medicinal drugs
  February 4, 2004
  The Daily Utah Chronicle
• The Curtain Falls.
  December 13, 2001
  Nature
• News Archive ...

• OTHER NEWS

• Chemists Crack Complex Compound
  January 5, 2010
  NatureNews
• Bush creates three Pacific marine sanctuaries
  January 6, 2009
  MSNBC.com
• New Class of Antibiotics May Lead to Therapy for Tuberculosis
  October 16, 2008
  EurekaAlert
  Reference: The RNA Polymerase 'Switch Region' Is a Target for Inhibitors (Link)
  Mukhopadhyay, J. et al. (2008). Cell. 135(2):295-307.
• Woods Hole scientist shares Nobel Prize for discovering a green fluorescent protein in jellyfish
  October 9, 2008
  Boston Globe
• Merck Cuts Sales Jobs And Halts Natural Products Research
  May 7, 2008
  Chemical & Engineering News
• New target for anti-malaria drugs
  December 15, 2007
  BBC News
  Reference: Subcellular discharge of a serine protease mediates release of invasive malaria parasites from host erythrocytes. (Link)
  Yeoh, S. et al. (2007). Cell. 131(6):1072-83.
• Bush creates world’s biggest ocean preserve
  June 15, 2006
  MSNBC.com
• WTO Battle Looms Over Patents
  June 6, 2006
  Financial Times London
• News Archive ...

• RELEVANT MEETINGS 2012

• Laboratory Automation
  January 28 - February 1, 2012
  Palm Springs, CA
• Gordon Research Conferences - Plant Volatiles
  January 29 - February 3, 2012
  Ventura, CA
• 4^th International Conference on Drug Discovery & Therapy
  February 12 - 15
  Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• 12^th Congress of the International Society for Ethnopharmaoclgy
  February 17 - February 19, 2012
  Kolkata, India
• Gordon Research Conferences - Marine Natural Products
  February 26 - March 2, 2012
  Ventura, CA
• 243rd American Chemical Society National Meeting
  San Diego, CA
  March 26 - 29, 2012
• 8^th Brazilian Symposium of Pharmacognosy and 11^th International Symposium of the Brazilian Society of Pharmacognosy
  April 18 - 22, 2012
  Ilhéus-Bahia, Brazil
• PHYTOTHERAPEUTIKA 2012
  May 17 - 19, 2012
  Vienna, Austria
• 60th American Society of Mass Spectrometry Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics
  May 20 - 24, 2012
  Vancouver, BC, CA
• 3^rd Annual conference, American Council for Medicinally Active Plants
  May 22 - 25, 2012
  Jonesboro, AR
• 8^th International Meeting of Natural Product Research (no link)
  May 23- May 25, 2012
  Oaxaca, Mexico
• 5^th International Symposium "Breeding Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants" (BREEDMAP 2012)
  June 18 - 20, 2012
  Vienna, Austria
• Natural Anticancer Drugs
  June 30 - July 4, 2012
  Olomouc, Czech Republic
• 28^th Meeting International Society Chemistry Ecology
  July 1, 2012
  Vilnius, Lithuania
• The Consummate Botanist
  July 8, 2012
  St. Louis, MO
• 16^th International Congress PHYTOPHARM 2012 July 9 - 11, 2012
  St-Petersburg, Russia
• 53rd American Society of Pharmacognosy Annual and 8th International Meeting
  July 28 - August 1, 2012
  New York, NY
• Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology 62^ndAnnual Meeting
  August 12 - 16, 2012
  Washington, DC
• 244th ACS National Meeting & Expositions
  August 19 - 23, 2012
  Philadelphia, PA
• 13^th International Congress of the Society for Ethnopharmacology
  September 2 - 6, 2012
  Graz, Austria
• 43^rdInternational Symposium on Essential Oils
  September 5 - 8, 2012
  Lisbon, Portugal
• Mechanism-Based Natural Product Development Conference
  September 21 - 22, 2012
  Whistler Mountain Convention Center, BC, CA
• 2012 Shanghai International Conference for Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Medicine
  October 20 - 21, 2012
  Shanghai, China