Last Updated: November 17, 2011

NEWS AND RELEVANT MEETINGS

• MONTHLY NATRUAL 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 2011

• Laboratory Automation
  January 29 - February 2, 2011
  Palm Springs, CA
  Web: http://www.slas.org/LA11/index.cfm
  
• KLE Society of Pharmacognosy
  15th Annual Conference and First International Convention of Society of Pharmacognosy, Global Challenges and Opportunities in Herbal Medicines.
  February 18-20, 2011
  Nehru Nagar Belgaum-590010, Karnataka, India
  Web: http://isp2011ic.kleuniversity.edu.in/
  
• 17th Society for Biomolecular Screening Annual Conference and Exhibition Advancing the Science of Drug Discovery
  March 27-31, 2011
  Orlando, Florida
  q Web: http://www.slas.org/events/sbs11/index.cfm
  
• 241st ACS National Meeting
  March 17-31, 2011
  Anaheim, California
  Web: http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=9&use_sec=false
  
• 10th Annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals
  National Center for Natural Products Research, School of Pharmacy
  April 11-15, 2011
  The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi
  Web: http://www.oxfordicsb.org/
  
• Nature Aided Drug Discovery (NADD)
  June 5-8, 2011
  Napoli, at the Conference Centre of the University "Federico II", Aula Magna Partenope
  Web: http://www.nadd2011.org/
  
• 59th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry & Allied Topics
  June 5-9, 2011
  Denver, Colorado
  Web: http://www.asms.org/Conferences/AnnualConference/GeneralInformation/tabid/127/Default.aspx
  
• 27th Meeting International Society of Chemical Ecology
  July 24 - 28, 2011
  Vancouver, British Columbia (tentative)
  Web: http://www.chemecol.org/meetings/meetings.htm
  
• ISCNP27 & ICOB7
  27th International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products (ISCNP27) &
  7th International Conference on Biodiversity (ICOB7) joint meeting.
  July 10-15, 2011
  Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia
  Web: http://www.ccm.com.au/home-welcome.php
  
• SIM 2011 Annual Meeting Exhibition
  July 24-28, 2011
  Hotel Sheraton New Orleans, Louisiana
  Web: http://www.simhq.org/meetings/meetings.aspx
  
• 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pharmacognosy
  July 30 - August 3, 2011
  Paradise Point Resort, San Diego, California
  Web: http://www.pharmacognosy.us/
  
• Seventh European Conference on Marine Natural Products
  August 14-18, 2011
  Stromstad, Sweden
  Web: http://www.fkog.uu.se/7ecmnp/
  
• 242nd ACS National Meeting
  August 28 - September 1, 2011
  Denver, Colorado
  Web: http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=9&use_sec=false
  
• 59th Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research
  September 4-9, 2011
  Antalya, Turkey
  Web: http://www.ga2011.org/
  
• ISEO 2011
  September 11-14, 2011
  Antalya, Turkey
  Web: http://www.iseo2011.org/
  
• Third Brazilian Conference on Natural Products
  October 30 - November 2, 2011
  Centro de Artes e Convencoes UFOP, Ouro Preto MG, Brazil
  Web: http://www.sbq.org.br/
  
• Rec Adv Fermentation Techn
  November 6-9, 2011
  Marco Island, Florida
  Web: http://www.simhq.org/meetings/meetings.aspx
  
• Phytochemical Society of North America 50th Anniversary Meeting
  December 10-15, 2011
  Hawaii's Big Island
  Web: http://uhhconferencecenter.com/psna.html