Last Updated: February 25, 2010

NEWS AND RELEVANT MEETINGS

• ICBG IN THE NEWS

• 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
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• 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
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• RELEVANT MEETINGS 2010

• Gordon Research Conferences - Carotenoids
  January 17-22, 2010
  Ventura Beach Mariott, Ventura, CA
  Web: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=carotenoid
  
• Lab Automation 2010
  January 23-27, 2010
  Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, CA
  Web: http://www.labautomation.org/la10/
  
• Gordon Research Conferences - Plant Herbivore Interactions
  February 21-26, 2010
  Hotel Galvez, Galveston, TX
  Web: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=plantherb
  
• Gordon Research Conferences - Marine Natural Products
  February 28 - March 5, 2010
  Ventura Beach Mariott, Ventura, CA
  Web: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=marinenat
  
• 239th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting & Exposition
  March 21-25, 2010
  The Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
  Web: http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_TRANSITIONMAIN&node_id=2060&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=d6eeca7b-f346-48f5-a7d9-cb41879e5e99
  
• Developments in Botanical Dietary Supplements Research from 1994 to Today
  March 23, 2010
  Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL
  Web: http://www.pharmacognosy.us/wp-content/uploads/UIC_Symposium.doc
  
• Drugs from Nature Targeting Inflammation
  April 8-10, 2010
  Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
  Web: http://www.uibk.ac.at/pharmazie/pharmakognosie/dnti/
  
• Trends in Natural Products Research
  April 11-14, 2010
  De Montfort UNiversity, Leicester, UK
  Web: http://www.phytochemicalsociety.org/leicester/
  
• Society for Biomolecular Screening (SBS) 16th Annual Conference and Exhibition
  April 11-15, 2010
  Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, AZ
  Web: http://www.sbsonline.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3681
  
• British Ecological Society (BES) Annual Symposium 2010: The Integrative Role of Plant Secondary Metabolites in Ecological Systems
  April 12-14, 2010
  University of Sussex, UK
  Web: http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/meetings/current_future_meetings/2010_annual_symposium/index.php
  
• 9th Annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals
  April 12-15, 2010
  The Unitversity of Mississippi, University, MS
  Web: http://www.oxfordicsb.org/
  
• 6th Conference on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Southeast European Countries
  April 18-22, 2010
  Kervansaray Lara Hotel, Antalya, Turkey
  Web: http://www.6thcmapseec.org/
  
• Society for Industrial Microbiology (SIM) 32nd Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals
  April 19-22, 2010
  Hilton Clearwater Beach, Clearwater Beach, FL
  Web: http://www.simhq.org/meetings/sbfc2010/index.asp
  
• 5th Annual Cambridge Health Institute Conference on Drug Discovery Chemistry
  April 27-29, 2010
  Hilton San Diego, San Diego, CA
  Web: http://www.drugdiscoverychemistry.com/
  
• 58th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics
  May 23-27, 2010
  Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
  Web: http://www.asms.org/
  
• 51th Society for Economic Botany Annual Meeting: Agrobiodiversity, Lessons for Conservation and Local Development
  June 6-10, 2010
  Xalapa, Mexico
  Web: http://www.econbot.org/_organization_/index.php?sm=07|meetings_by_year/2010
  
• 12th World Congress of the International Association for Plant Biotechnology (IABP)
  June 6-11, 2010
  University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO
  Web: http://www.iapb2010.org/
  
• 35th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques
  June 19-24, 2010
  The Hynes Convention Center & Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, MA
  Web: http://www.casss.org/cde.cfm?event=241703
  
• Gordon Research Conferences - Oceans and Human Health
  June 13-18, 2010
  University of New England, Biddeford, ME
  Web: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=oceans
  
• 14th International Congress: Phytopharm 2010
  July 1-3, 2010
  St. Petersburg, Russia
  Web: http://www.adaptogen.ru/phyto2010.html
  
• 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) and The Phytochemical Society of North America
  July 10-14, 2010
  Trade Winds Island Grand Resort, St. Pete Beach, FL
  Web: http://www.asp2010.com/
  
• Gordon Research Conferences - Natural Products
  July 25-30, 2010
  Tilton School, Tilton, NH
  Web: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=natproduct
  
• 26th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology (ISCE)
  July 31 - August 4, 2010
  Vinci Convention Center, Tours, France
  Web: http://www.atout-org.com/isce2010/
  
• Plant Biology 2010
  July 31 - August 4, 2010
  Montreal, Canada
  Web: http://www.aspb.org/meetings/pb-2010/
  
• Botany 2010
  July 31 - August 4, 2010
  Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
  Web: http://www.botanyconference.org/
  
• Society for Industrial Microbiology (SIM) 60th Annual Meeting and Exhibition
  August 1-5, 2010
  San Francisco Hyatt Regency Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA
  Web: http://www.simhq.org/meetings/annual2010/index.asp
  
• 3rd Biennial Conference of the International Association of Ecology and Health
  August 18-20, 2010
  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
  Web: http://www.ecohealth2010.org/
  
• 240th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting & Exposition
  August 22-26, 2010
  Boston, MA
  Web: http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=9&use_sec=false
  
• 25th International Conference on Polyphenols
  August 23-27, 2010
  Montpellier, France
  Web: http://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/polyphenols2010/?page=home
  
• 58th International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research - Gesellschaft für Arzneipflanzen-und Naturstoff-Forschung e.V.
  August 29 - September 2, 2010
  Berlin, Germany
  Web: http://www.ga2010.de/
  
• 11th Congress of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology (ISE2010)
  September 20-25, 2010
  Albacete, Spain
  Web: http://www.ise2010.org/
  
• MipTec 2010
  September 21-24, 2010
  Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  Web: http://www.miptec.com/
  
• International Symopsium on Terpenes
  September 26-29, 2010
  Grand Cevahir Hotel and Convention Center, Istanbul, Turkey
  Web: http://www.terpenist2010.org/
  
• OzBio 2010: The Molecules of Life - from Discovery to Biotechnology
  September 26 - October 1, 2010
  Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia
  Web: http://www.asbmb.org.au/ozbio2010/
  
• The 13th International Symopsium on Marine Natural Products
  October 17-22, 2010
  Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resport and Spa, Phuket, Thailand
  Web: http://manapro2010.com/welcome.html
  
• Pacifichem 2010
  December 15-20, 2010
  Honolulu, HI
  Web: http://www.pacifichem.org/