Last Updated: October 7, 2008

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
• News Archive ...

• OTHER NEWS

• 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 2008

• International Conference on Agrochemicals Protecting Crop, Health and Natural Environment (Society of Pesticide Science India)
  January 8-11, 2008
  New Delhi, India
  Web: http://www.apchne2008.com/
• Gordon Research Conference on Marine Natural Products
  Feb 24-29, 2008
  Ventura, California
  Web: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008&program=marinenat
• Gordon Research Conference on New Antibacterial Discovery and Development
  March 9-14, 2008
  Il Ciocco, Lucca (Barga), Italy
  Web: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008&program=antibact
• 235th - ACS National Meeting & Exposition
  April 6-10, 2008
  New Orleans, Louisiana
  Web: http://acswebcontent.acs.org/home.html
• 7th Annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals & American Society of Pharmacognosy 4th Interim Meeting
  (co-sponsored by GA, CSIR-India, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, China)
  April 12-16, 2008
  Oxford Conference Center, Oxford, Mississippi
  Web: http://www.pharmacy.olemiss.edu/ncnpr/index.html
• 30th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals
  May 4 - 7, 2008
  Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel, New Orleans, LA
  Web: http://www.simhq.org/meetings/meetings.aspx
• Appalachian Center for Ethnobotanical Studies Spring Symposium: To Regulate or Not to Regulate? The Approach for Herbal Medicines
  May 21, 2008
  UMBI Shady Grove Campus, Rockville, MD
  Web: http://umbi.org/seminars-events/images/aces_e-invite.pdf
• Society for Economic Botany - Annual Meeting
  June 1-5, 2008
  Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  Web: http://www.econbot.org/_welcome_/to_seb.php
• NATURAL PRODUCTS DISCOVERY & PRODUCTION II: Celebrating Successes of Traditional and Novel Cultures
  June 22-26, 2008
  Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
  Web: http://www.engconfintl.org/8an.html
• FitoMed 2008: Natural Products and Functional Foods
  June 25-27, 2008
  Grand Hotel Salerno, Salerno, Italy
  Web: http://www.fitomed2008.com/default_en.htm
• Phytochemical Society of North America 2008 Annual Meeting: Phytochemistry and Biology/Human Health
  June 25-29, 2008
  Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
  Web: http://www.psna.wsu.edu/
• American Society of Plant Biologists - Plant Biology 2008
  June 27-July 2, 2008
  Mérida, Mexico
  Web: http://www.aspb.org/meetings/
• IUPAC International Conference on Biodiversity and Natural Products (ICOB-6 and ISCNP-26)
  July 13-18, 2008
  Charlottetown, PEI, Canada
  Web: http://www.iupac-icbnp2008.com
• Gordon Research Conference on Natural Products
  July 20-25, 2008
  Tilton School, Tilton, New Hampshire
  Web: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2008&program=natprod
• 7th Joint Meeting of the Association Francophone pour l'Enseignement et la Recherche en Pharmacognosie (AFERP), The American Society of Pharmacognosy ASP), the Society for Medicinal Plant Research - Gesellschaft für Arzneipflanzenforschung e.V. (GA), and the Phytochemical Society of Europe
  August 3-8, 2008
  Athens, Greece (International meeting with AFERP, GA, and PSE)
  Web: http://www.phcog.org/AnnualMtg/Athens.html
  
• Society for Industrial Microbiology Annual Meeting and Exhibition 2008
  August 10-13, 2008
  San Diego, California
  Web: http://www.simhq.org/meetings/meetings.aspx
• New Use Agriculture and Natural Plant Products 2008 International Training Program on Natural Products: Botanicals, Nutraceuticals and Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: From Sourcing and Production to Processing and Product Development, And from Quality Control to Health Applications
  August 11-15, 2008
  Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  Web: http://www.aesop.rutgers.edu/~newuseag/itp2008.htm
• 236th - ACS National Meeting & Exposition
  August 17-21, 2008
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Web: http://acswebcontent.acs.org/home.html
• 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology
  August 17-22, 2008
  Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania
  Web: http://www.chemecol.org/meetings/meetings.htm
• 8th International Conference on Vitamins - Nutrition and Diagnostics
  September 9-11, 2008
  Tomas Bata University, Zlin, Czech Republic
  Web: http://www.vitamins.cz
• 20th Symposium of Brazilian Medicinal Plants, 10th International Congress of Etnopharmacology, 2nd Meeting of Specialists in Herbal Medicine in the Treatment of Addictions
  September, 16-19, 2008
  São Paulo, Brazil
  Web: http://www.plantasmedicinais.unifesp.br
• 2nd EuCheMS Chemistry Congress
  September 16-20, 2008
  Lingotto Conference Center, Torino, Italy
  Web: http://www.euchems-torino2008.it/site/home.asp
• 2008 Shanghai International Conference on Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Medicine
  October 10-12, 2008
  Pei-gen Xiao: Institute for Medicinal Plant Research, China
  Web: http://www.phcog.org/ShanghaiTCM2008First_Circular.pdf
• Symposium on Medicinal Plants, Their Cultivation and Aspects of Use
  October 15-16, 2008
  Ash-Shoubak University College/Al-Balqa' Applied University, Ash-Shoubak, Jordan
  Email: Dr. Mazen Ateyyat atteyyat@bau.edu.jo
• 7th International Phytochemical Conference - Phytochemicals: Health Promotion and Therapeutic Potential
  October 20-21, 2008
  Buena Park, California
  Web: http://www.phytochemicalconference.com
• International Congress on Traditional and Complementary Medicine (ICTCM)
  October 28-31, 2008
  Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
  Web: http://www.ictcm.ir
• 1st Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Marine Natual Products
  October 31 - Novmeber 5, 2008
  Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
  Web: http://www.emcmnp.org
• 3rd CMDD Symposium on Marine Natural Products and Drug Discovery
  November 5-7, 2008
  Ritz-Carlton Seoul, Seoul, Korea
  Web: http://www.cmdds.or.kr
• 4th World Congress on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (WOCMAP IV): Using Plants to Benefit People
  November 9-14, 2008
  Cape Town, South Africa
  Web: http://www.underutilized-species.org/record_details.asp?id=935

• RELEVANT MEETINGS 2009

• International Conference on Herbal Medicine - Evaluation of Quality, Efficacy and Safety
  February 26-28, 2009
  Bangalore, India
  Web: http://http://www.herbalconference2009.com
  
• 237th - ACS National Meeting & Exposition
  March 22-26, 2009
  Salt Lake City, Utah
  Web: http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_TRANSITIONMAIN&node_id=2040&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1
  
• The American Society of Pharmacognosy
  June 27-July 2, 2009
  Honolulu, Hawaii (50th Anniversary Meeting)
  Web: http://www.phcog.org/AnnualMtg/Honolulu.html
  
• 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology
  July, 2009
  Neuchatel, Switzerland
  Web: http://www.chemecol.org/meetings/meetings.htm
  
• American Society of Plant Biology - Plant Biology 2009
  July 18-22, 2009
  Honolulu, Hawaii
  Web: http://www.aspb.org/meetings/
  
• 238th - ACS National Meeting & Exposition
  August 16-20, 2009
  Washington, DC
  Web: http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_TRANSITIONMAIN&node_id=2053&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1