Last Updated: February 1, 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 2011

• 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/
  
• Phytochemical Society of North America 50th Anniversary Meeting
  December 10-15, 2011
  Hawaii's Big Island
  Web: http://uhhconferencecenter.com/psna.html
  

• RELEVANT MEETINGS 2012

• Laboratory Automation
  January 28 - February 1, 2012
  Palm Springs, CA
  Web: http://www.slas2012.org
  
• Plant Volatiles
  January 29 - February 3, 2012
  Ventura, CA
  Web: http://www.grc.org/
  
• 4^th ICDDT
  February 13 - 15
  Dubai, UAE
  Web: http://www
  http://www.icddt4-01.com/
• ISE 2012
  February 17 - 19, 2012
  Kolkata, India
  Web: http://www.pharmacognosy.us/calendar-of-events/
  
• Marine Natural Products
  February 16 - March 2, 2012
  Ventura, CA
  Web: http://www.grc.org/
  
• 243rd ACS National Meeting
  San Diego, CA
  March 26 - 29, 2012
  Web: http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=9&use_sec=false
  
• 60th ASMS Conf on Mass Spec
  May 21 - 24, 2012
  Vancouver, BC, Canada
  Web: http://www.asms.org/
  
• Natural Anticancer Drugs
  June 30 - July 4, 2012
  Olomouc, Czech Republic
  Web: http://www.nad2012.com/
  
• 28th Meeting Int Soc Chem Eco
  July 1, 2012
  Vilnius, Lithuania
  Web: https://sites.google.com/a/chemecol.org/welcome/meetings
  
• The Consummate Botanist
  July 8, 2012
  St. Louis, Missouri
  Web: http://www.pharmacognosy.us/calendar-of-events/
  
• <53rd ASP Ann and 8th Intl Mtg
  July 28 - August 1, 2012
  New York, New York
  Web: http://www.pharmacognosy.us/
  
• SIM 2012 Annual Meeting Exhib
  August 12 - 16, 2012
  Washington, DC
  Web: http://www.simhq.org/meetings/
  
• 244th ACS National Meeting
  September 9 - 13, 2012
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Web: http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=9&use_sec=false