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Emerging Investigators 2012

Molecular BioSystems Emerging Investigators 2012We are delighted to publish our third themed issue dedicated to the work of new and emerging investigators whose research in chemical biology interfaces with the -omic sciences and systems biology.

There is plenty of exciting research in this issue, including work from Priscilla Yang on exploiting known kinase inhibitors to develop new probes for imaging kinases and Nuno Bandeira on spectral networks algorithms to analyse tandem mass spectroscopy results. Both these articles are free to access for the next four weeks.

For all the contributors to the issue please see our Profile article.

To coincide with this, Molecular BioSystems Deputy Editor Victoria Eyley has just returned from the International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB) in Toronto, Canada where she presented this year’s Early Career Lectureship to Thijn Brummelkamp (The Netherlands Cancer Institute). Thijn is being recognised as he was one of the first to describe stable RNA interference, which is widely used to study gene function.

*Free access is provided to subscribing institutions or through an RSC Publishing Personal Account. Registration is quick and easy at http://pubs.rsc.org/en/account/register.

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It’s your last chance to register for Directing Biosynthesis III

It’s your last chance to register for Directing Biosynthesis III – by the deadline date of Wednesday 22 August.

Natural products continue to underpin the developments of new medicines and agrochemicals. Their biosynthesis and role in the environment are increasingly well understood at ecological, chemical, biochemical, and genetic levels and their discovery and exploitation remain key objectives of academics and companies. Significant opportunities exist for engineering biosynthetic pathways in bacteria, fungi and plants for the directed biosynthesis of new natural products with new and beneficial properties.

We are delighted to announce that a special symposium will take place within the Directing Biosynthesis III programme, recognising the achievements of three RSC award winners of 2011. Each of the winners will give a keynote lecture within the symposium.

  • Professor Jim Naismith, University of St Andrews, UK
    Member of Collaborative Computational Project 4 – STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (CCP4)
    Winners of the Rita and John Cornforth Award 2011
  • Professor Chris Schofield, University of Oxford, UK
    Winner of the Jeremy Knowles Award 2011
  • Dr David R Spring, University of Cambridge, UK
    Winner of the Norman Heatley Award 2011

So join them to be a part of  this highly topical conference featuring contributions from the most active groups in the UK, Europe, the USA and Japan working in the rapidly developing area of directed biosynthesis of new natural products.

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Off to The 13th International Conference on Systems Biology? Meet Deputy Editor Vikki Eyley there

We are excited to be off to the 13th International Conference on Systems Biology next week, which is taking place at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Deputy Editor Vikki Eyley will be at the meeting on behalf of Molecular BioSystems and would be delighted to meet you, so do come and say hello!

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Lipids and Membrane Biophysics: Faraday Discussion 161

There’s still just time to submit a poster for Lipids and Membrane Biophysics: Faraday Discussion 161 – by the deadline date 13 July.

This Faraday Discussion will consider recent developments in the study of biomembrane structure, ordering and dynamics, with particular emphasis on the roles of lipids in these phenomena. Registration is quick and simple via our online booking system, so act today and benefit from early bird savings.

Why choose to come to a Faraday Discussion? They have a unique format – all papers are circulated in advance and all discussion contributions are recorded for publication in the abstract book after the event. You can also have your own poster space at the meeting, so submit yours now before the deadline of 13 July.

Come and discuss new experimental and theoretical findings and novel methodologies, as we focus on exploring the relevance of concepts from amphiphile self-assembly and soft matter physics to understanding biomembranes.

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Directing Biosynthesis III – last call for abstracts

Directing Biosynthesis IIIPlease don’t miss this last opportunity to submit an oral abstract now to be part of a high profile conference featuring contributions from the most active groups in the UK, Europe, the USA and Japan working in this rapidly developing area.

This meeting builds on the two previous extremely successful conferences in a subject area which remains highly topical. As significant opportunities exist for engineering biosynthetic pathways in bacteria, fungi and plants for the directed biosynthesis of new natural products with new and beneficial properties. We expect the programme this year to generate a high profile event that you will not want to miss.

Confirmed Invited speakers:

Ikuro Abe, University of Tokyo, Japan
Mervyn Bibb, John Innes Centre, UK
David W. Christianson, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Christian Hertweck, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Ben Liu, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Professor Jim Naismith, University of St Andrews, UK
Joern Piel, University of Bonn, Germany
Professor Chris Schofield, University of Oxford, UK
David H Sherman, University of Michigan, USA
Dr David R Spring, University of Cambridge, UK
Tom Simpson, FRS, University of Bristol, UK
Yi Tang, UCLA, USA

NOW CONFIRMED – Craig Townsend, John Hopkins University, USA

A special symposium will take place within the Directing Biosynthesis III programme, recognising the achievements of three 2011 RSC award winners. Each of the winners will give a keynote lecture within the symposium.

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Challenges in Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology symposium

The first of the International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences (ISACS) series next year is to be Challenges in Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology (ISACS7) on 12 – 15 June at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

See the excellent list of confirmed speakers and details of the abstract submission process here.

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Challenges in Chemical Biology (ISACS5) registration and poster deadlines approaching

Challenges in Chemical Biology (ISACS5)

26 – 29 July 2011

University of Manchester, UK

  • Call for posters – deadline 27 May 2011
  • Early bird registration – deadline 27 May 2011

www.rsc.org/isacs5

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Off to Anaheim? Meet Deputy Editor Michael Smith there

We are excited to be off to the ACS Spring 2011 meeting in Anaheim next week – especially as MBS Editorial Board member Dr Madan Babu will be giving the Molecular BioSystems Award Lecture on Wednesday morning.

Michael Smith

Deputy Editor Michael Smith will be at the meeting on behalf of Molecular BioSystems, Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Integrative Biology and would be delighted to meet you, so do come and say hello!

RSC Publishing will also be at Booth 903, find out more about what we’ll be doing here.

The Molecular BioSystems Award is part of our 2011 Emerging Investigators issue – check out the issue and editorial from Charlie Boone. The Molecular BioSystems Award Symposium starts at 8.30 am in the Marquis Northeast Ballroom of the Anaheim Marriott on Wednesday 30th March– we hope to see you there!

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Issue 3 now online

Mol. BioSyst., 2011, 7(3), 561-956

 Issue 3 of 2011 is now available online. This month is a part-themed issue with a focus on proteomics, containing a selection of papers on work presented at the Italian Proteomics Association conference, held in June 2010. Read the introductory Editorial, Proteomics and Renaissance’ by Andrea Urbani and colleagues and browse the full issue here.

On the front cover, Lorenza Putignani and coworkers report a proteomic phenotyping  of clinically relevant fungi for diagnostic applications using MALDI-TOF MS.

MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry proteomic phenotyping of clinically relevant fungi
Lorenza Putignani, Federica Del Chierico, Manuela Onori, Livia Mancinelli, Marta Argentieri, Paola Bernaschi, Luana Coltella, Barbara Lucignano, Laura Pansani, Stefania Ranno, Cristina Russo, Andrea Urbani, Giorgio Federici and Donato Menichella
Mol. BioSyst., 2011, 7, 620-629, DOI: 10.1039/C0MB00138D

The article will be free to access for 6 weeks so do take a look!

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Shichina Kannambath wins Molecular BioSystems poster prize

 

Congratulations go to Shichina Kannambath from Manchester University’s Interdisciplinary Biocentre for winning the Molecular BioSystems poster prize at the Cold Spring Harbor Lab/Wellcome Trust conference on “Systems Biology: Networks” held in  Hinxton, Cambridge, earlier this month.

The prize consists of a one year subscription to Molecular BioSystems and a cheque for £100. Ms Kannambath received her award for her poster on ‘System-level control properties of the eukaryotic mRNA translation pathway’. The presentation was made on the final day of the conference by Deputy Editor Michael Smith after which Ms Kannambath gave a brief talk about her work.

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