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Meet the NPR Editorial team – see where and when you can meet us in 2013

The Natural Product Reports Editorial team will be attending a number of conferences in 2013 and we would be delighted to meet you there.  

We’re also the team behind NPR’s sister journals Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, MedChemComm, and the latest addition to the portfolio, Toxicology Research, so we’ll happily discuss your interdisciplinary research work. In fact, many of our authors choose to publish their research across all of these titles.    

Here are just some of the conferences where you can meet us in the coming months:  

RSC India Roadshow, visiting Kolkata, Pune and Bangalore – 5-11 February 2013, India – View the full details, including the confirmed speakers’ list– Meet Richard
Society of Toxicology’s 52nd Annual Meeting –10-14 March 2013, San Antonio, Texas, USA – Meet Marie
40th Lakeland Heterocyclic meeting – 9-13 May 2013, Grasmere, UK – Meet Marie
Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC) - 23-26 June 2013, San Francisco, USA – Meet Richard
8-ISMSC (International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry) – 07-11 July 2013, Washington DC, USA – Meet Richard
ESOC 2013 (8th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry) – 08-12 July 2013, Marseille, France – Meet Marie
OMCOS 17 (IUPAC Conference on Organometallic Chemistry Towards Organic Synthesis)- 28 July to 01 August 2013, Fort Collins, USA – Meet Marie
EUROTOX 2013- 01-04 September 2013, Interlaken, Switzerland – Meet Marie
Fall ACS meeting- 08-12 September 2013, Indianapolis, USA – Meet Richard
Asian Medicinal Chemistry Conference – October 2013, Taipei, Taiwan – Meet Richard
15th BMOS - Brazilian Meeting on Organic Synthesis, 10-13 November 2013, Campos do Jordão, Brazil – Meet Richard    

Let us know if you are planning on attending any of these meetings, as it would be lovely to see you there!   

     

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Directing Bioysynthesis III – deadline approaching

It’s your last chance to register for Directing Biosynthesis III – by the deadline date of Friday 31 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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ICPOC21: poster abstracts

There is still just time to submit your poster abstract to the 21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC 21) but don’t delay as the deadline is 13 July.

Register early for the best prices.

Why join ICPOC21?

Professor Dean Tantillo, University of California, Davis (USA) is the winner of the 2011 NPR Lecture Award and will be delivering his lecture at ICPOC 21.

The NPR Lecture Award is awarded to a researcher who has made a significant contribution to the field of natural products and who has been involved with the journal. Professor Tantillo was selected for his work in the field of enzymology.

In addition to the outstanding plenary sessions, there will be three parallel sessions over the five days comprising invited lectures and contributed talks, as well as poster sessions.

A broad range of scientists from across the whole community who share a quantitative perspective on chemistry will be there, providing an opportunity to discuss and celebrate the current status, development, and the future of physical organic chemistry.

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Directing Biosynthesis III: Last call for oral abstracts – don’t miss out!

Directing Biosynthesis III (DBIII), 19 – 21 September 2012, University of Nottingham, UK.

 LAST CALL FOR ORAL ABSTRACTS – DEADLINE THIS FRIDAY 11TH MAY 2012

Please 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

Jim Naismith, University of St Andrews, UK

Joern Piel, University of Bonn, Germany

Chris Schofield, University of Oxford, UK

David H Sherman, University of Michigan, USA

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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There is still time to join ICPOC21!

Good news!

There’s still a chance to submit your oral abstract to ICPOC21: 21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry organised by the Organic Division of the RSC on behalf of IUPAC, to be held 9 – 13 September 2012 at Durham University.

The Scientific Committee is currently reviewing all submissions, and has agreed to accept contributions up to Friday 13 April to allow for the Easter holiday break.

Why join ICPOC21?

 
Professor Dean Tantillo, University of California, Davis (USA) is the winner of the 2011 NPR Lecture Award. and will be delivering his lecture at ICPOC 21.

The NPR Lecture Award is awarded to a researcher who has made a significant contribution to the field of natural products and who has been involved with the journal. Professor Tantillo was selected for his work in the field of enzymology.

In addition to the outstanding plenary sessions, there will be three parallel sessions over the five days comprising invited lectures and contributed talks, as well as poster sessions.

A broad range of scientists from across the whole community who share a quantitative perspective on chemistry will be there, providing an opportunity to discuss and celebrate the current status, development, and the future of physical organic chemistry.

Make sure you are one of them! Don’t miss the oral abstract submission deadline – 13 April.

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NPR poster prizes awarded at Zing Natural Products conference

Congratulations to Ramona Riclea (TU Braunschweig, Germany) and Khomaizon Kadir (University of Bristol, UK) who each won a Natural Product Reports poster prize at the Zing Natural Products conference  held on 10-13 February in Lanzarote.

Ramona, currently studying for her PhD in the group of Dr. Jeroen S. Dickschat, presented her winning work entitled

  •  ‘Synthesis and biosynthesis of novel bioactive secondary metabolites from Streptomycetes’

while Khomaizon, PhD student working with Drs Andy Bailey and Colin M Lazarus, was rewarded for her winning poster presenting her research on:

  •  ‘Efficient expression system for production of natural products in Aspergillus orizae’

Both awardees receive a prize certificate and a one-year subscription to Natural Product Reports. Congratulations!

From left to right, Dr Jeroen Dickschat and poster prize winners Ramona Riclea and  Khomaizon Kadir receiving their award certificate from Dr Marie Cote, NPR deputy editor.

The meeting was co-Chaired by NPR Advisory Board member and former NPR Chair David O’Hagan (University of St Andrews, UK) and NPR Advisory Board member Margaret Brimble (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and brilliantly covered the breadth of natural products research: from isolation and structural studies to biosynthesis to synthesis of molecules. Included in the line up of speakers were NPR Editorial Board members Andreas Kirschning (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany)  Stefan Schulz (TU Braunschweig, Germany), Dirk Trauner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München),  former NPR Chair Tom Simpson (University of Bristol, UK) and former Lecture Award winner Jason Micklefield (University of Manchester, UK).

The conference was a perfect opportunity to not only see some of the latest cutting edge natural products research but also to meet authors and readers of the journal -  all this in very enjoyable surroundings!

For critical and though-provoking reviews across a broad range of areas of natural products research, you can turn to Natural Product Reports…   

But did you know?

- Our sister journal Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry regularly publishes natural products related works: See them all here.

- Why not also view the very first articles from MedChemComm’s themed issue on Natural Products?

 

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Meet the NPR team

The NPR team will be attending a number of conferences in 2012 and we would be delighted to meet you.

Dr Marie Cote, Deputy Editor

Dr Richard Kelly, Managing Editor



Here are just some of the conferences where you can meet us in the coming months:

Please let us know if you are planning on attending any of these meetings, as it would be lovely to meet you there!

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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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NPR Lecture Award presented at ASP 2011

The NPR Lecture Award was presented to 2011 winner Christian Hertweck at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Pharmacognosy in San Diego last month. Professor Christian Hertweck from the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research in Jena, Germany was selected for his contribution to the field of biosynthesis.

NPR Editorial Board Chair Professor Bradley Moore presents Professor Christian Hertweck with his award. Photograph courtesy of Andrew Schultz

The NPR Lecture Award is awarded to a researcher who has made a significant contribution to the field of natural products and who has also had some involvement with the journal. Professor Hertweck has authored a number of articles for NPR and you can view his most recent articles below:

The chemistry and biology of cytochalasans
Kirstin Scherlach, Daniela Boettger, Nicole Remme and Christian Hertweck
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2010, 27, 869-886

Type II polyketide synthases: gaining a deeper insight into enzymatic teamwork
Christian Hertweck, Andriy Luzhetskyy, Yuri Rebets and Andreas Bechthold
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2007, 24, 162-190

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Natural Product Reports at the Zing Natural Products conference – February 2011

2011 will again see the Natural Product Reports (NPR) Editorial team travelling to conferences around the world to meet researchers and to see some of the latest work being carried out. A full list of where you can find us this year can be found on the NPR blog

The first meeting on our schedule for this year is the Zing Natural Products conference – 13th – 16th February – in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt. This conference, sponsored by NPR, will be a great opportunity to not only see some of the latest cutting edge natural products research but also to meet authors and readers of the journal. Editor Richard Kelly will be attending on behalf of NPR.

The meeting will be co-Chaired by NPR Advisory Board member and former NPR Chair David O’Hagan (University of St Andrews, UK) and NPR Advisory Board member Margaret Brimble (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and looks set to cover the breadth of natural products research: from isolation and structural studies to biosynthesis to synthesis of molecules. Included in the line up of speakers are NPR Editorial Board members Andreas Kirschning (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany) and Stefan Schulz (TU Braunschweig, Germany), former NPR Chair Tom Simpson (University of Bristol, UK) and former Lecture Award winner Jason Micklefield (University of Manchester, UK).

If you are travelling to this conference and would like to meet Richard Kelly, Editor of NPR, then please drop us an email to let us know.

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