11 July 2016 – 13 July 2016, Oxford, United Kingdom

The RSC Biotechnology Group, NPRONET and other sponsors invite you to a residential conference focused on contemporary scientific research which will facilitate the therapeutic use of small molecules derived from natural sources. The tradition of using naturally occurring small molecules as medicines is thousands of years old, but many front-line pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals in contemporary use owe their origins to natural sources. Modern research methods have brought back into the spotlight the concept of developing novel biomedical and agrochemical products from so-called natural products

More information and registration available here

The Workshop is free and is open to all interested stakeholders working on industrial biotechnology.
The objective of the Workshop is to feed into the UK bioeconomy strategy and specifically into the report on the potential of and barriers to the bioeconomy being prepared for BBSRC /BIS during the Spring of 2016. The Workshop is complementary to the work undertaken in the IBLF and wants to highlight what the sector can contribute towards creating the Northern Powerhouse.

More information at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bioeconomy-workshop-28th-april-2016-tickets-22656959576

Applications are warmly invited for the sixth in the series of John Innes – Rudjer Bošković Summer Schools on Applied Molecular Microbiology, to be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 10-18, 2016 with the title “Microbial Diversity and Specialised Metabolites”. Full details, including the availability of grants to attend the summer school, are at http://www.jic.ac.uk/science/molmicro/summerschool/index.htm.

The deadline for applications is 30 April 2016.

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