European Peptide Society

The tenth edition of the Naples Workshop on Bioactive Peptides was held in Napoli, Italy at the Centro Congressi d'Ateneo of the University of Napoli "Federico II" on June 11-14, 2006. The meeting has had an attendance of 150 peptide scientists from 16 different Countries from all over the world. The meeting, has been organized by the Dipartimento delle Scienze Biologiche and the Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sui Peptidi Bioattivi (CIRPEB) of the University of Napoli "Federico II", by the Second University of Napoli, by the Istituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini of the C.N.R. of Italy, and by the Centro Regionale di Competenza in "Diagnostica e Farmaceutica Molecolari". The Workshop was held under the auspices of the European and the American Peptide Societies and the Regione Campania Assessorato all'Università ed alla Ricerca Scientifica. This edition of the Workshop was for various reasons a special one: it was in fact the first edition of the Workshop held in Napoli, while all previous ones were held in the island of Capri. The organizers wanted to give a sign of discontinuity because the tenth edition was the first to which the late Prof. Murray Goodman did not participate.

For the first time the Journal of Peptide Science publishes the best papers from this conference. Get a flair of this special issue  (Volume 12, Issue 12) and read the following three articles:

• Synthesis, conformation, and bioactivity of novel analogues of the antiviral lipopeptide halovir A
• 'Click peptide': a novel ‘O-acyl isopeptide method’ for peptide synthesis and chemical biology-oriented synthesis of amyloid ß peptide analogues
• Probing DNA–peptide interaction forces at the single-molecule level