European Peptide Society

The Chairman of the 7th HFBP Prof. Paul Cordopatis announced that, according to the votes of the Ballot among the National Representatives of EPS, the 2nd Dimitrios Theodoropoulos Memorial Lecture is Awarded to Prof. Ernest Giralt (Barcelona, Spain). Read more >>>

In a letter addressed to all EPS members, Professor Alex Eberle explains the reasons of this decision of the EPS Executive Committee: all members (and new members to be) are invited to register through this website again, until 31 January 2010.Please read this special feature and follow the instructions >>> 

In this webinar, we demonstrate the complete targeted protein quantification workflow step-by-step: building SRM tables, data acquisition and processing methods, followed by automated results verification, and finally method refinement. This webinar has been recorded and is now available on demand.

The 2009 Nobel Chemistry Prize goes to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath. The European Peptide Society would like to congratulate all awardees for their achievements. You can read a recent review by Ada Yonath et. al. in the Journal of Peptide Science. Registered users of the European Peptide Society website can read the full article for free >>>

The Editors of the Journal of Peptide Science are proud to announce the winner of the 2009 Journal of Peptide Science Best Publication Award. It goes to Katherine M. Harris, Stevenson Flemer Jr and Robert J. Hondal, from the Department of Biochemistry, University of Vermont, College of Medicine, Given Laboratory, Burlington, VT, USA.

UMR INRA 1014 SECALIM (Nantes) and ENITIAA-Nantes, in collaboration with Laboratories of French Agencies for Food Safety (Ploufragan, Cotes d’Armor) had organized the 2nd International Symposium on Antimicrobial Peptides: Food, Veterinary, Medical and Novel Applications (Saint-Malo, France / June 17-19, 2009). 

The Institute of Biomolecules Max Mousseron (IBMM) of Montpellier had organized the 1st International Microwave-Assisted Organic and Peptide Synthesis (MAOPS) Symposium  (La Grande-Motte, France / June 4-5, 2009).

The first award will be given in September 2009. The winner will receive a cheque of €2000 and will be announced and listed in Journal of Peptide Science online and in print.

The 2008 Josef Rudinger Memorial Award lectures were presented by Horst Kessler (Munich Technical University, Germany) and by Manfred Mutter (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland). The 2008 Leonidas Zervas Award lecture was given by Anna Maria Papini, from the University of Florence, Italy. Sit back and enjoy these three lectures online!

EPS Symposia bring peptide scientists together, not only in science but also in football and tennis! The photo was taken at the EPS tennis event, hosted at the recent EPS Symposium.