July 28 - August 1, 2012: International Congress on Natural Products Research (ICNPR). Grand Hyatt New York City, New York, NY, USA. This is the joint meeting hosted by the American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) and our sister societies from Europe: the Society for Medicinal Plant Research (GA), the Italian Society of Phytochemistry (SIF), the Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE), and the French Speaking Society of Pharmacognosy (AFERP).

This international conference will present a program that dedicates the morning sessions for plenary presentations and afternoons that will be divided into parallel oral and/or poster sessions. Evening events will include a unique, personalized tour at the New York Botanical Garden and a panel of opinion leaders that will discuss the “Future of Pharmacognosy.” Themed contributed sessions are planned on traditional areas of interests to our members that include natural products discovery from marine, microbial, and plant origins, and metabolism, biosynthesis, analytical technologies, and genomics. A Young Investigators Program will feature accomplishments of our younger scientists that will be structured as an interactive forum. On Saturday, workshop sessions on NMR Structure Elucidation and CD Methodology as applied to natural products research will be offered. Of special interest, a public outreach program will be given under the auspices of the New York Botanical Garden entitled “From the Forest to the Pharmacy.”

More information is available at: www.icnpr2012.org.