The two-days kick-off meeting of MEPHITIS project was hosted by Dr. Miriam Royo (partner 6, PCB) in Barcelona.
Technical and managerial issues were discussed and further actions planned.
The event was attended by 23 participants from the 8 project partners.

Moreover, two invited external... [more info]

The first progress meeting will take place in India (Delhi) and it is organized by Dr. Saman Habib from Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR). Technical aspects of the project progress will be discussed in the view of the EC mid-term review

From 28th January to 2nd February , 23rd tRNA Workshop is being held at Aveiro Conference Centre in Northern Coast of Portugal.

Entitled “From the origin of life to Biomedicine” and divided in 6th sessions, this workshop covers varied aspects of contemporary tRNA research such as Structure and... [more info]

The parasite to the mosquito and the mosquito to the individual. This would be broadly the process of transmission of one of the most serious diseases affecting the third-world countries, la malaria. Feared by everyone and with few effective treatments, malaria causes each year about one million... [more info]

Annual event, organized by the Catalan Government, to help getting the large public closer to the research community. The event was attended by students from secondary school.
In a two-day fair, Luis Ribas’ laboratory was invited to present his research to the students, along with other top... [more info]

http://www.biomalpar.org/
Attended by Dr.Laia Cubells and Dr. Magali Frugier
A poster was exhibited in the largest annual international conference on Malaria.

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Attended by Alfred Cortés

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Attended by Lluís Ribas de Pouplana

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Speech: Indian Science in the International Context,
attended by Dr. Saman Habib

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Talk made by Saman Habib

TIFR, Mumbai, India, attended by Subir Biswas

IICB, Kolkata, India, Talk made by Dr. Saman Habib on apicoplast biology including translation

Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, Talk in symposium on “Current Advances in Biological Research”, Dr. Saman Habib

seminar at Public Research Center for Health, Luxemburg by partner 4 CNRS

Protein Synthesis and Translational Control, Heidelberg, Germany, attended by Magali Frugier- poster presentation

On November 22th, 2010, the partners in MEPHITIS project will get together via online multiconference, to discuss the latest achievements in the project. This on-line event is hosted by the project coordinator, Dr. Lluis Ribas and coordinated by IRB Barcelona. It will be the first technical meeting ... [more info]

In the context of the celebration of the 50th anniversary from the setting up of Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) in Lucknow (India), on November 10th, 2010, Dr. Lluis Ribas de Pouplana has been invited to make a talk on the biomedical applications that may come up from the study of aminoacyl ... [more info]

New drugs for new targets: Inhibiting the translation machinery of Plasmodium falciparum.
Eva Maria Novoa, Laia Cubells, Noelia Camacho, Alfred Cortés, Rob Hoen, Alba López, Miriam Royo, Lluis Ribas de Pouplana

Poster presentation
5-8.01.2010, TIFR, Mumbai, India

Training activity
Dr. Lluis Ribas, Dr. Alfred Cortés, Dr. Laia Cubells, Mrs. Eva Novoa
14.05.2010, Barcelona, Spain

Dr.Elisabetta Pizzi,
7-9 .09. 2010
Rome (Italy)

Annual Meeting of MALSIG Consortium.
I attended as invited speaker to present activities of MEHPITIS project.

Dr.Saman Habib
Dr. Amit Sharma

1-3,12. 2010
ICGEB , New Delhi, India


Talk on deciphering functions of apicoplast targeted proteins including those involed in translation in the apicoplast (under Mephitis)

4 -6. 12. 2010, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Dr. Saman Habib

Talk on housekeeping functions of the apicoplast as targets for antimalarials. Also discussed work under Mephitis

15.02.2011 Conference at CNRS, Cronenbourg, France

Dr. Magali Frugier, dr. Denis Filisetti

Conference

Discussion on current anti-malarial discovery and development efforts

15-16.03.2011 London, England

Dr. Saman Habib

24.03.2011, Beigin, China
Dr. Stuart A. Ralph
Parasite drug targets, presented Mephitis work and advertised Mephitis project

16-18.05. 2011 Heidelberg, Germany

Dr. Elisabetta Pizzi

Annual Conference of the European Virtual Institute for Malaria Research. Participation to the conference is relevant to increase interactions with Malaria Labs.

September, 2011 Salt Lake City, USA

Dr. Stuart A. Ralph
Dr. James Pham

Parasite ARSs, presented Mephitis work on CysRS and advertised Mephitis project

February. 2012. Lorne Australia

Dr. Stuart A. Ralph,
Dr. Florian Ehlgen,
Dr. James Pham

Mephitis work on ARSs, acknowledged Mephitis

14.05.2012, Heidelberg, Germany

Dr. Stuart A. Ralph

Presented Mephitis work on localisation of ARSs and CysRS aminoacylation, acknowledged Mephitis

05.7.2012, Launceston, Australia.

Dr. Stuart A. Ralph

Presented Mephitis work on drug target prioritization and on CysRS as a drug target, acknowledged Mephitis