INPS: The International Neuropeptide Society/Society for Biologically Active Peptides

[link]

Conferences:

• The First Chinese International Bioactive Neuropeptide Conference:
  From Basic Studies to Clinical Implications
  May 10-13, 2007
  Beijing, China [program]
  Organized by Prof. Ji-Sheng Han
• Neuropeptides: Perspectives and Applications
  (Featured Symposium - 10th International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Conference and XXXVI Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
  May 24, 2007
  Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
  Presented by Prof. Mario Palma
• Summer Neuropeptide Conference 2007
  The Inn at Essex, Vermont, US, Sept 8-9
  Organized by Prof. Ilana Gozes, http://www.tau.ac.il/~igozes/usa/index.html
• The Invertebrate Neuropeptide Conference.
  Luang, Prabang, Laos, 2007
  Organized by Prof. Ronald Nachman.
• India Branch of INPS, Nagpur, India
  January 2008
  Organized by Prof. Nishikant Subhedar
• South Africa Branch of INPS, Capetown
  Organized by Prof. Gerd Gäde
• Signal Transduction in the Blood-Brain Barriers, Dr. Reiner F. Haseloff, Potsdam, Germany
  http://symposium-bbb2007.fmp-berlin.de/
• Japan Branch of INPS, Sendai, Japan                                                                            August 31-September 1, 2008                                                                                         Organized by K. Takahashi and S. Sakurada
• Canada Branch of INPS                                                                                                   June 30, 2009                                                                                                                Quebec City, Canada                                                                                             Organized by R. Couture
• KoreaBranchINPS                                                                                                                                   Jeju Island, Korea                                                                                                                       November 8-11, 2009                                                                                                                            Organized by Yoon-Sik Lee / Kil Lyong Kim

Insights from experts

From the Inflammation & BBB Working Group [file]

Document for the NIH Consortium meeting, March 07 "Strategies for Advancing Brain Barriers Translational Research"

Lindberg Lab survival tips [file]

Stress management - advice from Dr. Beckerle, president of ASCB [file]

Tips & Tools

Guide to receptors and channels, from British Journal of Pharmacology, 2007 version

http://www.nature.com/bjp/journal/v150/n1s/abs/0707199a.html

Protein degradation (very informative site from Wash U Neurology) [link]

Bioprotocols [link]

iProtocol from Invitrogen [link]

Handbook of Molecular Probes [link]

Bioinformatics links

Proteomics server

Pathfinder from Sigma [link]

Gene cards [link]

Restriction endonuclease sites [New England Biolabs]

Primer 3 [link]

Open Biosystems [link]

PBRC Microscopy core [link]