To visit Hüsnü Baser’s collection of photos from the 50th Anniversary meeting, go to his collection on Webshots (http://family.webshots.com/album/573268296vtOaSI)

On the open ocean, a small fishing boat bobs on the rolling waves. The team of scientists on board has set out from a remote atoll in Fiji, and they are out to find new chemistry in the inky Pacific depths…

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Saturday, June 27 – Wednesday, July 1, 2009 – Sheraton Waikiki – Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

To Roy Okuda, John Cardellina and the members of the organizing committees, who provided such a great meeting in a wonderful venue — Mahalo nui loa!

The book to commemorate 50 years of ASP has been shipped.  Only those who have paid dues for 2009 will receive the book.  Do not delay - Join Today! For more on the book project, see the Winter 2008 Newsletter, page 10, or this page extract.

Pacifichem 2010 is The International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, and will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15-20, 2010. The meeting will host several symposia of interest to the natural products community, including the following:

• Marine Natural Products: Isolation, Biology, Ecology, and Synthesis [Jon Rainier (United States)  rainier@chem.utah.edu]
• Recent Advances in Natural Products as Anticancer Agents [David G. I. Kingston (USA) dkingston@vt.edu]
• Novel Synthetic Methodology and Its Application to Natural Product Synthesis [Frederick West (Canada) frederick.west@ualberta.ca]
• Total Synthesis of Natural Products and Related Compounds [Keiji Tanino (Japan) ktanino@sci.hokudai.ac.jp]
• Design and Synthesis of Biologically Active Compounds and Natural Products [Tohru Oishi (Japan) oishi@ch.wani.osaka-u.ac.jp]
• Biosynthesis of Natural Products [Professor John Vederas (Canada) john.vederas@ualberta.ca]

All symposia will include both invited and contributed papers, and there will also be a poster session associated with each symposium. Abstract submission will open on January 1, 2010 through March 15, 2010. General information can be obtained from the website http://www.pacifichem.org/, and specific information about the symposia listed above can be obtained by contacting the organizer listed.