Recent Peptide Publications

The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science, CIPPS, has announced the inaugural Summer School in Peptide Science, SSIPS. The Summer School will run in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Cyclic Peptides, ICCP, at Heron Island Resort on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, from 12–19 July 2026.

The program is designed for the training of graduate students and early-career postdoctoral researchers. The faculty comprises leading international experts who will deliver lectures and workshops spanning peptide discovery, green chemistry, computational design, and peptide translation.

The 2027 R. Bruce Merrifield Award recognizing the lifetime achievement of a peptide scientist, whose work exemplifies the highest level of scientific creativity will be presented at the 30th American Peptide Symposium in Boston, MA, June 20-24, 2027.

Nominating documents should be submitted by April 15th, 2026.

Each name appearing in the authors' line of a research article carries a story. The Biochemistry paper from the Waters laboratory at the University of North Carolina, which revealed how cooperative binding interactions govern selectivity in histone reader proteins, is no exception. Behind the science stands a team whose trajectories from Chapel Hill now span academia and industry, from North Carolina to South San Francisco.

When Michael Bertucci and Yftah Tal-Gan set up their posters side by side at the 2015 American Peptide Symposium in Orlando, they discovered something remarkable: both young assistant professors had independently chosen to study quorum sensing in streptococci.

That serendipitous encounter sparked a decade-long collaboration spanning Lafayette College and the University of Nevada, Reno. Their latest work in ACS Infectious Diseases, highlighted on our website, reveals how Streptococcus gordonii uses peptide signaling to produce hydrogen peroxide, a natural weapon against cavity-causing bacteria. Just as bacteria coordinate through chemical crosstalk, these research allies have built a partnership that bridges coasts, institutions, and career stages.