News & Events

• MAR 2013 - Breaking News: Launch of the alpha-Melusine discovery kits with 176 pre-treated venoms designed to conduct low-cost pre-screening campains for low to medium throughut assays or feasibilility studies. If you ever dreamed of screening 176 enriched venoms in one shot, time has come to make it a reality!
  
  
• JAN 2013 - The Not-to-Miss event: the 6th edition of our NP2D "Natural Peptides to Drugs" congress in Zermatt is scheduled for December 8-11, 2013, book the dates!!!
  
  
• DEC 2012 - This year, and despite a difficult economic situation, we are proud to have expanded our activities with new partners, and 2013 looks even more promising. We hired three highly qualified scientists, we have a new PhD student and one executive financial assistant. Atheris entered into new R&D Agreement with worldwide leading biopharmaceutical companies for drug discovery programs and offered its bioanalytical and drug discovery services to several other renowned companies, SME's, start-ups, institutions and universities worldwide.
  
  
• DEC 2012 - Furthermore, we aquired huge collections of venoms to expand our Melusine catalogue, with emphasis on spider venoms and unexplored marine samples. Last but not least, after Activen SA in 2010 (venom-derived ingredients for the cosmetic industry), we recently co-founded another new start-up company dedicated to the development of tissue-selective cell penetrating peptides and we are about to create a new spin-off out of our sister company Funzyme Biotechnologies SA.
  
  
• DEC 2012 - We have expanded our research capabilites with a major decision: we are now fully equipped and operational in molecular biology with world's first NextGen sequencing platform fully dedicated to venom gland transcriptome sequencing. This will strengthen our leadership in venom drug discovery and pave the way to our new concepts: Virtual and Synthetic Venom Libraries.
  
  
• DEC 2012 - We are also particularly proud to see the strength of our patent portfolio confirmed and further expanding, covering novel venom-derived lead compounds, potent proteolytic enzymes for major applications in the health care and biotechnology industries, as well as a technology known as covalent capture for efficient peptide and protein purification. We have also 14 new scientific articles published in peer reviewed journals in 2012 and a number more in the pipeline, we contributed to international conferences with several invited plenary lectures worldwide, more than a dozen oral presentations as well as several poster presentations.
  
  
• DEC 2012 - All of our "family & friends" stories are not only doing well. Each of them is impressively expanding. The enthusiastic reactions generated by industrial partners following the launch of our Melusine drug discovery concept went far beyond our expectations, especially following to the ditribution agreement we put in place with Bachem, FunZyme BioTechnologies S.A. is in a dynamic phase through stimulating industrial and academic partnerships, HiQScreen SaRL hired more scientists and was again cash-flow positive, with an exponential growth, the Toxinomics Foundation is now well established and also hired two high end senior scientists and one expert in communication, the CONCO cone snail genome project for health is delivering more and more, and the 2013 edition of our NP2D "Natural Peptides to Drugs" congress in Zermatt is scheduled for next December.
  
  
• 9 SEP 2010 - Official announcement of the partnership with Bachem for the worldwide distribution of new Melusine Collections of pre-fractionated animal venoms ready-made for high-throughput screening (HTS) lead discovery project. Melusine are compound libraries of 400 pre-fractionated animal venoms ready-made for HTS drug discovery. These collections are made of a grand total more than 200'000 natural biomolecules, mostly bioactives, dispensed in a total of 32'000 wells. The perfect product to discover original, potent and selective leads!
Download the pdf file of the Press Release.


• 4 SEP 2010 - NP2D Congress preliminary announcement. The fifth Natural Peptides to Drug International conference will be held in in Zermatt, Switzerland from 4-7 December 2011, with satellite Venomics event to celebrate CONCO - the cone snail genome project for health. Book the dates! NP2D 2011 Congress Announcement.
  
  
• JULY 2010 - Atheris to aquire two new Q-TOF mass spectrometers (Waters-Micromass), fully equipped with off-line and on-line standard and nanoflow electrospray ionisation. The resolution, accuracy and sensitivity of these two instruments will further strengthen our bioanalytical platform and reinforce our MS/MS de novo peptide and protein sequencing expertise.
  
  
• 11-14 APR 2010 - Unprecedented success of the fourth NP2D "Natural peptides To Drugs” Congress in Zermatt Switzerland, at the foot of the majestic Matterhorn mountain.
  
  
• 24 JAN 2009 - There we are with the launch of our new web site. We hope you like it?
  
  
• 12 DEC 2008 - We were successfully audited in the frame of our ISO 9001 certification. It is our permanent objective to serve our partners with the highest level of quality, and this has conducted us towards a GLP and ISO9001 certification process, which will be particularly useful in the frame of analytical services and PK-ADME quantitative studies we like to undertake in the frame of pre-clinical studies and clinical trials.
  
  



• 17 NOV 2008 - CONFIELD-2 Scientific expedition to the Chesterfield Islands in the frame of the CONCO Project. Professional scientific divers and a TV-team spent 16 days on a sailing boat to these remote islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Cone snails and a new species of algae were collected for scientific studies. More than 30 hours of film were accumulated for a documentary movie.
  
  
• 10 SEP 2008 - Terrible news again. Keith Rose, with whom we have shared so much, left us. Keith, Professor at the Geneva University Medical School, was not only a proeminent scientist and an entrepreneur. He was also a close friend and one of our few mentors. Jointly with Robin Offord, Keith supervised Reto Stöcklin's master degree and PhD thesis. Amongst many achievements, he was the main inventor of the covalent capture technology, and he co-founded FunZyme Biotechnologies S.A. in which he was on the board of deputies. It will be our duty to achieve things he would be proud of.
  
  
• 23 JUN 2008 - A scientific memorial day was organized jointly with the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), the French National Museum of Natural History and the Toxinomics Foundation as a tribute to André Ménez.
  
  
• 20 APR 2008 - Successful CONCALIS deep sea scientific expedition in New Caledonia. Six scientists from different horizons spent two and a half weeks on the ALIS oceanographic research vessel to collect deep sea cone snails.
  
  
• 16 APR 2008 - Launch of Melusine drug discovery kits as a branch of Atheris. Melusine is a new concept in which pre-fractionated animal venoms and other natural extracts (such as insect hemolymphs) are offered on microplates in a ready-made form for drug discovery programs.
  Melusine info
  
  
• 14-17 APR 2008 -Third NP2D congress in Zermatt, Switzerland. Atheris is proud to announce that the fourth edition of its International Congress on "Natural Peptides to Drugs" was a true success again! Don't miss the next edition, we hope to see you at NP2D 2010, April 12-15!!!
  NP2D'08 Report    NP2D 2010 Announcement
  
  
• 2 FEB 2008 - It is with great sadness that we had to face the disappearance of Prof. André Ménez, President of the French National Museum of Natural History and former Head of the Department of Protein Engineering at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA-Saclay). André was a close friend and his input since the early days was instrumental to the development of Atheris. It is with André Ménez that Dietrich Mebs and Reto Stöcklin initiated the Venomics Project, jointly created the Toxinomics Foundation and launched the CONCO cone snail project for health. The void he leaves is terrible. We miss you André!
  André Ménez Obituary 

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Where to meet us & recent attendences

WE WILL SOON BE THERE:


• 18-20 MAR 2013 - Invited lecture by Reto Stöcklin at the Ion Channels in Drug Discovery Conference, Berlin.
  
  
• 21 MAR 2013 - Reto Stöcklin to present RNASeq venomics at the LifeTech NextGen day, Zürich.
  
  
• 10 APR 2013 - Bachem Spring Symposium, Basel.
  
  
• 16-18 APR 2013 - Participation to In-Cosmetics, Paris.
  
  
• 12-15 MAY 2013 - TIDES Summit, Boston.
  
  
• 10-11 JUN 2013 - 14th Annual Drug Discovery Leaders Summit, Geneva.
  
  
• 22-27 JUN 2013 - 23rd American Peptide Symposium, Hawaii.
  
  
• 5-7 SEP 2013 - Invited lecture by Reto Stöcklin at the Natural Products and Health Meeting, Singapore.
  
  
• 8-13 SEP 2012 - Reto Stöcklin to give an invited lecture at the Australian Peptide Conference, Penang.
  
  
• 25 SEP 2012 - Invited lecture at the MipTec Peptide Therapeutics Symposium, Basel.
  
  
• 5-8 DEC 2013 - Organisation of the 6th NP2D (Natural Peptides to Drugs) International Conference in Zermatt, Switzerland.
  
  


WE WERE THERE:


• 3-6 NOV 2012 - Invited lecture at the Zing Conference on Peptides in Xcaret, Mexico.
  
  
• 27-28 NOV 2012 - Invited lecture by Reto Stöcklin at EuroTIDES, Berlin.
  
  
• 22 NOV 2012 - Reto Stöcklin to teach at the University of Geneva.
  
  
• 3-6 NOV 2012 - Invited lecture at the Zing Conference on Peptides in Xcaret, Mexico.
  
  
• 25-26 OCT 2012 - Reto Stöcklin to give an invited lecture at the Peptide Therapeutic Foundation meeting, San Diego.
  
  
• 18-20 SEP 2012 - Board member of the Venoms2012 Conference, Oxford.
  
  
• 3-7 SEP 2012 - Two tutorials at the Drugs from Nature week in Zermatt.
  
  
• 17-19 APR 2012 - Participation to InCosmetics", Barcelona.
  
  
• 11-12 JUN 2012 - Reto Stöcklin to give a plenary lecture at the 13th Annual Drug Discovery Leaders Summit in Zurich, Switzerland.
  
  
• 21-25 MAY 2012 - Teaching and participation to the “Animaux Venimeux et Venins” course at the National Museum for Natural History in Paris.
  
  
• 20-23 MAY 2012 - Invited plenary lecture by Reto Stöcklin at the TIDES International Conference, Las Vegas, USA.
  
  
• 26 APR 2012 - Participation to the second "Bachem Spring Seminar", Basel.
  
  
• 17-19 APR 2012 - Participation to In-Cosmetics, Barcelona.
  
  
• 20-21 MAR 2012 - Reto Stöcklin invited to give a plenary lecture at the Ion Channel International Conference, Berlin, Germany.
  
  
• 5-8 MAR 2012 - Participation to a course entitield "Visualizing Biological Data", Heidelberg, Germany.
  
  
• 12-16 FEB 2012 - Invited plenary lecture by Reto Stöcklin at the 4th International Conference on Drug Discovery & Therapy, Dubai.
  
  
• 12-15 FEB 2012 - Aude Violette to give a plenary lecture at the Peptide Therapeutics Conference, Lanzarote, Spain.
  
  
• 23 JAN 2012 - Reto Stöcklin to give a public conference on spider venoms at the National Museum for Natural History in Paris.
  
  
• 16-20 JAN 2012 - Teaching and participation to the “Animaux Venimeux et Venins” course at the National Museum for Natural History in Paris.
  
  
• 13 JAN 2012 - Atheris on the Swiss radio, see http://www.rsr.ch/#/la-1ere/programmes/impatience/?date=13-01-2012.
  
  
• 7-9 DEC 2011 - We organised and gave oral presentations at the first Conodays International Conference in Zermatt, Switzerland.
  
  
• 4-7 DEC 2011 - We organised and gave oral presentations at the fifth successful NP2D (Natural Peptides to Drugs) International Conference in Zermatt, Switzerland.
  
  
• 28-29 NOV 2011 - Cécile Cros to present a poster on the study of queen bee venom at the meeting of the French Society for the Study of Toxins (SFET), Paris, France.
  
  
• 18 NOV 2011 - Atheris at the news of the Swiss television, with snake venom milking, see http://www.tsr.ch/video/info/journal-12h45/#/video/info/journal-12h45/3592979-certains-venins-de-reptiles-recelent-par-centaines-des-molecules-pouvant-servir-a-fabriquer-des-medicaments.html.
  
  
• 15-16 NOV 2011 - Plenary lecture by Reto Stöcklin at the EUROPEPTIDES conference, Berlin, Germany.
  
  
• 3-4 NOV 2011 - Invited conference by Reto Stöcklin at the Proteomics and Genomics meeting, Valencia, Spain.
  
  
• 26-27 OCT 2011 - Reto Stöcklin invited to give a plenary lecture with Internet broadcast at the LifeTechnologies Ion Torrent PGM User Meeting, Berlin, Germany.
  
  
• 10-15 OCT 2011 - Reto Stöcklin invited to give a plenary lecture at the 5th Czech-Swiss Symposium, to be held in Prague, Czech Republic.
  
  
• 11-15 SEP 2011 - Atheris (Reto Stöcklin) and the Toxinomics Foundation (Dietrich Mebs) to organise a Venomics session at the European Congress of the International Society on Toxinology to be held in Valencia, Spain.
  
  
• 4-8 SEP 2011 - Conference on Venomics and the CONCO cone snail genome for health at the Asia-Pacific congress of the International Society on Toxinology, Vladivostok, Russia.
  
  
• 15-17 JUN 2011 - Reto Stöcklin invited to give a lecture at the Conference on Marine Drugs, to be held in Tahiti, French Polynesia.
  
  
• 8-9 JUN 2011 - Atheris to participate to the 12th Annual Drug Discovery Leaders Summit in Montreux, Switzerland.
  
  
• 15-20 MAY 2011 - Invited Keynote Lecture by Dr Reto Stöcklin at the 4th Venoms to Drugs Meeting to be held on Heron Island, Australia.
  
  
• 5-6 MAY 2011 - Invited Lecture by Dr Reto Stöcklin at "Bachem Spring Seminar", Basel.
  
  
• 3-7 APR 2011 - Reto Stöcklin to give an invited lecture at the Keystone Symposium “Drugs from Bugs” in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
  
  
• 14 MAR 2011 - Seminar by Reto Stöcklin at the Department of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Geneva Medical School.
  
  
• 22-25 FEB 2011 - Participation of Atheris at the Natural Products Conference, to be held on the shores of the Red sea, in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.
  
  
• 30 JAN - 4 FEB 2011 - Invited lecture and intervenient at the roundtable at the meeting of the French Group of Peptides and Proteins in Aussois, France.
  
  
• 24-28 JAN 2011 - Teaching and participation to the “Animaux Venimeux et Venins” course at the National Museum for Natural History in Paris.
  
  
• 17-21 JAN 2011 - Participation to the “Pattern Recognition” bioinformatic course at the University of Delft, Netherlands.
  
  
• 13-14 DEC 2010 - Invited lecture by Reto Stöcklin at the Meeting of the French Society for the Study of Toxins at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, France.
  
  
• 25 NOV 2010 - Conference by Reto Stöcklin in Grenoble at the “Toxines au Service de la Santé” day in Grenoble.
  
  
• 19-21 OCT 2010 - Invited opening lecture by Reto Stöcklin at the International Meeting for Experts in Envenomation organised by Bioclon and Silanes Laboratories in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
  
  
• 1-3 OCT 2010 - Dr Philippe Favreau and Dr Reto Stöcklin to participate to the first International Cone Collector Meeting Stuttgart. Presentation of “CONCO, the cone snail project for health” by Prof. Dietrich Mebs, President of the Toxinomics Foundation.
  
  
• 28 SEP 2010 - Reto Stöcklin to give an invited conference at the University of Zürich, Switzerland.
  
  
• 5-9 SEP 2010 - Participation to the European Peptide Symposium in Copenhagen, Denmark. Official launch of the partnership with Bachem for the worldwide distribution of the Melusine collections, pre-fractionated animal venoms ready-made for high-throughput lead discovery project. Poster presentation and presence on the Bachem booth.
  
  
• 23-26 AUG 2010 - 8th Consortium meeting of “CONCO, the cone snail project for health” integrated venomics project funded by the EC in Taru, Estonia.
  
  
• 4 AUG 2010 - Public conference by Reto Stöcklin on venomous animals and the medical use of venom components at the Mövenpick Resort in El Quseir, Egypt.
  
  
• 8-10 JUN 2010 - Dr Estelle Bianchi and Dr Reto Stöcklin to participate to the 11th annual Drug Discovery Leaders Summit with a plenary lecture.
  
  
• 18-22 APR 2010 - Invited plenary lecture by Reto Stöcklin at the International Society on Toxinology congress in San Jose, Costa Rica.
  
  
• 18-22 APR 2010 - Invited plenary lecture by Reto Stöcklin at the International Society on Toxinology congress in San Jose, Costa Rica.
  
  
• 11-14 APR 2010 - NP2D Congress: Atheris to organise the fourth Natural Peptides to Drug International conference in Zermatt, book the dates!.
  
  
• 1-3 FEB 2010 - Reto Stöcklin and Estelle Bianchi to participate to BioSquare and BioData in Geneva with an oral presentation.
  
  
• 26-28 JAN 2010 - 7th CONCO Consortium meeting at the top of the Rigi in the Swiss Alps.
  
  
• 29-30 OCT 2009 - Reto Stöcklin to give an invited plenary lecture entitled "Venomics targeted drug discovery and lead optimization using animal venoms" at the Swiss Group for Mass Spectrometry (SGMS) Congress in Beatenberg.
  
  
• 21 SEP - 29 OCT 2009 - Atheris to participate to the TARASOC scientific cruise to collect deep sea material in the Tarava Seamounts and Society Islands in French Polynesia. Public seminar to be held in Papeete on October 9th.
  
  
• 4-9 JUL 2009 - Dietrich Mebs (invited speaker) and Reto Stöcklin to present Venomics at the 34th FEBS meeting in Prague, Czech Republic.
  
  
• 7-12 JUN 2009 - 21st American Peptide Symposium, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Reto Stöcklin as invited speaker and to help the organizers (Richerd DiMarchi and Henry Mosberg) preparing a session on "Natural Peptides to Drugs".
  
  
• 15-20 MAR 2009 - 16th World Congress of the International Society on Toxinology (IST) in Recife (Brazil). Invited plenary lecture by Reto Stöcklin. A full symposium on Venomics will be organized by Prof. Dietrich Mebs (President of the Toxinomics Foundation) and Dr Reto Stöcklin.
  
  
• 26 JAN 2009 - Reto Stöcklin to teach at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, "Les Animaux Venimeux et Venins" course.
  
  
• 20-21 NOV 2008 - Sébastein Dutertre to give an invited lecture on cone snail peptides at the RT16 annual meeting of the French Society for the Study of Toxins (SFET) in Paris.
  
  
• 7-10 SEP 2008 - 16th E-IST congress in Leuven, Belgium. André Ménez commemoration and scientific lecture by Reto Stöcklin.
  
  
• 17-22 AUG 2008 - 12th IASP World Congress on Pain in Glasgow, UK. Atheris to hold a booth to promote Melusine.
  
  
• 2-4 JUL 2008 - 44th RICT congress (medicinal chemistry) in Angers, France. Invited plenary lecture by Reto Stöcklin.
  
  

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Recent Publications

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The following manuscripts have just been published or are in press:

• Glycosylation of conotoxins.
  Marine Drugs. 11(3):623-642, (2013).
  Gerwig, G.J., Hocking, H.G., Stöcklin, R., Kamerling, J.P. and Boelens, R.
  Position-specific scoring matrix and hidden Markov model complement each other for the prediction of conopeptide superfamilies.
  Biochim Biophys Acta. doi:pii: S1570-9639(12):00295-6, (2013).
  Koua, D., Laht, S., Kaplinski, L., Stöcklin, R., Remm, M., Favreau, P. and Lisacek, F.
  Structure of the O-glycosylated conopeptide CcTx from Conus consors venom.
  Chemistry. 19(3):870-879, (2013).
  Hocking, H.G., Gerwig, G.J., Dutertre, S., Violette, A., Favreau, P., Stöcklin, R., Kamerling, J.P. and Boelens, R.
  The mitochondrial genome of the venomous cone snail Conus consors.
  PlosONE. 7(12)e51528:1-10, (2012).
  Brauer, A., Kurz, A., Stockwell, T., Heidler, J., Wittig, I., Kauferstein, S., Mebs, D., Stöcklin, R. and Remm, M.
  Conus consors snail venom proteomics proposes functions, pathways and novel families involved in its venomic system.
  J. Proteome Res. 11(10):5046-5058, (2012).
  Leonardi, A., Biass, D., Kordiš, D., Stöcklin, R., Favreau, P. and Križaj, I.
  Spider venom components as drug candidates.
  In: Spider Ecophysiology (Nentwig, W. Ed.). Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany. In press, (2012).
  Oldrati, V., Bianchi, E. and Stöcklin, R.
  Large-scale discovery of conopeptides and conoproteins in the injectable venom of a fish-hunting cone snail using a combined proteomic and transcriptomic approach.
  J. Proteomics. 75(17):5215-5225, (2012).
  Violette, A., Biass, D., Dutertre, S., Koua, D., Piquemal, D., Pierrat, F., Stöcklin, R. and Favreau, P.

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