We had a great time at Fernbank Museum of Natural History for the Herbarium Outreach event and lecture today! Click HERE to view photos from the event on Facebook. There is also a great blog posting on the lecture hosted on the Destination Health EU site. You can read the…
Emory University ethnobotanist Cassandra Quave discusses how poisons in plants have been adapted to revolutionize modern medicine, everything from surgery to congestive heart failure and cancer treatments.
Emory University ethnobotanist Cassandra Quave discusses some little-known facts about historical poisoning deaths as well as how a plant poisons could be reason behind the myth of Cyclops.
Deadly Cures: Medical Discoveries from Poisonous Plants Emory Herbarium Curator, Dr. Quave, will be giving a special free public lecture “Deadly Cures: Medical Discoveries from Poisonous Plants” on March 1st at 4 pm at Fernbank Museum of Natural History. We’ll also have an educational outreach event before the talk, with displays…
Save the Date- Thursday, August 21st! I’ll be giving the Science Cafe talk in the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s Plants and Human Health Series. This will be a fun, interactive evening, with hands-on activities that coincides with Cocktails in the Garden! So, plan on coming at 6pm to enjoy a cocktail,…
Dr. Quave’s presentation from the 2014 Indonesian-American Kavli Frontiers of Science is now up on Vimeo. Enjoy! http://vimeo.com/101350350
I’ll be giving a public lecture on medicinal plants and the search for new antibiotics this Friday (2/21) at Florida Atlantic University! This lecture is free and open to the public as part of the Frontiers in Science Public Lecture series. My talk will feature descriptions of the exciting work…
Dr. Quave will be participating in an upcoming Women in Bio event: “Paths to Success: Entrepreneurship in the ATL“. Event details, including registration information can be found on the event website. Description from the WIB website: WIB-Atlanta – Paths to Success: Entrepreneurship in the ATL on October 17, 2013 October…
Dr. Quave will present a lecture entitled “Medicines from Nature: An ethnobotanical approach to anti-infective drug discovery” for the Cornell University Department of Plant Biology seminar series on March 7th, 2014. She will also be presenting a guest lecture in Dr. Eloy Rodriguez’s “Medical Ethnobotany of New World Cultures” course.…
Dr. Quave will present a lecture titled “Medicines from nature: Ethnobotany and the science of human health” as part of the Emory University Anthropology Department Seminar series on November 11th, 2013 in the Anthropology building, room 303 at 4:15 pm. Dr. Quave is an Associated Faculty member with the department.…
Just one more reason we should never underestimate the power of plants...or our forebears, who figured this stuff out centuries ago.
16th-century text shows ginkgo seeds can fight skin infections
Inspired by a centuries-old text on traditional Chinese medicine, a young researcher has found that seeds from the gingko tree could prove helpful for...
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Woo! I'm excited to share our new paper on #Australia spiny #Solanum fruit and seed dispersal character evolution across the Monsoon Tropics! SOLANUMS KNOW HOW TO GET AROUND! 🍆🍅 #Botany @MartineBotany @IThaden @FrawleyEmma @dave_tank
Phylogeny of the Australian Solanum dioicum group using seven nuclear genes, with consideration of Symon’s fruit and seed dispersal hypotheses
The dioecious and andromonoecious Solanum taxa (the “S. dioicum group”) of the Australian Monsoon Tropics have been the subject of phylogenetic an...
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Frustrated by pharma not tackling #superbugs, Lord Jim O'Neill proposes a very controversial solution to #AMR research. Says maybe govts should take it over. Pharma fights back saying invested 4x more than govt/fdns in 2016. @BBCNews #AntibioticResistance
'Take over pharma' to make new antibiotics
Bits of the industry could be taken over as no new drugs are being made, says Lord Jim O'Neill.
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Job opportunities in the history of herbal medicine in London, at The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret, a medical museum located in the attic of an eighteenth-century Church
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Welcome to the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret in London. Discover Europe’s oldest surviving operating theatre.
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![Ecuador 1802: Humboldt & Bonpland were hosted by the Marquis of Selva Alegre and stayed at his ‘beautiful Chillo home’. From this valley is Geranium chilloense. This we collected at Machachi (Pugyopamba). [📷C.Aedo] #Humboldt250](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4eEiiPW0AEw6FG.jpg)
