Dr. Quave has moved her newsletter to Substack! If you are interested in learning more about ethnobotany, medicinal plants, and drug discovery from nature, then this is the newsletter for you! Check it out: https://naturespharmacy.substack.com/ What is this? Dr. Quave’s goal here is to build community around a common interest…
Dr. Quave’s book, The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines is now available for ordering! It will hit store shelves in the USA, Canada and UK on October 19th. Learn more about the book and upcoming events at Dr. Quave’s Author Website. You can also sign up…
Ethnobotany and the Role of Plant Natural Products in Antibiotic Drug Discovery published in ACS Chemical Reviews. Access here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c00922 Abstract The crisis of antibiotic resistance necessitates creative and innovative approaches, from chemical identification and analysis to the assessment of bioactivity. Plant natural products (NPs) represent a promising source of…
We are seeking to hire a postdoctoral fellow with experience in natural products chemistry to join the Quave Research Group. Core strengths needed: HPLC, Mass spectrometry, NMR, compound isolation and structure elucidation. The position is for work on two NIH NCCIH-funded projects plus other drug discovery projects ongoing in lab…
Take a moment to read some of the latest research, reviews, op-eds and reports coming out of the lab! All articles are available here with links to the full open access text: Carrol, D.**, F. Chassagne**, M. Dettweiler, C.L. Quave. (2020) Antibacterial activity of plant species used for oral health against Porphyromonas…
Exciting news! The Quave Lab and Emory Herbarium was featured in the episode on “Wild Healing” with the “Eco Sense for Living” program on PBS. This will air on 4/29/2020 on your local PBS channel. You can also access the full episode on PBS online here: https://www.pbs.org/video/wild-healing-shsups/
Here is the list of speaking engagements for 2020. Links will be updated as more information is available. Most of the seminars are open to the universities and the public. The conference speaking events require admission. Invited Speaking Schedule This is a list of speaking events (plenary talks, keynote lecture,…
I’m excited to share the 1st paper of 2020 from #QuaveLab: “LEGO MINDSTORMS Fraction Collector: A Low-Cost Tool for a Preparative High-Performance Liquid Chromatography System.” We’ve provided some additional free resources with the paper. The Supplementary Information file includes detailed base construction tips and brick-by-brick LEGO assembly instructions. You can…
Dr. Quave will be speaking in a variety of venues in the USA and Europe this fall. Hope to see you there! Upcoming Speaking Engagements Panelist for “Chow: The science of food and not quite food” at DragonCon, Atlanta, GA, 8/31/2019. Panelist for “The Year in Science” at DragonCon, Atlanta,…
Discover plants in a new light by seeing them as lifesaving medicines, trade commodities and wisdom from the ancestors. A trio of ethnobotanists will reveal stories of cultural sanctuaries, valuable orchids and medicinal plants from fieldwork in Tibet, Bhutan, Anatolia, the Balkans and the Mediterranean. Maria Fadiman is a National Geographic…
