We have a book chapter out in Svanberg and Łuczaj’s new book: Pioneers in European Ethnobotany. Click here to View the PDF. Check out this and other new 2014 publications by Quave and colleagues under the Publications tab. Full Citation: Pieroni, A. and C.L. Quave. (2014). Pioneering Ethnobotanists in…
I’m happy to announce that in addition to serving as graduate faculty in the Emory Microbiology and Molecular Genetics graduate program, I have also joined the Molecular and Systems Pharmacology program! This allows me to take on graduate students in either program. I encourage prospective graduate students to take a…
Attention Emory students: The syllabus for HLTH440: Botanical Medicine and Health is now available here. More info on the course can also be found on the etnobotanica.us website here.
Photos from the October 2014 fieldwork with students from the University of Prishtina are now up! Visit this link to view the pictures : https://etnobotanica.us/photos/fieldwork-in-kosovo
Dr. Quave recently traveled to Mallorca, Spain to accept one of twenty Phytoneering Awards from the Bionorica Global Research Initiative competition. The prize in the amount of 50,000 euros will be used to launch a new study in the Quave lab on medicinal plant natural product activity against acne biofilms.…
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
A new paper coauthored with European colleagues has just been released: Papp, N., D. Czégényi, A. Hegedűs, T. Morschhauser, C.L. Quave, K. Cianfaglione and A. Pieroni (2014). The uses of Betula pendula Roth among Hungarian Csángós and Székelys in Transylvania, Romania. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae 83(2): 113-122. The full article…
I have just completed an ethnobotanical field study on the volcanic island of Pantelleria n collaboration with Dr. Alessandro Saitta, mycologist and Asst. Professor at the University of Palermo, Italy and with support from the Emory Center for the Study of Human Health. Dr. Saitta and I examined the local…
I am so excited to announce that our newest paper on our biofilm inhibitor formulation, 220D-F2 from the Elmleaf blackberry, has been published in PLoS ONE! Here, we report exciting activity against pneumococcal biofilms! Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) is an important human pathogen associated with high morbidity and mortality, causing serious…
