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…
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Undergraduate honors student, Matthew Mendelsohn, was profiled in the Emory News Center for his work on biofilm inhibitors for antibiotic resistant S. aureus. Congrats Matt! “Human health student fights back against bacteria with research”. Emory News Center, 4/2017
Dr. Quave is one of forty junior scientists selected to participate in the inaugural Advanced Course on Antibiotics (AdCab), hosted by the Fondation Merieux and Institut Pasteur. The course will be held in Annecy, France in October 2016. Here is a description of the course from the Foundation website: “The…
In the latest issue of Native Plant News, Dr. Quave’s research and writing on innovative ways to engage students in botany is featured. Quave encourages the use of tools from ethnobotany to engage students with the natural world: “The biggest ‘ah-ha’ moments come when [students] start to recognize their own…
Dear friends of the Emory University Herbarium: We have some exciting things happening at the Emory University Herbarium! Our mission is to serve as a botanical research and educational resource for the Emory University and global community. We aim to foster understanding of the human-nature interface by collecting, preserving, researching…
Congratulations to our students on their excellent work in botanical research this summer! Today, they presented the results of their studies at the Emory SURE Research Symposium. Photo updates are available on Dr. Quave’s Facebook and Twitter pages!
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…
