Flipping the switch: tools for detecting small molecule inhibitors of staphylococcal virulence Drs. Quave and Horswill have co-authored a review on different laboratory tools and approaches that can be used to detect small molecule inhibitors of Staphylococcus aureus virulence. Virulence inhibitors could be used in the future as adjuvants to…
Hot off the presses: Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development and Reconciliation Edited by: Andrea Pieroni and Cassandra Quave The E-book can be ordered at the Springer site. Print copies are available at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
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…
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.…
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…
