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…
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…
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…
I’m honored to give one of the Society for Investigative Dermatology #SID2019 #SIDCHICAGO State-of-the-Art lectures today! Join me at 6:15 PM in the International Ballroom North as I explore the role of #naturalproducts from #plants in #dermatology! Slides available here.
We have a new publication out on the antibacterial activity of Kalanchoe species against antibiotic resistant bacteria. The full article is available online via open access option at this weblink. Richwagen, N., J.T. Lyles, B. Dale, C.L. Quave. (2019) Antibacterial activity of Kalanchoe mortagei and K. fedtschenkoi against ESKAPE pathogens.…
We are excited to announce that the Quave Research Group has secured $50,000 in funding from Winship Cancer Center at Emory University to pursue our drug discovery program for melanoma. The project, entitled “Isolation and Characterization of Novel Therapeutics Targeting Melanoma” will follow up on hit extracts we identified during…
New book chapter published on methods for the extraction and analysis of natural products from plants! [Link] Salam, A.M., J.T. Lyles, and C.L. Quave. (2019). Methods in the Extraction and Chemical Analysis of Medicinal Plants. In: Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. U.P. Albuquerque, L.V.F.C. da Cunha, R.F.P de Lucena,…
We have a new review article published in Current Dermatology Reports : Quave, C.L. (2018). Wound healing with botanicals: A review and future perspectives. Current Dermatology Reports DOI 10.1007/s13671-018-0247-4 . [Link] Abstract: Purpose of review Botanicals have long played a crucial role in the management of chronic and infected wounds,…
