I am honored to announce that I have been invited to serve as a session speaker at the fourth Indonesian-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium to be held in Medan, Indonesia this June! I will be speaking in the session on Ethnobotany and Tropical Medicine. The symposium is sponsored by…
A new paper by Pieroni and colleagues explores Macedonian and Albanian traditional knowledge concerning local plants: Pieroni, A., K. Cianfaglione, A. Nedelcheva, A. Hajdari, B. Mustafa and C.L. Quave (2014). Resilience at the border: traditional botanical knowledge among Macedonians and Albanians living in Gollobordo, Eastern Albania. Journal of Ethnobiology and…
I’ll be giving a public lecture on medicinal plants and the search for new antibiotics this Friday (2/21) at Florida Atlantic University! This lecture is free and open to the public as part of the Frontiers in Science Public Lecture series. My talk will feature descriptions of the exciting work…
The final version of a review paper on the traditional use of recreational teas in Europe is now available as an open-access article with the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. To access the article, click here: View at JEE Sõukand, R. C.L. Quave, A. Pieroni, M. Pardo-de-Santayana, J. Tardío, R.…
Dr. Quave will present a lecture entitled “Medicines from Nature: An ethnobotanical approach to anti-infective drug discovery” for the Cornell University Department of Plant Biology seminar series on March 7th, 2014. She will also be presenting a guest lecture in Dr. Eloy Rodriguez’s “Medical Ethnobotany of New World Cultures” course.…
Dr. Quave will present a lecture titled “Medicines from nature: Ethnobotany and the science of human health” as part of the Emory University Anthropology Department Seminar series on November 11th, 2013 in the Anthropology building, room 303 at 4:15 pm. Dr. Quave is an Associated Faculty member with the department.…
On June 15th, 2013, the study abroad course in Italian and Medical Humanities visited the village of Ginestra, Italy to learn about traditional life-ways, including lessons on wild foods and medicinal plants. Visit this link to read more about the visit and to see photos of the day.
June 17-21, 2013. Dr. Quave will meet with officials in the Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) Health Authority at the Zayed Complex for Herbal Research and Traditional Medicine. Established in 1996, the ZCHRTM “is unique in the sense that under one roof it has interdisciplinary research approach and interfacing traditional…
The Medicinal Plant Monograph E-Book and video presentations have been updated with 18 new contributions from students enrolled in Dr. Quave’s Botanical Medicine and Health course at Emory University. Click on the links to learn more about some important medicinal plants. Each monograph provides a thorough review of the scientific…
See this new post about the work of Sandy Jiang, an Emory undergraduate, who recently completed a summer research project with Dr. Quave at the Center for the Study of Human Health.
