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Moore Named Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Natural Products

July 13, 2025 by ASP Newsletter

By William Gerwick, PhD June 20, 2025 | This article appears in Volume 61, Issue 1 Bradley Moore, Editor-in-Chief, Credit: UC San Diego It is wonderful to see continued strong leadership at the helm of our flagship journal in natural…

Editor’s Corner

July 12, 2025 by ASP Newsletter

By Edward J. Kennelly, PhD July 12, 2025 | This article appears in Volume 61, Issue 1 We are extremely pleased to announce the relaunching of the ASP Newsletter, now in a web-only format. I hope you will enjoy…

ASP 2025: A Grand Natural Products Adventure

July 11, 2025 by ASP Newsletter

By Amit Chandra, PhD June 20, 2025 | This article appears in Volume 61, Issue 1 Downtown Grand Rapids This year’s ASP annual meeting, ASP 2025, will be held in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan from August 2…

In Memoriam: Mark O’Neil-Johnson

June 27, 2025 by ASP Newsletter

By Russell Williams, PhD June 21, 2025 | This article appears in Volume 61, Issue 1 Mark O’Neil-Johnson, Credit: Guido Pauli ASP member Mark O’Neil-Johnson passed away in Saint Louis, Missouri from lymphoma on December 11, 2024. He is fondly…

Hot Topics in Pharmacognosy

June 24, 2024 by ASP Newsletter

HOT TOPICS IN PHARMACOGNOSY: Antibiotic Structures from the Past, and/or Novel Sources Now Being (Re)investigated By David J. Newman, DPhil INTRODUCTION (WITH SOME HISTORY) The search for novel antibiotics by “interrogation” of the massive databases of compounds…

In Memoriam: Heinz G. Floss

June 14, 2024 by ASP Newsletter

Heinz G. Floss: PHOTO: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, 1988 By Taifo Mahmud, PhD and Bradley Moore, PhD On December 19, 2022, Heinz G. Floss, a world-renowned natural product chemist and a former president of the American Society of…

Behind the Scenes in Pharmacognosy: Smoke Taint in American West Coast Wines

June 10, 2024 by ASP Newsletter

Xiaoling Chen, PhD Candidate and Teal Jordan, MS Fire and wine were the topic of an open access article in the March 2022 issue of the Journal of Natural Products entitled “Natural Product Phenolic Diglycosides Created from Wildfires, Defining Their…

Pharmacognosy Dispatches from the Ukrainian Frontline

April 1, 2022 by ASP Newsletter

Dominik Popowski is an ASP member and a graduate student in the Department of Pharmacognosy and Molecular Basis of Phytotherapy, Medical University of Warsaw. He is one of two Poland-based ASP members listed in the directory. The ASP Newsletter reached…

Successful ASP Summer Research Fellowship Program Continues in 2022

February 28, 2022 by ASP Newsletter

By Brian Murphy, PhD and Christine Salomon, PhD A highly successful Summer Research Fellowship (SRF) program was launched in 2021 and will be offered again in 2022 with a March 15 deadline. This innovative ASP-sponsored program offers a 2.5-month stipend…

Behind the Scenes in Pharmacognosy: Antibacterial Peptides from Ghost Pepper

January 31, 2022 by ASP Newsletter

By Erin A. Conley, PhD Candidate The August 2021 issue of the Journal of Natural Products featured an article from the Hicks lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which investigated antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) from a hot…