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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…

Meet a New ASP Member: Dr. Jie Li

January 6, 2022 by ASP Newsletter

Jie Li in his microbial culture room. PHOTO: Dan Xue Dr. Jie Li is our featured new member in this issue of the Newsletter. Dr. Li started his independent career as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and…

HOT TOPICS IN PHARMACOGNOSY: Revisions of “Repurposing for CoV-2” and Potential Uses of Cationic Peptide Compounds as Antibiotics and Other Diseases

October 22, 2021 by ASP Newsletter

David J. Newman, DPhil REPURPOSING FOR COV-2 In the February 2021 ASP Newsletter I commented on and gave “potted precises” of the work done on large scale repurposing of known drugs in order to try to “short-circuit” the time required…

Inaugural ASP Vanguards Virtual Symposium Series a Great Success!

October 11, 2021 by ASP Newsletter

By C. Benjamin Naman, PhD and Karen VanderMolen, PhD As we collectively surpass a year and a half together in the global COVID-19 pandemic, many of us suffer from online meeting fatigue and sore monitor eyes. The ASP overcame these…

ASP President McPhail Addresses Members

October 8, 2021 by ASP Newsletter

Dr. Kerry McPhail PHOTO: DANIEL SEEMILLER By Kerry McPhail, PhD NOTE: A video of President McPhail’s address to members at the July 28th ASP Business Meeting is available at www.pharmacognosy.us/presidential-remarks-asp-business-meeting-2021/ I am profoundly moved and honored to have this opportunity…

Fieldwork with Family… and a Fake Leg

August 25, 2021 by ASP Newsletter

Cassandra L. Quave, Ph.D. My husband, Marco, and I welcomed our first of three children in the fall of 2005. I was a graduate student at Florida International University in Miami, FL at the time, and finished my qualifying exams…