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O’Keefe Interviewed for BBC Documentary

December 18, 2020 by ASP Newsletter

O’Keefe being interviewed for the BBC documentary Extinction: The Facts. By Mario Figueroa, PhD On September 2020, the BBC released Extinction: The Facts, a documentary about the sixth mass extinction. It is narrated by Sir David Attenborough, a natural…

Opinion: Current Federal Policies Are Injurious to US Science and Natural Products Research

October 30, 2020 by pharmacognosy

Editor’s Note: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the ASP or this Newsletter. By William Gerwick, PhD The value of international engagement in US science…

ASP President Oberlies Addresses Members

October 24, 2020 by pharmacognosy

By Nicholas H. Oberlies, PhD The first ASP meeting I attended was in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1984. If you can find pictures from that meeting’s final banquet (and I fear that Barry O’Keefe already has), you might see an…

Exploring Berry Patches at the Top of the World

October 24, 2020 by ASP Newsletter

The main three indigenous berries around Point Hope, Alaska. (From L to R) Rubus chamaemorus (cloudberry), Vaccinium uliginosum (lowbush blueberry), and Empetrum nigrum (black crowberry). Photo credit: Joshua J. Kellogg. By Joshua J. Kellogg, PhD As natural product researchers, field…