ASP Newsletter: Fall 2022, Volume 58, Issue 3
It is with great sadness that we relay that Priscilla Marston Farnsworth, wife of the late Norman Farnsworth passed away in late October 2022, just 3 months shy of her 92nd birthday. Our sincere condolences to the Farnsworth family.
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As ASP begins to plan for the 2023 annual meeting and beyond, we are requesting input from all parent members on which conference practices would be most impactful to enable their participation. We invite all parent members to complete a five-minute survey. Parents of younger children may indicate what will be helpful in the future, and […]
Dominik Popowski is an ASP member and a graduate student in the Department of Pharmacognosy and Molecular Basis of Phytotherapy, Medical University of Warsaw. Popowski put us in touch with Professor Oleh Koshovyi from the Department of Pharmacognosy at the National University of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine, and we received Koshovyi’s detailed comments on March 21. Their personal accounts of the war are stark reminders of the deep impact of international conflicts. Gordon Cragg and Edward Kennelly edited the articles for clarity and content.
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 to enable students to engage in research experiences under a mentor in the natural product sciences.
Erin Conley interviews Dr. Leslie Hicks and PhD candidate Kevin Culver (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) about their work on ghost peppers and potential antimicrobial peptides. The ghost pepper, one of the hottest ever grown, produced two novel antimicrobial peptides which were characterized by the lab. Erin also dives into the lab’s culture, working outside of academia, and the lab mascot.
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 Biochemistry at the University of South Carolina in January of 2019. He has co-authored more than 40 scientific papers and is a member of the planning committee for the 2022 ASP Annual Meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.
Call for Submissions The American Society of Pharmacognosy, an organization dedicated to the discovery of new drugs and other applications of natural products science, initiated an annual art competition beginning in 2016. We are happy to continue this new tradition with this call for submissions for the 2022 competition. The American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) […]
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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 to test, and hopefully bring to market, a number of potential candidates as drugs, ideally delivered orally.…However, in a very recent article in Science both sets of authors in a joint paper demonstrated that a significant proportion of the compounds identified, including a number of those “pushed by various political figures” in the early stages of the “pandemic,” were artifacts in terms of being antiviral agents and/or leads thereto.
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