Old is New Again: Phytochemicals and Medical Remedies
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Everything old is new again. Did you know the Oyster Mushroom contains the cholesterol lowering HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor Lovastatin? Today’s medicines are easily accessible, come in convenient sexy packages, and even melt in your mouth. Although new medicines seem to get more sophisticated with every passing year, many still stem from natural compounds found in plants. Join Thomas Zennie to learn that no matter how far pharmaceuticals advance, they still stick close to their roots!
What You Will Learn
- Vitamin contents of Edible Wild Plants
- Information on selected edible, medicinal and poisonous plants
- The chemical rational for the uses of certain wild plants by Early Americans
- Activity directed fractionation of medicinal plants constituents
- And much more!
Webinar Details
Date: Thursday July 26, 2012
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm ET
Fee: Free
Meet Your Experts
Dr. Thomas M. Zennie, Ph.D has done research in natural products chemistry and did post doctorial research funded by NIH and NCI on the chemistry of foods with cancer preventing properties. When he was younger Tom had a very close friend who was a Cherokee Indian herb doctor from whom he gained a lot of esoteric and interesting information about wild plants. Dr Zennie recently retired from the pharmaceutical industry (25 years) as a pharmaceutical analytical chemist specializing in spectroscopy and chromatography and is currently a full time organic farmer and pharmaceutical consultant living on a farm in Indiana.
Darren Griffin, PhD is Professor of Genetics at the University of Kent, UK. Previously he was Professor of Genetics at Brunel University. In 2002, he was admitted as a fellow of the Society of Biology and in 2008 he was awarded both a fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists and Doctor of Science from the University of Manchester. He was awarded the Institutional Teaching Prize for his work in supervising graduate students and was recently shortlisted for Research Project of the Year by the Times Higher Education supplement. Dr. Griffin completed his post-doctoral research in Cleveland, Ohio and at The University of Cambridge. He received his PhD at University College London in 1992, graduated from the University of Manchester in 1988
The Fine Print
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Please come back for a sequel.
I really enjoyed this webinar and would like to see a part 2 sequel if that is possible.
Would love to see a part two on this webinar. This is such an interesting topic, an hour just isn’t long enough to scratch the surface.
Thanks so much!
Bring these fine gentlemen back to finish their presentations! Let presentations run past 1hour… people can stick around if they want to!
Excellent webinar! I am definitely interested in a sequel (many sequels, if possible).
Very well presented, a pity that not all material could be covered.
Yes a part II would be helpful
Hello;
very nice webinar, I do hope there will be part 2!!
I have a question; we have a rosemary bush watered with refined sewerage water, is it edible? how can I tell without analyzing it??
the whole garden is watered with it, but I’m not sure the refining is really efficient!!
Thanks.
Thanks for a great seminar. I would love a sequel to this seminar.
Regards.
I admire so much work that Dr. Thomas M. Zennie is doing. It is very interesting topic and it is my passion as well. However, I missed this Webinar. Is there any way I can get presentation slides?
It is said the presentation slides are available for downloading within one week after the webinar, where is the link to download? Thanks,
I really enjoyed listening to Dr. Zennie’s enthusiastic and interesting discussion of phytochemicals. Too bad the time ran out. Will the presentation slides be posted?
Thanks!
Yes Jim, you and many others who attended have made the same request. We’re working on it. — ACS Webinars
Yes Atlee, we agree and are working on a plan. — ACS Webinars
We agree Karen — so much information, so little time. — ACS Webinars
Thanks Aaron for our willingness to hang around, but we are going to try to bring him back for another full session. — ACS Webinars
It’s true, Frans. But it left you wanting more! — ACS Webinars
Dear I. We’ll let you know when it’s planned.
Dear Maysoon — please post your question in the comment section on the webpage for this event:http://acswebinars.org/phytochemicals so that the speaker and maybe others may reply. Thank you. — ACS Webinars
Dieu — It is great to hear from the attendees when they want more. We are working to bring him back. — ACS Webinars
Dear Rosemarie — In about a week, please go to the website:http://acswebinars.org/phytochemicals to view the recording and slides. — ACS Webinars
Dear Jun — You may view the recording and slides on our website http://acswebinars.org/phytochemicals . — ACS Webinars
Yes Rob, the recording and slides will be posted in about a week. — ACS Webinars
I would like to go through the presentation, please could you forward the same to mail ID
The presentation can be downloaded on our this webpage. The link to the slides is located right under the video recording of the event.
The audience posted many interesting questions but were not answered. Can the questions be answered by Dr. Zennie and the reply e-mailed to members?
Hello Brooke,
We are currently working with Dr. Zennie to schedule another webinar where he can get to more questions. You should see it appear on our schedule in early 2013.