ACES Meeting Registration

Appalachian Center for Ethnobotanical Studies ACES Workshop

Progress and Prospects of Black Cohosh as a Sustainable Medicinal Plant

Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 8:30am – 5:00pm
UMBI Shady Grove
9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD

ACES will host a one-day symposium on the progress made and the challenges faced by growers, scientists and regulators as they look towards sustainable cultivation of black cohosh and other medicinal plants. Regional leaders will speak in three sessions on topics that include the plant and population biology, current growth and harvesting practices and needs, approaches to unravel the scientific basis for the use of medicinal plants in general and black cohosh in particular, and on local and regional issues that affect expanded use and increased value of black cohosh as a medicinal plant specialty crop.

Session I. Populations, Biology and Sustainable Cultivation of Black Cohosh

  • Chair: Edward Eisenstein, CARB, UMBI Shady Grove
  • James L. Chamberlain, US Forest Service, National Agroforestry Center
    Conservation of Black Cohosh: Status and Needs
  • Joe-Ann McCoy, The Bent Creek Institute at the North Carolina Arboretum, NC State University
    Seed and Rhizome Propagation Studies with Actaea racemosa L. (Black Cohosh) & Analysis of Associated Triterpene Glycosides
  • Sunshine L. Brosi, Department of Biology, Frostburg State University
    Population Biology and Habitat Dynamics of Black Cohosh (Actaea racemosa) on State Forests in Western Maryland: Method
    Development Applicable to Additional Appalachian Medicinal Herbs

Session II. Pharmacognosy of Medicinal Plants

  • Chair: Steven Britz, Food Components and Health Laboratory, USDA
  • Daniel Fabricant, Scientific and Regulatory Affairs, Natural Products Association
    Cimicifuga racemosa: From Concept to Clinical
  • Peggy Biser, Department of Chemistry, Frostburg State University
    Current Directions in Black Cohosh Research
  • Martin Spiering, CARB, UMBI Shady Grove
    Gene-Metabolite Relationships in Black Cohosh
  • Thomas Wang, Diet, Genomics and Immunology Laboratory, ARS, USDA
    Molecular Targets and Mechanisms of Action of Cancer Protective Phytochemicals

Session III. Challenges and Opportunities to the Development of Medicinal Plants as Agroforestry Specialty Crops

  • Chair: Edward Eisenstein, CARB, UMBI Shady Grove
  • Joseph Betz, Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health
    Challenges in Biomedical Research on Dietary Supplements
  • John H. Cardellina II, Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health
    Black Cohosh: Issues of Safety and Benefit
  • Eric Burkhart , Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center, Penn State University
    Addressing Concerns Regarding the Supply of "Cohosh" Within Medicinal Markets: Is Cultivation a Viable Alternative to Wild Collection?


 

This meeting is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required via the form below. Additional information can be obtained from Linda Steele, lsteele@frostburg.edu. A downloadable version of this announcement is available here.




 
e.g.: Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, John Hopkins Institute, etc.