Conference Abstracts & Presentations |
If appropriately enlisted, community members can become the teachers of local perspectives, values, and social life. Anthropologists are schooled to be the students of others.
-Robert A. Hahn, 1999
2010
Quave, C.L., J. Rose, M.S. Smeltzer, and B.C. Bennett. Anti-biofilm activity of Rosa canina galls: a Turkish traditional medicine (oral presentation). 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany. Xalapa, Mexico. June 6-10, 2010.
Quave, C.L. Integration and management of plants as functional foods and medicines in home gardens and vineyards of southern Italy (poster). 12th International Society of Ethnobiology Conference. Tofino, BC, Canada. May 9-14, 2010.
Quave, C.L. Mal ‘vjnt: ritual healing of “wind illness” in southern Italy. (oral presentation). 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Ethnobiology. Victoria, BC, Canada. May 5-8, 2010.
Quave, C.L. Inhibiting pathogenic S. aureus biofilm formation with Mediterranean medicinal plants. UAMS College of Pharmacy Seminar Lecture Series. April 2, 2010.
2009
Ordóñez, P., C.L. Quave, O. Malagón, K.I. Varughese, S. Gonzalez, M.S. Smeltzer, and C.M. Compadre. The structural basis for the potent antimicrobial activity of Dehydroleucodine against MRSA and MRSE. (poster). 4th BioNanoTOx and Applications Research Conference. Little Rock, AR. October 21-22, 2009.
Quave, C.L. Anti-biofilm activity of Rubus ulmifolius, an Italian medicinal plant for skin infection. (oral presentation). 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany. Charleson, SC. May 30-June 8, 2009.
Ordóñez, P., C.L. Quave, O. Malagón, K.I. Varughese, S. Gonzalez, M.S. Smeltzer, and C.M. Compadre. Antimicrobial activity against MRSA and MRSE and molecular structure of dehydroleucodine isolated from the Ecuadorian plant Gynoxys verrucosa, Wedd. (poster) 36th MALTO meeting. Memphis, TN. May 2009.
Quave, C.L. & M. Smeltzer. Inhibitory activity of Rubus ulmifolius Schott. extract on staphylococcal biofilm formation. (poster) 8th Annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals. Oxford, MS. April 6-9, 2009.
Quave, C.L. Liakra: Wild edible plants integral to the cuisine of ethic Albanians (Arbëreshë) in southern Italy. (oral presentation) Society of Ethnobiology 32nd Annual Conference. Food: Crops and Noncrops. New Orleans, LA. April 1-4, 2009.
2008
Quave, C.L., L.W.R. Plano, & B.C. Bennett. Quorum sensing inhibitors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from Italian medicinal plants. (oral presentation). The 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany. Durham, NC. June 1-5, 2008. View PPS
Quave, C.L. Zootherapeutic remedies in the traditional pharmacopoeia of southern Italy. (oral presentation). Society of Ethnobiology 31st Annual Conference. Fayetteville, AR, USA. April 16-19, 2008. View PPS
Quave, C.L., L.W.R. Plano, and B.C. Bennett. Quorum sensing inhibiting activity of Schinus terebinthifolius Radii (Anacardiaceae) extracts against MRSA. (poster) 7th Annual Oxford Conference on the Science of Botanicals and American Society of Pharmacognosy 4th Interim Meeting. University, MS, USA. April 12-16, 2008. View Poster ***Research Presentation Honor: Graduate Student Poster Award ($150)
Quave, C.L. Anti-biofilm activity of white horehound extract on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. (oral presentation). Florida International University Scholarly Forum. Miami, FL, USA. April 9, 2008. View PPS ***Research Presentation Honor: 1st Place Award in the Category of Life Sciences ($500)
Quave, C.L. An ethnopharmacological approach to multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Evaluation of Italian plants used in the traditional healing of skin disease. (oral presentation). Doctoral Dissertation Defense at Florida International University. Miami, FL, USA March 3, 2008. View PPS
Quave, C.L. & B.C. Bennett.Cytotoxicity and the creation of a therapeutic index for ranking plant extracts with antibacterial potential. (oral presentation) Comparative Immunology Symposium.Florida International University. Miami, FL, USA. March 6-7, 2008. View PPS
Quave, C.L. & B.C. Bennett. Effects of extracts from Ballota nigra on biofilm formation and adherence in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. (oral presentation). Biology Research Symposium of Florida International University. Kampong Botanical Garden. Miami, FL, USA. February 16, 2008. View PPS
Quave, C.L. Going green: New plant medicines for treating the "superbug" MRSA (oral presentation). Botany in Action Symposium. Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. Pittsburg, PA, USA. January 11-12, 2008. View PPS
2007
Quave, C.L. Natural products from Italian medicinal plants: Potential anti-biofilm agents for MRSA. (poster). National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Graduate Student Research Festival (NGSRF). Bethesda, MD October 10-12, 2007. View Poster
Quave, C.L. & B.C. Bennett. The search for new anti-staphylococcal leads: comparing the antibacterial efficiency of Italian plants based on ethnobotanical use categories. (oral presentation). The 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany. Chicago, IL. June 4-7, 2007. View PPS ***Research Presentation Honor: Edmund H. Fulling Award ($500)
Mendez, S., C.L. Quave, J. Graham, J. Gaskin, & B.C. Bennett. Anti-Pseudomonas activity of selected plants used in traditional ethnoveterinary practices. (oral presentation). The 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany. Chicago, IL. June 4-7, 2007.
Quave, C.L. Zootherapy: Some unusual cases from south Italy. (oral presentation). Biology Research Symposium of Florida International University. Miami, FL, USA. January 27th, 2007. View PPS
Quave, C.L. Botanical remedies for the skin: A south Italian pharmacopoeia. (oral presentation). Botany in Action Symposium. Pittsburg, PA, USA. January 5-7, 2007. View PPS
Quave, C.L. Integration and management of plants as functional foods and medicines in home gardens and vineyards of southern Italy. (poster and oral presentation). USDA Agroecology Symposium at Florida International University. Miami, FL, USA. October 23, 2006. View PPS or View Poster
Quave, C.L. Ethnobotanical applications of Arundo donax L. [Poaceae] in south Italy (oral presentation). FIU Plant Talk Series. September 6, 2006. View PPS
Quave, C.L., A. Pieroni, & B.C. Bennett. An ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants for the treatment of skin disease in southern Italy, (oral presentation), The 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany. Chiang Mai, Thailand. June 5-8, 2006. View PPS
Quave, C.L., J.Graham, S.Mendez, L.R.W. Plano, & B.C. Bennett. A comparative assessment of microbiological methods for natural product antibacterial screening, (oral presentation), 4th International Congress on Natural Products. Leysin, Switzerland. May 28-31, 2006. View PPS
Quave, C.L., A. Pieroni, & B.C. Bennett. Ethnomedical practices of ethnic Albanians in Lucania, S. Italy: A glance at botanical remedies, (oral presentation), Biology Research Symposium of Florida International University. Miami, FL, USA. January 28, 2006. View PPS
2005
Quave, C.L., J. Graham, L. Plano, K. Downum, & B.C. Bennett. Activity of Florida plants against clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), (oral presentation), 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany. Fort Worth, Texas, USA. June 5-9, 2005. View PPS
Graham J., Quave, C., Adonizio, A., Edwards, A., Bennett, B.C., & Downum, K.R. Anti-infective potential of phytochemicals.(oral presentation) 6th Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Biodefense Researchers. Clearwater, Florida, USA. May 2005.
Quave, C.L., J. Graham, L. Plano, & B.C. Bennett.
Natural products activity against clinical isolates of multi-drug resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (oral presentation), Florida International
University Biomedical and Comparative Immunology Symposium. Miami, Florida,
USA, March 3-4, 2005. View
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2004
Quave, C.L. &
A. Pieroni. Crossing ethnic borders: Ethnopharmacy of the Arbëreshë
in Southern Italy (oral presentation), Joint Congress of the: 9th International
Congress of the International Society for Ethnobiology; 45th Annual
Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany; and the 8th International
Congress of the International Society of Ethnopharmacology: Ethnobiology,
Social Change and Displacement. Canterbury, England, June 13-17, 2004.
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2002
Pieroni, A., C. Quave, H. Münz,
S. Nebel & M. Heinrich. Food ethnobotanicals and linguistic diversity
in Lucania, southern Italy (paper), 8th International Congress of the
International Society for Ethnobiology: People and Biodiversity. Addis
Abeba, Ethiopia, September 16-20, 2002.
2001
Quave, C. &
A. Pieroni. Healing with sacred and medicinal plants of three Arbëreshë
communities of southern Italy (oral presentation), 3rd International
Congress of Ethnobotany. Naples, Italy, September 22-30, 2001.
Quave, C. & A. Pieroni. Ritual medical practices
and traditional plant remedies used in three Arbëreshë communities
of southern Italy (oral presentation), 7th International Congress of
the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore: Time, Places,
Passages. Budapest, Hungary, April 23-29, 2001.
2000
Quave, C.L. Plants
and pills: Health consequences of Western medicine in the Peruvian Amazon
(oral presentation) International Society for Ethnobiology: Earth Congress.
Athens, Georgia, USA October 23-27, 2000. View
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