8th Annual Conference
American Council for Medicinally Active Plants
(ACMAP)
Clemson University, Clemson, SC
June 20 – June 23, 2017
Preliminary Program (Draft: 3/7/2017)
Tuesday, June 20
Pre-Conference/Additional Fee
1:00 pm
Herbal Preparation Hands-on Workshop
South Carolina Botanical
Garden
Phyllis Light
Hayden Center
Arrive for Conference
4:30 pm
Board of Directors Meeting
Discovery Center
6:00 pm
Welcome Reception
South Carolina Botanical
Garden
7:00 pm
Dinner with Dr. Patrick McMillan
Director SC Botanical Garden, Producer,
host, writer, director and co-editor of the
Emmy award-winning television program
“Expeditions with Patrick McMillan” aired on
PBS
Discovery Center
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Wednesday – June 21
Madren Conference Center
Time
Title
8:30 am
Opening
9:00 am
Plenary - Out of Africa
Dr. Jim Simon
Rutgers University
10:00 am
Break - Competition 1-5
10:30 am
Session 1 - Joint Session
Location &
Convener(s)
Rao Mentreddy Alabama
A&M; Jeanine Davis, NCSU
State of the Industry
Michael McGuffin
American Herbal Products Association
12:00 Noon
Mark Blumenthal
Founder and Executive Director, American
Botanical Council, Editor-in Chief,
HerbalGram & HerbClip
Lunch
Madren Ballroom
Dr. David Newman
Former Director of Natural Products Section
National Cancer Institute
1:15 pm
Session 2a – Growing the Crops
Jeanine Davis, NCSU
Dr. Jeanine Davis, NC State Extension
Ronald Ross, Garnay
Randy Beavers, OrganiPharm
Dr. Jim Hamilton, NC State Extension
1:15 pm
Session 2b - Food Biotechnology
Dr. Kalidas Shetty
North Dakota State University
Dr. Fabricio Medina-Bolivar
Arkansas State University
Dr. Dipayan Sarkar
North Dakota State University
2:45 pm
Break - Competition 6-10
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Kalidas Shetty, NDSU
3:15 pm
Session 3a - Processing, Quality, Sourcing
Jeanine Davis, NCSU
Ed Fletcher,
Herbal Ingenuity
Bill Chioffi,
Gaia Herbs
Dr. Kurt Young,
GNC/Nutra Manufacturing
3:15 pm
Session 3b - Cosmeceutical, Wound
Healing, Dermatologic
Dr. Stefano Manfredini
University of Ferrara
Dr. Mary Lila
NC State University
Zoe Draelos, MD
Dermatology Consulting Services
4:45 pm
Pictures and Break
5:15 pm
Tours: Poole, Life Sciences, BRC and
Greenhouses, Student Organic Farm
6:30 pm
Dinner: Downtown or Madren Center
(on your own)
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Mary Ann Lila, NCSU
Thursday, June 22
Madren Conference Center
8:30 am
Session 4a – Functional Foods
Bhimu Patil, Texas A&M
Dr. Bhimu Patil
Texas A&M University
Dr. Dilrukishi Thavarajah
Clemson University
8:30 am
Dr. Sun-Ok Lee
University of Arkansas-Fayetteville
Session 4b - Transforming Traditional
Botanical Medicine into Precision
Medicines
Mark Hamann, MUSC
Dr. Susan Mooberry, Chair of Targeted
Molecular Therapeutics, UT San Antonio
Dr. Yue-Wei Guo, Shanghai Institute of
Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of
Sciences
Dr. Shan He; Drug Committee, Zhejiang
Society of Pharmacy
Dr. Jian-Min Yue, Director of the Department
of Natural Medicinal Chemistry SIMM
10:00 am
Break- Competition 11-15
10:30 am
Session 5a –Anti-inflammatory/ Antioxidant/ Anti-cancer
Feng Chen, Clemson, Kevin
Zhou, Wayne State University
Dr. Kevin Zhou
Wayne State University
Dr. Anait Levinson
Long Island University
10:30 am
12:00 Noon
Dr. Feng Chen
Clemson University
Session 5b – Environmental Control
with Novel High Value Plants and
Fungi
Dr. Gary Stutte
SyNRGE LLC
Dr. Joanne McCoy
NC State Arboretum
Trad Cotter
Mushroom Mountain LLC
Lunch
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Gary Stutte, KSC
Madren Center Pavilion
1:15 pm
Session 6a – Breeding and Genomic Tools
Jeff Adelberg, Clemson
Dr. Toni Kutchan
Donald Danforth Center
Dr. Massimo Iorizzo
NC State University
Dr. Jim Simon
Rutgers University
1:15 pm
Session 6b - Antibiotic /Antimicrobials
2:45 pm
Dr. Armitra Jackson-Davis
Alabama A&M University
Dr. Tzuen-Rong Jeremy Tzeng
Clemson University
Dr. Anthony Pometto
Clemson University
Break - Competition 16-20
3:15 pm
Session 7a - Validation of activity of a
single compound vs. multi-compound in
an extract
Tony Pometto, Clemson
Agnes Rimando, USDA,
Fabricio Medina-Bolivar,
Arkansas State Univ.
Dr. Chun-Tao Che
University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Bill Gurley
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Dr. Joshua Kellogg
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
3:15 pm
Session 7b - Ethnobotanic Healers
Rao Mentreddy, Alabama,
A&M, Jeanine Davis, NCSU,
Jeff Adelberg, Clemson
Nomi Gallo
Ayurvedic Center for Healing Life and
Longevity
Phyllis Light
Appalachian Center for Natural Health
4:45 pm
Hong Zhang
Greenville Health System
Break (Judges get together)
5:30 pm
Business Meeting
7:00 pm
Banquet and Awards
Madren Center Pavilion
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Friday – June 23
Tentative Bus Tour- Greenville/Asheville Area
GAIA Herbs
Mushroom Mountain
North Carolina Arboretum
Please contact Dr. Jeffrey Adelberg ([email protected] ) for more details.
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