While I hope that you all enjoyed the fruitful 11th
ISE congress in Albacete last year, I am now happy to announce that the 12th
International Congress of Ethnopharmacology will be held in Kolkata (West Bengal
- India) from the 17th – 19th February 2012.
The congress’ title “Traditional Medicines and Globalization – The Future of
Ancient Systems of Medicine” is providing the perfect frame and leaves ample
space for a wide range of philosophical as well as more utilitarian and
practice-oriented contributions and discussions. I wish that the ISE Congress as
well as the broad field of ethnopharmacology is seen as a great opportunity to
connect people, peoples, culture and science. The promotion of indigenous
medical systems in primary health care is an integrated scope of
ethnopharmacology and the announced core topics “Traditional medicines and
neglected diseases” as well as “Traditional medicines and biomedicine – common
or conflicting interests?” aim at contributions in this respect. However, we
should be realistic and acknowledge that the health problems of people and
cultures worldwide can’t be solved exclusively by a single scientific academic
field whatsoever. If we work hard and take “interdisciplinarity” seriously we
can achieve this and make a significant contribution to science and its
applications.
Having said this, I am very pleased to announce “The Nina Etkin Young Researcher
Award”. The purpose of this award is firstly to honour the memory of Nina Etkin
and her work in ethnopharmacology and secondly to support the work of graduate
students doing field-work in ethnopharmacology. Details on the award schedule
and proposals will be available on the ISE website soon.
I hope that the preliminary list of core-topics for the upcoming 12th ISE
Congress (available on the ISE website) will arouse your interest and that Dr.
Pulok Mukherjee and the ISE can welcome you in Kolkata 2012. (Please be aware
that VISA is mandatory for the travelling to India). Lastly, let me thank Pulok
and his co-workers for taking on this exciting and important challenge.
With best regards & Saluti dalla Sardegna
Marco Leonti President ISE (2010-2012), marco.leonti@netscape.net
Dipartimento Farmaco Chimico Tecnologico, Facoltà di Farmacia, Univ. di Cagliari
(I)
Meeting organizers
The two meetings were organized by the ISE and the “Research Group for
Ethnobiology and Vegetation of south-eastern Iberia” in collaboration with the
University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) and the Universities of Murcia, Alicante,
Miguel Hernández de Elche, Autonomous University of Madrid, Technological
Institute of Braganza and the University of London. The meetings took place in
several locations of the UCLM, generously provided by the University, as well as
in the newly established Botanical Garden of Castilla La Mancha.
Scientific program
Dr. Robert Bye and Dr. Edelmira Linares inaugurated the EHPE with a lecture on
the American perspective of Iberian ethnobotany. Dr. Vernon Heywood held the ISE
inaugural lecture evidencing the interface between ethnopharmacology and
biodiversity in the context of a sustainable future for indigenous peoples. Dr.
Rudi Bauer, Dr. Ramón Buxó, Dr. Elaine Elisabetzky, Dr. Marco Leonti, Dr. Will
C. McClatchey, Dr. Pulok K. Mukherjee, Dr. Victoria Reyes Garcia, Dr. Johannes
Van Staden, Dr. Caroline Weckerle and Dr. Zhongzhen Zhao gave further plenary
talks. The different contributions emphasized and discussed the impact of TCM on
“Western” as well as on local Chinese medicine, the cross-cultural exchange of
medicinal plant knowledge, archaeobotanical evidences for medicinal plant use,
the importance of text in the transmission and development of local medicinal
plant knowledge, challenges in the development of save and effective treatment
options in local and global medicinal plant use, the future of “traditional”
medicinal systems in a globalized world, the consideration of anthropological
and ecological concepts and methodologies, the continuum of food, medicine and
poison and the importance of defining a clear working hypothesis whatever bias
the study has. Apart from that, there were another ca. 100 interesting oral
presentations (for details see:
www.ISE2010.org) interspersed with rich
discussions, addressing a plethora of topics as well as the presentation of ca.
200 posters.
ISE business assembly
The ISE business assembly was held in a pleasant atmosphere on one of the first
evenings of the congress. 39 members of ISE followed the agenda under the
direction of the president Michael Heinrich. In the absence of the Secretary of
the ISE, Peter Houghton was elected to take the minutes of the meeting. Michael
Heinrich thanked the group at Albacete who had organised the conference, and
remarked that it was a special occasion to honour and pay tribute to the late
Nina Etkin. Caroline Weckerle the ISE webmaster reported that most important
changes and renewings (e.g. online registration, members’ area) have been
implemented on the website during the last year. She welcomes more contributions
from the members, e.g. in the form of a photo-essay. Peter Houghton the ISE
treasurer presented the accounts. A surplus had risen steadily over the past
three years. Although membership had dropped, the surplus from the meeting in
Sao Paulo had helped keep the accounts healthy. Barbara Frei Haller the ISE
Newsletter editor reported that she had edited the newsletter now for 9 years
and that it had become a downloadable web-based publication over the past 18
months. The special issue to commemorate Nina Etkin had been received very well.
Barbara appealed for more contributions from members. Thanks for the hard work
put in by Caroline, Peter and Barbara was carried unanimously. The assembly then
moved to the election of Officers (2010-2012).All the members standing as
officers were elected nem con. A. Jäger was confirmed as President Elect and
Marco Leonti as President. The detailed list of newly elected and confirmed
board members and their affiliation is listed on
http://www.ethnopharmacology.org/ISE_board.htm.
Other board members, who had not attended two successive conferences, according
to the rules, were no longer eligible to be board members.
Two proposals for the venue of the next conference had been received for a
meeting in September 2012: One from Prof R Bauer for a meeting in Graz/Austria
and one from Dr P Mukherjee for Kolkata/India. Both gave good presentations to
back up their proposals and considerable discussion took place without a final
decision, so the matter was referred to a small group of the Committee under the
new president Marco Leonti for resolution. Within two days it was decided that
one meeting to be held in Kolkata in Feb 2012 and one in Graz in Sept 2012.
Michael Heinrich was thanked for his work as president over the last two
years.
Memorial to three reputable scientists
A particularly emotional moment of the congress took place at the Botanical
Garden of Castilla la Mancha, with the memorial ceremony to honour three
well-respected scientists: the recently deceased Spanish botanist Professor
Cesar Gómez Campo, and Dr. D. Pedro Montserrat, distinguished Botanist and
Professor Emeritus of research of the Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología de Jaca/Spain,
as well as the American anthropologist Prof. Dr. Nina Etkin who passed away two
years ago and who was committed to ethnopharmacology and deeply involved in the
Society of Ethnopharmacology. The event was accompanied by the performance of a
musical quartet, with voice and strings. The ceremony was completed by two
guided tours of the Botanical Garden plantations in Castilian and English, by
the Scientific Director, Prof. Esteban Hernández Bermejo and Dr. José Fajardo
respectively.
Awards At the end of the congress "Nina Etkin" prizes were awarded to a selection
of outstanding posters presentations:
E1-P03: Aplicacion de algunos metodos y conceptos de la investigacion en
ciencias sociales a un estudio etnobotanico realizado en Mallorca (Islas
Baleares)
E. Carrio, J. Valles
ISE-P15: Sustainable use of wild medicinal plants: a case study in Nabanhe
National Nature Reserve, Yunnan/China
S.F. Bucher, B. Ghorbani, G. Langenberger, J. Sauerborn
ISE-P57: Traditional Cree medicines modulate stetosis and antioxidant activity,
but not insulin sensitivity in fat-laden H4IIE liver cells
A. Afshar. P.L. Owen, L. Martineau, T. Johns, J.T. Arnason, P.S. Haddad
Further information For more info, photo galleries and press releases of this fantastic event go
to “Press” at
www.ise2010.org and “Past Congresses” at
www.ethnopharmacology.org
Compiled, translated and edited by Arturo Valdés Franzi, Diego Rivera, Marco
Leonti, Barbara Frei Haller
3-Nina Etkin Award:
$5000 for Ethnopharmacological Research!
Dear ISE members
With this exciting announcement, I bring to a close my work as chair of the Nina
Etkin Award steering committee. The final version of the founding document is
attached below. The first Award will be made at the meeting in Kolkata, India in
February 2012. Due to changes in the ordinary meeting schedules in 2012 (two
meetings: Kolkata and Graz), the proposals will be due by October 1, 2011. For
all further details please visit the society’s home page
www.ethnopharmacology.org.
Speaking for the committee, we hope you are all pleased with the way the award
is designed. We hope that you will announce the award to colleagues and friends
throughout the field of ethnopharmacology, and that we will have a significant
pool of exciting proposals to consider.
With all best regards
Dan Moerman
Past Past President, ISE
Founding Documents Nina Etkin Award The Nina Etkin Young Researcher Award of the
International Society for Ethnopharmacology (ISE). 1. Purpose: The purpose of the Etkin Award has two parts. First, it is to
honour the memory of Nina Etkin and her work in ethnopharmacology. Second, it is
to support the work of graduate students doing field work in ethnopharmacology.
2. International dimension: Members of the ISE are well aware of the
broadly international membership in the Society, and the international interest
in ethnopharmacology. Therefore, the rules stated below will be read creatively
by the award committee so as not ever to exclude some worthy student because his
or her education system works somehow differently that they do in North America
or Europe. It is our hope that, in time, this award will have been given to
people from all over the world.
3. Award schedule and proposals: Ordinarily, one award will be made
every two years (even numbered years), in the amount of $5000. The inner board
of the ISE may sanction variation in this rule (changing years of the Award, or
the amount). The inner board will, at every ISE meeting in an even numbered
year, appoint an award selection committee made up of 3 or 4 ISE members (one as
chair) who will evaluate and rank proposals. [In the first instance of the award
to be made in 2012, the selection committee will consist of ISE members Dan
Moerman (Chair), Elaine Elisabetsky, Paul Ross and Marco Leonti]. Ideally, at
least one member of the committee will have served on the previous committee, to
provide for continuity. Proposals will ordinarily be due by February 1 [Due to
changes in ordinary meeting schedules in 2012, the first award will be made at
the ISE Meeting in Kolkata in February 2012 and the proposals will, therefore,
be due by October 1, 2011] of even numbered years for consideration by the
selection committee. Details of where proposals should be sent, and the
deadlines for that year, will be available on the ISE web site. The committee
should report a decision to the President by April 1. Applicants must be in
recognized programs working toward the PhD degree in ethnopharmacology or a
closely related field (pharmacology, anthropology, pharmacy, etc.). People with
PhD degree in hand for less than two years who are Post Doctoral Fellows in
these fields are also eligible to apply. Proposals will have several necessary
components. The proposal will describe a scientific project with a rich
theoretical foundation, and one which will easily meet the requirements of the
“Rules of Five” of the Journal of Ethnopharmacology (http://ees.elsevier.com/jep/img/rulesof5.pdf).
It is possible that the award will be for gathering preliminary data (that is,
research which would lead to significant subsequent funding); or for pursuing
exploratory research in a novel area with limited evidence, but based on some
well-founded concepts. In any case the proposal should lead to a project of
exceptional scientific interest. The proposal shall not be longer than 4 double
spaced pages, and shall be supplemented by a supporting letter from the
student’s major professor; the letter shall describe any departmental support
being provided for the student, and the progress he or she is making toward the
degree. Post Docs shall provide a supporting letter from the director of the
program or laboratory where they are working.
4. Award requirements: Award winners should be members of the ISE
when they submit their proposal but this requirement may be lifted by the chair
of the Awards Committee if it is an undue hardship. The award recipient shall
provide the ISE President with a progress report 12 months after the award is
made; the report will ordinarily be published in the next ISE Newsletter. When
the research is completed, the recipient is encouraged to submit a manuscript
for publication by the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. If accepted for
publication, it will be labelled as a Nina Etkin Young Researcher Award Winning
Paper. In any other subsequent publication of the results of this research, the
author shall appropriately acknowledge the Nina Etkin Award.
Nina Etkin Award steering committee, Fall 2010
4-Announcement: 12th congress of
International Society for Ethnopharmacology ISE. February 17-19, 2012. Kolkata,
India. “Traditional Medicines and Globalization – The Future of Ancient Systems
of Medicine”. This conference will focus on some crucial and contemporary issues on
the scientific study, development and evaluation of ancient systems of medicines
and will center on the theme of globalization. Everybody working in this area is
welcome, particularly researchers; manufacturers of medicines, phytomedicines,
pharmaceuticals and dietary as well as food supplements; those who work with raw
materials; representatives of conventional and traditional health care systems;
regulatory authorities; standard-setting organizations; contract laboratories
and research organizations; NGOs, academics, scientists, health care
professionals and students from all parts of the world. Please give us your
suggestions and ideas regarding how we can make this event successful. If you
feel any other organization or institution can be a collaborator/sponsor for
this event, we encourage you to involve them with this esteemed event.
Pulok K. Mukherjee, PhD, FRSC , Director
School of Natural Product Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
naturalproductm@gmail.com
Organizer: Prof.
Dr. Rudolf Bauer, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences Karl-Franzens-Universitaet
Graz, Austria
http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/phgwww/
Main Topics:
Ethnomedicine along the Silk Road
Intercultural ethnopharmacology (East meets West)
Traditional herbal medicinal products in modern societies
Holistic approach and systems biology in medicinal plant research
Traditional herbal medicinal products in age related diseases
More info to follow!
6-More
Upcoming Conferences April 18-20-2011 – Amsterdam, The Nederlands Pharma-Nutrition – Discussing the interface between pharma and nutrition
Conference Organizer: Elsevier
http://www.pharma-nutrition.com/index.asp
May 4-7-2011 – Columbus, Ohio, USA
The 34th Annual Meeting of the Society of Ethnobiology “Historical and
Archaeological Perspectives in Ethnobiology” Department of Anthropology at the Ohio State University
http://ethnobiology.org/conference/upcoming
June 21-24-2011 – Brasov, Romania
4th Ethnopharmacological Symposium Ethnopharmacology, interface between biofoods
and phytomedicines Transilvania University, Faculty of Food and Tourism
http://etnofarma.99k.org/en/symposium2011.php
July 6-9-2011 - Saas-Fee, Switzerland
ISHS MAP Mountain 1st Int. Symposium on Medicinal, Aromatic and Nutraceutical
Plants from Mountainous Areas International Society for Horticultural Sciences ISHS
http://www.agroscope.admin.ch/mapmountain
July 9-13-2011 – St. Louis, Missouri, USA
The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden
http://www.econbot.org/
July 25-27-2011 – Nuremberg, Germany 15th International Congress PHYTOPHARM Interregional Center "Adaptogen", Russia; Society for Medicinal Plant and
Natural Product Research (GA), Germany, University of Regensburg, Department of
Pharmaceutical Biology, Germany; Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy
of Medical Science, Russia; Saint-Petersburg Institute of Pharmacy, Russia
http://www.adaptogen.ru/phyto2011.html
May 21-25-2012 – Montpellier, France
13th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE)
http://congress-ise2012.agropolis.fr/
7-New Book From Berghahn Books:
The publisher is offering a 30% discount to ISE Newsletter readers on the
following book. For orders please use the attached order from.
Hsu,
Elisabeth; Harris, Stephen (2010) Plants, Health and Healing
On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology 316 pp., 21 b/w ills., 4 tbls, bibliography, indexes, 16cm x 23.5cm,
Hardback (ISBN 978-1-84545-060-1), $95.00/£56.00, for ISE £40.00 (30% discount)
Finally, with this book a longstanding void in the
literature has been filled! Although the uses of medicinal plants and their
related cultural history have always attracted lay and scientific
communities, until now there has been very little research done on the
interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology. The authors
((ethno-)botanists, medical anthropologists, clinician) link these
disciplines with outstanding contributions by digging through historical
aspects (chapters on non-native plants and medicinal uses; A. annua
and Chinese Materia Medica) and anthropological aspects (Shamanic
plants and gender; Childhood illness) and through plant portraits (G.
biloba and dementia, the use of caffeine-containing plants as medicinals,
stimulants, and in rituals). A remarkable part of the book is the
introduction to the book by E. Hsu where she explores the interface between
the two disciplines in depth.
The book all in all
“emphasises that plant knowledge arises situationally as an intrinsic part
of social relationships, that herbs need to be enticed if not seduced by the
healers who work with them, that herbal remedies are cultural artefacts, and
that bioprospecting and medicinal plant discovery can be viewed as the
epitome of a long history of borrowing, stealing and exchanging plants”
http://www.frontiersin.org/ethnopharmacology
As described on
http://www.frontiersin.org/about: Frontiers is
not just an open-access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering
approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly
research is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people
have an equal opportunity of seeking, sharing and generating knowledge. As a
first active measure in this direction, Frontiers provides immediate and
permanent online
open access to all of its publications, but
this alone is not enough to realize our grand goals. The Frontiers solution
develops around two main concepts, mutually integrating each other within the
innovative Frontiers’ platform:1) the
Frontiers Journal Series, and 2) the
Frontiers Community.
9-News from
Elsevier and Journal of Ethnopharmacology (JEP) We recently published a Special Thematic Issue on The Use and Misuse
of Khat (Catha Edulis) in a Changing World: Tradition, Trade and Tragedy, Edited
by Michael Odenwald, Nasir Warfa and Axel Klein [Journal of Ethnopharmacology,
Volume 132, Issue 3, Pages 537-620 (1 December 2010)]
We are happy to let you know that thanks to the continued efforts of the
Editorial team and the Reviewers, we have been able to further reduce the
turnover time for articles submitted to the JEP. We thank everybody who helped
achieve this.
We are taking the saying “A picture says more than a thousand words” to the next
level and encourage all authors to submit multimedia content (like video files)
to complement the written article.
Irene Kanter-Schlifke, PhD
Publisher Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Sciences | ELSEVIER |www.elsevier.com10-Membership Renewal Form/Membership Application Form 2011
If you would like to join the ISE or want to renew your membership for 2011 then
visit the ISE website
http://www.ethnopharmacology.org and click on
“Membership” where you will be able to join/renew your membership online by
credit card or download the application/renewal form to pay by check or
transfer.11-Impressum/About
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