Symposium Leiden April 14-15 2016

“Learning from Nature, learning from our Ancestors; from tradition to evidence based medicines”

Venue: Naturalis, Pesthuislaan 7, Leiden, The Netherlands

5 min walk from Leiden Central station, 20 min away by train from Amsterdam Schiphol airport

The 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was for natural products and neglected diseases. Half of the prize was for discovering the novel antimalarial drug artemisinin in a traditional Chinese medicine. The other half for was for bioprospecting leading to the discovery of antibiotics that can be used to fight river blindness. This is an important recognition of natural products as potential medicines, and fits well with the rapidly increasing number of publications in this field in the past years.

This symposium is particularly meant to set standards for research in this multidisciplinary field by having leading scientists of the monodisciplines speaking about the latest developments in their field so we can learn how these might be used in the natural products research.

One of the most important tools we have to improve our field is the peer review system. Getting feedback from colleagues on our work by reviewing the papers we submit is the way we can improve our research. The symposium will therefore particularly be of interests for all editors, editorial board members and reviewers in the field as they are the ones that guard the quality of the research and spread information about the standards in the research.

As a small token of appreciation of all the work done by reviewers and to help them also to learn more about the latest trends we dedicate this symposium to the reviewers of our journals and offer them a special low registration fee.

The venue has a limited number of participants of about 180, that means we have to use the “first come first served” principle.

Preliminary program: the following topics will be dealt with (all talks 30 min inclusive discussion):

Day 1 the present

(Im)possibilities repositories, e.g. ethnopharmacological data, chemical fingerprints, how to deal with supplemental metadata. Big data (to be announced)

Nagoya protocol: B. Visser (Wageningen, NL)

Plant names : (to be announced)

Statistics to identify falsification (to be announced)

Field studies: T. van Andel (Naturalis, Leiden)

Pharmacology of chemistry which is first? R.F. Witkamp (Wageningen, NL)

Primary Pharmacology: N. Moore (Bordeaux, France)

Role Medicinal chemistry : G. Appendino (Torino, Italy)

Primary toxicology: B. van de Water (LACDR, Leiden, NL)

Pharmacovigilance (to be announced)

How to review a paper (to be announced)

Day 2 the future: Omics, Synergy, systems biology

Quality control connected with activity: A. Viljoen (Pretoria, South Africa)

Synergy and pro-drugs: G. Ulrich-Merzenich (Bonn, Germany)

Systems pharmacology: M. Danhof (LACDR, Leiden, NL)

Pharmacological, biological networks (to be announced)

Metabolomics: Y.H. Choi (IBL, Leiden, NL)

Technology developments, Metabolomics, Proteomics: R. van der Heijden (Bruker, NL)

Transcriptomics: J. Memelink (IBL, Leiden, NL)

DNA barcoding: J. Novak (Vienna, Austria)

Zebra fish as model: H. Spaink (IBL, Leiden)

C. elegans (to be announced)

Anticancer screening: T. Efferth (Mainz, Germany)

Antimicrobial screening: P. Vuorela (Helsinki, Finland)

Mini-posters

Because of constraints of time and space we offer only the possibility of mini-poster-orals. That means you may prepare a poster, print this one page A4 format and have it as a single powerpoint slide. The mini-posters will be bundled and be part of the hand-out of the meeting. The poster should include a picture of the presenting author. During the lunch breaks each author will have a 3 min pitch to project the poster and summarize the major points. Further discussion and questions may be asked during the breaks. Because of the time limitation only one poster per participant can be presented. The organizers will select the posters that can be presented. Posters must be sent in before March 20.

Editors, Editorial Board members and registered reviewers of the following journals can register for the special price.

J Ethnopharm / Synergy / Explore: J Sci Healing
Phytomedicine / S Afr J Botany / Acupunct Meridian Stud
Fitoterapia / J Herb Med / Acupunct Rel Ther
Braz J Pharmacogn / J Appl Res Med Arom Plants / J Trad Chin Med
Phytochem Lett / Integr Med Res / J Integr Med
Phytochemistry / Adv Integr Med / Homeopathy
Biochem Syst Ecol / Eur J Integr Med / Chin J Nat Medicine

Editors, Editorial Board members, Reviewers, Students 200€ (till Feb 28th)

Later registration 300€

Other scientists till Feb 28th 400€

Other scientists later registration 500€

Registration is possible via this link

https://www.jotform3.leidenuniv.nl/plantmeta/53055111947

You are kindly asked to pay online

https://frontoffice.paylogic.nl/?event_id=108000&point_of_sale_id=1931

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http://science.leidenuniv.nl/index.php/events/learning-form-nature-learning-from-ancestors/