Speakers
Anastasia Karioti
Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Laboratory of Pharmacognosy, Department of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Research Area: Main research lines are (1) the isolation and identification of natural products, (2) the development of analytical methods for the quality control of medicinal drugs, phytotherapeutics, and their galenic preparations, (3) the quality control of Greek cultivated Medicinal and Aromatic plants, (4) the pharmacological evaluation of isolated natural products and extracts.
Contact: akarioti@pharm.auth.gr
Francisco Paiva Machado
Title: Professor
Affiliation: Natural Products Technology Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói, RJ, Brazil.
Research Area: Pharmacognosy, experimental investigation on chemical composition and biological activity of plants and extracts
Contact: fmachado@id.uff.br
Elena Moreno Giménez
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Affiliation: Instituto Botánico. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM)
Research Area: Synthetic biology of plants and filamentous fungi. Generation of biofactories for the production of insect sex pheromones. Currently working on the heterologous expression of crocins in filamentous fungi
Contact: Elena.MorenoGimenez@uclm.es
Ali Al-samydai
Title: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Jordan
Research Area: The scientific interest are mainly focused on phytochemistry, pharmaceuticals nanotechnology and pharmaceutical Marketing
Contact: a.alsamydai@ammanu.edu.jo
Estefania Cordisco
Title: Postdoctoral researcher /Assistant Researcher of National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET)
Affiliation: Institute of Molecular and cell Biology of Rosario (IBR) and Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical sciences, National University of Rosario (UNR), Argentina.
Research Area: compounds from plants, especially from the Argentine flora, with antifungal activity against different opportunistic fungi that infect humans and animals. My particular work is based on the search for metabolites active against Candida species.
Contact: cordisco@ibr-conicet.gov.ar