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Dr. Cassandra Quave looks at her adventures in natural product and ethnobotany fieldwork through the lens of bringing a family, as well as with a prosthetic leg.
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If you would like to work with one of the most widely used plant medicines in the country and enjoy the opportunity to directly impact patient health and product development, I recommend pursuing a career in the cannabis industry. There are several ways scientists with a pharmacognosy background can get involved in the field.
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While much work has been devoted to investigating potential inhibitors of protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) and the downstream effects on chronic diseases such as cancer, little has been reported for the protein tyrosine phosphatase, the enzyme responsible for the regeneration of the PTK. Is the phosphatase an additional potential target for drug lead development?
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At some point in graduate school, most people experience imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is when you doubt your skills and talents, minimize your own accomplishments, and have an internalized fear of being exposed as a “fraud.” For minorities, there is additional pressure to achieve and break stereotypes because we are the first to enter fields we were locked out of for centuries. As a result, we have to work harder than our counterparts and be exceptional to be taken seriously.
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This summer, the ASP will host a virtual symposium series July 16, 23, and 30 entitled “Vanguards of Natural Product Research 2021.” These events will highlight the work and creativity of students and postdocs in the natural products community (aspmeetings. pharmacognosy.us/), and the abstract deadline is June 1.
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In 2020, PLOS Biology published their list of the 100,000 most influential scientists with regards to their publication citations and impact on the field, both in regards to career-long and single year impacts. This list includes at least 47 ASP members, some of whom are still active while others trace their impact back to the founding of the society. A few of these members are highlighted here.
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Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Parkinson, our featured new member in this issue of the Newsletter, began her appointment as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Purdue University in August of 2018. In addition to ASP, Dr. Parkinson is also a member of the American Chemical Society and the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB). We thank Dr. Parkinson for taking the time to talk with us and are pleased to officially welcome her to ASP.
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February 11 was International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a United Nations initiative actioning “full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality.” It was empowering to see so many women being celebrated, and celebrating themselves, for the work we are doing to break barriers and become the role models we wish we had. I sat down to listen to two incredible women, Dr. Mandë Holford and ASP member Dr. Marcy Balunas, talk about the exciting research they are doing in the field of natural products.
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Over the last eight or so months there have been a series of papers, some short, some long, covering what can be considered as four major topics: natural products, repurposing of approved drugs, use of old vaccines as potential methods of alleviating the effects of CoV-2, and an idea of what needs to be done in the future.
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Though natural product chemists who specialize in marine-sourced agents are usually aware of the contribution of structures based upon dolastatin 10 as warheads in antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), targeted against cancers of varying etiologies, the majority of ASP members may not be aware of the significant contributions made as a result of studies by the Pettit group starting in the middle 1960s.
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