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Monday, 14 December 2015

Theme 4: Natural products as preventive and curative medicine for humans and animals

Dear Sir/madam,

As author of scientific work regarding natural substances in animal health you might be interested in one of the main topics of the upcoming 9th  Joint Natural Products Conference (www.jnpc2016.dk) next July in Copenhagen:

Theme 4: Natural products as preventive and curative medicine for humans and animals 
o    Functional food and feed - edible plants with health-promoting properties 
o    Ethnopharmacology - modern sciences for the study of traditional medicine practices 
o    Preclinical and clinical studies of herbal products 
o    Natural products in animal healthcare and veterinary medicine 

The submission platform (https://www.conferencemanager.dk/JointNaturalProductsConference2016/online-registration-module.html) is already open and will be so till 1st of March 2016 .  

One of the Co-Organizers of this congress is the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA). For the third time the GA networking group on medicinal plants and natural products in animal healthcare and veterinary medicine initiated the animal related topic. Our network aims to connect people with an interest in natural products in animal healthcare and veterinary medicine worldwide. 
The GA networking group on medicinal plants and natural products in animal healthcare and veterinary medicine has members of different professional backgrounds like veterinarians, pharmacists, agronomists, biologists etc. who work in research, practice or industry. Currently members of our network belong to 5 continents.

We would like to encourage all scientists involved or interested in research regarding veterinary phytopharmacology and ethnoveterinary medicine, clinical applications of natural products and herbal drug materials in animals as well as plant derived feeding additives to submit high quality scientific abstracts, to present short lectures and posters and to discuss research results and project ideas with colleagues from all over the world. Accepted and presented abstracts will be published in a special issue of the peer reviewed journal Planta Medica.

Please pass this information on to any colleagues who might be interested.

Looking forward to a lot of interesting abstracts on our topic and  to meeting you next year in Copenhagen!

Kind regards,

Anette van der Aa and Michael Walkenhorst
 Themes and scientific topics The Joint Natural Products Conference in Copenhagen 2016 aims at bringing together scientists from different fields of natural products research. The program is divided in five themes, with main scientific topics as listed below: Theme 1: Advances in natural products research spurred by new technological developments • Bioinformatics and chemoinformatics – transforming data into knowledge • Metabolomics and profiling technologies – data-driven exploration of the metabolome • Network- and polypharmacology – understanding the complex pharmacological properties of natural drugs • The analytical challenge – hyphenation and miniaturization for accelerated identification of bioactive compounds from nature Theme 2: Sources of bioactive compounds • Traditional medicine and medicinal plants • Marine natural products – exploring the treasure of the oceans • The chemistry of fungi, actinomycetes and microalgae • Endophytes – microorganisms that produce bioactive natural products in plants and in isolated cultures • Synthetic and semisynthetic approaches in natural products research Theme 3: Sustainable sources of bioactive natural products • Plant biotechnology – tools for developing plants for a changing world • Microbial biotechnology – engineering small organisms with large potential • Biorefineries – value-added compounds from biomass Theme 4: Natural products as preventive and curative medicine for man and animals • Functional food and feed – edible plants with health-promoting properties • Ethnopharmacology – modern sciences for the study of traditional medicine practices • Preclinical and clinical studies of herbal products • Natural products in animal healthcare and veterinary medicine Theme 5: Production and regulatory aspects of herbal preparations • Production and formulation technologies of herbal products • Quality control of herbal products and herbal dietary supplements • Regulatory affairs sciences – the legal aspects of manufacturing and sale of herbal products