[MPWG] Underutilized Plants Conference/Call for Papers - May 2006, Baltimore

[Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov]

At least two items on the agenda may interest our MPWG members: 

Spotlight on the Appalachian Center for Ethnobotanical Studies (ACES)      
 
JENNIE HUNTER-CEVERA, PhD  
President, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI)

Topic: Native American Foods: Lost Traditions – Found Opportunities    
Tristan Reader, Co-Director Tohono O'odham Community Action (TOCA)
Karen Blaine, MSW, Nutrition, Health and Culture Outreach Coordinator 
(TOCA) 

For additional info, program, call for posters, etc., see: 
http://www.jhsph.edu/clf/events_new/promo_plantsconf

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Please see the...invitation to attend the upcoming conference
entitled Underutilized Plants: Their Role in Preventative Medicine,
Nutrition and Sustainability, to be held at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health on May 2, 2006. We are also asking for abstract
submissions for the poster session. Feel free to post this announcement
and/or forward it to colleagues you feel may be interested in attending.

Thank you kindly.

Leana Pitkevits
Research Assistant
Center for a Livable Future
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
615 N. Wolfe Street/E2150
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: 410.502.7578
www.jhsph.edu/clf

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the
streets after them. "
~Bill Vaughn


CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR POSTERS

The Center for a Livable Future invites you to a Conference 

Underutilized Plants:
Their Role in Preventive Medicine, Nutrition, and Sustainability

Tuesday, May 2, 2006
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Feinstone Hall, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD

Public health professionals working in some of the most economically 
challenged areas of the world are also in proximity to a large array of 
underutilized plants.  Traditional knowledge of their medicinal and 
nutritional uses is being lost at an alarming rate. This loss is 
accompanied by disappearance of the plant species themselves and of the 
ecosystems they support. This symposium will increase awareness by 
highlighting some of these underutilized plant resources and their 
benefits to local populations. We hope that health professionals, plant 
researchers and others will attend. Program: see 
http://www.jhsph.edu/clf/events_new/promo_plantsconf

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED (FREE), lunch provided
To register contact Leana Pitkevits at 410-502-7578 or clf at jhsph.edu



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