Invited speakers

Confirmed Invited Plenary Speakers 
(more speakers will be listed after confirmation)
 

Yoshinori ASAKAWA, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima, Japan
Ioanna B. CHINOU, Department of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products, University of Athens, Athens, Greece: "Boraginaceae family- New scientific data"
M. Iqbal CHOUDHARY,International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan: "Fast dereplication and logical SAR studies on bioactive natural products".     
Geoffrey A. CORDELL, Natural Products Inc., Evanston, Illinois, USA: "Pharmacognosy and Sustainable Strategies for Global Health"
Gerhard FRANZ, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany: “Application of Chromatographic Methods for the Establishment of European Pharmacopoeia Herbal Drug Monographs”
Matthias HAMBURGER, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland: "Natural product lead discovery by HPLC-based activity profiling - a retrospective"
Jan KARLSEN, Department of Pharmaceutics and Drug Design, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway: "On the borderline of the chromatographic separation"
Toni KUTCHAN, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Norman G. LEWIS, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Washington, USA
Andrew MARSTON, Chemistry Department, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Hiroshi MORITA, Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hoshi University, Tokyo, Japan: "Polycyclic alkaloids and cyclic peptides from medicinal plants” 
Ilkay ERDOGAN ORHAN, Department of Pharmacognosy, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey: "In vitro and in silico search for novel leads with neuroprotective potential from plant kingdom"
Phila RAHARIVELOMANANA, Terrestial and Marine Biodiversity Laboratory (BIOTEM), Universite de Polynesie Francaise, Tahiti, French Polynesia: "Composition and properties of Tamanu, a Polynesian healing plant"       
Olga SILVA, Faculty of Pharmacy, Lisbon University, Lisbon, Portugal
Hermann STUPPNER, Institute of Pharmacy/Pharmacognosy, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Rob VERPOORTE, Department of Pharmacognosy, Institute of Biology, Leiden, The Netherlands: "Making sense out of the soup we call the metabolome"
Alvaro M. VILJOEN, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa: "Vibrational spectroscopy and chromatography: a powerful duo in the quality assessment of African traditional medicines"
Jean-Luc WOLFENDER, Laboratory of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland