Ethnobiology of Europe Meeting

List of participants

Given Name	Family name	Email Address	Research affiliation and interests
Ana Maria	Carvalho	anacarv@ipb.pt	Lecturer in ethnobotany, Portugal . Working in the northeastern region of Portugal ; conducting ethnobotanical research.
Manuel	Pardo de Santayana	mpardo@ma-rjb.csic.es	Ethnobotanist, Royal Botanic Gardens Madrid . Working on the ethnobotany of northern Spain ; also interested in home gardens, wild, cultivated and medicinal plants
Serena	Heckler	slh@kent.ac.uk	Ethnobotanist, Dept. of Anthropology, U. of Kent . Working on home gardens in Britain . Developing Europe wide network for homegarden study.
Rory	McBurney	r.mcburney@kew.org	Royal Botanic Garden , Kew . Working on wild food plants for diet diversification and the nutritional transition; and how wild food plants can be used for improving the western high fat diet. Also interested in Eastern Europe and Africa .
Riikka	Saarimaa	riikka.saarimaa@tukkk.fi	PhD student, sociology, Finland . Interested in the relationship between society and forests; the cultural meaning of forests; perception of forests by society at large and forestry professionals specifically.
Yvonne	Voermans	Koffiejuffrouw@trx-digital.com	Student, University of Utrecht and University of Ghent , Netherlands . Interested in ethnobotany of north western Europe; has done work on oak and birch in Ireland and Holland .
Sophie Anne	Sauvegrain	Sasauvegrain@yahoo.fr	Student, Natural History Museum , Paris. Working on the role of small producers and gatherers of medicinal plants. Interested in working southern and eastern Europe.
Timothy J.	Tabone	d_melitensis@hotmail.com	Ethnobotanist, Malta . Collecting information to write the ethnobiology of Malta including information on the myths and legends, medicinal plants, food plants, old plants. Interested in comparing data with Sicily and Spain and other nations with historical ties to Malta .
Daniel	Vermonden	daniel.vermonden@ulb.ac.be	PhD student in anthropology at the Free University of Brussels. Working in Indonesia , interested in home gardens and people moving with plants
Constantina	Litsa	Constantinalitsa@yahoo.gr	Ethnobotanist, U. of Edinburgh . Working in Crete , and the Peloponese in medical ethnopharmacology.
Anja	Christanell	anja.christanell@gmx.net	Social anthropologist, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna , working on wild food plants in the Eastern Tyrol ; working with Christrian Vogl’s group on local knowledge of farmers regarding soils and weather.
Christian	Vogl	christian.vogl@boku.ac.at	Ethnobotanist, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna , working on local knowledge of farmers regarding soils and weather in East Tyrol, Austria.
Johanna	Putscher	johanna_putscher@hotmail.com	Ethnobotanist, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna . Working on herbal medicine. Interested in the cultural significance of plants to immigrants in major European cities; working with Christrian Vogl’s group
Fusun	Ertüg	Fertug@attglobal.net	Anthropologist, Yeditepe U. , Istanbul . Working on wild food plants.
Sonia	Vougioukalou	sv23@kent.ac.uk	Doctoral Student, U. Kent, from Greece . Worked in the Cook Islands . Interested in the transformation of traditional knowledge. Member of Hellenic Ethnopharmacological Society, which is a group of pharmacists with interest in ethnobotany, visiting villages, harvesting plants; wants linkages with other societies in Europe.
Jessica	Dolan	Jmd25@kent.ac.uk	MSc. Student, U. Kent. Working on women’s knowledge of plants in County Kerry , Ireland .
Phil	Bellingham	peb5@kent.ac.uk philbellingham@aol.com	MSc. Student, U. Kent. Worked in the Himalayas . Interested in medicinals in the UK .
Charlie	Gray	wildplantfood@yahoo.co.uk	MSc. Student, U. Kent. British, working on taste perception of wild food plants in Canterbury area.
Erin	Smith	Jes23@kent.ac.uk erinsmith@yahoo.com	MSc. Student, U. Kent. Herbalist. Interested in the UK and Ireland especially food and herbals and medicinals.
Javier	Tardio	Javier.tardio@imia.madrid.org	Staff, Madrid Institute of Agrarian Research. Interested in wild food plants and how they are used.
Laura	Aceituno	aceitunomata@yahoo.es	Staff, Madrid Institute of Agrarian Research. Interested in home gardens, medicinal and veterinary plants.
Patricia	Howard	patricia.howard@wur.nl	Ethnobotanist, Agricultural University, Wageningen , Netherlands . Interested in the political ethnobotany; especially in Eastern Europe and Cuba ; the influences on the revitalization and revaluation of traditional plant species; and the economic and nutritional implications the changing position of traditional plants.
Deanna	Donovan	dgdono@yahoo.com	Economist and forester. Independent based in the Netherlands . Interested in economic botany and the ethnobiology of traded species, current and historical, especially wild plants and animals, including those used for food, medicines, dyes, aromatics and specialty woods. Also interested in transmission of plant material and accompanying knowledge regarding production and use; and the impact of economic and environmental policy on condition and use of wild-lands.
Michel	Chauvet	chauvet@agropolis.fr	Professor, Museum Agropolis, Montpellier , France . Working on encyclopaedia of food plants in France and Europe . Has collaboration with research group in Egypt . Member of group of amateur botanists, Tela Botanica; with website of many different list serves and variety of other resources on-line, including list of all wild plants in France with both French and neighbouring country names.
Marco Laura	Leonti (Marco’s friend)	marco.leonti@ulsop.ac.uk	Doctoral Student, London School of Pharmacy. Conducts phytochemical screening of plants. Interested in local food studies, especially in Southern Europe and comparative studies. Phytochemist working in Sardinia .
Caroline	Servaes	cd_servaes@yahoo.co.uk	Ethnobotanist, National Botanic Gardens , Belgium . Wants to work on collections from the Congo in collaboration with other biologists, botanists and pharmacologists from throughout Europe who might have information on the Congo in their collections.
Miguel	Alexiades	mna@kent.ac.uk	Research Fellow, U. of Kent . Interested in the Mediterrranean region; political ecology; environmental ecology.
Cenk	Durmuskahya	cdkahya@lycos.com	Botanist, Celal Bayar University , Turkey . Studying the ethnobotany of medicinal plants, dyes, especially in Anatolia ; established lab for ethnobotany; collect samples from all over.
Rajindra	Puri	R.K.Puri@kent.ac.uk	Ethnobiologist, Environmental Anthropologist, Lecturer, U. of Kent Working on coping strategies and climate change. Interested in effects of European wide agriculture and conservation policy on wild-lands. Interested in working in southern Italy and Turkey . Likes food too.

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