Ethnobiology of Europe Meeting

List of participants (in alphabetical order)

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Family Name First name Email Address Research affiliation and interests

Aceituno

 Laura aceitunomata at yahoo.es Staff, Madrid Institute of Agrarian Research. Interested in home gardens, medicinal and veterinary plants.
Alexiades Miguel mna at kent.ac.uk Research Fellow, U. of Kent. Interested in the Mediterrranean region; political ecology; environmental ecology.
Bellingham Phil philipbellingham at yahoo.co.uk Graduate MSc. Student, U. Kent. Worked in the Himalayas. Interested in medicinals in the UK. Currently working towards a project on medicinal plant use and belief systems in Northern Spain within the context of cross-cultural studies.
Carvalho Ana Maria anacarv at ipb.pt Lecturer in ethnobotany, Portugal. Working in the northeastern region of Portugal; conducting ethnobotanical research.
Chauvet Michel chauvet at 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.
Christanell Anja anja.christanell at 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.
Dolan Jessica Jmd25 at kent.ac.uk Graduate MSc. Student, U. Kent. Working on women's knowledge of plants in County Kerry, Ireland.
Donovan Deanna dgdono at 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.
Durmuskahya Cenk cdkahya at 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.
Ertüg Fusun Fertug at attglobal.net Anthropologist, Yeditepe U., Istanbul. Working on wild food plants.
Gray Charlie cgray2 at bradford.ac.uk
 PhD Ethnobotany student, School of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, UK.
Migrant Women's knowledge and plant use for health, including 'feeling at home'
in the UK, especially interested in the senses.
Heckler Serena slh at kent.ac.uk Ethnobotanist, Dept. of Anthropology, U. of Kent. Working on home gardens in Britain. Developing Europe wide network for homegarden study.
Howard Patricia patricia.howard at 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.
Leonti (Marco's friend) Laura marco.leonti at 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.
Litsa Constantina Constantinalitsa at yahoo.gr Ethnobotanist, U. of Edinburgh. Working in Crete, and the Peloponese in medical ethnopharmacology.
McBurney Rory r.mcburney at 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.
Pardo de Santayana Manuel mpardo at 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
Puri Rajindra R.K.Puri at kent.co.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.
Putscher Johanna johanna_putscher at 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
Saarimaa Riikka riikka.saarimaa at 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.
Sauvegrain Sophie Anne Sasauvegrain at 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.
Servaes Caroline cd_servaes at 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.
Smith Erin erinsmith at yahoo.com Graduate MSc. Student, U. Kent. Herbalist. Interested in the UK and Ireland especially food and herbals and medicinals.
Tabone Timothy J. d_melitensis at 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.
Tardio Javier Javier.tardio at imia.madrid.org Staff, Madrid Institute of Agrarian Research. Interested in wild food plants and how they are used.
Vermonden Daniel daniel.vermonden at 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
Voermans Yvonne Koffiejuffrouw at 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.
Vogl Christian christian.vogl at 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.
Vougioukalou Sonia sv23 at kent.ac.uk Doctoral Student, U. Kent, from Greece. Worked in the Cook Islands. Interested in the transformation of traditional environmental knowledge, especially in the fields of ethnomedicine and crafts in Polynesia and Europe.

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