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2002 Botanicals Symposium

Hosted by the Purdue-UAB Botanicals Center for Dietary Supplements Research

April 18, 2002
Radisson Hotel, Heritage Room
808 South 20th Street
Birmingham, AL 35205

April 18, 2002
7:30 am Breakfast and Registration
8:30 am Opening Remarks
Stephen Barnes (UAB), Associate Director, Bot.Ctr.
Arrol Augsburger, Office of the Provost, UAB
Connie M. Weaver (Purdue Univ.) Director, Bot. Ctr.
8:50 am "What is a Botanical, What is a Phenolic"
Jim Simon (Rutgers Univ.)
9:20 am "Green Tea Polyhenols: Synergies Toward a Clinical Trial"
Elsa Janle (Bioanalytical Systems, Inc.)
Dorothy Morré and D. James Morré (Purdue Univ.)
9:50 am "Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) as a Tool for Trace Studies"
      George Jackson (Purdue Univ.)
10:20 am Coffee Break
10:45 am "Fruit Polyphenolics and Successful Brain Aging"
Featured Speaker-Jim Joseph (Tufts University)
11:30 am "Actions and Uptake of Dietary Polyphenols"
Helen Kim (UAB)
J. Michael Wyss (UAB)
12:00 pm "Defining the Anti-oxidant Activity of Polyphenols In Vivo and In Vitro"
Stephen Barnes (UAB)
12:30 pm Lunch
Panel discussion: "The use of Dietary Supplements in Clinical Medicine"
Dennis Boulware, MD, Frank Franklin, MD and Sarah Morgan,MD (UAB).
Moderated by Stephen Barnes, PhD (UAB) and Connie Weaver, PhD (Purdue)
2:00-4:00 pm Poster Session
4:00 pm Tours of UAB Botanicals Ctr. Labs and Core facilities
6:30 pm McWane Science Center : Dinner and Presentation
"Biodiversity Under the Antarctic Ice Cap"

Jim McClintock/Charles Amsler (UAB, Biology)