BENFRA Photos

Botany Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, June 15–19, 2024

Sarah Barr of UNCW standing in front of her conference poster, "Evaluation of Fasted and Fed Gastrointestinal Transformation of Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha) Plant Extracts and Bioactive Compounds via UPLCMS and Untargeted Metabolomics"
Sarah Barr of UNCW won the Julia F. Morton Award through the Society of Ethnobotany as well as the Best Phytochemistry Poster award through the Botanical Society of America (BSA) at the Botany 2024 conference.

OHSU Research Week, Portland, OR May 6–10, 2024

Olivia Monestime  presenting a poster on immunohistochemistry of  brains from mice treated with Centella asiaticatella asiatica and Ashwagandha
Olivia Monestime presenting a poster on immunohistochemistry of brains from mice treated with Centella asiatica
  Noah Gladen Kolarksy presenting a  poster on  effects of Ashwagandha in a mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease
Noah Gladen Kolarksy presenting a poster on effects of Ashwagandha in a mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease

International Congress on Integrative Medicine & Health, Cleveland, OH, April 9–14, 2024

Ben Zimmerman presenting poster
Dr. Benjamin Zimmerman with his poster on effects of Centella asiatica on cerebrovascular function in mice

American Society of Pharmacognosy conference in Bethesda, MD 2023

BENFRA group photo collage at American Society of Pharmacognosy conference in Bethesda, MD 2023
Clockwise upper left to right: Dr. Angela Calderon and graduate student Zarna Raichura (Auburn University); Dr. Liva Rakotondraibe (The Ohio State University), Dr. Amala Soumyanath (BENFRA, OHSU) and Dr. Lukasz Ciesla (University of Alabama); Graduate student Sara Neiheisel and Dr. Liva Rakotondraibe (The Ohio State University); Dr. Nora Gray (BENFRA, OHSU); Graduate student Md Nure Alam (Oregon State University)

NIH CARBON 2023 meeting in Bethesda, MD

NIH CARBON 2023 meeting in Bethesda, MD
Left to right: Dr. Patrick Still (NIH), Dr. Liva Rakotondraibe (The Ohio State University), Dr. Lukasz Ciesla (University of Alabama), Dr. Claudia Maier, (BENFRA, Oregon State University), Dr. Barbara Sorkin (NIH), Dr. Amala Soumyanath, (BENFRA, OHSU), Dr. Wendy Strangman (UNC Wilmington), Dr. Nora Gray, (BENFRA, OHSU)