Detailed Timetable
05 Feb. 2018
Welcome notes: Prof. V. Ahyi
Prof. K. Nieber
Political representatives
Key note lectures: Prof. K. Dramane
Introductory information: Prof. A. Hensel
Working in working groups
Social evening
06-07
Feb. 2018
Key note lectures: Prof. V. Ahyi
Dr. M. Wilcox
Prof. B. Paulsen
Design-Thinking Workshop
working in work groups on the topics:
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Field study design and data collection
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B |
Botanic identification
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Data evaluation and management
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D |
Biopiracy issues
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Experimental (Phytochemical, preclinical and clinical screening)
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Project organization and communication
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Plenary discussion
Concluding remarks
Closing session
08 Feb. 2018
Exkursion to Ouidah (optional)
09/10 Feb. 2018
Young Researcher Camp 1
How to design and conduct ethnomedicinal field studies
Young Researcher Camp 2
Systematic identification of wild-growing plants
Young Researcher Camp 3
Quality control is a must: TLC- and HPLC fingerprinting of crude plant extracts, theory and practice
Organizing team
Project hosts:
Prof. Dr. Virgil Ahyi
IRGIB-Africa University
Cotonou, Benin
Dr. Cica Vissiennon
University of Leipzig
Medical Faculty
Leipzig, Germany
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hensel
University of Münster
Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry
Münster, Germany
Project assistants:
MSc. Dima Hammoud
IRGIB-Africa University
Cotonou, Benin
Mail: dimou88@hotmail.com
Maria Kulosa
University of Leipzig
Medical Faculty
Leipzig, Germany
Mail: maria.kulosa@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
Hosting institution:
IRGIB-Africa University Cotonou, Bénin
Mail: contact@irgibafrica.university
Fon: +229 21 30 68 04 (french)
+229 21 33 31 78 (english)
Web: www.irgibafrica.com
This workshop is organized within the program line "Knowledge for Tomorrow - cooperative research projects in Sub-Sahara Africa" by the Volkswagen Foundation.