As part of our mission to educate both the scientific community and the general public on botanical research we host annual community conferences, as well as periodic scientific symposia. Presentation information from our previous conferences is archived below.

Community Education Conferences

	Culinary Medicine: Great Food as a Means of Preventive Medicine - Program
	Wisdom of the World: Botanicals and Health Around the Globe - Program The World's Plants and Health Maintenance Enhance Your Health: Lessons Learned from Botanical Research at Pennington Biomedical Spice Up Your Health with the Flavors of the World
	Trust Your Gut: You Are What You Eat - Program How Your Gut Works For You Trust Your Gut Protection Against Chronic Disease with Probiotics
	Backyard Remedies: How Plants from Louisiana Help Maintain Health- Program Taking Louisiana's Backyard Plants to the World Potential Health Benefits of a Natural Fiber from Sugarcane Herbal Healing Traditions of Southwest Louisiana
	Let's Get to the Heart of the Matter - Program Put Your Heart Before Your Head The Heart of a Woman Why an Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
	The Weight is Over - Program Overview DIET: What you need to KNOW PSYCHOLOGY: What you need to THINK EXERCISE: What you need to DO
	Put a little Color in Your Life - Program Put a Little Color in Your Life Why eat the Rainbow? A Colorful Way to Prevent Diabetes - A Berry Good Idea! How to eat the Rainbow
	Spice is Life - Program How Sweet it is! Cinnamon, Spices and Diabetes Relax, It's Tea Time:Tea and Effects on Obesity & Cancer The Aging Brain - Food for Thought
	Food as Medicine- Program Studying nature to improve our health Drugs disguised as herbal and safe 'over the counter' supplements: An introduction ot herb-drug interactions The French Paradox: Wine and cardiovascular risk
	The Buzz About Native Plants: From Plants To Bees To Medicine- From the Beehive to the Lab Bench for Better Health – Jacqueline Stephens, PhD Baccharis and Bees C Ray Brassieur, PhD Maximizing Honeybee Behavior for Product Production – Dennis Bullard, MEd

Scientific Symposia

	Botanicals and Translational Medicine - Program Our most recent scientific symposium was held on February 6-8, 2013 and was entitled Botanicals and Translational Medicine. We had speakers participating from 12 universities in the United States and Canada and we involved one of the 5 NIH funded Botanical Research Centers, i.e. Wake Forest University, by having one of their investigators (Dr. John Parks) serve as Co-Chair. The proceedings and conclusions were published on the Pennington Biomedical website and many of the manuscripts were published in a special supplement to the journal Nutrition. Volume 30, Issues 7-8, Supplement, S1-S68 July–August 2014 Botanicals and Translational Medicine: a paradigm shift in Research Approach Edited by William Cefalu Event Photo
	Botanicals and Cardiometabolic Risk - Program Published Articles in Metabolism Supplement Event Photos
	Practical Aspects of Natural Product-Based Pharmaceutical Discovery - Program A History of Botanical Therapeutics Important Pharmaceuticals Derived from Plants
	Botanicals and Human Health...The Sky's the Limit - Program