. Welcome Message

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to inform you that the XX Simpósio de Plantas Medicinais do Brasil (XX SPMB) will be held at the Frei Caneca Convention Center in São Paulo, Brazil, from 16 to 19 of September 2008, as a joint event with the X International Congress of Ethnopharmacology (X ICE).

The joint event is directed to students, researchers, and other health professionals interested in the main advances in the knowledge of medicinal plants. The joint event will include renowned lecturers from Brazil and abroad, discussing the various themes relevant to medicinal plant research, such as agronomy, botany, chemistry, ethnopharmacology, pharmacology and all its correlated disciplines.

The event will include plenary lectures, mini-conferences, round tables, coordinated sessions, posters and mini-courses. Additionally, special sessions are being organized to comprehensively discuss six selected genera: Baccharis, Cordia, Erythrina, Maytenus, Mikania and Phyllanthus. In these sessions, specialists will broach since botanical and ethnopharmacological until toxicological and clinical studies of the genera species.

Please make sure to reserve these dates in your calendar and assist us to announce the events broadly as possible.

Elisaldo Carlini
President to the Organizing Committee to XX SPMB

Daniel Moerman
President to the International Society of Ethnopharmacology

Elaine Elisabetsky
Coordinator of Local Organizing Committee to X ICE