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“Medicinal Plant Databases: Moving towards a Conservation and Community Context” with Christiaan Spangenberg, B.Sc.

PLEASE JOIN US IN WELCOMING Christiaan Spangenberg, B.Sc. ON may 23rd, 2024 AT 5PM PT•6PM MT•7PM CT•8PM ET

In this presentation, Christiaan will speak about traditional Chinese medicinal plants in the context of biodiversity informatics (the management of biodiversity data in informational systems) and conservation. He will begin by introducing the role and applications of databases in research on medicinal plants, and will review major trends and orientations in the field, before discussing the context of conservation for traditional Chinese medicinal herbs. Lastly, Christiaan will present the design of a database project he is currently working on at the Rosado lab in the University of British Columbia. The project is a nation-wide database for traditional Chinese medicinal plants in Canadian botanical gardens, and is intended to be a web-based collaborative platform for interdisciplinary research on medicinal plants, prioritizing their conservation status and cultivation possibilities.

Christiaan Spangenberg is a conservation researcher and herb gardener specializing in the conservation and cultivation of medicinal plants featured in the Chinese materia medica. He did his undergraduate degree in the Global Resource Systems program at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he studied ethnobotany and the cultivation of Asian medicinal plants, and he will start his Master's program in Botany at UBC in 2025. Christiaan is as passionate about promoting plant medicine as he is protecting wild communities of medicinal plants, and he is interested in exploring opportunities for dialogue between different fields that could lead to interdisciplinary collaboration. To these ends, Christiaan started a learning garden for traditional Chinese medicinal herbs in Vancouver, writes a gardening column for the Canada-based 'Medicinal Roots Magazine', and leads workshops on medicinal plants in horticulture. He is currently working on a research project at UBC creating a database platform for the conservation and cultivation of TCM herbs in North America.

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