Monday, July 24, 2017
Hilton Rhein Hotel
12.00 – 19.00 h Conference registration
13.30 h Joint-walking from Hilton Hotel to the entrance of the Cathedral
14.00 h Meeting at the entrance of the Cathedral as starting point of the city tour
Mainz city sightseeing tour (included in conference registration fee.
Please, register for city tour beforehand)
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Hilton Rhein Hotel
7.45 – 8.30 h Registration
8.30 – 10.30 h Opening ceremony (Hall A-C)
Music: Meditation from Jules Massenet
(Keifei Wu and Jaeho Lee, Musikhochschule Mainz)
Welcome address: Prof. Georg Krausch, President of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Welcome address: Dr. Michael Cramer, Representative of the Ministry for Social, Labor, Health and Demographics of Rhineland Palatinate
Welcome address: Peter Stahl, Vice-President of the Landesapothekerkammer
Welcome address: Prof. Dr. Thomas Efferth, Conference president
Welcome address: Prof. Dr. Mohammad Sanad Abu-Darwish, Conference vice-president
Music: Czardas from Vittoria Monti
(Kefei Wu and Jaeho Lee, Musikhochschule Mainz)
10.30 – 11.00 h Group foto and coffee break
11.00 – 13.00 h Keynote lectures (Part 1) (Hall A-C)
13.00 – 14.00 h Lunch break
14.00 – 16.30 h Keynote lectures (Part 2) (Hall A-C)
16.30 – 17.00 h Coffee break
17.00 – 18.30 h Lectures on the globalization of phytomedicine (Hall A-C)
19.30 – 22.30 h Welcome reception at the Brasserie, Hilton Hotel
(included in registration fee)
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Hilton Rhein Hotel
8.30 – 10.45 h Lectures on Phytomedicine
Hall A: Session 1: Cancer (Chairs: Sami Khalid, Victor Kuete)
Hall B: Session 2: Antioxidant activity (Chairs: David Lee, Djebbar Atmani)
Hall C: Session 3: Phytochemistry (Chairs: Yujie Fu, Abdollah Ghasemi Pirbalouti)
10.45 – 11.15 h Coffee break
11.15 – 12.15 h Lectures on Phytomedicine (Part 1)
Hall A: Session 4: Molecular Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics
(Chairs: Onat Kadioglu, Mohamed Saeed)
Hall B: Session 5: Diverse diseases (Chairs: Heba Abdel-Aziz, Vincent Kam Wai Wong)
Hall C: Session 6: Neurological diseases (Chairs: Mark Blumenthal, Sebastian Meurer)
12.15 – 13.15 h Lunch
13.15 – 14.15 h Lectures on Phytomedicine (Part 2)
Hall A: Session 4: Molecular pharmacology and pharmacogenomics
Hall B: Session 5: Diverse diseases
Hall C: Session 6: Neurological disorders
14.15 – 14.45 h Coffee break
14.45 – 17.00 h Lectures on Phytomedicine
Hall A: Session 7: Toxicity and protection from toxicity (Chairs: Ge Lin, Mohamed A. Salem)
Hall B: Session 8: Metabolic diseases (Chairs: Michael Heinrich, Amina Ather)
14.45 – 17.55 h Hall C: Session 9: General topics (Chairs: Henry J. Greten, Salah Daak)
20.00 – 23.00 h Gala dinner, Gold Hall A and B, Hilton Rhein Hotel
Entertainment program:
Evening Talk of Mark Blumenthal “Humorous health: A fun look at diet,
medicine, drugs and lifestyle as seen through cartoons”
Entertainment music by the orchestra “im Takt”
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Assembly Hall Johannes Gutenberg University Hall A:
9.00 – 13.00 h Poster presentation
Assembly Hall Johannes Gutenberg University Hall B:
9.00 – 11.00 h Workshop: How to write a good scientific paper
11.00 – 12.00 h Closing ceremony (with conferement of poster awards)
12.00 – 13.00 h Lunch break
13.30 h Joint-traveling from the University to the entrance of the Cathedral
14.00 h Meeting at the entrance of the Cathedral as starting point of the city tour:
Mainz city sightseeing tours (included in conference registration fee.
Please, register for city tour beforehand)
Friday, July 28, 2017
Rhine River cruise with stop in Rüdesheim
(not included in the conference registration fee)
Times and titles of talks
Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 11.00 – 16.30 h: Keynote Lecture
11.00 h: Erwin Beck (University of Bayreuth): Access and benefit sharing – the perspective of basic research)
11.30 h: Dieter Dörr (University of Mainz): The Nagoya Protocol and the rights of the indigenous people
12.00 h: Thomas Greiber (Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Bonn): Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol in the EU
12.30 h: Sebastian Meurer (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, GIZ, Bonn): Access and benefit sharing in Latin America – challenges and opportunities
14.00 h: Michael Heinrich: 25 years after the ‘Rio Convention’ – Lessons learned in the context of sustainable development of natural resources
14.30 h: Sami Khalid (University of Khartoum): The African arena in the Nagoya benefit-sharing concept
15.00 h: David Lee (Harvard School of Medicine, USA): Bringing Chinese medicine to the market – the Harvard experience
15.30 h: Mita Banerjee (University of Mainz): Biopiracy and biopatenting in India: Culture, globalization and the ownership of knowledge.
16.00: Amina Ather (Jury for Sustainability and Community Outreach, UNESCO): Fragrance of the silk route – an undebated potential for mental wellbeing and vulnerability for biopiracy of indigenous medicinal values
Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 17.00 – 18.30 h: Lectures on the globalization of phytomedicine
17.00 h: Mark Blumenthal: Piracy and Fraud: Adulteration of botanical ingredients in the global marketplace
17.30 h: Liselotte Krenn: The European scientific cooperative on phytotherapy (ESCOP)
18.00 h: Thomas Efferth: One World Medicine
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Session 1: Cancer (Chairs: Sami Khalid, Victor Kuete)
8.30 h: Shaden A. M. Khalifa et al.: Exploring cancer therapeutics of natural products from Egyptian flora
8.50 h: Eva Juengel et al.: Sulforaphane prevents everolimus resistance in renal cell carcinoma cells
9.10 h: Victor Kuete et al: Natural products from African flora have the potential to fight multi-drug resistance of cancer
15 min break
9.45 h Nadire Özenver et al.: Aloe-emodin as drug candidate in cancer therapy
10.05 h: Bashir A.Yousef et al.: Pristimerin exhibits in vitro and in vivo anticancer activities though inhibition of nuclear factor-ĸB signaling pathway in colorectal cancer cells
10.25 h: Loiy Elsir Ahmed Hassan et al.: Evaluation of antiangiogenic and antitumor properties of Anogeissus leiocarpus
Session 2: Antioxidant activity (Chairs: David Lee, Djebbar Atmani)
8.30 h: Djebbar Atmani et al.: Biological activities of Algerian medicinal plants: From traditional medicine to scientific validation
8.50 h: Shahira Mohammed Ezzat et al.: In vitro and in vivo antidiabetic potential of furostanol saponin from Balanites aegyptiaca together with aldose reductase inhibition activity
9.10 h: Chunlan Hong et al.: The Chinese herbal formula Free and Easy Wanderer ameliorates oxidative stress through the KEAP1-NRF2/HO-1 pathway
15 min break
9.45 h: Ahlam Sayout et al.: Antibacterial and antioxidant activities of the essential oil and extracts of an endemic Lavandula species from Morocco
10.05 h: Mosa Elhady Osman Ahmed et al.: Geneal phytochemical screening and antioxidant activity of some Sudanese medicinal plants
10.25 h: Rodica Mihaela Dinica et al.: Antioxidant properties of crude extracts of Nymphaea alba
Session 3: Phytochemistry
(Chairs: Yujie Fu, Abdollah Ghasemi Pirbalouti)
8.30 h: Hassan Azaizeh et al.: Seasonal variation in the effects of polyphenolic extracts from willow on the exsheathment of gastro-intestinal nematode larvae
8.50 h: Abdollah Ghasemi Pirbalouti et al.: Chitosan application on secondary metabolites of medicinal and aromatic plants
9.10 h: Yujie Fu: Chemical composition and antioxidant mechanism of Pyrola incarnata Fisch.
15 min break
9.45 h: Mwafaq Ibdah et al.: Developing of trilobatin dihydrochalcone as a new-style of phytochemical agent
10.05 h: Nawal M. Al-Musayeib: Concurrent analysis of cytotoxic markers maaliol, penduletin and chrysophenol D by HPTLC method in ethyl acetate fraction of Plectranthus cylindraceus
10.25 h: Bochra Laribi et al.: Chemical composition, in vitro antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of star-anise (Illicium verum Hook.f.) fruit essential oil
Session 4: Molecular pharmacology and pharmacogenomics
(Chairs: Onat Kadioglu, Mohamed Saeed)
11.15 h: Yuhui Hui et al.: Systems biology approaches to the function and mode of Traditional Chinese Medicine for new drug development
11.35 h: Cheng-Bo Gu et al.: Effect of vitexin on proliferation and osteogenic differentiation in MC3T3-E1 cells
11.55 h: Onat Kadioglu et al.: Pharmacogenomics of cantharidin in tumor cells
Lunch break
13.15 h: Mohamed E.M. Saeed et al.: Cytotoxicity of the sesquiterpene lactones neoambrosin and damsin from Ambrosia maritima against multidrug-resistant cancer cells
13.35 h: Ean-Jeong Seo et al.: Inhibition of cancer cell migration and tubulin filament formation by green tea
13.55 h: Hamdoun S et al.: The antimetastatic effect of ginkgolic acids on breast cancer cells
Session 5: Diverse diseases (Chairs: Heba Abdel-Aziz, Vincent Kam Wai Wong)
11.15 h: Talal Aburjai: Fighting Helicobacter pylori: The art of the impossible
11.35h: Vincent Kam Wai Wong et al.: Celastrol inhibits refractory rheumatoid arthritis via double target of SERCA and P-glycoprotein
11.55 h: Peter W. Heger et al.: The special extract ERr 731® alleviated anxiety and depression and improved quality of life in symptomatic perimenopausal women
Lunch break
13.15 h: Heba Abdel-Aziz et al.: The herbal medicinal product STW 5 in an experimental model of Crohn’s disease - Hints on its potential therapeutic usefulness
13.35 h: Olaf Kelber et al.: A herbal medicine efficacious in functional dyspepsia also in the elderly - meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials with STW 5
13.55 h: Télesphore Benoît Nguelefack: Insight into the analgesic effects of some Cameroonian medicinal plants
Session 6: Neurological disorders
(Chairs: Mark Blumenthal, Sebastian Meurer)
11.15 h: Amer Tarawneh et al.: Discovery and structure-activity relation study of small-molecule as mu opioid antagonist
11.35 h: Omer Bayazeid et al.: In silico and in vitro studies of pinoresinol which protect SHSY-5Y cells against neurotoxic amyloid beta
11.55 h: Betty Yuen-Kwan Law et al.: Identification of autophagic compounds from Scutellaria baicalensis by UHPLC-DAD-TOF/MS for inhibiting the aggregation of β-amyloid
Lunch break
13.15 h: Jing Fu et al.: Novel lignanamides from the fruits of Cannabis sativa (Hemp seed) and their neuroprotective activity
13.35 h: Mohammed S. Ali-Shtayeh et al.: Chemical analysis, antioxidant and anticholinesterase potentials of essential oil and its components from Palestinian Origanum syriacum growing under secondary treated effluent irrigation
13.55 h: Lamia Hamrouni: Study of the allelopathic activities and biological extracts crude of Lantana camara
Session 7: Toxicity and protection from toxicity
(Chairs: Ge Lin, Mohamed A. Salem)
14.45 h: Ge Lin et al.: Hepatotoxicity induced by pyrrolizidine alkaloids and pyrrolizidine alkaloid n-oxides
15.05 h: Mohamed A. Salem et al.: Metabolomics in the context of phytomedicine: bridging the quality control of herbal drugs and biological activities
15.25 h: Mohammad Yasir et al.: In silico and in vivo studies on protective effect of Glycosmis pentaphylla on 12-o-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) induced oxidative stress on skin
15 min break
16.00 h: Choo et al.: Safety assessment of standardized Brucea javanica extract
16.20 h: I.A. Bashir et al.: The effect of low protein fraction of gum Arabic on improving renal function for chronic renal failure patients
16.40 h: S. A. Ali et al: Hepatoprotective activity of some medicinal plants in Sudan: A review
Session 8: Metabolic diseases (Chairs: Michael Heinrich, Amina Ather)
14.45 h: Hilal Zaid: Medicinal plants anti diabetic active ingredients: isolation, protein target and mechanism(s) of action
15.05 h: Salam Y Abu Zaitoun et al.: Chemical composition, anti-obesity, anti-cholinesterase and antioxidant activities of essential oils from four Palestinian aromatic plants under secondary treated effluent irrigation.
15.25 h: Rana M Jamous et al.: Anti-obesity activity properties and antioxidant activity of some Palestinian medicinal plants
15 min break
16.00 h: Maha M. Salama et al.: Therapeutic applications of herbal medicines for diabetic patients
16.20 h: Alaadin M. Naqishbandi: Hypoglycemic activity of Arctium lappa extracts indigenous to Kurdistan
16.40 h: Essam Abdel-Sattar et al.: Russelioside b, a pregnane glycoside reduces weight gain, improves insulin resistance and modulates expression of adiponectin and visfatin in rats fed with high fat diet
Session 9: General topics (Chairs: Henry J. Greten, Salah Daak)
14.45 h: Henry Johannes Greten: Stealing molecules from their cultural and diagnostic context may reduce their benefits. How reductionist exploitation may prevent the usage of age-old pharmacognostic knowledge
15.05 h: Shaden A. M. Khalifa et al.: Plants mentioned in the Islamic Medicine (Holy Qur'ân and Ahadith): medicinal importance in contemporary times
15.25 h: Salah Daak: The Salah Wanesi Foundation for Cancer Research and Control
15 min break
16.00 h: Natik Hameed Alkudsi et al.: Effect of anise seeds supplementation on physiological performance under heat stress in Holstein cows
16.20 h: Shivraj Hariram Nile et al.: Salvia officinalis extract and its isolated penta-cyclic triterpene acids inhibits xanthine oxidase activity in vitro and reduces serum uric acid in an animal model
16.40 h: Jiao Jiao et al.: Enhancement of astragaloside and isoflavonoid biosynthesis in Astragalus membranaceus hairy root cultures by effective elicitors
15 min break
17.15 h: Abdeen Omer: Medicines distribution and financing alternatives
17.35 h: Arno Rieder: The origin of knowledge in phytotherapy: a report of experience