A great first session for ACMAP 2026! Focused on #ethnobotany and people's relationships with plants, we had four great talks from Holly Chittum, Eric Burkhart, Aruna Weerasooriya, and Skyler Armstead. Engaging talks and questions from the audience! #medicinalplants #naturalproducts #humanhealth

Meet our travel awardees! We have a fantastic lineup of early career #scientists who were awarded funds to attend the 2026 ACMAP conference. Great science coming from @yale.edu, Colorado State U, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, @upenn.edu, James Madison University, and Thomas Jefferson University!

🚨Early Career Researchers!🚨 Grad students, undergrads, post-docs, technicians! Our summer conference has a lot of great opportunities to present your work, network with other great #secmet #botany #medicinalplant scientists, and even win some 💵! Come join us in Hershey PA this June!

A early career researcher in #secmet, #botany, #medicinalplants? Come join us in Hershey, PA for the 2026 ACMAP annual conference! Travel awards available for students and postdocs, prizes for best poster presentation, and career development panels! For more information, see: acmap.org/conference/

Registration is now open for the 2026 ACMAP Annual Conference, to be held June 15-17 in Hershey, PA! Come join us for some sweet science on all aspects of medicinal plant research! Travel awards are available for students and postdocs! For more information, see: acmap.org/conference/

An 1889 paper reported ghost pipe (Monotroa uniflora) contains grayanotoxin, but our @savannahanez.bsky.social revisited this claim, using #massspec approaches to try and detect the toxins. Spoiler alert, we were unable to find any! Her work is now available in JNP! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Targeted and Untargeted Mass Spectrometry Do Not Detect Grayanane-Type Toxins in Monotropa uniflora L.

Monotropa uniflora L. (“ghost pipe”), is a North American traditional medicinal plant which has recently seen an increase in consumption nationwide. However, a single 1889 study reported the presence ...

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🚨Article Alert🚨in the Journal of Medicinally Active Plants! From @kelloggnpgroup.bsky.social and Wesley Raup-Konsavage of @pennstateuniv.bsky.social, a report on the "Impact of Soil Quality on Cannabinoid and Terpenoid Content of Cannabis sativa L." doi.org/10.7275/jmap... #secmet #botany #cannabis

We're excited to host the 2026 @acmap.bsky.social conference "Science Meets Sweet Escape" here at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social's College of Medicine in Hershey, PA! Early registration, student travel awards, and more information can be found on the website acmap.org/conference/ Hope to see you there!

ACMAP Conference

This year’s meeting with a focus on the scientific advances in several health and nutritional areas including the newly emerging field of hemp and medicinal cannabis.

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Come join us at Penn State for the our Plant Biology Symposium this June 24-26th. The theme is #Plant Secondary Metabolism (from #genetics to #ethnobotany to medicine!) Abstracts and registration are open now! Travel awards available for students/PDs! Click for more information! vqr.vc/oG1KKYNSh