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!

Got a chance to finally visit @rbgkew.bsky.social while I was in London for the NPR board meeting. What a fantastic place! I spent over 4 hours marveling at all the diversity represented there and didn't make it through it all! Will have to go back again! #botany #plantscience #gardens #secmet

🎉A wonderful day yesterday at Burlington House for the @natprodreports.rsc.org Editorial Board meeting! It was great to have all the board together in person to talk about the exciting future for the journal and natural products research as a field #natprod #secmet

🚨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!

#TIL that some of my students have a nickname for me. Apparently, it's "science dad." I'll take it 😎 #STEM #academicsky #professor #sciencedad

So I did a thing this weekend... was excited to be nominated and even more thrilled to deliver a talk with TEDxPSU on #medicinalplants, #naturalproducts, #synergy, and the next generation of medicines. I'm honored to be among such great speakers for the TED series at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social

🎉We are delighted to welcome @kelloggnpgroup.bsky.social, @kateduncan.bsky.social & Yihua Chen to the @natprodreports.rsc.org Editorial Board! #natprod #secmet Learn more about our new Editorial Board members here🔽 blogs.rsc.org/np/2026/01/3...

Gotta love it when a student's written paper kicks off with, "To begin, we should start at the beginning." #gradingseason #proflife #writing

Bioactive identification using a Metabolome-wide association study (MeWAS) approach using basil (Ocimum) as a test case; now published in #Metabolomics! Congrats to the team (including graduate and undergraduate students and our manager)! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #secmet #massspec #plants

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/

When teaching students about #toxicology and #secmet and #medicinal #plants, I try to find fun ways to keep the material fresh. I was rewarded yesterday when my undergrad tox class gave a hearty chuckle at my 90s era flashback for tubulin disruptors as toxins (and chemotherapy agents). Tubular!!

@savannahanez.bsky.social giving her 4th year seminar on the #ethnobotany and #secmet of monotropa uniflora, the ghost pipe. So proud of all that she's accomplished so far, and all that is to come!

A great conference with diverse sessions on #medicinal #plants, #secmet, #plantbiology, #ethnobotany, and more! Check it out!

American Council for Medicinally Active Plants@acmap.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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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A fun project with our partners at Penn State College of Medicine, looking at conventional vs cover crop systems for cannabis production, and the variation seen in the cannabinoid and terpenoid composition. The last manuscript for my student Cisco as well :)

American Council for Medicinally Active Plants@acmap.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨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.

acmap.org

8/22 On Samantha Heller's Health & Nutrition Show, @NYUDocs, 12-2 pm ET: @MelissaJoyRD #RD clears up confusion abt #seedsoils, #CGM, #UPF! @kelloggnpgroup.bsky.social on pros/cons of #psychedelic microdosing. Open phones 877-NYU-DOCS. Fashionista #butterfly: her body matches her wings 💕

At the #ASP #pharmacognosy conference, and got to see both my PhD (Mary Ann Lila) and postdoc (@nadjacech.bsky.social) mentors at the same time! I'm forever grateful to have had the chance to be guided by such brilliant strong scientists!

Our grad student @savannahanez.bsky.social was interviewed about her work on ghost pipe and its #ethnobotany and #pain #secmet potential, and was picked up by the @washingtonpost.com! www.washingtonpost.com/home/2025/07...

The ghostly white plant that has sparked a war among foragers

Used medicinally by Native Americans for centuries, Monotropa uniflora — a.k.a. ghost pipe — is having a moment on social media. Not everybody is happy about it.

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Kicking off our workshop "Bridging Worlds: Medicinal Plants and Modern Science" with our partner, United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, ND. Thanks to @pennstateuniv.bsky.social's Huck Institutes for their support. #ethnobotany #medicinal #plants #secmet

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

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I commented. You should too!

Jon Freeman@freemanjb.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

Now that we're into spring/summer, this is a fun little map and blog post, for anyone who wants to visit #botanical #gardens throughout #Pennsylvania. Penn State's #arboretum is on the list, along with some other fabulous destinations :) Enjoy! www.travellerselixir.com/pennsylvania...

Early Registration is extended until May 19th! Come visit us at Penn State and join in some amazing #plant #secmet #naturalproducts talks, posters, and research! #botanical #academicsky

Josh Kellogg@kelloggnpgroup.bsky.social · last yr.

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

1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.

NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring

Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff

science.org

Every spring I ask my #metabolomics class "Why is metabolomics the best -omics out there? Wrong answers only!" Some spring faves: - "Metabolomics is the baddest -omics across the metaverse. It's actually my favorite DC villain." -"The fact that it can teach you how to make a souffle!" [1/2]

Do any #plantbiology #secmet #botany or other folks know if the USDA's Plant Database is really just down for maintenance, or is it a larger closure/deletion? Thank you! plants.usda.gov

Excited to see @savannahanez.bsky.social's #ethnobotany survey on #ghostpipe (Monotropa uniflora) now published in J Economic Botany! Looking at ghostpipe knowledge in the digital age and who/what/why people are using it as a #medicinal #plant. Congrats!! doi.org/10.1007/s122...

Delighted to share our newest collaborative efforts, the Library Enabling Annotation of Botanical Natural Products (LEAFBot). This is an open-access library of #massSpec fragmentation spectra specifically for #plant #metabolites. J American Society for Mass Spectrometry DOI: 10.1021/jasms.5c00038

All our #secmet and #ethnobotany people should come spread your #botany knowledge this summer!!

Josh Kellogg@kelloggnpgroup.bsky.social · last yr.

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