You are welcome to join our next Journal Club and Seminar Series which will be held on Tuesday, January 28, 2025.

The presenter Ms. Ella Vardeman, M.Phil., is a Ph.D. candidate in the Plant Sciences programme at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), where she conducts research under the mentorship of Dr. Ina Vandebroek from the CCRIB, UWI Mona and Dr. Edward Kennelly from CUNY. She earned her undergraduate degree in Plant Biology with a minor in Anthropology from the University of Georgia. Vardeman's current research examines the ethnopharmacology of plants used by Haitian immigrants in New York City for women's health. She has also served as the student representative for the Society for Economic Botany. Ms Vardeman is the recipient of the prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award, funded by the National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements and the National Centre for Complementary and Integrative Health. In 2020, she was awarded the Garden Club of America Anne S. Chatham Fellowship for Medicinal Plant Research.