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Pharmacognosy 2018
American Journal of Ethnomedicine
ISSN: 2348-9502
Page 37
April 16-17, 2018
Amsterdam, Netherlands
6
th
Edition of International Conference on
Pharmacognosy and
Medicinal Plants
Biography
ManuelaMandrone works at Bologna University, Department of Pharmacology and Biotechnology, where she is a Junior Researcher since 2016. Her investi-
gations are in the field of Plant Science, particularly focusing on natural-product based drug discovery inspired by traditional medicine knowledge and studies
of plant-environment interactions, related to crops. She has expertise in identification of active principles responsible for biological activities of medicinal
plants, finding of biomarkers and quality control of botanicals. These lines of research lie on canonical phytochemical studies as well as on novel approaches
such as: metabolomics coupled with chemometrics, which has been a subject of her PhD thesis. She also has expertise in biological activities screening,
antioxidant and enzymatic inhibitory assays.
manuela.mandrone2@unibo.it