Cassandra L Quave

Cassandra L Quave, Ph.D.

  • Position:
    Post Doctoral Fellow

    Microbiology and Immunology

    University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Little Rock, AR)

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D., Biology, Florida International University (Miami, FL)
     
    B.Sc., Biology, Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
     
    B.Sc., Anthropology and Human Biology, Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Mark Smeltzer (as Post Doctoral Fellow)
     
    Bradley C. Bennett (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Lisa RW Plano (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Michelle Lampl (as Undergraduate Student)
     
    Peter Brown (as Undergraduate Student)
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  • Research:
    Antibacterial activity of medicinal plants from the Mediterranean

    I am an ethnobotanist and ethnopharmacologist. My research focus is on the traditional use of plants and animals in the Mediterranean, specifically in Italy at the moment. I also study the antibacterial properties of natural products extracted from medicinal plants. My doctoral work was focused on the identification and antibacterial evaluation of medicinal plants used to treat skin disease. I am particularly interested in studying the activity of natural products against multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections. My post doctoral work is focused on the assessment of anti-biofilm activity of certain plant extracts against S. aureus using in vivo infection models.

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  • Other Experience:

    2008-present Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

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  • Honors:

    2009-2011 National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Postdoctoral Training in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (F32 AT005040)

    2008 American Society of Pharmacognosy Graduate Student Poster Award

    2008 1st Place for a Oral Presentation in the Category of Biology, Marine and Life Sciences, Florida International University Graduate Student Association Scholarly Forum

    2007 The Edmund H. Fulling Award for best contributed oral paper by a junior professional at the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany

    2007-2009 National Institute of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships (F31AT004288) to Promote Diversity in Health Related Research

    2007 Anne S. Chatham Fellowship in Medicinal Botany, The Garden Club of America

    2006-2008 Botany in Action Fellow, A Research Program of Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

    2003-2006 National Institute of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Institutional Pre-doctoral National Research Service Award (T32-AT01060)

    2000 The National Charles R. Jenkins Award for Excellence in Anthropology

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Cassandra Quave's Publications (12)



Cassandra Quave's Posters and Presentations (22)

  • Quorum sensing inhibitors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from Italian medicinal plants (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave, Lisa R.W. Plano, and Bradley C. Bennett

    Society for Economic Botany, 49th Annual Meeting; 06/2008
  • Anti-biofilm activity of white horehound extract on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave

    Florida International University Graduate Student Association Scholarly Forum, 1st Place Award for Presentation; 04/2008
  • Quorum sensing inhibiting activity of Schinus terebinthifolius Radii (Anacardiaceae) extracts against MRSA (poster)

    Cassandra L Quave, Lisa R.W. Plano, and Bradley C. Bennett

    7th Annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals and American Society of Pharmacognosy 4th Interim Meeting, Graduate Student Poster Award from the American Society of Pharmacognosy; 04/2008
  • Zootherapeutic remedies in the traditional pharmacopoeia of southern Italy (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave

    Society of Ethnobiology, 39th Annual Conference; 04/2008
  • An ethnopharmacological approach to multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Evaluation of Italian plants used in the traditional healing of skin disease (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave

    Florida International University, Doctoral Dissertation Defense; 03/2008
  • Cytotoxicity and the creation of a therapeutic index for ranking plant extracts with antibacterial potential (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave and Bradley C. Bennett

    Comparative Immunology Symposium, Florida International University (local conference); 03/2008
  • Effects of extracts of Ballota nigra on biofilm formation and adherence in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave and Bradley C. Bennett

    Biology Research Symposium of Florida International University, local meeting; 02/2008
  • Natural products from Italian medicinal plants: Potential anti-biofilm agents for MRSA (poster)

    Cassandra L Quave

    National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Graduate Student Research Festival (NGSRF); 10/2007
  • Anti-Pseudomonas activity of selected plants used in traditional ethnoveterinary practices (presentation)

    Susan Mendez, Cassandra L Quave, James Graham, J. Gaskin, and Bradley C. Bennett

    Society for Economic Botany, 48th Annual Meeting; 06/2007
  • The search for new anti-staphylococcal leads: comparing the antibacterial efficiency of Italian plants based on ethnobotanical use categories (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave and Bradley C. Bennett

    Society for Economic Botany, Edmund H. Fulling Award for best presentation by a junior professional; 06/2007
  • Zootherapy: Some unusual cases from south Italy (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave

    Biology Research Symposium of Florida International University, Local Conference; 01/2007
  • Integration and management of plants as functional foods and medicines in home gardens and vineyards of southern Italy (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave

    USDA Agroecology Symposium at Florida International University, Local Conference; 10/2006
  • An ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants for the treatment of skin disease in southern Italy (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave, Andrea Pieroni, and Bradley C. Bennett

    Society for Economic Botany, 47th Annual Meeting; 06/2006
  • A comparative assessment of microbiological methods for natural product antibacterial screening (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave, James Graham, Susan Mendez, Lisa R.W. Plano, and Bradley C. Bennett

    4th International Congress on Natural Products; 05/2006
  • Ethnomedical practices of ethnic Albanians in Lucania, S. Italy: A glance at botanical remedies (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave, Andrea Pieroni, and Bradley C. Bennett

    Biology Research Symposium of Florida International University, Local Conference; 01/2006
  • Activity of Florida plants against clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave, James Graham, Susan Mendez, Lisa R.W. Plano, Kelsey Downum, and Bradley C. Bennett.

    Society for Economic Botany, 46th Annual Meeting; 06/2005
  • Natural products activity against clinical isolates of multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave, James Graham, Lisa R.W. Plano, and Bradley C. Bennett

    Florida International University Biomedical and Comparative Immunology Symposium, Local Conference; 03/2005
  • Crossing ethnic borders: Ethnopharmacy of the Arbëreshë in Southern Italy (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave and Andrea Pieroni

    Joint Congress of the: 9th International Congress of the International Society for Ethnobiology; 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany; and the 8th International Congress of the International Society of Ethnopharmacology; 06/2004
  • Food ethnobotanicals and linguistic diversity in Lucania, southern Italy (presentation)

    Andrea Pieroni, Cassandra L Quave, Harald Münz, Sabine Nebel and Michael Heinrich

    8th International Congress of the International Society for Ethnobiology: People and Biodiversity; 09/2002
  • Healing with sacred and medicinal plants of three Arbëreshë communities of southern Italy (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave and Andrea Pieroni

    3rd International Congress of Ethnobotany; 09/2001
  • Ritual medical practices and traditional plant remedies used in three Arbëreshë communities of southern Italy (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave and Andrea Pieroni

    7th International Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore: Time, Places, Passages; 04/2001
  • Plants and pills: Health consequences of Western medicine in the Peruvian Amazon (presentation)

    Cassandra L Quave

    International Society for Ethnobiology; 10/2000

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The percent inhibition of extracts for planktonic growth, biofilm formation and adherence in MRSA. (a) Arundo donax; (b) Ballota nigra; (c) Juglans regia; (d) Leopoldia comosa; (e) Marrubium vulgare.


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