Giovanni Appendino (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy): Electrophilicty: friend or foe in natural products drug discovery?
Miroslav Strnad (Palacký University Olomouc, Czeh Republic): Cytokinins and their derivatives: an amazing world of biological activities
Rudolf Bauer (Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria): The important role of gut microbiota for the therapeutic activity of herbal extracts
Satyajit Sarker (Liverpool John Moores University, UK): Libyan medicinal plants and their cytotoxic compounds
David Bruno (Pierre Fabre Research Institute, France) Pharma industry and natural products: current status and new trends
Virginia Lanzotti (University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy): NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry in the discovery of bioactive natural products
Fang-Rong Chang (Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan): Development of traditional complex formulas as therapeutic agents
Luc Pieters (University of Antwerp, Belgium): Biological activity of naturally occurring glycosides after gastrointestinal biotransformation
Veronika Butterweck (University of Basel, Switzerland): Polyphenols as biogenic additives and value added products
Rudolf Brenneisen (Swiss Task Force for Cannabinoids in Medicine, Switzerland) Medical Cannabis – An Update
Matthias Hamburger (University of Basel, Switzerland): Searching for the needle in the haystack - targeted identification of pharmacologically active natural products
Maria Jose U. Ferreira (University of Lisbon, Portugal): Exploring plant metabolites to overcome multidrug resistance in cancer chemotherapy
Jean-Luc Wolfender (University of Geneva, Switzerland): Do we still need to isolate natural products for their identification? - A paradigm shift in pharmacognosy
Anders Backlund (Uppsala University, Sweden): Applications of chemography in natural products research
Gábor Vasas (University of Debrecen, Hungary): Non ribosomal peptides from cyanobacteria
Attila Hunyadi (University of Szeged, Hungary): ROS scavenging by small-molecule antioxidants: key to a neglected treasury of bioactive compounds