About the lecture:
In this lecture, I will present the results of my research into the species composition of local plant communities and whether they can serve as a source of active compounds that reduce the pressure exerted by human pathogens and diseases. In other words, we will examine whether local ecosystems in the form of plant communities are capable of responding dynamically to the pathogens and diseases we generate (epidemiological anthropogenic pressure) and promoting species that have the potential to eliminate or limit the most common pathogens and diseases. I will also attempt to answer the question of whether this knowledge might be useful to us in times of crisis: war, disruption of the pharmaceutical supply chain, and societal impoverishment.
About the speaker:
Biologist, pharmacognosist, herbalist. I work in the herbal and pharmaceutical industry and conduct research in the fields of biology, botany, biochemistry and tryptamines. I am interested in the distribution of active substances in local ecosystems, phytopharmacology and ethnopharmacology of the common flora of lowland Poland and the Amazon rainforest, neurogenesis, the evolutionary role of psychedelic tryptamines in the biosphere, the biology and evolution of pathogens, psychedelic research, genomics and epidemiology. Additionally, I am interested in topics from various fields of the natural sciences, both the exact sciences and those at the intersection with philosophy (the origins and evolution of life, theories of consciousness). I am also very interested in virology, a science derived from agrobiology and botany. I am searching for antiviral agents in the biosphere. I am currently studying genomics and bioinformatics.
