9:00 am

Opening

Dennis Mckenna

9:15 am

phytosphere

Medicine for the future: if we listen, plants will teach us

Monica Gagliano

10:40 am

phytosphere

Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa): Recent advances in understanding the chemistry, pharmacology, and human uses

Chris McCurdy

12:10 pm

ethnophere

Integral Projection Models: a road map for sustainable ayahuasca production

Michael Coe

5:05 pm

hydrosphere

Farming tryptamine medicines from marine sponges: yield enhancing lessons from directed biotransformation

Zachary Kulberg

6:20 pm

ethnosphere

A history of psychoactive plants and fungi in Chinese medicine

Jonathan Lu

9:00 am

Welcome

Dennis Mckenna and Annette Badenhorst

9:15 am

mycosphere

Revisiting the McKenna Stoned Ape Theory: The ever evolving case for its plausibility

Paul Stamets

10:35 am

ethnosphere

The Harpy's Gift and the Jaguar's Curse: Hunting Medicines among the Matsigenka

Glenn Shepard

12:00 pm

ethnosphere

Ethnopharmacology and phytochemical profiling of Huachuma

Laurel Sugden and Josip Orlovac Del Río

2:45 pm

archaeosphere

Tiwanaku and Wari: Psychoactive plants and politics in the Central Andes 300-900 AD

Manuel Torres

4:05 pm

archaeosphere

Expanding evidence of Anadenanthera in the pre-Columbian Andes: Identifying depictions of Anadenanthera in the iconographic records of Cupisnique, Paracas and Nazca cultures

Colin Domnauer

5:35 pm

ethnosphere

Creation of an Ethnopharmacological plant repository in Southern Brazil. Presentation of a collaborative project to establish a collection of sacred psychoactive medicinal plants at Wasiwaska Research Center in Florianópolis, Brazil

Luis Eduardo Luna and Dale Millard

8:55 pm

mycosphere

Reports of Psychoactive Boletes

Colin Domnauer and Bryn Dentinger

9:00 am

Welcome

Dennis McKenna and Michael Coe

9:15 am

archaeosphere

Chemically-induced otherworldly experiences of Zoroastrians in Iran

Shauheen Etminan

10:35 am

sonosphere

Musical creativity and use of sound: Mathematical ratios capable of altering and engineering consciousness

Alexandre Tannous

1:45 pm

neurosphere

It’s High Time for Science: Psychedelics as Tools for Scientific Discovery

Bruce Damer

3:20 pm

ethnosphere

Ayahuasca, Shamanism and Conservation in the Sibundoy Valley of the Colombian Amazon

Mark Plotkin

4:50 pm

archaeosphere

Archaeo-ethnopharmacology of Psychoactive Plant Use in the Old World

Mark Merlin

6:10 pm

phytosphere

Ethnopharmacology and the development of psychoactive drugs: are the fruits too high or have we been clumsy?

Elaine Elisabetsky

8:55 pm

sociosphere

When Your Friends are the Problem: Plant Medicines, Commercialization, and Biocultural conservation

Jerónimo Mazarrasa and Andrea Langlois