Ten students from the Chemistry program at Universidad del Cauca presented their research during the event held at Universidad del Valle.

From April 22 to 25, the First Colombian Congress on Natural Products took place at Universidad del Valle under the theme "Science and Technology in Harmony with Biodiversity." Formerly known as the Colombian Congress on Phytochemistry, the event was renamed to recognize the diversity of natural product sources beyond just plants.

A group of students from Universidad del Cauca participated in the event. They are members of the Research Seedbed of the Bioactive Compounds Chemistry Research Group, affiliated with the Department of Chemistry. Their five research projects were supervised by Professor Fernando Hernández Blanco and fall within the following lines of research: Conservation, Propagation, and Composition Studies of Promising Plant Species; Biological Activity Evaluation; Contaminant Assessment and Remediation (Nanomaterials and Bioremediation); and Analytical Chemistry.

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The following students presented their work:

• José Adriano Castro Bravo
• Jennifer V. González Hurtado
• Angie Celeste Peña Meneses
• María Camila Rosero Hoyos
• Juan David Ruiz Múnera
• Diana Sofía Sánchez Ordoñez
• Tatiana Andrea Suárez Agredo
• Manuel A. Muñoz Camacho
• Valeria Rivera Ramírez
• Paula Sánchez Lugo

 

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And the accepted research projects were presented as posters with the following titles:

• Evaluation of the cytotoxic and phytotoxic activity of the total ethanolic extract of Spathodea campanulata obtained by microwave-assisted extraction
• Preliminary evaluation of the phytochemical profile and microwave optimization of extracts from Calea sp. and Hedyosmum sp.
• Bioremoval of doxycycline in aqueous medium through encapsulation of the microalga Chlorella vulgaris: a comparison with free and encapsulated microalgae
• Microwave Optimization and Phytochemical Profile of Extracts from Dianthera secunda and Anredera cordifolia
• Cytotoxic study and antiophidic activity of ethanolic extracts from Crinum jagus, Crinum × powellii, Crinum amabile, and Agapanthus praecox

 

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