Admission is free, but reservations are required.
A booksigning will follow the presentation. The wonder drugs of the future are growing in the rain forest today. Through his work with indigenous people in Brazil, French Guiana, Surinam and Venezuela, he has categorized more than 300 shaman plant cures. Through such efforts, he hopes to marry the ancient wisdom of the shamans to the 21st century. Plotkin is currently a research associate in the department of botany at the Smithsonian Institution and is the executive director of the Amazon Conservation Team, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating new conservation strategies by combining indigenous knowledge with Western science to understand, document and preserve the biological and cultural diversity of the Amazon.