Welcome of participants


A word of welcome by Jean-Pierre LELEUX, State Senator & Mayor of Grasse

Official opening of the Symposium by Patrick THEILLERE,
Scientific Designer of the Symposium

OCEANIA IN ALL ITS BIODIVERSITY
Ethnobotany, Ethnopharmacology, Traditional cures from Oceania & Australia

Chairpersons :
Rhiannon HARRIS & Professeur Yves PELISSIER


Chris KILHAM - Ethnobotanist, Medicine Hunter, Consultant for Naturex, TV reporter, Amherst, Massachussetts, USA
The Medicine Hunter's herbal cures


Isabelle VAHIRUA-LECHAT - Research Scientist, Laboratory of Natural Products, Louis Malardé Institute, Papeete, French Polynesia
Aromatic & medicinal plants in traditional medicine of the Polynesian islands


Jean-Michel DUPUYOO - Technical Director of the Tropical Zoological Garden,
La Londe-les-Maures, France
Food and medicinal uses of the Vanuatu palm trees : cures, poisons and sexual stimulus.


COFFEE-BREAK
Visit of the Well-being & Health exhibition and the scientific posters


John PEARN - Professor, Paediatrician & Physician, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, Royal Children's Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia
Medical ethnobotany for aboriginal children in Australia


Nardo VICENTE - Professor in Marine Biology, Scientific Head of Oceanographic Institute Paul Ricard, Island of Embiez, France
The cultivation of spirulina in underdeveloped countries in the fight against infant malnutrition


Julie FREEMAN - Aboriginal Indigeneous from La Pérouse Community (Australia)
Testimony of a medicine woman & aboriginal artist


End of conferences - Free time & Dinner at leisure downtown