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Barbara Schmidt, Postdoctoral Associate

  • In 1999 I graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a B. S. in Horticulture. After working for a year in the horticulture industry, I attended Arizona State University where I earned a M. S. degree in Plant Biology. My thesis project looked at the effects of elevated CO2 on the flavonoid chemistry of a medicinal herb, Scutellaria baicalensis. In 2002, I started my doctoral thesis work at the University of Illinois where I investigated the anticancer components of blueberry fruit.

  • After completing my PhD, I joined Ilya Raskin’s lab in March 2005 as a postdoctoral associate. My research interests include extraction and purification of plant natural products to be studied for their potential as anticancer drugs.

Publications

  1. Ribnicky, D. M., A. Poulev, B. Schmidt, W. T. Cefalu, and I. Raskin. Evaluation of botanicals for improving human health. Am. J. Clinical Nutrition, submitted, 2007.

  2. Ilić, N., B. M. Schmidt, A. Poulev, and I. Raskin. Toxicological evaluation of Grains of Paradise (Aframomum melegueta). Food Chem. Tox., submitted, 2007.

  3. Schmidt, B. M., A. Poulev, M. Dey, M. Gries, A. G. Kurmukov, S. K. Zakirov, N. R. Lyapina, I. Belolipov, M. A. Lila, and I. Raskin. An extract from Artemisia leucodes reduces acute and chronic inflammation in rats. J. Ethnopharmacology, submitted, 2007.

  4. Ma, J., B. M. Schmidt, A. Poulev, I. Raskin. Determination of tripdiolide in root extracts of Tripterygium wilfordii by solid phase extraction and reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography. Phytochemical Analysis, accepted, 2007.

  5. Barbara M. Schmidt, David M. Ribnicky, Peter E. Lipsky and Ilya Raskin. (2007) Revisiting the ancient concept of botanical therapeutics. Nature Chemical Biology, Vol. 3, No. 7, 360-366.

  6. Schmidt, B. M., N. Ilić, A. Poulev, and I. Raskin. Toxicological evaluation of a chicory root extract. Food Chem. Tox., Vol. 45, No. 7, 1131-1139, 2007.

  7. Ripoll, C., B. Schmidt, N. Ilić, A. Poulev, M. Dey, A. G. Kurmukov, and I. Raskin. (2007) Anti-inflammatory effects of a sesquiterpene lactone extract from chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) roots. Natural Product Communications, Vol. 2, No. 7, 717-722.

  8. Schmidt, B., Poulev, A., Dey, M., Grace, M., Kurmukov, A., Belolipov, I., Akimaliev, A., Sodombekov, I., Akimaliev, D., Lila, A. M., and Raskin, I. (2006) An extract from Artemisia leucodes reduces acute and chronic inflammation in rats. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, submitted.

  9. Schmidt, B. M., Erdman, Jr. J. W., and Lila, M. A. 2005. Effects of food processing on blueberry antiproliferation and antioxidant activity. J. Food Sci., 70(6):S389-394.

  10. Schmidt, B. M., Erdman, Jr. J. W., and Lila, M. A. 2005. Differential effects of blueberry proanthocyanidins on androgen sensitive and insensitive human prostate cancer cell lines. Cancer Letters. In press, available online. Download a copy in pdf format.

  11. Kraft, T. F. B., Schmidt, B., Knight, C. T. G., Cuendet, M., Kang, Y-H., Pezzuto, J. M., Seigler, D., and Lila, M. A. 2005. Chemopreventive potential of wild, lowbush blueberry fruits against multiple stages of carcinogenesis. J. Food Sci., 70(3):S159-166.

  12. Schmidt, B. M., Howell, A. B., McEniry, B., Knight, C. T., Erdman, Jr. J. W., and Lila, M. A. 2004. Effective isolation of potent antiproliferation and antiadhesion components from wild blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) fruits. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 52, 6433-6442.

  13. Schmidt, B. M., Erdman, Jr. J. W., and Lila, M. A. 2004. Effects of food processing on antiproliferation activity of lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) fruit products. FASEB journal 18: abstract # 1543 April, 2004.

  14. Schmidt, B. M., Kraft, T. F. B., Seigler, D., Erdman, J. W., Lila, M. A. 2003. Antiproliferation activities of wild blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) fruit extracts. FASEB Journal 17 (4): A334-A334 Part 1 Suppl. S Mar 14, 2003.

Poster Presentations

  • Barbara M. Schmidt, Moul Dey, Alexander Poulev, Nebojša Ilić, and Ilya Raskin. Isolation and anti-inflammatory activity of the sesquiterpene lactone dihydrolactucopicrin. FASEB J. 21: 701.30, 2007.

  • Schmidt, B. M., Kraft, T. F. B., Seigler, D., Erdman, J. W., Lila, M. A. 2003. Proanthocyanidin-rich fractions of wild blueberry fruit (Vaccinium angustifolium) exhibit potent antiproliferation properties. Poster presented at USDA/IFAFS meeting Columbia, MO.

  • Schmidt, B. M., Clark, W. D., Idso, S. B. 2002. Elevated Atmospheric CO2 increases biomass and antioxidant power of a medicinal herb, Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi. Poster presented at Life and Earth Science Graduate Research Symposium, Tempe, AZ.