Ken Olejar, PhD

Cannabinoid extraction and modification: Current and future trends

May 15th, 11:00 AM MST

Dr Ken Olejar is a Research Associate at Colorado State University – Pueblo and the founder of AgriBioactive Consulting. He obtained his MSc in Pharmaceutical Science from the University of Florida and his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from The University of Auckland, New Zealand. He specialises in the identification of metabolites produced in plants and fermentations. His group’s current research is in the area of cannabinoid extraction and modification.

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Joshua Kellogg, PhD.

Oct 16, 2024 11:00 AM Mountain Time 

Cannabinoids: From the Plant to the Gut

Dr. Joshua Kellogg is an Assistant Professor at the Pennsylvania State University, where his lab employs transdisciplinary approaches at the interface of analytical chemistry, chemical biology, natural product chemistry, and molecular biology to further human, plant, animal, and environmental health. His team […]

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Godfrey Pearlson, PHD.

10 October 2024, 1:00PM MST

Cannabis and driving: knowns and known unknowns

Dr. Pearlson’s medical training was at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. Following internship he completed a graduate degree in philosophy at Columbia University in New York and was then successively a resident, postdoctoral fellow and faculty member at Johns Hopkins […]

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Suman Chandra, MPhil, PhD.

18 September 2024, 11:AM MST

Cannabis: An Old Plant with New Horizons, Botany and Biomass Production for the Drug Development

Dr. Chandra earned his M.Phil. degree in Environmental Plant Physiology and his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from The High Altitude Plant Physiology Research Center, HNB Garhwal University (A Central University), India. From 1992 to 2000, […]

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Carrie Cuttler, PHD.

12 September 2024, 1:00PM MST

Chronic and Acute Effects of High Potency Cannabis Flower and Concentrates on Cognition

Dr. Carrie Cuttler received her Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and subsequently conducted a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at UBC. She is currently an Associate Professor and Director of […]

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Dmitry Kurouski, PhD

Raman spectroscopy-assisted diagnosis of cannabis physiological differences

Dmitry Kurouski earned his MS in Biochemistry from Belarusian State University, Belarus and PhD (Distinguished Dissertation) in Analytical Chemistry from SUNY Albany, NY, USA. After a Postdoc in the laboratory of Professor Richard P. Van Duyne at Northwestern University, Dr Kurouski joined BoehringerIngelheim Pharmaceuticals, where he worked […]

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Elise Weerts, Ph.D.

Interactions of Delta-9 Tetrahydrocannabinol

July 11, 2024, 1:00 PM

Dr. Weerts is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and core faculty in the preclinical Division of Behavioral Biology (DBB) the Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit (BPRU) for human clinical and laboratory research.  She has […]

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Institute of Cannabis Research

The Institute of Cannabis Research is the state of Colorado’s official cannabis research institute and is here to provide our citizenry with unbiased and objective scientific facts about cannabis biology, chemistry, health effects, economic impacts, and more.

 

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