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Timothy Johns
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Latest papers
Global survey of medicinal plants during lactation and postpartum recovery: Evolutionary perspectives and contemporary health implications.
Journal of ethnopharmacology · 2021 · senior author
Traditional plant use during lactation and postpartum recovery: Infant development and maternal health roles.
Journal of ethnopharmacology · 2021
Growth environment and organ specific variation in in-vitro cytoprotective activities of Picea mariana in PC12 cells exposed to glucose toxicity: a plant used for treatment of diabetes symptoms by the Cree of Eeyou Istchee (Quebec, Canada)
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine · 2019
Latest funding
- $1,250,000
The institutional canopy of conservation: governance and environmentality in East Africa
SSHRC · 2013 · Co-investigator
- $24,000
Evaluating phytochemical diversity for human and ecosystem health
NSERC · 2011 · Principal investigator
- $140,000
Plants as drugs, foods, and placebos: An interdisciplinary approach to traditional medicine and Aboriginal health
CIHR · 2010 · Supervisor
20 publications.
Global survey of medicinal plants during lactation and postpartum recovery: Evolutionary perspectives and contemporary health implications.
Sibeko L, Johns T
Traditional plant use during lactation and postpartum recovery: Infant development and maternal health roles.
Sibeko L, Johns T, Cordeiro LS
Growth environment and organ specific variation in in-vitro cytoprotective activities of Picea mariana in PC12 cells exposed to glucose toxicity: a plant used for treatment of diabetes symptoms by the Cree of Eeyou Istchee (Quebec, Canada)
Ashleigh Downing, Hoda M. Eid, Andrew Tang, Fida Ahmed, Cory S. Harris, Pierre Selim Haddad, Timothy Johns, John Thor Arnason, Steffany A. L. Bennett, Alain Cuerrier
The determinants of dietary diversity and nutrition: ethnonutrition knowledge of local people in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania.
Powell B, Bezner Kerr R, Young SL, Johns T
Phytogeographic and genetic variation in Sorbus, a traditional antidiabetic medicine-adaptation in action in both a plant and a discipline.
Bailie A, Renaut S, Ubalijoro E, Guerrero-Analco JA, Saleem A, Haddad P, Arnason JT, Johns T, Cuerrier A
Differential Sequestration of a Cytotoxic Vismione from the Host Plant Vismia baccifera by Periphoba arcaei and Pyrrhopyge thericles.
Raudsepp-Hearne C, Aiello A, Hussein AA, Heller MV, Johns T, Capson TL
Food Insecurity and Not Dietary Diversity Is a Predictor of Nutrition Status in Children within Semiarid Agro-Ecological Zones in Eastern Kenya.
Bukania ZN, Mwangi M, Karanja RM, Mutisya R, Kombe Y, Kaduka LU, Johns T
Wild foods from farm and forest in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania.
Powell B, Maundu P, Kuhnlein HV, Johns T
Agricultural biodiversity as a link between traditional food systems and contemporary development, social integrity and ecological health.
Johns T, Powell B, Maundu P, Eyzaguirre PB
Ecology- and bioassay-guided drug discovery for treatments of tropical parasitic disease: 5alpha,8alpha-epidioxycholest-6-en-3beta-ol isolated from the mollusk Dolabrifera dolabrifera shows significant activity against Leishmania donovani.
Clark KE, Capper A, Della Togna G, Paul VJ, Romero LI, Johns T, Cubilla-Rios L, Capson TL
The institutional canopy of conservation: governance and environmentality in East Africa
Keywords: community conservation; wildlife conservation; indigenous peoples; livelihoods; institutions; civil society; land tenure; public policy; East Africa; governance; Savanna and forest ecosystems; green grabbing
Evaluating phytochemical diversity for human and ecosystem health
Principal investigators: Johns, Timothy
Plants as drugs, foods, and placebos: An interdisciplinary approach to traditional medicine and Aboriginal health
Principal investigators: Harris, Cory S
Keywords: Aboriginal Health; Alternative Medicine; Analytical Chemistry; Cell Culture And Molecular Biology; Chronic Disease; Interdisciplinary Research; Medicinal And Food Plants; Non-Drug Effects; Nutrition; Pharmacology
An ethnography of social complexity and strategic choice: how pastoralists in East Africa respond to drought, poverty, land fragmentation, and globalization
Principal investigators: Galaty, John G.
Keywords: pastoralism; East Africa; rangelands; drylands; decision-making; land tenure; development; rangeland ecology; civil society; food security; demography; livelihoods; conservation; social action; poverty
Property and poverty: Maasai transitions from collective to private land holding in Kenya
Principal investigators: Galaty, John G.
Keywords: common property; privatization; land tenure; property rights; development; poverty; east Africa; pastoralism; natural resource governance; civil society; livestock markets; NGO's; food security; demography; social change
Phytochemical diversity relative to human and ecosystem health
Principal investigators: Johns, Timothy
Plant chemical ingestion relative to human and ecosystem health
Principal investigators: Johns, Timothy
Microplate fluorometer
Principal investigators: Chan, Laurie
Phytochemicals as evolutionary mediators of human nutritional physiology
Principal investigators: Johns, Timothy
Phytochemicals as evolutionary mediators of human nutritional physiology
Principal investigators: Johns, Timothy
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Steffany Bennett and Cory Harris: 16 shared papers
- Steffany Bennett and Alain Cuerrier: 3 shared papers
- Cory Harris and Alain Cuerrier: 3 shared papers
- Timothy Johns and Alain Cuerrier: 2 shared papers
- Brian Ward and Timothy Johns: 1 shared paper
- Steffany Bennett and Timothy Johns: 1 shared paper
- Cory Harris and Timothy Johns: 1 shared paper
- Malek Batal and Timothy Johns: 1 shared paper
- Stan Kubow and Timothy Johns: 1 shared paper
- Eliane Ubalijoro and Timothy Johns: 1 shared paper
- Eliane Ubalijoro and Alain Cuerrier: 1 shared paper
- Martin Sirois and Timothy Johns: 1 shared paper
- Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment
- Département de sciences biologiques
- Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
- Department of Biology
- Not available from the selection list **
- Département de médecine sociale et préventive
- Department of History and Classical Studies
- Other
Co-authors at McGill University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Pierre Haddad
Pharmacology
3 shared papers, latest 2019
Alain Cuerrier
Département de sciences biologiques
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Steffany Bennett
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Cory Harris
Department of Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Malek Batal
Département de médecine sociale et préventive
1 shared papers, latest 2009
Stan Kubow
Human Nutrition
1 shared papers, latest 2007
Eliane Ubalijoro
Not available from the selection list **
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Brian Ward
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
1 shared papers, latest 2007
Martin Sirois
Department of History and Classical Studies
1 shared papers, latest 2007
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