Dr. Seyed Hassan Zali, Botanist & Faculty Member of Sari Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources University in Iran, delivered a key note speech at MARGI Conference on August 25-26, 2017, Beijing, China

Dr. Seyed Hassan Zali is a faculty member at the Sari Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources University in Iran since April 5, 1988. He is also the head of the Center of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Quality Assurance of the University. His areas of interest are botany, medicinal and aromatic plants, Phytochemistry, and ethnobotany. Recently, he has been trying to collect and record the indigenous, nomads’, and villagers’ knowledge about traditional medicinal plants. He published 2 books, 24 scientific journal papers, and more than 150 lectures at international and national conferences. Dr. Zali delivered a speech on Importance of Enthnobotanical Study and discussed its importance and features in multidisciplinary fields.