Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Laatsch *
Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 2, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
Tel. +49 551 393211; Fax: +49 551 399660
Website: http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~ucoc/laatsch/
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Interests: anti-bacterial; anti-fungal; anti-parasitic and anti-cancer activity of marine microbial products; marine bacteria; endophytes; dereplication; database-supported structure elucidation
* New Editor-in-Chief of Marine Drugs since September 2009.
Editorial Assistant
Ms. Ann-Lauriene Haag
Marine Drugs Editorial Office / MDPI, Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
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Editorial Assistant
Ms. Kathy Lai
MDPI Beijing Office, Liyuanbeijie Road 186, Suite 307, Liyuan Town, Tongzhou District, 101101 Beijing, China
Tel. +86 10 59011068; Fax: +86 10 59011089
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Associate Editor
Prof. Dr. Nobuhiro Fusetani
Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 3-1-1 Minato-cho, Hakodate 041-8611, Japan
Tel. +81 138 40 8884; Fax: +81 138 40 8884
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Interests: marine natural products, drug discovery, antitumor, antimicrobial and enzyme inhibitors
Associate Editor
Prof. Dr. Alejandro M. Mayer
Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, CCOM, Midwestern University, 555 31st. Street, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515, USA
Tel. +1 630 515 6951; Fax: +1 630 515 6295
Website: http://marinepharmacology.midwestern.edu/
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Interests: immunopharmacology, inflammation, leukocytes, cytokines, superoxide, eicosanoids, marine toxins, domoic acid
Contribution:
Special Issue: Marine Toxins
Associate Editor
Prof. Dr. Jordan K. Zjawiony
Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, MS 38677, USA
Tel. +1 662 9157290; Fax: +1 662 9156975
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Interests: marine biotechnology, pharmacognosy, natural products, semisynthesis, medicinal chemistry
Contribution:
Special Issue: Marine Natural Products as Anti-Cancer Agents
Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Pedro Abreu
DQ-CQFB, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Tel. +351 212 948354; Fax: +351 212 948550
Website: http://www.dq.fct.unl.pt/qoa/abreu
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Interests: natural products; medicinal plants; bioguided isolation
Prof. Dr. Fernando Albericio
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Parc Científic de Barcelona, Baldiri Reixac 10, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Tel. +34 93 403 70 88; Fax: +34 93 403 71 26
Website: http://www.pcb.ub.es/fama
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Interests: marine natural products; bioactive natural products; peptides; solid-phase chemistry; combinatorial chemistry; drug delivery systems
Contribution:
Special Issue: Solid Phase Synthesis
Prof. Dr. Mercedes Álvarez
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Parc Científic de Barcelona, Baldiri Reixac 10, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Tel. +34 93 403 70 86; Fax: +34 93 403 71 26
Website: http://www.pcb.ub.es/fama
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Interests: marine natural products; bioactive natural products; alkaloids; synthesis; heterocycles
Contribution:
Special Issue: Marine Alkaloids
Prof. Dr. Hugo Rubén Arias
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Midwestern University, 1955 N. 59th Ave., Glendale, AZ 85308, USA
Tel. (623) 572-3589
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Interests: acetylcholine nicotinic receptors; structure-function relationship; noncompetitive antagonists; localization of binding sites; fluorescence spectroscopy; equilibrium binding
Contribution:
Special Issue: Marine Drugs and Ion Channels
Prof. Dr. David J. Austin
Department of Chemistry, Yale University, P.O. Box 208107, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Tel. +1 203 432 3962; Fax: +1 203432 6144
Website: http://www.chem.yale.edu/~austinlab/
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Interests: marine bisguanidine natural products; chemical synthesis; cDNA phage display; cellular target identification; peptidomimetics; chemical diversity; protein phosphorylation
Prof. Dr. Andre S. Bachmann
Cancer Research Center of Hawaii & Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1236 Lauhala Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, USA
Tel. Office: +1 808 586 2962; Cell phone: +1 808 222 1976; Fax: +1 808 586 2970
Website: http://www.crch.org/profiles/ProfileBachmann.htm
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Interests: neuroblastoma; pediatric cancer; natural products; polyamines; DFMO; ornithine decarboxylase; apoptosis; cell cycle regulation; proteasome inhibitors; syrbactins
Prof. Sir Jack E. Baldwin
Dyson Perrins Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
Tel. +44 1865 275671; Fax: +44 1865 275632
Website: http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/researchguide/jbaldwin.html
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Interests: biomimetic synthesis; biosynthesis; antibiotics; penicillin
Prof. Dr. Louis R. Barrows
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Utah, 30 S. 2000 E., Salt Lake City, UT 94112-5820, USA
Tel. +1 801 581 4547; Fax: +1 801 585 5111
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Interests: anti-bacterial; anti-viral; anti-parasitic and anti-cancer pharmacology of marine natural products; biochemical and biological properties of pyridoacridines
Prof. Dr. John P. Berry
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 354 Marine Science Building, Florida International University, 3000 NE 151st Street, North Miami, FL 33181, USA
Tel. +1 305 919 4569; Fax: +1 305 919 4030
Website: http://www.fiu.edu/~berryj/
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Interests: cyanobacteria; toxins; bioactive compounds; zebrafish embryo model; natural products
Contribution:
Special Issue: Algal Toxins
Special Issue: Algal Toxins
Prof. Dr. John W. Blunt
Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, PB 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
Tel. +64 3 3642873; Fax: +64 3 3642110
Website: http://www.chem.canterbury.ac.nz/people/blunt.shtml
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Interests: marine natural products; bioactive natural products; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Dr. Andrea Bourdelais
Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane, Wilmington NC, 28409, USA
Tel. +1 910 962 2365; Fax: +1 910 962 2410
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Interests: isolation and structure elucidation of bioactive marine natural products; polyether compounds; bioassay screening; high content screening; quantitative analysis of marine toxins; harmful algal blooms; Florida red tide; marine dinoflagellates
Contribution:
Special Issue: Marine Dinoflagellates
Prof. Dr. Bruce F. Bowden
Chemistry, School of Pharmacy and Molecular Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville 4811 Queensland, Australia
Tel. +61 747 814533; Fax: +61 747 816078
Website: http://www.jcu.edu.au/fmhms/school/pms/chem/staff/bowden/
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Interests: natural products; marine; pharmacologically active; cytotoxic; structure elucidation
Prof. Dr. Robert J. Capon
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Carmody Road, St Lucia 4072, Queensland, Australia
Tel. +61 (0)7 3346 2979; Fax: +61 (0)7 3346 2090
Website: http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/index.html?id=12017
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Interests: biodiscovery; marine and microbial natural products chemistry; biomimetic synthesis
Dr. Guy Carter
Wyeth Research, Chemical Technologies, Discovery Chemical Sciences, 401 N. Middletown Road Pearl River, NY 10965, USA
Tel. +1 845 602 3594
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Interests: antibiotics; actinomycetes; marine microbes; anticancer agents; isolation and structure determination; fermentation; genetic engineering; biosynthesis; stable isotope labeling
Prof. Dr. Patrizia Ciminiello
Dipartimento di Chimica delle Sostanze Naturali, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Via D. Montesano 49, I-80131 Napoli, Italy
Tel. +39 081 678507; Fax: +39 081 678552
Website: http://www.dcsn.unina.it/
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Interests: marine natural products; marine plankton; structure elucidation; marine biotoxins; dinoflagellates
Dr. Antonio Hernández Daranas
Institute for Bio-Organic Chemistry, Antonio González, University of La Laguna, La Laguna 38256, Spain
Tel. +34 922 318587; Fax: +34 922 318571
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Interests: marine natural products; marine toxins; biosynthesis; NMR spectroscopy; protein-ligand interactions; inhibition of phosphatases
Prof. Dr. Patrizia Diana
Dipartimento Farmacochimico, Tossicologico e Biologico, University of Palermo, Via Archirafi n.32, 90123, Palermo, Italy
Tel. +39 0916161606; Fax: +39 0916169999
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Interests: organic synthesis; medicinial chemistry; new synthetic methodologies; heterocycles; antitumor activity; nortopsentin
Dr. RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel
Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, The John Arbuthnott Building, 27 Taylor Street, Glasgow G4 0NR, Scotland
Tel. +44 (0)141 548 5880; Fax: +44 (0)141 552 2562
Website: http://spider.science.strath.ac.uk/sipbs/staff/RuAngelie_Edrada-Ebel.htm
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Interests: natural products; drug discovery; nmr spectroscopy; metabolomics
Contribution:
Special Issue: Terpenoids of Marine Origin
Prof. Dr. Ernesto Fattorusso
Diaprtimento di Chimica delle Sostanze Naturali, Università di Napoli `Federico II`, Via Montesano 49, I-80131 Napoli, Italy
Tel. +39 081 678503; Fax: +39 081 678552
Website: http://www.dcsn.unina.it/Fattorusso.htm
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Interests: marine metabolites; structure elucidation; anticancer agents; antimicrobial agents; immunomodulating agents
Dr. Angelo Fontana
Bioprospecting Lab, Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pozzuoli (Naples), 80078, Italy
Tel. +39 081 8675096; Fax: +39 081 8041770
Website: http:// www.icb.cnr.it
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Interests: marine natural products; chemical ecology; biosynthesis; marine invertebrates; marine plankton; marine biochemistry
Dr. Brian M. Gallagher Jr.
Sirtris, a GSK Company, 200 Technology Square, Suite 300, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Tel. +1 617 252 6920; Fax: +1 617 252 6924
Website: www.sirtrispharma.com
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Interests: medicinal chemistry; natural products; drug discovery & development; anticancer drugs; immunological & anti-inflammatory drugs; metabolic drugs
Dr. A. Ganesan
School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Tel. +44 (0)2380 593897; Fax: +44 (0)2380 593897
Website: http://www.soton.ac.uk/chemistry/research/ganesan/ganesan.html
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Interests: natural products; drug discovery; medicinal chemistry; combinatorial chemistry; anticancer agents; biosynthesis
Dr. Miroslav Gantar
Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, Fl. 33199, USA
Tel. +1 305 348 4030; Fax: +1 305 348 1986
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Interests: microbial ecology; bioactive compounds of cyanobacteria; antimicrobial agents
Dr. Santokh Gill
Toxicology Research Division, Food Directorate, Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada, Sir Frederick Banting Research Centre, 1 Ross Avenue, Postal Locator: 2202D2, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0L2, Canada
Tel. +1 613 952 9555; Fax: +1 613 941 6959
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Interests: glutamate receptors; gene expression; neurotoxicity; biomarkers
Prof. Dr. Hua-Shi Guan *
Ocean University of China, Yushan Road 5, Qingdao 266003, China
Tel. +86 532 2032951; Fax: +86 532 2033054
Website: http://www.ouc.edu.cn
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Interests: marine drugs; marine natural products; marine glycotechnology; marine glycochemistry
* Founding Editor-in-Chief 2003-2005, Honorary Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Lise-Lotte Gundersen
Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box, 1033 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway
Tel. +47 22857019; Fax: +47 22855507
Website: http://folk.uio.no/llotte/
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Interests: organic chemistry; total synthesis; medicinal chemistry; antimicrobial compounds; natural product chemistry
Dr. Kirk R. Gustafson
Molecular Targets Development Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Building 1052, Room 121, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
Tel. +1 301 846 5197; Fax: +1 301 846 6157
Website: http://ccr.cancer.gov/staff/staff.asp?profileid=7125
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Interests: natural products chemistry; chemical biology of natural products; NMR spectroscopy
Contribution:
Special Issue: Bioactive Compounds from Marine Microbes
Dr. Philipp Hess
Environnement, Microbiologie & Phycotoxines, Ifremer - BP, 21105 Rue de l'Ile d'Yeu Nantes CEDEX 03, France
Tel. +33 2 40 37 42 57; Fax: +33 2 40 37 42 67
Website: http:\\www.ifremer.fr
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Interests: marine natural products chemistry; marine biotoxins; marine micro-organisms; biodiscovery; risk evaluation
Prof. Dr. F. David Horgen
College of Natural Sciences, Hawaii Pacific University, 45-045 Kamehameha Highway, Kaneohe, HI 96744, USA
Tel. +1 808 236 5864
Website: http://www.hpu.edu/index.cfm?contentID=8460
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Interests: marine natural products; structure determination; non-ribosomal peptides; ion channel assays; modulation of transient receptor potential ion channels; analytical chemistry
Prof. Dr. Susumu Ikegami
Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology, Tamura-cho, Nagahama-shi, Shiga Prefecture 526-0829, Japan
Tel. +81 749 64 8100; Fax: +81 749 64 8140
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Interests: marine natural products; marine ecology; marine biochemistry; gamete and developmental biology of marine invertebrates; mode of action of marine drugs
Prof. Dr. Chris M. Ireland
Department of Medicinal Chemistry, 307 Skaggs Hall, 30 South 2000 East, Rm 201, Unversity of Utah, SLC, UT 84112-5820, USA
Tel. +1 801 581 8305; Fax: +1 801 585 6208
Website: http://www.pharmacy.utah.edu/medChem/faculty/ireland.html
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Interests: marine pharmacognosy; natural products chemistry; structure and mechanism of action of antitumor natural products; marine microbiology; structure and neurotoxicity of conotoxins
Prof. Dr. Jee H. Jung
College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea
Tel. +82 8251 5102803; Fax: +82 8251 5136754
Website: http://home.pusan.ac.kr/~jhjung/
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Interests: marine natural product chemistry; bioactive compounds; marine sponges; cytotoxicity
Dr. Peter Karuso
Department of Chemistry, Macquarie University, Sydney 2109, Australia
Tel. +61 2 9850 8290; Fax: +61 2 9850 8313
Website: http://www.chem.mq.edu.au/~vislab/karuso.html
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Interests: natural products; chemical biology; chemical proteomics; fluorescence
Prof. Dr. Yoel Kashman
School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Tel. +972 3 6408419; Fax: +972 3 6409293
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Interests: marine metabolites; structure elucidation; anticancer agents; antimicrobial agents; biogenesis
Prof. Dr. Russell Kerr
Canada Research Chair in Marine Natural Products, Department of Chemistry and Department of Biomedical Sciences, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Avenue, Charlottetown, C1A 4P3, PEI, Canada
Tel. +1 902 566 0565; Fax: +1 902 566 7445
Website: http://www.upei.ca/research/profile/russellkerr
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Interests: natural products isolation and characterization; bioassay-guided purification of natural products / drug discovery; isolation of natural product producing bacteria and fungi; development of fermentation methods to optimize natural product production; description of microbial communities in marine invertebrates
Prof. Dr. Anake Kijjoa
Departamento de Química, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicasd Abel Salazar and CIIMAR, Universidade do Porto, 4099-003 Porto, Portugal
Tel. +351 222062288; Fax: +351 222062232
Website: http://anakekijjoa.com/
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Interests: characterization and antitumor evaluation of the bioactive compounds from the marine sponges; search for antifungal compounds from the marine sponges; bioactive secondary metabolites from plants, soil fungi and sponge-associated fungi
Dr. Manfred Klisch
Plant Ecophysiology, Department of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany
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Interests: ecophysiology of algae and cyanobacteria; biochemical adaptations to environmental stress
Contribution:
Special Issue: Marine Photoprotective Compounds
Prof. Dr. Jun'ichi Kobayashi
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
Tel. +81 011 706 4985; Fax: +81 011 706 4989
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Interests: bioactive marine natural products; structure elucidation; mecanism of action; drug leads; bioprobes; biogenesis
Prof. Dr. Julia Kubanek
School of Biology & School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 310 Ferst Dr., Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
Tel. +1 404 894 8424; Fax: +1 404 385 4440
Website: http://www.biology.gatech.edu/faculty/julia-kubanek/
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Interests: chemical ecology; chemical communication / chemical signaling; marine natural products chemistry; secondary metabolism; harmful algal blooms; plankton ecology
Dr. Ipek Kurtboke
Environmental Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Health and Education, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Queensland 4558, Australia
Tel. +61 (07) 5430 2819; Fax: +61 (07) 5430 2881
Website: http://www.usc.edu.au/University/AcademicFaculties/Science/Staff/Kurtböke.htm
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Interests: microbial diversity; microbial systematics; ecophysiology of microorganisms; functional diversity of microorganisms; microbial ecosystems
Contribution:
Special Issue: Bioactive Compounds from Marine Microorganisms
Special Issue: Genetic and Functional Diversity of Microorganisms
Dr. Dominique Laurent
Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, UMR152 IRD-UPS, 31062, Toulouse cedex 09, France
Tel. +33 5 62 25 98 11; Fax: +33 5 62 25 98 02
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Interests: marine natural products; bioguided isolation; marine biotoxins; ciguatoxins; ecotoxicology
Prof. Dr. Robin J. Leatherbarrow
Biological and Biophysical Chemistry Section, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, South Kensington, London SW7 2AY, UK
Fax: +44 20 75945880
Website: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/leatherbarrow/index.htm
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Interests: peptide chemistry; enzyme inhibition; molecular recognition; proteases; NMR
Prof. Dr. Ken Liu
Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong
Tel. +852 2609 6896; Fax: +852 2603 5031
Website: http://www.ana.cuhk.edu.hk/academicStaff_view.aspx?id=12
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Interests: bioactive natural products; endocytosis and signaling pathways; fungal lectins and melanogenesis
Dr. Paul Long
The School of Pharmacy, University of London, 29/39 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AX, UK
Tel. +44 (0) 207 753 5868
Website: http://www.pharmacy.ac.uk/paul_long.html
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Interests: biochemical adaptations; streptomyces genetics; natural products discovery; bioinformatics
Contribution:
Special Issue: Biomedicines from Marine Invertebrate-Microbial Symbioses
Prof. Dr. Hendrik Luesch
Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Florida, P.O. Box 100485, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Tel. +1 352 273 7738; Fax: +1 352 273 7741
Website: http://medchem.copwp.copdom.cop.ufl.edu/faculty/luesch/
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Interests: marine drug discovery; structure determination; mechanism of action; functional genomics
Dr. Venkat R. Macherla
Department of Chemistry, Nereus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 10480 Wateridge Circle, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
Tel. +1 858 200 8334; Fax: +1 858 200 8356
Website: www.nereuspharm.com
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Interests: marine natural products; organic synthesis; medicinal chemistry; drug discovery and development; process chemistry
Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Manning
Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA 31698, USA
Tel. +1 229 333 7178
Website: www.valdosta.edu/~tmanning
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Interests: production of marine natural products using aquaculture methods; ion interactions to natural products
Dr. Stuart J. Mickel
Novartis Pharma AG, Lichtstrasse 35, WKL-684.2.31, CH-4052 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 696 29 52
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Interests: Natural product synthesis; anti-cancer natural products; process research and scale-up
Prof. Dr. Jason Micklefield
Director of Research for the School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, John Garside Building 131, Princess Street Manchester, M1 7DN, UK
Tel. +44 (0)161 306 4509; Fax: +44 (0)161 306 8918
Website: http://www.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/staff/showprofile.php?id=267
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Interests: biosynthesis; biosynthetic engineering; nonribosomal peptides; antibiotics
Prof. Dr. Miguel O. Mitchell
Department of Chemistry, Henson School of Science and Technology, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD 21801-6860, USA
Tel. +1 410 677 5064; Fax: +1 410 543 6359
Website: http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~momitchell
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Interests: rational design and synthesis of antitubercular; anti-MRSA; anti-VRE and anticholinesterase agents; indole alkaloid natural product synthesis
Contribution:
Special Issue: Marine Anti-infective Agents
Prof. Dr. Hiroaki Miyaoka
School of Pharmacy, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, 1432-1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0392, Japan
Tel. +81 42 676 3080; Fax: +81 42 676 3073
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Interests: synthesis of marine natural products; isolation and structural determination of marine natural products
Prof. Dr. Antonio Molinaro
Dipartimento di Chimica Organica e Biochimica, Università di Napoli Federico II Complesso Universitario, Monte Santangelo, Via Cynthia 4, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
Tel. +39 081 674 123; Fax: +39 081 674 393
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Interests: carbohydrates; lipopolysaccharides; polysaccharides; innate immunity; glycoconjugates; NMR
Prof. Dr. Tadeusz F. Molinski
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry/SSPPS MC 0358, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA
Tel. +1 858 534 7115; Fax: +1 858 822 0386
Website: http://www-chem.ucdavis.edu/groups/molinski/
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Interests: marine natural products; synthesis; medicinal chemistry; heterocycles; porifera; cyanobacteria
Prof. Dr. Michio Murata
Department of Chemstry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
Tel. +81 66850 5774; Fax: +81 66850 5774
Website: http://www.ch.wani.osaka-u.ac.jp/lab/murata/welcome-english.htm
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Interests: marine biotoxins; seafood poisoning; membrane-active toxins; mechanism of toxicity and solid state NMR
Prof. Dr. Joseph David Ng
Department of Biological Science and Laboratory for Structural Biology, University of Alabama in Huntsville, AL, 301 Sparkman Dr., Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
Tel. +1 256 824 3715; Fax: +1 256 824 3204
Website: http://www.uah.edu/nglab
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Interests: structural and functional biology related to marine proteins; X-ray and neutron crystallography; biomolecular engineering
Contribution:
Special Issue: Structural and Functional Biology of Hypothetical Proteins in Marine Life
Prof. Dr. Peter T. Northcote
School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600 Wellington, New Zealand
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Interests: marine natural products; anti-cancer compounds; drug development; nuclear magnetic resonance
Dr. Taiko Oda
Department of Basic Biological Sciences, Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy, Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8512, Japan
Tel. +81 3 5400 2497; Fax: +81 3 5400 2497
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Interests: microbial transformation; microtubule; microtubule inhibitor; natural and synthetic estrogen; transcription factor; chemokine; inflammatory cytokine
Prof. Dr. George Perry
College of Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 79249-0661, USA
Tel. +1 210 458 4450; Fax: +1 210 458 4445
Website: http://bio.utsa.edu/faculty/perry.html
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Interests: Mechanism of formation and physiological consequences of the cytopathology of Alzheimer disease; the mechanism for RNA-based redox metal binding; the consequences of RNA oxidation on protein synthesis rate and fidelity; the role of redox active metals in mediating prooxidant and antioxidant properties; the signal transduction pathways altered in Alzheimer disease that allow neurons to evade apoptosis; mechanism of phosphorylation control of oxidative damage to neurofilament proteins
Prof. Dr. Andrew J. Phillips
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Tel. +1 303 7352049; Fax: +1 303 4920439
Website: http://spot.colorado.edy/~aphillip/
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Interests: natural products isolation and structure determination; NMR; natural product synthesis; anti-cancer natural products; drug development and discovery
Dr. Emmanuel N. Pitsinos
Natural Product Synthesis & Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Institute of Physical Chemistry, NCSR “DEMOKRITOS”, P.O. Box 60228, GR-153 10 Agia Paraskevi, Greece
Tel. +30 2106503789; Fax: +30 2106511766
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Interests: organic synthesis; natural products chemistry; chemical biology; bioorganic chemistry
Prof. Dr. Georg Pohnert
Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Lessingstr. 8, D-07743 Jena, Germany
Tel. +49 3641 948170; Fax: +49 3641 948172
Website: http://www.uni-jena.de/Prof__Dr__Georg_Pohnert.html
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Interests: marine chemical ecology; analytical chemistry; biosynthesis; oxylipins; lipids; terpenoids; phytoplankton
Prof. Dr. Peter Proksch *
Institut für Pharmazeutische Biologie, Universität Düsseldorf, Gebäude 26.23, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Tel. +49 211 8114163; Fax: +49 211 8111923
Website: http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/WWW/MathNat/PharmBio/personen/pproksch.htm
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Interests: marine natural products, marine medicines, chemical ecology
* Prof. Dr. Peter Proksch served as the Editor-in-Chief of Marine Drugs up to August 2009.
Dr. Olga Pulido
1) Specialist in Toxicologic Pathology, Bureau of Science and Policy Integration, Food Directorate, Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada; 2) Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Ottawa; 3) Corresponding address: Locator 2202C, 251 Frederick Banting Dr., Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0L2, Canada
Tel. +1 613 957 0995; Fax: +1 613 941 6959
Website: http://www.medicine.uottawa.ca/pathology/pulido.html
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Interests: food and health products safety/risk assessment; chemical contaminants; toxicologic pathology; food allergies and intolerances, health sciences education and communication
Prof. Dr. Pei-Yuan Qian
Coastal Marine Laboratory (CML) - , Atmospheric, Marine and Coastal Environment Program (AMCE) - , and MSc. Environmental Science Program, HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong
Tel. +852 2358 7331 (office in biology), 2358 8395 (office in CML); Fax: 2358 1559 (biology), 2719 9102 (CML)
Website: http://ihome.ust.hk/~boqianpy/main.htm
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Interests: marine mobial ecology; marine bioactive substances; antimicrobial agents; marine biotoxins
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Raabe
Institut für Organische Chemie, RWTH Aachen University, Landoltweg 1, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)241 80 94709; Fax: +49 (0)241 80 92385
Website: http://www.oc.rwth-aachen.de/gerdraabe/index.html
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Interests: quantum chemistry; theoretical and experimental CD spectroscopy; X-ray structure determination; crystallography
Contribution:
Special Issue: Circular Dichroism of Marine Drugs
Dr. Diwan S. Rawat
Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007, India
Tel. +91 11 27667465
Website: http://www.chemdu.ac.in/html/diwan_rawat.htm
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Interests: synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry; marine natural products; heterocycles; porphyrines; catalysis; new synthetic methodologies
Dr. Nils Rehmann
Organic Analytical Group, Research and Productivity Council, Fredericton, NB E3B 6Z9, Canada
Tel. +1 506 460 5776
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Interests: marine natural products; preparative isolation; structure elucidation; mass spectrometry; analysis; toxins
Dr. Fernando Reyes
Head of Natural Products Chemistry, R&D, PharmaMar, P.I. La Mina Norte, Avda. de los Reyes 1, 28770-Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Spain
Tel. +34 91 8234527; Fax: +34 91 8466001
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Interests: marine natural products; bioassay-guided isolation and structure elucidation; antitumour compounds; citotoxicity
Prof. Dr. Vassilios Roussis
University of Athens, School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, GR 15771, Athens, Greece
Tel. +30 210 7274 592; Fax: +30 210 7274 592
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Interests: marine natural products; chemotaxonomy; chemical ecology
Contribution:
Special Issue: Triterpenes and Triterpenoids
Special Issue: Bioactive Halogenated Metabolites of Marine Origin
Dr. Peter C. Ruben
Department of Biomedical Physiology & Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
Tel. +1 778 782 3497; Fax: +1 778 782 3040
Website: http://www.sfu.ca/bpk/faculty_directory/ruben/
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Interests: voltage-gated ion channels; toxins; evolution
Contribution:
Special Issue: Tetrodotoxin
Prof. Dr. Jose A. Salas
Department of Functional Biology (Area Microbiology), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
Tel. +34 985 103652; Fax: +34 985 103652
Website: http://www12.uniovi.es/investigacion/jasalas/
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Interests: bioactive natural products; anticancer agents; antimicrobial agents; biosynthesis
Contribution:
Special Issue: Marine Actinomycetes: A New Source of Natural Products
Prof. Dr. Christine Salomon
Center for Drug Design, University of Minnesota, MMC 204, 7-146 PWB, 516 Delaware St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Tel. +1 612 626 3698; Fax: +1 612 625 8154
Website: http://www.cdd.umn.edu/directory/salomon/home.html
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Interests: marine microbiology; microbial natural products; microbial ecology; actinomycetes; symbiosis; polyketide synthase; non-ribosomal peptide synthetase
Prof. Dr. Francisco Sarabia
Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n, 29071 Malaga, Spain
Tel. +34 952 134258; Fax: +34 952 131941
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Interests: antibiotics; anticancer; macrolides; cyclodepsipeptides; carbohydrates; natural products
Prof. Dr. Stefan Schulz
Institute of Organic Chemistry, TU Braunschweig, Hagenring 30, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Tel. +49 531 391 7353
Website: http://aks7.org-chem.nat.tu-bs.de/HTML/english/e_akschulz.html
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Interests: chemical communication; marine bacteria; bacterialvolatiles; chemical ecology; pheromones; defense compounds; biosynthesis; structural diversity
Dr. Mark Searcey
Reader in Medicinal Chemistry, School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, UK
Tel. +44 01603 592026; Fax: +44 01603 592003
Website: https://www.uea.ac.uk/cap/people/faculty/ms/
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Interests: natural products in medicinal chemistry; higher order nucleic acid structures; new targets for cancer research and protein-protein interactions
Contribution:
Special Issue: Marine Drugs as Antitumour Agents
Prof. Dr. David H. Sherman
University of Michigan, Life Sciences Institute and Department of Medicinal Chemistry, 210 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216, USA
Tel. +1 734 615 9907; Fax: +1 734 615 3641
Website: http://www.lsi.umich.edu/facultyresearch/labs/sherman
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Interests: marine microbiology; natural product biosynthesis; chemoenzymatic synthesis; infectious diseases; anti-cancer therapeutics
Prof. Dr. Michael K. Stoskopf
Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, 4700 Hillsborough St. Raleigh, NC 27606, USA
Tel. +1 919 5136279; Fax: +1 919 5136528 (direct), +1 919 5136336 (secondary)
Website: http://www.cvm.ncsu.edu/docs/personnel/stoskopf_michael.html
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Interests: marine metabonomics; environmental pharmacokinetics; glycolipid structure; lipid profiling; marine animal health risk assessment
Contribution:
Special Issue: Metabolomic Approaches to Marine Organisms
Prof. Dr. Janice Sufrin
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
Tel. +1 716 845 4582; Fax: +1 716 845 8857
Website: http://www.roswellpark.org/Research/Research_Staff/Sufrin_Janice_PhD
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Interests: molecular targets for drug discovery; tumor-associated methionine auxotrophy; small molecule regulators of the rTS signaling pathway; DNA methylation inhibitors; novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging agents
Dr. Claudiu T. Supuran
Laboratorio di Chimica Bioinorganica, Dipartimento di Chimica, University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3, Rm. 188, Polo Scientifico, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze), Italy
Tel. +39 055 4573005; Fax: +39 055 4573385
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Interests: drug design; enzyme inhibitors; carbonic anhydrases; X-ray crystallography
Contribution:
Section: Medicinal Chemistry
Prof. Dr. Roderich D. Süssmuth
Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Chemie / FG Organische Chemie, Strasse des 17. Juni 124, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)30 314 78774; Fax: +49 (0)30 314 79651
Website: http://www2.tu-berlin.de/fb5/Suessmuth/index.html
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Interests: structure elucidation; bioactivity profiling; biosynthesis investigation; isotope labelling; gene cluster; protein overexpression; enzyme kinetics; peptide synthesis; non-ribosomal peptide synthesis
Prof. Dr. Orazio Taglialatela-Scafati
Dipartimento di Chimica delle Sostanze Naturali, Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Montesano 49, I-80131 Napoli, Italy
Tel. +39 081678509; Fax: +39 081678552
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Interests: natural products; bioassay-guided isolation; stereostructure elucidation; NMR spectroscopy; antitumor compounds; antimalarial compounds
Prof. Dr. Junichi Tanaka
Department of Chemistry, Biology and Marine Science, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
Tel. +81 98 895 8560; Fax: +81 98 895 8565
Website: http://www.cc.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/~jtanaka/index.html
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Interests: marine natural products; biodiversity
Dr. Deniz Tasdemir
Department of Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry, Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, School of Pharmacy, University of London, 29-39 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AX, UK
Tel. +44 20 7753 5845; Fax: +44 20 7753 5909
Website: http://www.pharmacy.ac.uk/deniz_tasdemir.html
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Interests: marine natural product chemistry; sponge; algae; cyanobacteria; structure elucidation; bioactivity; cancer; infectious diseases (malaria; tuberculosis; bacteria; HIV); fatty acid biosynthesis
Dr. Elisabetta Tosti
Laboratory of Animal Physiology and Evolution, Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dohrn”, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy
Tel. +39 081 5833288; Fax: +39 081 7641355
Website: www.szn.it
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Interests: marine animals reproduction; marine invertebrates; marine animal health/reproduction; risk assessment; marine natural products; marine biotechnology; ion channels; marine based anticancer research
Contribution:
Special Issue: Marine Bioactive Compounds Acting on Animal Reproduction
Dr. Antonio Trincone
Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pozzuoli, Naples 80078, Italy
Tel. +39 081 8675095; Fax: +39 081 8041770
Website: http://www.icb.cnr.it/staff/antonio.trincone
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Interests: biocatalysis; marine enzymes; marine glycosidases; marine biotechnology; oligosaccharides
Contribution:
Special Issue: Enzymes from the Sea: Sources, Molecular Biology and Bioprocesses
Dr. Mike J. Twiner
Marine Biotoxins Program, NOAA/National Ocean Service, Charleston, SC 29412, USA
Tel. +1 843 762 8649; Fax: +1 843 762 7600
Website: http://www.chbr.noaa.gov/default.aspx?category=mb&pageName=biosketch%20Mike%20Twiner
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Interests: phycotoxins; mechanisms of action; toxicology; pharmacologically active compounds; cytotoxicity; gene expression; microbial ecology
Prof. Dr. Daisuke Uemura
Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
Tel. +81 45 5661842; Fax: +81 45 5661842
Website: http://www.bio.keio.ac.jp/labs/uemura/en/index.html
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Interests: marine natural products chemistry; mode of action; isolation and structure determination; spectroscopic analysis; synthesis
Dr. Sylvia Urban
School of Applied Sciences (Applied Chemistry), RMIT University (City Campus), GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Victoria, Australia
Tel. +61 3 9925 3376; Fax: +61 3 9925 3747
Website: http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=a3to28z2wchp1;STATUS=A?QRY=sylvia%20urban&STYPE=ENTIRE
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Interests: marine and terrestrial natural products chemistry; isolation and structural characterisation; NMR spectroscopy; analytical separation methodologies
Contribution:
Special Issue: Marine Natural Products - Advances in Separation, Characterisation and Chemical Profiling Methodologies
Prof. Dr. Yoshihide Usami
Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 4-20-1 Nasahara, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-1094, Japan
Tel. +81 726 90 1083; Fax: +81 726 90 1005
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Interests: natural product; anti-cancer; bioactive; structure determination; total synthesis; chemical modification
Contribution:
Special Issue: Synthesis around Marine Natural Products
Prof. Dr. Sadanandan E. Velu
Department of Chemistry, CHEM-280, The University of Alabama at Birmingham 901, 14th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294-1240, USA
Tel. +1 205 975 2478; Fax: +1 205 934 2543
Website: http://main.uab.edu/chemistry/show.asp?durki=75828&site=3429&return=69934
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Interests: bioactive marine alkaloids; analogues; synthesis; anti-cancer; anti-infective; enzyme inhibitors; structure based drug design; fragment based drug design; in silico virtual screening; SAR studies; lead optimization
Contribution:
Special Issue: Alkaloid Analogs
Prof. Dr. Bin-Gui Wang
Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanhai Road 7, Qingdao 266071, China
Tel. +86 532 82898553; Fax: +86 532 82880645
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Interests: natural products chemistry; bioactive compounds; drug discovery; structure determination
Prof. Dr. Peng George Wang
Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry, The Ohio State University, 876 Biological Sciences Building, 484 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Tel. +1 614 2929884, +1 614 2928704 (L); Fax: +1 614 6883106, +1 614 6884643 (L, phone & fax)
Website: http://wang.biosci.ohio-state.edu/
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Interests: natural products; antibiotics; carbohydrates; antioxidants; nitric oxide; sugar; polysaccharides; glycoconjugates
Dr. Sharon M. Watkins
Florida Department of Health, Analytical Environmental Epidemiology Program, Bureau of Environmental Public Health Medicine, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin A08 Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1742, USA
Tel. +1 850 245 4444*3939; Fax: +1 850 487 0864
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Interests: epidemiology; human health effects of HABs; neurotoxic shellfish poisoning; NSP; ciguatera; saxitoxin pufferfish poisoning; human health effects associated with brevetoxin
Prof. Dr. Philip Williams
Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2545 McCarthy Mall, Bilger 208B, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Tel. +1 808 956 5720; Fax: +1 808 956 5908
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Interests: marine natural products; bioactive natural products; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Prof. Dr. Anthony D. Wright
Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Hawaii at Hilo, College of Pharmacy, 34 Rainbow Drive, USA
Tel. +1 808 933 2866; Fax: +1 808 933 2981
Website: http://pharmacy.uhh.hawaii.edu/departments/pharmsci/adwright/adwright.php
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Interests: marine natural products; marine macro- and micro-organisms; medicinal chemistry; NMR methodologies; separation methods; structure elucidation; biological testing
Dr. Yang-Chang Wu
Provost for University R&D, Professor, Graduate Institute of Natural Products, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan
Tel. +886 7 3121101p2197; Fax: +886 7 3114773
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Interests: natural product medicinal chemistry; bioactive compounds
Dr. Lam Yulin
Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, 117543 Singapore
Tel. +65 6516 2688; Fax: +65 6779 1691
Website: http://www.chemistry.nus.edu.sg/ourpeople/academic_staff/lamyl.htm
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Interests: bioorganic chemistry; combinatorial chemistry; chemical synthesis; heterocycles; antiviral agents; anticancer agents; agents against CNS disorder
Prof. Dr. Sergey B. Zotchev
Department of Biotechnology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Tel. +47 73 59 86 79; Fax: +47 73 59 12 83
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Interests: streptomycetes; rare actinomycetes; antibiotics; secondary metabolite biosynthesis; engineering of biosynthetic pathways
Prof. Dr. Eva Zubía
Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Apartado 40, 11510 Puerto Real (Cadiz), Spain
Tel. +34 956016021; Fax: +34 956016193
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Interests: marine natural products chemistry; isolation and structure elucidation; bioactive compounds; citotoxicity
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