Editorial Board
- Structural Studies on Marine Natural Products Section
- Marine Pharmacology Section
- Marine Toxins Section
- Biomaterials of Marine Origin Section
- Marine Biotechnology Related to Drug Discovery or Production Section
- Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry of Marine Natural Products Section
- Marine-Derived Ingredients for Drugs, Cosmeceuticals and Nutraceuticals Section
- Marine Chemoecology for Drug Discovery Section
Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Members
2. Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario Monte Santangelo, Via Cintia 4, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
Interests: innate immunity; bacterial cell wall; lipopolysaccharides; peptidoglycan; microbial glycobiology
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Interests: marine natural products; synthesis; medicinal chemistry; heterocycles; porifera; cyanobacteria; NMR
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Interests: natural products; marine biotechnology; terpeniods; metabolites; marine ecology
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Interests: proteomics; functional proteomics; metabolomics; analytical chemistry; small-molecules/proteins interactions; marine-inspired compounds
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Interests: inflammatory diseases; biomarkers; inflammatory bowel disease; inflammatory skin diseases; inflammation and cancer
Interests: biochemistry; genetics; molecular biology
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Interests: marine biotoxins; seafood poisoning; membrane-active toxins; mechanism of toxicity and solid state NMR
Interests: ciguatera poisoning; liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; chemical analysis
Interests: marine and microbial natural products; structure elucidation of novel secondary metabolites; microbial biotransformation and chemo-enzymatic synthesis; discovery of anti-virulence scaffolds (e.g., quorum sensing inhibitors)
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Interests: animal food quality and technology; functional marine food; fish lipids
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Interests: marine metabolites as drug leads and clinical candidates; marine microbiology; bioinformatics
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Interests: peptide; toxin; structure; drug design; ion channel; autoimmune disease
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Interests: neurophysiology; neurotoxicity; neurodegeneration; seafood neurotoxins
Interests: bioorganic & medicinal chemistry; carbohydrate; organic
2. Molecular Targets Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
Interests: cancer drug discovery; natural products; protein chemistry; antiviral proteins; biochemistry; anti-cancer and anti-viral high-throughput screening
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Interests: colon cancer; mesenchymal stem cells; wnt/ß-catenin pathway; marine natural products
2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Interests: cyanobacteria; transmembrane protein secretion systems; extracellular vesicles; environmental microbiology; microbial biotechnology; molecular biology; synthetic biology
Interests: coastal & transitional waters; biomonitoring; biotic indices; macroalgal ecophysiology / chemical ecology; algal cultivation; ecosystem-based management
Interests: marine natural products; marine peptides; innate immunity; host defense peptides; molecular mechanisms of antimicrobial and anticancer activity; structure elucidation; structure-function relationship; bioengineering; drug design; peptide antibiotics; peptide anticancer agents; drug resistance; bioorganic chemistry; biotechnology
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Interests: lectins; comparative glycomics; glycoevolution; marine invertebrates; glycan-binding characterization
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Interests: response of marine organisms to emerging contaminants; antioxidants; 5-thiohistidines; nitric oxide signalling; biotechnological potential of marine organisms
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Interests: Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Staphylococcus aureus; virulence; biofilm; anti-virulence; natural compounds; medical bacteriology
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Interests: lipoproteins; marine fish proteins; fish oil; functional foods; atherosclerosis; animal models; microbiota
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Interests: microbial biotechnology; microbial biofilms; environmental microbiology; chemistry and biotechnology of fermentations; marine bacteria and their bioactive compounds; extracellular polysaccharides from cold-adapted microorganisms; heterologous protein expression in extremophiles
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Interests: synthesis; reactivity studies of policondensed nitrogen heterocycles; synthesis of marine-derived analogs
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Interests: peptide toxin; small molecules; voltage-gated ion channel; electrophysiology; pharmacology; venom; drug discovery
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Interests: marine toxins; algal toxins; toxicology; pharmacology; skin toxicity; oral toxicity; inflammation; mechanisms of toxicity; methods of detection
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Interests: chemoinformatics; machine learning and data mining tecniques; quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR); quantitative structure–property relationship (QSPR); big data; DFT-calculated properties; marine natural products (MNPs); virtual screening; nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR); dereplication; drug discovery
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Interests: marine biotechnology; nutrition; phycocolloids; seaweeds; taxonomy
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Interests: microbial natural products; dereplication; structure elucidation; NMR; LC-HRMS/MS; LC-DAD-MS; chemical biology; biosynthesis; elicitation of silent biosynthetic gene clusters, bioactivity; mode of action; molecular modelling; molecular docking; biocatalysis; biotransformations













