期刊名称:MARINE DRUGS
期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Aims
Marine Drugs Publishes reviews, regular research papers and short notes on the research, development and production of drugs from the sea. Our aim is to publish as much as possible the experimental detail, particularly synthetic procedures and characterization information for bioactive compounds. There is no restriction on the length of the experimental section.
Scope
Subject areas include:
- Marine natural product
- Drug medicinal
- Medicine analysis
- Marine pharmacology
- Pharmaceutical biology
- Marine biotechnology or biomedical engineering
- Molecular biology
- Enzymatic engineering
- Marine glycobiology and glycochemistry
- Clinical trial
- Biological and biomedical material
- Marine drugs development
Marine Drugs is covered by following indexing and abstracting databases:
Instructions to Authors
Manuscript Preparation
- Manuscripts should be prepared in English using a word processor. The MS Word template file should be used. MS Word for Macintosh or for Windows .doc or .rtf files are preferred. Manuscripts may be prepared with other software, provided that the full document (with figures, schemes and tables inserted into the text) is exported to a MS Word format for submission. Times or Times New Roman font is required. The font size is 12 pt and the line spacing "at least" 17 pt. Although our final output is in .pdf format, authors are asked to not send manuscripts in this format as editing them is much more difficult.
Special Notes regarding MS Word files:
- Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and make the layout very difficult.
- Most formatting codes will be removed or replaced on processing your article so there is no need to use excessive layout styling. In addition, options such as automatic word breaking, double columns, footnotes or automatic numbering should not be used. However, bold face, italic, subscripts, superscripts, etc. may be used for emphasis as needed. Authors from countries where right-to-left writing is used should ensure their manuscripts have Western style (left-to-right) formatting.
- The standard style of Marine Drugs should be followed. Prospective authors should consult any current issue of Marine Drugs for examples of this style.
- Authors' full mailing addresses, homepage addresses, phone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses and homepages can be included in the title page and these will be published in the manuscripts and the Table of Contents. The corresponding author should be clearly identified. It is the corresponding author's responsibility to ensure that all co-authors are aware of and approve of the contents of a submitted manuscript.
- All authors who contributed significantly to the manuscript (including writing a section) should be listed on the first page of the manuscript, below the title of the article. Other parties, who provided only minor contributions, should be listed under Acknowledgments only. A minor contribution might be a discussion with the author, reading through the draft of the manuscript, or performing English corrections.
- A brief (about 200 words) Abstract should be provided. The use in the Abstract of numbers to identify compounds should be avoided, unless these compounds are also identified by name.
- A list of three to five keywords must be given, and placed after the Abstract. Keywords may be single words or very short sentences.
- Although variations in accord with a manuscript's contents are permissible, in general all papers should have the following sections: Introduction, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments (if applicable), Experimental and References (or References and Notes, if applicable).
- Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color. Full color graphics will be published free of charge. Conference slides, video sequences, software, etc., can also be included and will be published as supplementary material.
- Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles supplied for all tables. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. To facilitate layout of large tables, smaller fonts may be used, but in no case should these be less than 10 pt. in size. Authors should use the Table option of MS Word to create tables, rather than tabs, as tab delimited columns are often difficult to format in .pdf for final output.
- Figures and schemes should also be placed in numerical order in the appropriate place within the main text. Numbers, titles and legends should be provided for all schemes and figures. These should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before the figure or scheme.
- Chemical structures and reaction schemes should be drawn using an appropriate software package designed for this purpose. As a guideline, these should be drawn to a scale such that all the details and text are clearly legible when placed in the manuscript (i.e. text should be no smaller that 8-9 pt.). To facilitate editing we recommend the use of any of the software packages widely available for this purpose: MDL® Isis/Draw, ACD/ChemSketch®, CS ChemDraw®, ChemWindow®, etc. Free versions of some of these products are available for personal or academic use from the respective publishers. If another less common structure drawing software is used, authors should ensure the figures are saved in a file format compatible with of one of these products.
- Experimental data. To allow for correct abstracting of the manuscripts all compounds should be mentioned by correct chemical name, followed by any numerals used to refer to them in the paper. The use of the IUPAC nomenclature conventions is preferred, although alternate naming systems (for example CAS rules) may be used provided that a single consistent naming system is used throughout a manuscript. For authors perhaps unfamiliar with chemical nomenclature in English we recommend the use of compound naming software such as AutoNom. Full experimental details must be provided, or, in the case of many compounds prepared by a similar method, a representative typical procedure should be given. The general style used in the Journal of Organic Chemistry is preferred. Complete characterization data must be given for all new compounds. For papers mentioning large numbers of compounds a tabular format is acceptable. For known compounds appropriate literature references must be given.
- References. See the Reference Preparation Guide. References should be numbered according to the order in which they appear in the text.
- Reference Preparation: References should preferably be prepared with EndNote®, ReferenceManager™ or a similar bibliography software package. If references are prepared manually they must be checked for integrity and correctness (you may use ISI Web of Knowledge, PubMed/MEDLINE or Google Scholar). The Editorial Office will charge additional CHF 10 per citation for which extensive corrections must be made.
- Abstract/Table of Contents Graphic: Authors are encouraged to provide a graphical representation of the paper (in either JPEG, GIF, PNG or PDF format) to be used as a graphic of the paper, along with the abstract, on the Table of Contents. The graphic should not exceed 500 pixels width/height. As an example, authors may review the abstract graphic of following papers:
- http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/9/1/490 - http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/14/1/378
- Electronic Supplementary Information (ESI): Conference slides, video sequences, software, etc., can be included with the submission and published as supplementary material. Please read the information about Supplementary Material Deposit beneath.
Review / Referees
Authors should suggest at least 5 potential referees with the appropriate technical expertise, although the Editor will not necessarily approach them. Their addresses, homepage addresses, phone and fax numbers and e-mail addresses should be provided as fully as possible. At least two of the suggested referees must be from a different country than the author's one. At least two of the suggested referees must be from a western country (USA, Canada, Japan, Australia or western European country). You may choose appropriate ones from the Marine Drugs Editorial Board.
English Corrections
This journal is published in English, so it is essential that for proper refereeing and quick publication all manuscripts are submitted in grammatically correct English. For this purpose we ask that non-native English speakers ensure their manuscripts are checked before submitting them for consideration. We suggest that for this purpose your manuscript be revised by an English speaking colleague before submission. Authors can also use the services of American Journal Experts (AJE) for this purpose. Authors of articles submitted to MDPI journals benefit of a one-time 10% discount on AJE's charges. Simply follow the above link to make use of the referral discount.
Copyright / Open Access
Articles published in Marine Drugs will be open-access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license. MDPI will insert following note at the end of the published text:
© 200... by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Reprints
Reprints may be ordered. Please visit http://www.mdpi.org/reprints/ for more information or to order reprints.
Sample Deposit and Exchange
In addition to the payment of Open Access publishing fees, authors are encouraged to register or submit samples of the key compounds and appropriate intermediates from each paper to MDPI in Switzerland for deposit and distribution at a reasonable price to help defray the publication costs. Contributions of starting materials, intermediates or other non-commercially available samples are also acceptable. Sample Availability information should be included after the "References and Notes" section of the manuscript, and before the copyright notice. For details, visit: http://www.mdpi.org/. Samples should be sent to
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland Tel.: (+41) 79 322 3379, Fax: (+41) 61 302 8918 E-mail: lin@mdpi.com (http://www.mdpi.org/lin/)
Correct identification of components of natural products
The correct identification of the various components of extracts from natural sources is of key importance, and as publishers we are keenly aware of our responsibility to the scientific community in this area. Consequently, for papers on this topic, we have adopted the recommendations of the Working Group on Methods of Analysis of the International Organization of the Flavour Industry (IOFI), as published in Flavour Fragr. J. 2006, 21, 185. These recommendations may be summarized as follows:
Any identification of a natural compound must pass scrutiny by the latest forms of available analytical techniques. This implies that its identity must be confirmed by at least two different methods, for example, comparison of chromatographic and spectroscopic data (including mass, IR and NMR spectra) with those of an authentic sample, either isolated or synthesized. For papers claiming the first discovery of a given compound from a natural source, the authors must provide full data obtained by their own measurements of both the unknown and an authentic sample, whose source must be fully documented. Authors should also consider very carefully potential sources of artifacts and contaminants resulting from any extraction procedure or sample handling. Supplementary Material Deposit
- We wish to encourage the submission of supplementary data in electronic formats, so that important chemical, structural or scientific information is retained in full. Spectral data (NMR, IR, Raman, ESR, etc) can be submitted in JCAMP (.jdx) format.
- 3D coordinate structures (in pdb, mol, xyz or other common formats), if available, should also be submitted.
Editorial Board
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/ E-Mail: hlaatsc@gwdg.de 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.
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 E-Mail: anobu@fish.hokudai.ac.jp 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/ E-Mail: amayer@midwestern.edu Interests: immunopharmacology, inflammation, leukocytes, cytokines, superoxide, eicosanoids, marine toxins, domoic acid
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 E-Mail: jordan@olemiss.edu Interests: marine biotechnology, pharmacognosy, natural products, semisynthesis, medicinal chemistry
Managing Editor Ms. Kathy Lai MDPI Beijing Office, Liyuanbeijie Road 186, Suite 307, Liyuan Town, Tongzhou District, 101101 Beijing, China Tel. +86 10 59011009; Fax: +86 10 59011089 E-Mail: kathy.lai@em.mdpi.org
Production Editor Dr. Brietta Pike MDPI AG, Postfach, CH-4005 Basel, Switzerland. Office: Kandererstrasse 25, 4057 Basel Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18 E-Mail: pike@mdpi.com
Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Pedro Abreu DQ-CQFB/REQUIMTE, 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 E-Mail: pma@dq.fct.unl.pt Interests: natural products; medicinal plants; bioguided isolation Contribution: Special Issue: Biosynthesis of Marine Natural Products
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 E-Mail: albericio@irbbarcelona.org Interests: marine natural products; bioactive natural products; peptides; solid-phase chemistry; combinatorial chemistry; drug delivery systems Contribution: In other journals: 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 E-Mail: mercedes.alvarez@irbbarcelona.org 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 E-Mail: harias@midwestern.edu 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. 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 E-Mail: abachmann@crch.hawaii.edu 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 E-Mail: jack.baldwin@chem.ox.ac.uk 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 E-Mail: lbarrows@pharm.utah.edu 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/ E-Mail: John.Berry@fiu.edu Interests: cyanobacteria; toxins; bioactive compounds; zebrafish embryo model; natural products Contribution: Special Issue: Algal Toxins In other journals: 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 E-Mail: john.blunt@canterbury.ac.nz 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 E-Mail: bourdelaisa@uncw.edu 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/ E-Mail: bruce.bowden@jcu.edu.au 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 E-Mail: r.capon@imb.uq.edu.au 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 E-Mail: CARTERG@wyeth.com 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/ E-Mail: ciminiel@unina.it 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 E-Mail: adaranas@ull.es 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 E-Mail: diana@unipa.it 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 E-Mail: ruangelie.edrada-ebel@strath.ac.uk 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 E-Mail: ernesto.fattorusso@unina.it 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 E-Mail: angelo.fontana@icb.cnr.it 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 E-Mail: bgallagher@sirtrispharma.com 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 E-Mail: A.Ganesan@soton.ac.uk 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 E-Mail: gantarm@fiu.edu 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 E-Mail: Santokh_Gill@hc-sc.gc.ca 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 E-Mail: marinedrugs@mdpi.com 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/ E-Mail: l.l.gundersen@kjemi.uio.no 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 E-Mail: gustafson@ncifcrf.gov 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 E-Mail: Philipp.Hess@ifremer.fr 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 E-Mail: dhorgen@hpu.edu 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 Misonou 6967-1, Saijou-cho, Higashi-hiroshima shi, Hiroshima Prefecture 739-0024, Japan Tel. +81 824 220512; Fax: +81 824 220512 E-Mail: ssssike@vesta-dti.ne.jp 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 E-Mail: cireland@pharm.utah.edu 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/ E-Mail: jhjung@pusan.ac.kr 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 E-Mail: peter.karuso@mq.edu.au 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 E-Mail: kashman@post.tau.ac.il 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 E-Mail: rkerr@upei.ca 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/ E-Mail: ankijjoa@icbas.up.pt 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
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 E-Mail: jkobay@pharm.hokudai.ac.jp 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/ E-Mail: julia.kubanek@biology.gatech.edu 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 E-Mail: ikurtbok@usc.edu.au Interests: microbial diversity; microbial systematics; ecophysiology of microorganisms; functional diversity of microorganisms; microbial ecosystems Contribution: Special Issue: Bioactive Compounds from Marine Microorganisms In other journals: 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 E-Mail: dominique.laurent@ird.fr 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 Tel. +44 (0)20 7594 5752; Fax: +44 (0)20 7594 5880 Website: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.leatherbarrow E-Mail: r.leatherbarrow@imperial.ac.uk Interests: peptide chemistry; enzyme inhibition; molecular recognition; proteases; NMR
Prof. Dr. Ken Liu School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong Tel. +852 2609 6896; Fax: +852 2603 5031 Website: http://www.sbs.cuhk.edu.hk/TeachingStaffDetails.asp?Name=LIU%20Wing%20Keung%20Ken E-Mail: ken-liu@cuhk.edu.hk Interests: bioactive natural products; endocytosis and signaling pathways; fungal lectins and melanogenesis
Dr. Paul Long Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, King's College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK E-Mail: Paul.long@kcl.ac.uk Interests: biochemical adaptations; streptomyces genetics; natural products discovery; bioinformatics Contribution: Special Issue: Biomedicines from Marine Invertebrate-Microbial Symbioses Special Issue: Biomedicines from Marine 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/ E-Mail: luesch@cop.ufl.edu 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 E-Mail: vmacherla@nereuspharm.com 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 E-Mail: tmanning@valdosta.edu 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 E-Mail: stuart_john.mickel@novartis.com 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/show.html?ea=jason.micklefield E-Mail: jason.micklefield@manchester.ac.uk 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 E-Mail: momitchell@salisbury.edu 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 E-Mail: miyaokah@ps.toyaku.ac.jp 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 E-Mail: molinaro@unina.it 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/ E-Mail: tmolinski@ucsd.edu 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 E-Mail: murata@chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp 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 E-Mail: ngj@uah.edu 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 E-Mail: peter.northcote@vuw.ac.nz 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 E-Mail: oda-ti@kyoritsu-ph.ac.jp 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 E-Mail: george.perry@utsa.edu 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.edu/~aphillip/ E-Mail: andrew.phillips@colorado.edu 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 E-Mail: pitsinos@chem.demokritos.gr 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 E-Mail: georg.pohnert@uni-jena.de 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 E-Mail: proksch@uni-duesseldorf.de 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/eng/pulido.html E-Mail: Olga_Pulido@hc-sc.gc.ca 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://www.ust.hk/~webbo/faculty/Prof.Qian/index.html E-Mail: boqianpy@ust.hk 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 E-Mail: gerd.raabe@thc.rwth-aachen.de Interests: quantum chemistry; theoretical and experimental CD spectroscopy; X-ray structure determination; crystallography Contribution: Special Issue: Circular Dichroism of Marine Drugs
Prof. Dr. Diwan S. Rawat Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007, India Tel. +91 11 27667465 Website: http://www.du.ac.in/faculty_member_details.htm?id=1799 E-Mail: dsrawat@chemistry.du.ac.in 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 E-Mail: nils.rehmann@rpc.ca 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 E-Mail: jfreyes@pharmamar.com 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 E-Mail: roussis@pharm.uoa.gr Interests: marine natural products; chemotaxonomy; chemical ecology Contribution: Special Issue: Bioactive Halogenated Metabolites of Marine Origin In other journals: Special Issue: Triterpenes and Triterpenoids
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/ E-Mail: pruben@sfu.ca Interests: voltage-gated ion channels; toxins; evolution Contribution: Special Issue: Tetrodotoxin Special Issue: Ion Channel Inhibiting Marine Toxins
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/ E-Mail: jasalas@uniovi.es 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 E-Mail: csalomon@umn.edu 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 E-Mail: frsarabia@uma.es 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 E-Mail: stefan.schulz@tu-bs.de 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/ E-Mail: m.searcey@uea.ac.uk 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 E-Mail: davidhs@umich.edu 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 E-Mail: michael_stoskopf@ncsu.edu 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 E-Mail: janice.sufrin@roswellpark.org 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 E-Mail: claudiu.supuran@unifi.it Interests: drug design; enzyme inhibitors; carbonic anhydrases; X-ray crystallography Contribution: In other journals: Special Issue: Structure-Based Drug Design
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://suessmuth.chem.tu-berlin.de/cv_overview.html E-Mail: suessmuth@chem.tu-berlin.de 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 E-Mail: orazio.taglialatela@unina.it 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 E-Mail: jtanaka@sci.u-ryukyu.ac.jp 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 E-Mail: deniz.tasdemir@pharmacy.ac.uk 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 E-Mail: tosti@szn.it 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/mypages/antonio.trincone/ E-Mail: antonio.trincone@icb.cnr.it 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 Department of Natural Sciences, The University of Michigan, Dearborn, Michigan 48128, USA Tel. +1 313 593 5298; Fax: +1 313 593 4937 Website: http://www.casl.umd.umich.edu/index.php?id=687730 E-Mail: mtwiner@umd.umich.edu 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 E-Mail: uemura@bio.keio.ac.jp 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 E-Mail: sylvia.urban@rmit.edu.au 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 E-Mail: usami@gly.oups.ac.jp 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 E-Mail: svelu@uab.edu 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 E-Mail: wangbg@ms.qdio.ac.cn 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://cmib.osu.edu/people/faculty/pengwang/index.cfm E-Mail: wang.892@osu.edu 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 E-Mail: Sharon_Watkins@doh.state.fl.us 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 E-Mail: philipwi@hawaii.edu 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 E-Mail: adwright@hawaii.edu 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 E-Mail: yachwu@kmu.edu.tw 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 E-Mail: chmlamyl@nus.edu.sg 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 E-Mail: sergey.zotchev@nt.ntnu.no Interests: streptomycetes; rare actinomycetes; antibiotics; secondary metabolite biosynthesis; engineering of biosynthetic pathways Contribution: Special Issue: Marine Antibiotics
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 E-Mail: eva.zubia@uca.es Interests: marine natural products chemistry; isolation and structure elucidation; bioactive compounds; citotoxicity
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