A recent paper published in the journal PLoS Biology reported the list of the currently 100,000 most influential scientists. It is an open access article you can read here. The list includes nine professors/researchers at the Instituto de Química de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo. They are listed in alphabetical order here. Arthur de […]
Estão sendo oferecidas oportunidades para candidatos de pós-graduação para mestrado e/ou doutorado neste Grupo de Química Orgânica de Sistemas Biológicos. O exame de avaliação pelo Instituto de Química de São Carlos será realizado no início de 2021, a ser divulgado em breve. Mantenha-se informado no link: http://www5.iqsc.usp.br/IQSC/pos-graduacao/ Candidatos com perfil acadêmico muito bom e sem reprovações […]
A importância da ciência para o combate à COVID-19 é fruto de uma das maiores realizações da humanidade: a construção do conhecimento. Essa construção foi possível pelo trabalho conjunto de cientistas e pelo apoio da sociedade, principal beneficiária dos avanços científicos. A Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) foi estabelecida […]
A new review published in Natural Product Reports discuss the chemistry and biology of guanidines isolated from microorganisms, animals and plants. It was a team effort with Darlon I. Bernardi, a PhD student in my group, Professors Taicia Fill and Igor Jurberg both at the Instituto de Química of UNICAMP, and Alessandra A. G. Fernandes, […]
A multi-institutional collaborative effort has recently resulted in the discovery of eight new flavonoid dimers from the Brazilian red propolis with anti-proliferative activity on cancer cells. These results have been published recently in the Journal of Natural Products. This project started a few years ago when Professor Ronaldo A. Pilli (Instituto de Química – UNICAMP, […]
In a collaborative article with the group of Dr. Andréa Dessen (Bacterial Pathogenesis Group, Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France) and researchers from the CNPEM (Campinas, Brazil) Phytobios (São Paulo, Brazil), UNIFESP (Brazil), UFSCar (Brazil) and UNICAMP (Brazil), we described earlier this year the antibiotic activity of merulinic acid C and other anacardic acids, isolated […]
Last Thursday, April 17th, Mirelle Takaki presented and defended her PhD thesis. It was a virtual defense, because of the current restrictions of social contact. The PhD committee was composed by Professors Camila M. Crnkovic (Universidade de São Paulo), Mario Palma (Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, campus Rio Claro), Edson Rodrigues Filho (Universidade […]
The SARS-Cov-2 pandemia mobilized several research teams in Brazil. The São Paulo state funding agency, FAPESP, is continuously updating the Brazilian scientific research task force towards the better understanding the virus and the search for medical treatments. During the last weeks, several news appeared in the Agência FAPESP News. Selected topics are the following. Researchers […]
Our most recent article reports the results of a long-term screening which was developed during several years of method optimization, producing pre-fractionated extracts, obtaining bioassay results, selecting strains for isolation work and finally obtaining results. The achievements have been published in the 2020 January issue of the Journal of Natural Products, titled “Water-Soluble Glutamic Acid […]
Tomorrow starts the 2020 edition of the Gordon Research Conferences on Marine Natural Products, “Discovery, Functional Development and Enabling Technologies of Marine Natural Products”. Organized by Kirk Gustafson (Chair) and Kerry McPhail (Vice-Chair), the meeting will have an exciting, bold and diverse presentations program. Topics include “Cryptic Microbial Metabolites”, “Marine Natural Products as Therapeutics and […]
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