报告题目：Natural Product Chemistry Research - How Environmental Science studies have translated into Biodiscovery
报 告 人：Prof. Anthony Carroll
报告时间：10月25日13:30-15:30
报告地点：生物药学楼5-412
报告人简介：
Professor Carroll is currently Deputy Head of the Griffith School of Environment on the Gold Coast. He obtained his PhD from the University of Sydney (1989) and subsequently worked as a postdoc inmarine natural product chemistry with Prof Paul Scheuer at University of Hawaii and Prof John Coll at James Cook University. Between 1993 and 2007 he held a senior research position as Program Leader Deputy Director) in NP chemistry (13 FTE staff) at GU’s Natural Product Discovery. His research focused on NP drug discovery in collaboration with the industry partner, AstraZeneca and he played a leading role which was pivotal to the success of the AZ/GU collaboration resulting in over $100M in investments by AZ at GU. In 2008 Tony moved to the Gold Coast campus of GU to take up a position within the Griffith School of Environment. In 2010 he was appointed deputy head of school and in 2012 he was promoted to full Professor. Professor Carroll has extensive expertise in the fields of natural product chemistry, NMR spectroscopy, biodiscovery, chemical ecology, chemotaxonomy and organic synthesis. His current research activities are focused on chemical aspects of microbe/marine invertebrate symbiosis, chemical diversity in relation to marine invertebrate biodiversity, neglected disease and cancer drug discovery, chemotaxonomic relationships within the phyla Porifera, Bryozoa, the Class Ascidiaceae and within the plant families Myrtaceae, Proteaceae and Elaeocarpaceae, cyanobacteria toxin identification and tea tree oil biodiscovery.

Professor Carroll has published 130 refereed research papers in high ranking international journals (2398 citations), one book chapter and gained 2 world-wide patents. His current h-index is 29. He has trained 11 research fellows, 16 research assistants, graduated 5 PhD and 9 honours students and currently supervises 11 PhD students, one Masters Student and 4 honours students. In the past 5 years,Professor Carroll has been awarded over $1 600 000 for national and international.