Norberto Peporine Lopes is a Pharmacist, Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor in Chemistry from USP and Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He is currently Full Professor at FCFRP-USP, coordinator of the Research Center for Natural and Synthetic Products and the Center for Mass Spectrometry of Organic Micromolecules. In his unit, he held several elective positions, with emphasis on the Head of the Department of Physics and Chemistry and the Presidency of the Research Commission. He was a member of the USP Advanced Studies Group on the Ribeirão Preto Campus and of the Management Committee of the Supera Parque Technological Park. He currently holds the position of Coordinator of the Ribeirão Preto Hub of INOVA-USP (Innovation Center of the University of São Paulo) and coordinator of NIDUS (Nucleus for the Formation of Companies and Entrepreneurs), the first Residency in Innovation in the country. He is an associate member of the Brazilian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Society of Mass Spectrometry (BrMass), the Brazilian Society of Chemistry (SBQ), the Brazilian Society of Pharmacognosy. He is also a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He held the elected positions at SBQ of President, President-elect, Member of the Advisory Board, Member and President of the Fiscal Council, General Secretary, Treasurer, Deputy Director and Treasurer of the Natural Products Division. At BrMAss, he held the position of Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Advisory Board. He carried out short-term internships in Germany (University of Tunbigen), the United States of America (Washington State University) and the United Kingdom (University of Bristol). He developed his Post-Doctorate in Mass Spectrometry of Natural Products at the University of Cambridge (UK) and served as Guest Professor in Mass Spectrometry at the University of Muenster. He published more than 480 scientific articles (IH = 47) and received 10 awards, with emphasis on the BrMASS Medal, the Fernando Galembeck innovation award from the SBQ and the Jeremy Knowles award from the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is currently Editor of Rapid Communication in Mass Spectrometry (Wiley), Planta Medica (GA) and Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), OMEGA-ACS (American Chemical Society) and Chemical Society Reviews. He works in the areas of Chemistry of Natural Products and Mass Spectrometry with an emphasis on Chemical Ecology. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Plants and living organisms emit, detect and respond to chemical stimuli, thus creating an almost unlimited number of interactions through chemical signals. Most of these molecules are classified as secondary metabolites and are an important area of research in our country. Technological and intellectual advances in the last two decades have allowed the development of analyzes of natural …
Despite the richness of Brazilian flora and the broad interest in herbal therapy, almost the whole national market is based in the exotic plant trade. One of the bottlenecks regarding the development of high value products derived from native biodiversity is the lack of clinical and preclinical studies of natural products and synthetic analogs. In recent work leading up to this applicatio…
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Caves are natural heritage sites and an ecosystem capable of hosting rich biodiversity, including the microbiota. Abiotic and biotic factors modulate the ecological balance and ensure the uniqueness of each ecosystem. Genome sequencing and metagenomics advancements reveal an undeniable microbiological diversity of cave-dwelling organisms. The microbiota of caves is characterized by surviv…
Several secondary metabolites have been isolated from Asteraceae species by the NPPNS research group in its more than 50 years of existence. Some of these isolated substances exhibited significant biological activities, such as anti-inflammatory and analgesic, and cytotoxic. However, most of the studies conducted by the group were focused on substances of medium and low polarity, and high…
The Atlantic Forest is one of the biomes most threatened by constant human disturbance. Amphibians are among the organisms most affected by changes in ecosystems, suffering serious population declines due both to anthropogenic action and to different diseases such as that caused by the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). However, it is known that bacteria associated wit…
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Caatinga is a Brazilian endemic biome that occupies 11% of the national territory, defined to the South by the Cerrado and to the East and West by the Atlantic and Amazon forests, respectively. Due to the increasing degradation of biological diversity resulting from anthropic actions, the understanding of this biome, limited as to its functioning, is fundamental for the maintenance of imp…
Protection and rational use of biodiversity and natural resources depend on knowing biological richness' composition and distribution. Seeking this purpose and aiming for a better understanding of the chemical content of different extracts, new tools for the dereplication of natural products have been developed, reducing the cost and the time spent on the analyzes. These tools can be used…
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Secondary metabolites (SMs) are constituents of plants and animals that perform important functions of adaptation and survival in the ecosystems. In plants, SMs are found mainly angiosperms playing roles in defence, physiology, chemical communication among others. Chemosystematics is the branch of the chemistry of natural products responsible for understanding the function, evolution and …
Soybean (Glycine max, Leguminosae) is one of the most important food crops in the world, since the grains are primary and rich source of vegetable oil and protein for human and animal feed. However, soybean productivity is highly impacted by events such as drought and flooding. Indeed, abiotic stresses cause serious losts in many food crops wordlwide. They are directly related to changes …
Microorganisms inhabited different regions of animal bodies and are known to participate in fundamental aspects of the host biology such as defense against pathogens and nutrition. In addition, a few studies in mammals highlight that bacteria harbored in scent glands may produce odorous compounds used by the host to communicate. In amphibians, the role of skin-associated bacteria has been…
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