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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto (FCFRP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
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 500 scientific articles (IH = 48) 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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We are living in the biodiversity crisis era, due to the extremely high global extinction rates. The Neotropics has the world´s richest flora and Brazil stands out as one of the eight megadiverse countries. However, it is where there are the most unknown species to science, known as the Linnean shortfall, the most fundamental biodiversity shortfall. Furthermore, the biodiversity loss is a…
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 …
Metabolomics studies have grown dramatically around the world in several areas of science. Technological advances over the last two decades have allowed the development of metabolome analyzes at a level of detail never imagined. Mass spectrometry instruments are the most used tools to investigate this chemical diversity associated with biological systems. However, topics such as analysis …
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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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We are living in the biodiversity crisis era, due to the extremely high global extinction rates. The Neotropics has the world´s richest flora and Brazil stands out as one of the eight megadiverse countries. However, it is where there are the most unknown species to science, known as the Linnean shortfall, the most fundamental biodiversity shortfall. Furthermore, the biodiversity loss is a…
The continuous global threats to biodiversity, the unsustainable use of land and, consequently, climate change resulting from anthropogenic actions have negatively impacted the functioning of ecological services and, ultimately, the balance of global biomes (BRASIL, 2002; Lewinsohn, et al ., 2002). In this sense, functional traits (morphological, physiological, phenological and behavioral…
The conservation and preservation of biodiverse regions are urgent agendas of global interest. The increasing degradation of areas that concentrate biodiversity is mainly due to climatic and/or anthropic actions. The knowledge and valorization of biodiversity are important factors to understand the dynamics of the functioning of these biomes, as well as to promote their rational use. The …
Several secondary metabolites have already been isolated from Asteraceae species by theNPPNS research group in its more than 50 years of existence. Some of these isolatedhave exhibited significant biological activities, such as anti-inflammatory, analgesic and cytotoxic.cytotoxic.Professor Pirani, during his long period of research, describes in greatdetails of various species of Brazilia…
Biodiversity has been severely impacted by human action, leading to a unprecedented extinction of species. Recent scientific and technological advances make it possible to monitoring this impact and can serve as a tool for creating effective policies for conservation; mainly for oligotrophic microbiomes, such as caves, which are home to unique species of fungi and bacteria and do not resp…
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The Amaryllidaceae family, is renowned for its abundance of isoquinoline alkaloids, such as galanthamine, lycorine, and tazettine. These compounds exhibit diverse bioactivities, including acetylcholinesterase inhibition, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antiviral, and antitumor properties. Among these, galanthamine has been pivotal in the development of drugs for Alzheimer's d…
The chemical interaction between living organisms and their environment is essential for ecology and evolution, mediating fundamental processes such as pollination, chemical defense, and symbiotic interactions. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), along with peptides, bufadienolides, and low-polarity compounds, play a crucial role in regulating host-symbiont relationships and chemical defen…
Chytridiomycosis, a fungal disease caused by the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), is one of the major threats to amphibians in the modern world, leading to population declines and species extinctions. However, variations in resistance to chytridiomycosis observed among amphibian species can be explained by differences in the skin protection systems, particularly the skin micr…
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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