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How I became a friend of “open”
Over the last months, I became more and more aware of the “open” movement. “Open” as in Open Access, Open Source, Open Data, Open Science. In mid 2011, I had a project where I needed to annotate the...
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The story of the dolastatins
Two posts ago I have mentioned that the story of the dolastatins deserves an own post. I think it has some nice twists that show how far the way from a bioactivity observed for a biomass extract to an...
View ArticleThe story of the halichondrins
After describing the story of the dolastatins, I thought that also the halichondrins would deserve a post. But I have soon realized that Quintus has already done this very nicely, so that there is no...
View ArticleList of natural product research related journals, bloggers and tweeters –...
For the original Natural Product Forum I had compiled a list of journals, bloggers and tweeters covering natural product research. This list can now be found here. If you find some journal / blogger /...
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How “open” are natural product scientists? Part I – Conference Talks
Four months ago I visited a fantastic conference, the International Conference on Natural Product Research 2012, ICNPR 2012, in New York. It was one of the best conferences I ever visited. I presented...
View ArticleNatural product drug discovery from microalgae
Together with Mark Brönstrup from sanofi-aventis I have written a chapter on “Natural product drug discovery from microalgae” for the book “Microalgal Biotechnology: Integration and Economy“, edited by...
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How “open” are natural product scientists? Part II – Journals
I am currently preparing a manuscript on some isolation and structure elucidation work. It is nothing too thrilling, not even bioactivity will be reported. That is the drawback of working in industry –...
View ArticleBlog hiatus is almost over…
I have been silent for some time now – I am currently preparing three manuscripts in parallel in my free time, and thus I do not have much time to blog… However, two of the manuscripts are almost...
View ArticleNatural Products and Bioprospecting – publishing natural product research...
Some time ago I have mused where to submit my next manuscript. Yesterday I have decided in favor of the journal Natural Products and Bioprospecting (and luckily my co-authors did not oppose). I have...
View ArticleMy latest paper and why I am somewhat proud of it
These days my latest paper has been published. To say it most frankly: This is not big science. The paper reports the isolation and structure elucidation of two compounds from a fungus, and neither is...
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New position / Blog hiatus is over (hopefully…)
Wow, is it really more than half a year since my last post? So much has happened in this time… The reason for this long silence has been that I have been absolutely busy. I did really like my position...
View ArticleMicrocystins – leads for anticancer drugs
In one of my first blog posts I have shortly discussed that the hepatotoxic microcystins, cyclic peptides from cyanobacteria, are currently studied for their potential as leads for anticancer drugs. I...
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