RACI NATURAL PRODUCTS GROUP

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People and Contacts

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Dr Ian van Altena
Address:

Department of Chemistry, University of Newcastle, CALLAGHAN NSW 2308
email: chiav@cc.newcastle.edu.au ph: (02) 4921 5480 fax: (02) 4921 5472

Research Interests:

Natural Products (isolation and structure elucidation)
Marine Chemical Ecology

Website: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/ch/IVA.htm

Dr Russel Barrow
Address:

Microbial Natural Products Research Group, Department of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200

email: rab@anu.edu.au
ph: (02) 6125 3419
Fax: (02) 6125 0760

Web: http://chemserver.anu.edu.au/rab

Dr Adrian Blackman
Address:

School of Chemistry, University of Tasmania, PO Box 252-75, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001
e-mail: Adrian.Blackman@utas.edu.au

Research Interests:

Marine natural products
Marine chemical ecology

Website: http://www.chem.utas.edu.au/staff/blackman/natprod.htm

Professor John Bremner
Address:

School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, WOLLONGONG, NSW 2500
e-mail: John_Bremner@uow.edu.au

Research Interests:

bio-active marine natural products
anti-bacterial and anti-malarial agents
chemistry of alkaloids and their use in synthesis

Website: http://www.uow.edu.au/science/chem/

Dr Joe Brophy
Address:

School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052 ph: (02) 9385 4660 fax: (02) 9385 6141
e-mail: J.Brophy@unsw.edu.au

Research Interests:

essential oils chemistry
insect chemistry
natural products chemistry

Website: http://www.chem.unsw.edu.au/StaffProfiles/Brophy.html

Dr Andrew Cheung
Address:

School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, SYDNEY, NSW 2006
email: a_cheung@pharmacy.pharm.su.oz.au

Mr Charles Cornwell BSc(Hons)(UNE)
Address:

Faculty of Science and Technology, K12, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, Locked Bag 1, RICHMOND, NSW 2753
email: C.Cornwell@uws.edu.au ph: (02) 4570 1305 fax: (02) 4570 1621

Research Interests:

Extraction and characterisation of compounds from Australian native plants
Natural products chemistry

Website: http://www.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au/faculties/scitechag/project.htm

Dr Rocky de Nys
Address:

School of Biological Sciences, UNSW , SYDNEY, NSW 2052
email: r.denys@unsw.edu.au fax: (02) 9385 1558

Dr Colin Duke
Address:

School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, SYDNEY, NSW 2006
email: colind.@pharm.usyd.edu.au ph: (02) 9351 2321 fax: (02) 9351 4391

Dr Andrew Heaton
Address:

NOVOGEN, 140 Wicks Rd, NTH RYDE, NSW 2113 ph: (02) 8877 6146 fax: (02) 9878 0055

Dr Merv Hegarty, AM FRACI
Address:

Plantchem Pty Ltd, 5Jenkinson St, Indooroopilly, Q 4068
email: Hegarty.Plantchem@uq.net.au
ph/fax: (07) 3378 3530

Honorary Research Fellow, CSIRO Tropical Agriculture, Brisbane

Research Interests:

commercial uses and toxicology of Australian natural products
bushfood safety

Dr Kirstin Heiland
Address:

Novartis Animal Health Australasia Pty Limited, R&D Centre, "Yarrandoo", 245 Western Road, KEMPS CREEK NSW 2171
email: kirstin.heiland@ah.novartis.com ph: (02) 9826 3338 fax: (02) 9826 1710

Dr Joanne Jamie
Address:

Department of Chemistry, Division of Environmental and Life Sciences, MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY NSW 2109.
email:jjamie@alchemist.chem.mq.edu.au ph: (02) 9850 8283 fax: (02) 9850 8313 website: http://www.chem.mq.edu.au/academics/jjamie.htm

Dr Peter Karuso
Address:

School of Chemistry, Macquarie University, SYDNEY NSW 2109
email: pkaruso@alchemist.chem.mq.edu.au

Research Interests:

marine natural products chemistry
de novo rational design of enzyme inhibitors
structure elucidation of enzyme - inhibitor complexes by NMR spectroscopy

Website: http://www.chem.mq.edu.au/academics/karuso.htm

Dr. Paul Keller
Address:

School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, WOLLONGONG NSW 2500
email: keller@uow.edu.au

Dr Ian McFarlane
Address:

School of Biochemistry, University of NSW, SYDNEY 2052
email: i.mcfarlane@unsw.edu.au

Dr Barbara Meurer-Grimes
Address:

ExGenix Operations Pty Ltd, 576 Swan Street, RICHMOND VIC 3121

ph: (03) 9208 4444

Research Interests:

Structure elucidation
Biological activity
Biosynthesis
Phytochemistry

Dewang Purushottam
Address:

School of Chemistry, North Maharashtra University, Post Box No. 80, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, INDIA PIN- 425001

email: dewangpm@rediffmail.com
ph: +91-0257-262717

Research Interest :

Development of Natural Products as Pest Management Agents.

Dr Roger Read
Address:

School of Chemistry, University of NSW, SYDNEY NSW 2052
email: r.read@unsw.edu.au ph: (02) 9696 2222

Dr Reg Smith
Address:

Phytex Australia, PO Box 543, CASTLE HILL, NSW 2154
email: reg_smith@uow.edu.au ph: (02) 9533 1324

Dr Greg Tarrant
Address:

Research School of Chemistry, Canberra, ACT.
email: gtarrant@rsc.anu.edu.au ph: (02) 6249 4207

Ms Deidre Tronson BSc(Hons)(ANU)
Address:

Faculty of Science and Technology, K12, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, Locked Bag 1, RICHMOND, NSW 2753
email: D.Tronson@uws.edu.au ph: (02) 4570 1634 fax: (02) 4570 1621

Research Interests:

Organic chemistry
Natural products chemistry, particularly as related to Australian flora

Websites:

Research: http://www.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au/faculties/scitechag/project.htm Teaching: http://www.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au/faculties/scitechag/TRONSON. htm

Dr John K. Volkman FRACI
Address:

Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Marine Research. GPO Box 1538, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
email: john.volkman@marine.csiro.au ph: (03) 6232 5281 fax: (03) 62325123

Reasearch Interests:

Marine natural products
Lipids in marine microalgae (sterols, fatty acids, hydrocarbons etc.)
Lipids in bacteria
Bioactive molecules

Dr Steven Westwood
Address:

A.G.A.L., 1 Suakin Street, PYMBLE, NSW 2073
email: steven.westwood@agal.gov.au ph: (02) 9449 0111 fax: (02) 9449 1653

A/Prof. S. Grant Wyllie BSc, MSc(Hons)(NZ), PhD(Otago)
Address:

Faculty of Science and Technology, K12, U. Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, Locked Bag 1, RICHMOND, NSW 2753
email: G.Wyllie@uws.edu.au ph: (02) 4570 1632 fax: (02) 4570 1621

Reasearch Interests:

Chromatographic methods, particularly high resolution gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
Natural products chemistry and plant biochemistry

Website: http://www.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au/faculties/scitechag/project.htm

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