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R/MP-02
Marine organisms as sources of novel agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals
Principal Investigator:
John H. Cardellina IIStart/End Year:
1993 - 1996Institution:
Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology InstituteCo-Principal Investigator:
Fred L. Singleton, Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology InstituteTopic(s):
- Seafood Technology
Description:
The general goal of this program is to develop new chemical models for pharmaceutical and agrochemical agents from marine natural products. To accomplish this, we propose to collect, extract and screen marine macro- and microorganisms in a battery of pharmacological and agrochemical screens. Active constituents of the extracts will be isolated and their structures identified.
Funding Start Year
1993
Funding End Year
1996
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
