The Editorial Office is pleased to announce the recent appointment of two new Advisory Board members for Natural Product Reports, Yeo Joon Yoon and Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani.
Yeo Joon Yoon received his PhD in chemical and biological engineering from Seoul National University in 2000. He has worked with Prof Charles R. Hutchinson at the University of Wisconsin at Madison as a predoctoral researcher and also with Prof David H. Sherman at the University of Minnesota as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2002 he returned to Korea as Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at the University of Ulsan and then moved to Ewha Womans University in 2004, where he is Associate Professor of Chemistry.
His major scientific interests are the characterization of biosynthetic pathways for secondary metabolites, focusing on polyketides and aminoglycosides in actinomycetes, combinatorial biosynthesis of novel natural products, and the application of metabolic engineering and synthetic biology to the production of secondary metabolites.
Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani is full professor at Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), and has published over 186 research publications, 5 patents and 4 book chapters. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) and a Science Productivity CNPq Fellow, she has received several awards, the most recent is the Distinguished Woman in Science Chemistry and Chemical Engineering award conceived by the ACS & IUPAC. Her PhD degree in Organic Chemistry was obtained under the guidance of Professor Otto Richard Gottlieb, University of São Paulo and after a post-doctorate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPISU-USA) she joined the São Paulo State University (UNESP). Dr. Bolzani is currently is Vice-Director of the UNESP Innovation Agency (AUIN), was President of the Brazilian Chemical Society from 2008-2010, and is currently Counsellor.
Her field of interest is plant science, and she has been involved in the isolation, bioactivity and function of secondary metabolites and peptides from plants. Also she has studied biosynthesis of piperidine alkaloids, and recently has been involved in metabolomic studies of medicinal plants and sugar cane. She has strong work collaborations with national pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries looking for new drugs from plants species.
