8th BCNP - Brazilian Conference on Natural Products

Professor Fernando da Costa acts at Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo. He was Guest Professor at Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry, University of Münster, Germany, (2012–2013). He holds his Post Doctoral from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, (2003–2005), Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (Natural Products Chemistry) from University of São Paulo (1992–1996), and Master Degree in Organic Chemistry (Natural Products Chemistry) from University of São Paulo (1989–1992). His research experience are: Phytochemistry: extraction, isolation and purification of secondary metabolites from higher plants using chromatographic / hyphenated techniques; compound identification by spectroscopic methods; dereplication/annotation and plant metabolomics; and Chemoinformatics: use of data sets of small organic molecules for modeling and property prediction by machine learning tools and data mining.

Associate Professor at the Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (UPWr) is leading the interdisciplinary team of 15 employees from 5 Departments gathered in BioActiv Research Leading Group. He is a member of the board of Polish Chemical Society and a member of the Committee of Chemistry and Physics in Biology and Medicine of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has a wide range of international collaboration which he gained during a number of international long-term fellowships in USA (University of Florida), Germany (Technical University of Berlin) and Italy (Politecnico di Milano). Hisresearch interests lie at the border of biology and chemistry and focus on application of biocatalysts in organic synthesis. Over the last few years he is focusing on sustainable management of by-products from agri-food industry to produce industrially important compounds with the use of biotechnological tools.

Biochemist, National University of Asunción (UNA), Paraguay (2008). Master in Chemical Sciences and Technologies (2010) and Doctor of Sciences (2013), University of Cádiz, Spain. Currently Full-Time Researcher and Professor of General Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemical Sciences at UNA. He is General Director of Research at UNA from 2019 to the present.

Judith M. Rollinger is Professor of Pharmacognosy and Head of Phytochemistry & Biodiscovery at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria. Her research focuses on integrating big data analysis (cheminformatics, biochemometry) in natural product research for the discovery of novel natural lead structures. Since 2020 she is the president of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA) - the largest European learned society, focusing on research on natural products, nature-based drug discovery, and quality control of herbal medicines.

Full professor in Pharmacognosy and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Athens. He obtained his Ph.D. from Descartes University, Paris V on 1987 under the supervision of Professor Francois Tillequin where he spent six year as academic staff. He was visiting professor in Orleans and Innsbruck Universities as well as in Chinese Academy of Science. At present he leads a research group of more than 30 researchers focusing on natural product-based lead discovery for various applications as therapeutics, functional foods, cosmetics and agrochemicals. Parallel research activities have been deployed concerning new agricultural processes related to medicinal plants and the solution in environmental problems derived from agricultural wastes. He is also the founder of Pharmagnose spin-off biotechnological company (2013). He has participated in 15 EU projects, 8 as coordinator and has organized the 7th Joint meeting on Natural products chemistry, Athens in 2008 and the IUPAC 30th International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products Athens, in 2018. To date he has published 410 papers and 20 patents with more than 22.000 citations with an h-index of 69.

She is a full professor of chemistry at the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. She coordinates the National Institute of Science and Technology for The Biorational Control of Pest-Insect and Phytopathogens (BCNP). The central theme of her research is isolation and structure elucidation of plant secondary metabolites and the application of findings on numerous biological screenings in the agronomic area.

Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani is full professor at Sao Paulo State University (UNESP). Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), member of the Brazilian Academy of Science (ABC), São Paulo Academy of Science (ACIESP), the World Academy of Science for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries (TWAS), and Latino American Academy of Science (ACAL, initials in Spanish). She is CNPq Fellow level 1A, and has received several awards, highlighting most recent: Winner the Latin-American women's award in chemistry, awarded by Latin American Society of Chemistry/American Chemical Society - 2021; Prize Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani, created by the Brazilian Chemical Society (SBQ) to honor Brazilian women in Chemistry and correlated areas – 2019; Prize Otto R. Gottlieb Medal, created due to the contribution to Natural Products Chemistry in Brazil and abroad – 2017; Prize Kurt Politzer - Technological Innovation Award, category research, ABIQUIM - 2015; CAPES-Elsevier Award for the contributions to science in Brazil-2014; Distinguished Woman in Science Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, ACS/IUPAC (2011), who was awarded with 16 outstanding women scientists, including the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 Professor Ada Yonath (Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science); Simão Mathias Medal, the highest honor conferred by Brazilian Chemical Society (2011). Graduated in Pharmacy by UFPB, Northeast of Brazil, she got Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, under guidance of Professor Otto Richard Gottlieb, at University of São Paulo. Member of the Coordination of Biota-FAPESP Program (1998-2021). Director of the UNESP Technology Transfer Office 2013-2016 (UNESP-AUIN). President of the FUNFUNESP, UNESP 2017-2021. In 2018 was elected to be member of the FAPESP Board of Trustees (2018-2022). In 2018 was awarded with the Medal of Scientific Merit - Commander Category, the highest distinction given by the President of the Brazil to a Brazilian scientist, she is included among the 2% of Brazilian scientists worldwide. Her field of interest is natural products chemistry and plant science, and she has had strong involvement in human resource training, with over 100 Master and PhD students and 60 post-doctoral supervisions. She has been invited to give lectures and seminars Worldwide. Has published 341 articles, h-index = 60 for 12,731 citations, and average citations per article = 28.21; 2 books; 5 book chapters and 4 patents, 1 issued for a Germany Company. President of the Brazilian Chemical Society from 2008-2010 is currently Counselor member, was Vice-President of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science 2017-2019 (SBPC, in Portuguese). She serves as member of Editorial Boards of several Scientific Journals as Journal Natural Products. In 2011 was visiting professor at UPMC, Paris VI, Paris, and in 2012 became member of the International L’Oreal Scientific Advisory Board, Paris-FR, for 10 years. In the last 15 years has been coordinating big national and international projects: 03 Thematic Biota-FAPESP; currently, 01 INCT-CNPq/FAPESP, and is currently vice-coordinator of CBIFar, a long-term project into the CEPID Fapesp Program under Coordination of Professor Glaucius Oliva, IF-USP, São Carlos, 03 International Projects Brazil/Germany DAAD/FAPESP / DFG - Deutsche.