11th Frank Warren Lecture

It is our pleasure, as the organising committee of he 11^th Frank Warren Conference, to announce that the next Frank Warren Lecture will be delivered by Professor Mike Davies-Coleman. Over the years, Professor Davies-Coleman has inspired many young scientists to explore the beauty of the chemistry contained within our marine natural environment.
 

Professor Mike Davies-Coleman (Rhodes University, Grahamstown) completed his undergraduate and post-graduate degrees at Rhodes University, conducting his PhD research in plant natural product chemistry under the guidance of Professor Douglas Rivett.  His academic career began with an appointment to a lectureship in pharmaceutical chemistry at Rhodes University in 1988, while his interest in marine natural products chemistry was initiated in 1991 through a year spent as a post-doctoral research fellow with the late Professor John Faulkner at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, USA.  Since 1993, with both national and international financial support, he has built a productive marine natural products research programme at Rhodes University. Collaborative research with the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) has been a mainstay of this marine natural product research programme and Professor Davies-Coleman has spent two periods of sabbatical leave at the NCI, initially as an NIH Visiting Scientist in 1999 and more recently in 2005 as a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow. Professor Davies-Coleman moved to the Chemistry Department at Rhodes University in 1995 and is currently Professor of Organic Chemistry and Head of Department.  Current research interests include the isolation and identification of novel bioactive secondary metabolites from a variety of Southern African marine invertebrates, marine chemical ecology and the synthesis of both diterpene and prenylated quinone metabolites from marine molluscs.

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