El Instituto Universitario de Bio-Org\u00e1nica Antonio Gonz\u00e1lez contin\u00faa su ciclo de conferencias \u201cDistinguished Lectures\u201d de este a\u00f1o 2025 con la ponencia del Prof. Bradley Moore, de la Universidad de California en San Diego (UC San Diego), titulada \u00abUnderstanding and Translating the Specialized Chemistry of the Ocean\u2019s Living Wonders\u00bb. La ponencia se desarrollar\u00e1 en el Sal\u00f3n de Actos del IUBO-AG el d\u00eda 4 de julio a las 11:00h.<\/p>\n
El Prof. Bradley Moore es qu\u00edmico biosint\u00e9tico y pionero en el campo de la miner\u00eda gen\u00f3mica de productos naturales. Se especializa en leer y escribir el c\u00f3digo gen\u00e9tico de la vida marina, desde bacterias y plancton hasta plantas y animales marinos, con el objetivo de comprender y desarrollar nuevos materiales, medicamentos y herramientas moleculares de origen oce\u00e1nico. Es Distinguished Professor en UC San Diego, con nombramientos conjuntos en la Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences y en el Scripps Institution of Oceanography, donde dirige el Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine.<\/p>\n
Ha publicado m\u00e1s de 270 art\u00edculos revisados por pares, ha formado a cerca de 100 estudiantes de posgrado y posdoctorales, y ha sido galardonado con numerosos premios, incluidos el Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2013) y el Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products (2021) de la American Chemical Society. Fue editor asociado de Organic Letters y es actualmente editor en jefe del Journal of Natural Products. En esta conferencia, el Prof. Moore compartir\u00e1 su pasi\u00f3n por comprender y aplicar la qu\u00edmica especializada de la vida oce\u00e1nica para afrontar retos en salud humana y avanzar hacia un futuro biosostenible.<\/p>\n
Su trabajo conecta el plano gen\u00f3mico con los productos naturales que la vida utiliza en comunicaci\u00f3n, defensa y adaptaci\u00f3n ambiental, lo que ha llevado al descubrimiento de mol\u00e9culas, enzimas y genes novedosos que han derivado en medicamentos aprobados por la FDA, kits comerciales para detectar toxinas de agua dulce y tecnolog\u00eda para coloraci\u00f3n viva. Sin embargo, el cambio clim\u00e1tico y el riesgo de extinci\u00f3n de especies amenazan este conocimiento evolutivo clave. Nuevas tecnolog\u00edas gen\u00f3micas y metabol\u00f3micas sit\u00faan este momento como una oportunidad cr\u00edtica para avanzar hacia un futuro bioinspirado.<\/p>\n
The Instituto Universitario de Bio-Org\u00e1nica Antonio Gonz\u00e1lez continues its 2025 \u201cDistinguished Lectures\u201d series with a talk by Prof. Bradley Moore from the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego), titled \u00abUnderstanding and Translating the Specialized Chemistry of the Ocean\u2019s Living Wonders\u00bb. The lecture will take place in the Lecture Hall of IUBO-AG on 4th July at 11:00h. Prof. Bradley Moore is a biosynthetic chemist and a pioneer in the field of natural product genome mining.<\/p>\n
He specializes in reading and writing the genetic code of marine life\u2014from bacteria and plankton to marine plants and animals\u2014to understand and develop new ocean-based materials, medicines, and molecular tools. Moore is a Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego with joint appointments in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he is Director of the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine. He has published over 270 peer-reviewed articles, trained nearly 100 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and has received numerous awards, including the 2013 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award and the 2021 Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products from the American Chemical Society. He is a former Associate Editor of Organic Letters and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Natural Products.<\/p>\n
In this seminar, Prof. Moore will share his lifelong passion to understand and apply the specialized chemistry of oceanic life to tackle challenges in human health and foster a biosustainable future. An early pioneer in genome mining, Moore\u2019s work connects the genomic blueprint of life with the natural chemicals used in communication, defense, and adaptation. His team’s research has led to the discovery of new-to-science molecules, enzymes, and genes\u2014resulting in FDA-approved medicines, commercial toxin detection kits, and innovations in living coloration. Yet, the extinction threat posed by climate change endangers marine species and their biochemical knowledge. With emerging advances in genomics and metabolomics, now is a defining moment to accelerate our understanding of nature\u2019s solutions and enable a bio-based future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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