FERNANDO BATISTA DA COSTA PhD

Conferencia: Metabolomics and chemoinformatics tools to investigate natural products chemistry: examples from South American species

Guest Professor: Brazil Chair (Chemoinformatics and Natural Products Chemistry), Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry, University of Münster, Germany, 2012–2013

Post Doctoral Research: Chemoinformatics, Computer-Chemie Centrum, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, 2003–2005

Ph.D.: Organic Chemistry (Natural Products Chemistry), University of São Paulo, 1992–1996 Associate Professor: Pharmacognosy, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (2008–present)

Research experience

Phytochemistry: extraction, isolation and purification of secondary metabolites from higher plants using chromatographic and hyphenated techniques; compound identification by spectroscopic methods; dereplication and plant metabolomics by LC-MS.
Evaluation of biological activities: “in vitro” and “in vivo” biological assays of plant extracts, fractions, secondary metabolites as well as synthetic derivatives.
Chemoinformatics: use of data sets of small organic molecules for modeling and property prediction by machine learning tools and data mining.

Member of editorial board

Concluded supervisions

Last publications:

JA Freitas, GV Ccana-Ccapatinta, FB Da Costa. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids and other constituents from Emilia fosbergii Nicolson Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 92, 104-110, 2020
E Plazas, R Casoti, M Avila, F Da Costa, LE Cuca. Metabolomic profiling of Zanthoxylum species: Identification of anticholinesterase alkaloids candidates Phytochemistry 168, 112-128, 2020
Metabolomic and Gene Expression Studies Reveal the Diversity, Distribution and Spatial Regulation of the GF Padilla-González, E Amrehn, M Frey, J Gómez-Zeledón, A Kaa. Specialized Metabolism of Yacón (Smallanthus sonchifolius, Asteraceae). International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21 (12), 45-55, 2020.