Russell Kerr
Professor
Faculty of Sciences- Chemistry
University of Prince Edward Island
Canada
Biography
Dr. Rusell completed his Phd from Calgary. Currently, He works in UPEI as professor in Department of Chemistry. He ia the Canada Research Chair in Marine Natural Products and also Jeanne and J. Louis Lévesque Research Chair in Nutrisciences and Health.
Research Interest
Dr. Kerr's research group at the University of Prince Edward Island is engaged in projects directed at the development of sustainable production methods of bioactive marine metabolites, and discovering new bioactive bio-products. The latter group includes natural products with activities in assays of relevance to human and animal health and with activity as marine antifouling agents.
Publications
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Abdâ€Elâ€Aziz AS, Agatemor C, Etkin N, Bissessur R, Overy D, Lanteigne M, McQuillan K, Kerr RG. Quaternized and Thiazoleâ€Functionalized Free Radicalâ€Generating Organometallic Dendrimers as Antimicrobial Platform against Multidrugâ€Resistant Microorganisms. Macromolecular Bioscience. 2017 Mar 1.
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Forget SM, Robertson AW, Overy DP, Kerr RG, Jakeman DL. Furan and Lactam Jadomycin Biosynthetic Congeners Isolated from Streptomyces venezuelae ISP5230 Cultured with N ε-Trifluoroacetyl-l-lysine. Journal of Natural Products. 2017 May 18.
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Kracht ON, Ammann AC, Stockmann J, Wibberg D, Kalinowski J, Piotrowski M, Kerr R, Brück T, Kourist R. Transcriptome profiling of the Australian arid-land plant Eremophila serrulata (A. DC.) Druce (Scrophulariaceae) for the identification of monoterpene synthases. Phytochemistry. 2017 Apr 30;136:15-22.
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Tangerina MM, Correa H, Haltli B, Vilegas W, Kerr RG. Bioprospecting from cultivable bacterial communities of marine sediment and invertebrates from the underexplored Ubatuba region of Brazil. Archives of microbiology. 2017 Jan 1;199(1):155-69.
