Faculty Awards for Women: Causes of Variation in Secondary Metabolite Production by Tropical Seaweeds

这一奖项的获得者是海洋化学生态领域的领先者。她提出的未来五年的研究将涉及使用天然产物化学技术来解决热带海洋植物的生态和生化问题。草食动物的相互作用。她的重点将是热带海藻产生次生代谢物变异的生物和物理原因的重要性。这项研究有望提供关于化学变化及其原因、海藻改变其化学防御分配的能力、兼性化学变化的时间尺度以及海藻与热带草食动物之间的生态关系的重要信息。

The recipient of this FAW award is a leader in the field of Marine Chemical Ecology. Her proposed research during the next five years will involve using techniques of natural products chemistry to address ecological and biochemical questions of tropical marine plant.herbivore interactions. Her focus will be on the importance of biological and physical causes of variation in the production of secondary metabolites by tropical seaweeds. The research is expected to provide important information on chemical variation and its causes, the ability of seaweeds to change their allocation of chemical defenses, the time scale for facultative chemical changes, and ecological relationships between seaweeds and tropical herbivores.