Chemical Marine Ecology

研究的重点是珊瑚礁的海洋天然产物化学。研究的一个重点将是了解绿藻宿主和导致循环沉积肽产生的棘球软体动物之间的关系。另一个项目将试图发现海绵中导致萜烯和氰基化合物的生物合成途径。此外，新的化合物将从被囊动物和苔藓虫中寻找，这些动物在夏威夷水域大量存在，但很少得到研究。有了这个奖，合成有机项目支持了夏威夷大学马诺阿分校化学系的保罗·j·舒尔博士的研究。Scheuer教授将把他的工作重点放在从分子水平上阐明珊瑚礁现象，通过发现生活在夏威夷水域的生物体或生物体群的新的天然产物。

The focus of the research is on the marine natural product chemistry of coral reefs. One highlight of the research will be to understand the relationship between green algal hosts and sacoglossan mollusks that leads to the production of cyclic depsipeptides. Another project will attempt to discover the biosynthetic pathways in a verongid sponge that leads to terpenes and cyano compounds. Also, new compounds will be sought from tunicates and bryozoa that are abundant in Hawaiian waters but have received little study. %%% With this award, the Synthetic Organic Program is supporting the research of Dr. Paul J. Scheuer of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Professor Scheuer will focus his work on elucidating coral reef phenomena at the molecular level by discovering new natural products from organisms or groups of organisms which reside in Hawaiian waters.