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Shimizu  

Yuzuru Shimizu, Ph.D.

Professor of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry
Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
yshimizu@uri.edu
     

Research Interests

  
  • Chemistry and Biochemistry of Marine Natural Products
  • Toxigenicity Mechanisms of Marine Microorganisms
  • Biosynthesis of Red Tide Toxins and Mechanism of Action of Toxin
     

Education

  

Ph.D., Hokkaido University, 1963

M.S., Hokkaido University, 1960

B.Sc., Hokkaido University, 1958
     
Selected Publications  

I. Bauer, L. Maranda, Y. Shimizu, C. Fairchild, L. Cornelli, J. McBeth and S. Huang, The Isolation and Structure of Caribenolide I, A Highly Potent Antitumor Macrolide from Cultured Free-swimming Caribbean Dinoflagellate, Amphidinium sp. S1-36-5, J. Org. Chem., 1995, 60:1084-1086

Y. Shimizu, Microaglal Metabolites: A New Perspective, Ann. Rev. Microbiol., 1996, 50:431-465