The screening and testing of extracts against a variety of pharmacological targets in order to
benefit from the immense natural chemical diversity is a concern in many laboratories …

Hydroxamic acids are an important class of molecules, in particular because of their metal-
chelating ability. Microorganisms, including pathogenic bacteria, use hydroxamate-based …

Cyclodipeptides, called 2, 5-diketopiperazines (2, 5-DKPs), are obtained by the
condensation of two amino acids. Fungi have been considered to be a rich source of novel …

Recently, the siderophores have opened new horizons in nanomedicine. The current study
aimed to design a theranostic platform based on superparamagnetic iron oxide …

Wasps, members of the order Hymenoptera, are distributed in different parts of the world,
including Brazil, Thailand, Japan, Korea, and Argentina. The lifestyles of the wasps are …

Facing the urgent need to reduce the input of agrochemicals, in recent years, the ecological
relationships between plants and their associated microorganisms have been increasingly …

Chemical analysis of cultures of a Queensland mud dauber wasp nest-derived fungus,
Talaromyces sp. CMB-MW102, yielded the known dimeric oxaphenalenone duclauxin (1) …

This review presents an account of the microbial biodiscovery methodology developed and
applied in our laboratory at The University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Bioscience …

Honey bees coexist with fungi that colonize hive surfaces and pollen. Some of these fungi
are opportunistic pathogens, but many are beneficial species that produce antimicrobial …

An integrated program of chemical profiling (GNPS) coupled with an expanded format 24-
well-plate miniaturized cultivation profiling (MATRIX) utilizing traditional as well as …