Fumito ISHIBASHI, Dr. Agr.
Faculty of Fisheries, Nagasaki University
1-14 Bunkyo-Machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
phone (+81) 95-819-2833
facsimile (+81) 95-819-2799
email: fumito@nagasaki-u.ac.jp
email: fumito@nagasaki-u.ac.jp
Education:
Dr. Agr., Kyushu University, 1987
M. Agr., Kyushu University, 1984
B. Agr., Kyushu University, 1981
Experience:
• Professor, 2007-, Faculty of Fisheries, Nagasaki University
• Associate Professor, 1992-2007, Faculty of Fisheries, Nagasaki University
• Visiting Scholar, 2003, The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego (Prof. William Fenical)
• Assistant Professor, 1989-1992, Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Ehime University
• Visiting Scientist, 1991-1992, Botany, The University of British Columbia (Prof. G. H. Neil Towers)
• Fellowship for Japanese Junior Scientist (postdoctoral fellow), 1987-1989, Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Kyushu University
Field of Interest:
Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Natural Product Chemistry
Current Research:
• Design and Synthesis of Novel Anticancer Compounds
based on Marine Alkaloid Lamellarin
• Synthesis and Biological Activity of Marine Pyrrole Alkaloids
Selected Publications:
• F.
Ishibashi, S. Sato, K. Sakai, S. Hirao, and K. Kuwano,
Algicidal Sesquiterpene Hydroquinones from the Brown Alga
Dictyopteris undulata, Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem.
77, 1120-1122, (2013).
• S.
Hirao, K. Tara, K. Kuwano, J. Tanaka, and F. Ishibashi,
Algicidal Activity of Glycerolipids from the Brown Alga
Ishige sinicola on Red Tide Microalgae, Biosci.
Biotechnol. Biochem., 76, 372-374 (2012).
• T.
Fukuda, F. Ishibashi, and M. Iwao, Synthesis and Biological
Activity of Lamellarin Alkaloids: An Overview,
Heterocycles, 83, 491-529 (2011).
• S.
Hirao, Y. Yoshinaga, M.Iwao, and F. Ishibashi, A Formal
Total Synthesis of the Telomerase Inhibitor Dictyodendrin B,
Tetrahedron Lett., 51, 533-536 (2010).
• T.
Ohta, T. Fukuda, F. Ishibashi, and M. Iwao, Design and
Synthesis of Lamellarin D Analogues Targeting Topoisomerase
I, J. Org. Chem., 74, 8143-8153 (2009).
• D.
Baubæk, N. Trinkler, Y. Ferandin, O. Lozach, P. Ploypradith,
S. Rucirawat, F. Ishibashi, M. Iwao and L. Meijer,
Anticancer alkaloid lamellarins inhibit protein kinases,
Mar. Drugs, 6, 514-527 (2008).
