Ms Claire Levrier
Position:
- PhD student, APCRC
Biography:
Miss Levrier completed her Master in Natural Product Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, France in 2011. She then took up a research position at the ICSN/CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette, France, under the supervision of Dr Marc Litaudon and Dr Françoise Guéritte. ‘Phytochemical and biological studies (glioblastoma) of Antiaris toxicaria and Solmsia calophylla’,
In 2012, Miss Levrier was a visiting scientist at the Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane, under the supervision of Dr Rohan Davis, where she worked on a project entitled: "Antimalarial alkaloids from the Australian endemic plant Goniothalamus australis".
This year she took up a PhD candidature at the Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane, under the supervision of Dr Rohan Davis, Dr Martin Sadowski and Professor Colleen Nelson . Her current research project is: "New cytotoxic (prostate cancer) compounds from Australian endemic rainforest plants."
Best publications:
Claire Levrier, Bernard Kiremire, Françoise Guéritte, Marc Litaudon,
"Toxicarioside M, a new cytotoxic 10β-hydroxy-19-nor-cardenolide from Antiaris toxicaria"
Fitoterapia, Volume 83, Issue 4, June 2012, Pages 660-664, ISSN 0367-326X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fitote.2012.02.001.(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367326X1200038X)
Claire Levrier, Mélodie Balastrier, Karren D. Beattie, Anthony R. Carroll, Frédéric Martin, Vanida Choomuenwai, Rohan A. Davis,
"Pyridocoumarin, aristolactam and aporphine alkaloids from the Australian rainforest plant Goniothalamus australis"
Phytochemistry, Volume 86, February 2013, Pages 121-126, ISSN 0031-9422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2012.09.019. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003194221200430X)
Drug discovery, Natural product chemistry, Prostate cancer biology.
