BSc (Hons), PhD
Associate Professor, Griffith School of Environment
Contact details for Associate Professor Anthony Carroll
Research Expertise
- Biodiscovery involving screening against molecular targets
- Isolation and structure elucidation of bioactive natural products
- Chemical and biological diversity analysis of marine invertebrates
- Molecular imaging of marine invertebrates
- Chemotaxonomy of ascidans and sponges
- Chemotaxonomy of plants from the families: Proteaceae, Myrtaceae and Elaeocarpaceae
- Marine and freshwater toxins research
- Chemical ecology of marine invertebrates
Teaching Areas
- Pollution Chemistry
- Ecotoxicology (Marine Toxins)
- Marine Systems
- Drug Design and Development
Current Projects
- Chemical diversity within biota and its relationship to biodiversity
- Molecular basis of marine invertebrate/microbe symbiosis
- Chemotaxonomy within myrtacell, proteacene, elasscarpacea, sponges, ascidians
- Influence of plant chemistry on herbirour distribution
- Novel cyanobacteria toxins and their affects on waterways
- Chemicals from frog skin secretions and their effects on resilience to infections
- Biodiversity using plants, marine invertebrates, microbes, insects
Research Team
| Name |
Position |
Project |
|---|---|---|
| Mr Jed Sack Principle Supervisor |
Honours Student |
Identification of novel uncharacterised cyanotoxins from Australian Freshwater Cyanobacteria |
| Ms Amanda Dawson Principle Supervisor |
Honours Student |
Determination of the antimicrobial and antifungal properties of the Green Turtle, Loggerhead Turtle and Flatback Turtle oviductal secretions and their relationship to cloacal and nest pathogens |
| Ms Diana Kiss Principle Supervisor | Honours Student |
Can the chemistry found in plants tissue be used to help solve a taxonomical classification problem of Eucalypt? |
| Ms Leesa Habener Principle Supervisor | Honours Student |
Chemotaxonomy of sponges |
| Mr Seanan Wild Principle Supervisor | Honours Student |
Anti-microbial activity of skin secretions from south east Queensland frog species, an analogue to Chyrid resistance? |
Publications
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