Author: Kira J Weissman

Professor Norberto Peporine Lopes obtained B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Pharmacy and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Sao Paulo. At present, he is Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sao Paulo in Ribeirao Preto and head of the Physics and Chemistry Department of the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Ribeirao Preto University of Sao Paulo and the Research Support Center in Natural and Synthetic Products (NPPNS). He is a board member of the Brazilian Chemical Society and the Brazilian Society of Mass Spectrometry. His research deals with organic chemistry, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary research into natural products chemistry using mass spectrometry. Ricardo Roberto da Silva obtained his M.Sc. Degree in Genetics from the Federal University of Viçosa and a Ph.D. in Genetics/Bioinformatics from the University of Sao Paulo in Ribeirão Preto. Currently, Ricardo is a postdocoral researcher at the Research Support Center in Natural and Synthetic Products (NPPNS), working on the establishment of metabolomics analysis platforms.