Amy Wright, Ph.D.    

Director of the Division of Biomedical Marine Research. , Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution

Ph.D., University of California, Riverside Campus

Wright@hboi.edu
 

Research: (10 pt)

Dr. Wright has been working in the field of Marine Natural Products Chemistry for over 24 years. Her primary research interests focus on the purification and structure identification of naturally occurring compounds which may have utility in treating cancer. Much of the research focuses on the investigation of deep-sea invertebrates collected using the Johnson-Sea-Link human- occupied submersibles. 

Selected Publications:

A. E. Wright, Isolation of Marine Natural Products, in Methods in Biotechnology, Vol 4. Natural Products Isolation (R.J. P.Cannell, ed), Humana Press Inc. (Totowa, NJ), 1998 365-408.

Shirley A. Pomponi, Robin Willoughby, Amy E. Wright, Claudia Pecorella, Susan H. Sennett, Jose Lopez and Gail Samples, In Vitro Production of Marine-Derived Antitumor Compounds, New Developments in Marine
Biotechnology, edited by Le Gal and Halvorson, Plenum Press, New York, 1998, pp 73-76.

Rebecca L. Wood, Tamar K. Miller, Amy Wright, Peter McCarthy, Cathy S. Taft, Shirley Pomponi, and Claude P. Seletrenikoff, Characterization and Optimization of In Vitro Assay Conditions for (1,3)b-Glucan synthase
Activity from Aspergillus fumigatis and Candida albicans for Enzyme  Inhibition Screening, J. Antibiotics, 1998, 51, 665-675.

Sarath P. Gunasekera, Peter J. McCarthy, Ross E. Longley, Shirley A.
Pomponi, and Amy E. Wright, Secobatzellines A and B, Two New Enzyme Inhibitors from a Deep Water Caribbean Sponge of the Genus Batzella, J. Nat. Prod. 1999, 62, 1208-1211.