Jean-Luc Wolfender

Professor at the School of pharmaceutical sciences, University of Geneva - Switzerland

Jean-Luc Wolfender is a chemist, who completed a PhD in pharmacognosy with Prof. Kurt Hostettmann (University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 1993). After being responsible for the analytical services of this laboratory, he performed a post-doc by Prof. Al Burlingame on Conus venom profiling (UCSF, San Francisco). He is now full Professor at the Phytochemistry and Bioactive Natural Product research unit of the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Geneva (Switzerland). His mains research interests focused on plant metabolomics and the search of inducible bioactive natural products in response to various biotic and abiotic stimuli. He is mainly involved in the development of dereplication and de novo structure identification methods of natural products with LC hyphenated techniques (LC-MS and LC-NMR).