Dr. Caro’s research focuses on the identification of new molecular scaffolds produced by marine organisms, specifically macro and microalgae, to provide targets for total synthesis efforts. REU projects revolve around (1) chemical extraction and chromatographic fractionation, 2) liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) characterization of marine biomass for natural product de-replication, and (3) chemical synthesis of cyanobacterial natural products and synthetic analogues.
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