2025 American Society of Pharmacognosy Annual Meeting

Bradley Moore is a biosynthetic chemist and a pioneer in the field of natural product genome mining. He specializes in reading and writing the genetic code of aquatic life from bacteria and plankton to marine plants and animals to understand and develop new ocean-based materials, medicines and molecular tools. Moore is a Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego with joint appointments in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography where he is the Director of the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine. He has published >270 peer-reviewed articles, mentored 35 PhD/postdoc trainees to faculty jobs, and been recognized by the ASP with the 2001 Matt Suffness Young Investigator Award and the 2021 Norman R Farnsworth Research Achievement Award. He is a former President of the ASP and the current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Natural Products.

Cedric Pearce obtained B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southampton, UK. His major interest is in new microbial product discovery and development, and entrepreneurship in the life sciences. Following post-doctoral appointments in France (Royal Society European Exchange Fellow at C.N.R.S.) and the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (School of Chemical Sciences), he has been employed in academia, large Pharma, and early stage biotechnology organizations. A sabbatical in the venture capital world lead to a strong interest in start-up life science companies; since that time Dr. Pearce has been involved in early stage biotechnology organizations and providing advisory services, mainly to natural product discovery organizations, as well as his own fungus metabolite research activities. He has been associated with the Journal for approximately 15 years and is currently Executive Editor for Journal of Natural Products.

Professor Linington received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Leeds and his Ph.D. in natural products chemistry from the University of British Columbia in Canada. He started his independent academic career at the University of California Santa Cruz before moving back to Canada in 2015. He is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Simon Fraser University where he holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Natural Products and High-Throughput Screening.  Professor Linington has interests in both the practical aspects of small molecule identification and the technical aspects of developing new computational methods in this area. This includes separation science, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, database design, and algorithm development. His team maintains the Natural Products Atlas (www.npatlas.org), a database of all known microbial metabolites.

Sonja Krane is Senior Associate Publisher at the American Chemical Society. Following undergraduate and graduate studies in chemistry, as well as work experience as a medicinal chemist, Sonja joined the ACS Publications Division as Managing Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. She currently manages a portfolio of twelve journals, and, in this role, she supports the strategic development of these titles and the implementation of editorial initiatives that enable the journals to excel in their fields. She has managed efforts to launch new titles, contributed to the overhaul of the journal licensing options in support of ACS Publications’ Open Science program, and led the successful development and launch of several Artificial Intelligence-Assisted tools across the journal portfolio.