Dr. Humberto Mayorga Wandurraga - CEMarin

Dr. Humberto Mayorga Wandurraga

Education

• 1997-2002 Ph.D. in Chemical Science, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia.
• 1988-1994 B.Sc.in  Chemistry, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia.

University Unit

• Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
• Faculty of Science, Chemistry Department.
• Bogotá, Colombia.

Research Group

Natural Products Bioactive Vegetables and Ecological Chemistry.

Technical/Quantitative skills: 

• Extraction and separation of chemical substances (Essential oils).

Contact information

• Email: hmayorgaw@unal.edu.co
• Colciencias cvLac
• Orcid profile

Professional experience

• 2005-date Associate professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
• 2003 Visiting professor, Universidad de la Amazonia, Florencia, Colombia.
• 1999-2000 Visiting researcher, Technische Universität zu Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.

Research Interests

Topics: Natural compounds with biological activity, isolation, structural characterization and transformation. Potential of agricultural, biotechnological, pharmacological, ecological or industrial application of natural resources.

Selected Publications

Mayorga, H., Urrego, N. F., Castellanos, L., Duque, C. (2011). Cembradienes from the Caribbean sea whip Eunicea sp. Tetrahedron Letters, 52(19), 2515–2518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2011.03.023

Mayorga, H., Duque, C., Knapp, H., Winterhalter, P. (2002). Hydroxyester disaccharides from fruits of cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana). Phytochemistry, 59(4), 439–445. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0031-9422(01)00467-8

Mayorga, H., Knapp, H., Winterhalter, P., Duque, C. (2001). Glycosidically Bound Flavor Compounds of Cape Gooseberry (Physalis peruvianaL.). Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 49(4), 1904–1908. https://doi.org/10.1021/jf0011743

Number of publications: 

Cvlac: 21