Dr Asmaa Boufridi
Research Fellow
Member, Centre for Bioinnovation
Email: aboufridi@usc.edu.au
Telephone: +61 7 5456 5428
Asmaa is a natural product chemist in the Centre for Bioinnovation and School of Science, Technology and Engineering at UniSC. She completed her PhD in 2014 at the University Paris XI in creating a library of active compounds by modifying the structure of a marine natural product using chemistry and biotransformation. Asmaa joined Griffith University in 2015 as a postdoctoral research fellow focusing on the determination of active new compounds using NMR guided isolation and NMR metabolomics. In 2020, Asmaa joined the University of the Sunshine Coast as a research officer identifying and quantifying natural compounds using HPLC-MS and GC-MS. Asmaa holds a Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education and is recognised as an AFHEA.
Research
Publications
- Boufridi, S. Petek, L. Evanno, M. A. Beniddir, C. Debitus, D. Buisson, E. Poupon, Biotransformation versus chemical modifications: new cytotoxic analogues of marine sesquiterpene ilimaquinone, Tetrahedron Letters, 57(44), 4922- 4925, 2016. (Cover page of the Journal).
- Boufridi, D. Lachkar, D. Erpenbeck, M. A. Beniddir, L. Evanno, S. Petek, C. Debitus, E. Poupon, Ilimaquinone and 5- epi-ilimaquinone: beyond a simple diastereomeric ratio, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 70(6), 743-750, 2016. (Cover page of the Journal).
- Boufridi, R. J. Quinn, Harnessing the properties of natural products, invited paper to Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology, 58, 451-470, 2018
- Boufridi (and >40 authors, alphabetically listed). The value of universally available raw NMR data for transparency, reproducibility, and integrity in natural product research. Natural Product Reports, 36, 35-107, 2019. (Invited).
- Bonneau, G. Chen, D. Lachkar, A. Boufridi, J.-F. Gallard, P. Retailleau, S. Petek, C. Debitus, L. Evanno, M. A. Beniddir, E. Poupon, An Unprecedented Blue Chromophore Found in Nature by a “Chemistry First” and Molecular Networking Approach: Discovery of Dactylocyanines A-H, Chemistry-A European Journal, 23(58), 14454-14461, 2017.
Research Summary
Research grants
2022: Professor Abigail Elizur, Dr Asmaa Boufridi, Dr Tianfang Wang Algae Biotechnology: Identifying natural products funded by Provectus Algae Pty Ltd
Teaching and supervision
Teaching
- Organic Chemistry
- Drug Discovery
Teaching Summary
Dr Asmaa Boufridi is the Course Coordinator for CHM202 Organic Chemistry
Professional
Awards and memberships
- 2021: Advance Higher Education Fellowship (AFHEA)
- 2018: Travel grant award (the American Society of Pharmacognosy Annual Meeting)
- 2015: Video competition for the Australian Academy of Science EMCR, Thinkable competitions
- 2011: National exam for obtaining a PhD scholarship, first position for the central region of Algeria, destination: France
Media
Dr Asmaa Boufridi’s specialist areas of expertise include isolation and quantification of natural products, chromatography (HPLC and GC), spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, structural modification of small molecules, drug discovery, and metabolomics.