• Sánchez, LA, Capitan, Z, Romero, LI, Ortega-Barría, E, Gerwick, WH  and Luis Cubilla-Rios. Bio-Assay Guided Isolation of Germacranes with Anti-Protozoan Activity from Magnolia sororum. 2007. Natural Product Communications 2 (11):1065-1198. 2007.

• H. Montenegro, J. Gonzalez, E. Ortega-Barria and L. Cubilla. Antiprotozoal Activity of Flavonoid Glycosides Isolated from Climedia sericea and Mosquitoxylon jamaicense. 2007. Pharmaceutical Biology, Vol 45, No. 5 pp. 376-380.

• K. McPhail, J. Correa, R. Linington, J. Gonzalez, E. Ortega-Barria, T. Capson and W. Gerwick. Antimalarial Linear Lipopeptides from a Panamanian Strain of the Marine Cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula. 2007. Journal of Natural Products 70, 984-988.

• C. Jimenez, D. Torres, L. Ureña, E. Ortega-Barria, K. McPhail, W. Gerwick and L. Cubilla. Hydroxy-Alkenylresorcinols from Stylogyne turbacensis. 2007. Journal of Natural Products 70: 1249-1252.

• T. Kursar, C. Caballero, T. Capson, L. Cubilla, W. Gerwick, M. Heller, A. Ibañez, R. Linington, K. McPhail, E. Ortega-Barria, L. Romero and P. Coley. Linking bioprospecting with sustainable development and conservation: the Panama case. 2007. Biodiversity Conservation, 10 Online.

• T. Kursar, C. Caballero, T. Capson. L. Cubilla, W. Gerwick. A. Ibañez, R. Linington, K. McPhail, E. Ortega-Barria, L. Romero and P.Coley. Obtaining Economic Benefits from Sustainably Managed Ecosystems Through Bioprospecting. In Press.

• Todd L. Capson. Biodiscovery Research in Panama: Linking Science, Technology, Human Health, and Conservation in the Host-Country Context. In: Legal and Scientific Implications of Bioprospecting Contracts: A Handbook for Policymakers. Edited by Santiago Carrizosa and Patrick McGuire. The ABS Project (IUCN-Environmental Law Centre). In Press

• Kursar, T.A., T.L. Capson,  L. Cubilla-Rios, D.A. Emmen, W. Gerwick, M.V. Heller, K. McPhail, E. Ortega-Barría, D.I. Quiros, L.I. Romero and P.D. Coley. Linking insights from basic research with bioprospecting in order to promote conservation, enhance research capacity and provide economic uses of biodiversity. 2007. S. Schnitzer and W. Carson (eds.) Tropical Forest Ecology, Blackwell Scientific.  In Press

• Coley P.D. On turning green into gold. 2008, Daedalus. In Press.

Publications - 2006

• Correa, J.E., Rios, C.H., Castillo, A.R., Romero, L.I., Ortega-Barría, E., Coley, P.D., Kursar, T.A., Heller, M.V., Gerwick, W.H. and Cubilla-Rios, L. Minor alkaloids from Guatteria dumentorum with antileishmanial activity. 2006. Planta Medica 72: 270-272.

• R. Linington, J. Gonzalez, L. Ureña, E. Ortega-Barria, and W. Gerwick. Venturamides A and B: Antimalarial Constituents of the Panamanian Marine Cyanobacterium Oscillatoria ap. 2006. Journal of Natural Products.

• Eunice Molinar-Toribio, Jose Gonzalez, Eduardo Ortega-Barría, Todd L. Capson, Phyllis D. Coley, Thomas A. Kursar, Kerry McPhail and Luis Cubilla-Ríos. Antiprotozoal Activity Against Plasmodium falciparum and Trypanosoma cruzi of Xanthones Isolated from Chrysochlamys tenuis.  2006. Pharmaceutical Biology, Vol.44 No. 7, pp. 550-553.

• D. Torres, J. Gonzalez, E. Ortega-Barria, M. Heller, T. Capson, K. Mcphail, W. Gerwick and L. Cubilla. Weakly Antimalarial Flavonol Arabinofuranosides from Calycolpus warszewiczianus.  2006. Journal Natural Products, 69, pp. 826-828.

• T. Kursar, C. Caballero, T. Capson, L. Cubilla, W. Gerwick, M. Gupta, A. Ibañez, R. Linington, K. McPhail, E. Ortega-Barria, L. Romero, P. Solis and P. Coley. Securing Economic Benefits and Promoting Conservation through Bioprospecting. 2006. BioScience, Vol. 56 No. 12, 56: 1005-1012.

• M. Gutierrez, T. Capson, H. Guzman, J. Gonzalez, E. Ortega-Barria, E. Quiñoa and R. Riguera. Antiplasmodial Metabolites Isolated from the Marine Octocoral Muricea austera. 2006. Journal of Natural Products.

• D. Quiros, D. Emmen, E. Dominguez, M. Heller, P. Coley, and T. Kursar. A rapid, efficient method for the bioassay of extracts, fractions and compounds for activity against tropical aphids. 2006. International Journal of Pest Management, October-December, 52(4): 333-342.

• Todd L. Capson. Panama’s Coiba National Park: a jewel of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. World Heritage, 2006, Number 42, June, UNESCO.

• Hussein, A.A., Olmedo, D.A., Vasquez, Y., Coley, P.D., Solis, P.N. and Gupta, M.P. New cytotoxic cinnamic acid derivatives from leaves of Bonamia trichantha.2006. Revista Latinamerica de Quimica (in press).

Publications - 2005

• Cherigo, L., Polanco, V., Ortega-Barría, E., Capson, T.L., Cubilla-Rios, L.  Anti-Trypanosoma cruzi activity of a norlignan purified from Nectandra lineate.  Journal of Natural Products Research, 2005,19: 373-377.
• Gutiérrez, M.; Capson, T.L.; Guzmán, H.M.; González, J.; Ortega-Barría, E.; Quiñoá, E. and Riguera, R. Antiprotozoal activity against Plasmodium falciparum and Trypanosoma crusi of Aeroplysinin-1 isolated from the new sponge Aplysina chiriquensis. 2005. Pharmaceutical Biology 43: 762-765.
• Gutiérrez, M., Capson, T.L., Guzmán, H.M., González, J., Ortega-Barría, E., Quínoa, E. and Riguera, R. Leptolide, a New Furanocembranolide Diterpene from Leptogorgia alba. 2005. Journal of Natural Products 68: 614-616.
• Hussein, A.A., Barberena, I. , Correa, M., Coley, P.D., Solis, P.N. and Gupta, M.P. Cytotoxic flavonol glycosides from Triplaris cumingiana. 2005. Journal of Natural Products 68: 231-233.
• A. Hussein, D. Olmedo, Y. Vasquez, P. Coley, P. Solis and M.Gupta. New citotoxic cinnamic acid derivatives from leaves of Bonamia trichantha.  2005. Revista Latinoamerica de Quimica.
• Garzón, S.P., Rodríguez, A.D., Sánchez, J.A. and Ortega-Barría, E. Sesquiterpenoid Metabolites with Antiplasmodial Activity from a Caribbean Gorgonian Coral, Eunicea sp. 2005. Journal of Natural Products 68: 1354-1359.
• Ospina, C.A., Rodríguez, A.D., Sánchez, J.A., Ortega-Barría, E., Capson, T.L. and Mayer, A.M.S. Caucanolides A-F, Unusual Antiplasmodial Constituents from a Colombian Collection of the Gorgonian Coral Pseudopterogorgia bipinnata. 2005. Journal of Natural Products 68: 1519-1526.

Publications - 2004

• Gutiérrez, M.; Capson, T.L.; Guzmán, H.M.; Quiñoá, E. and Riguera, R. L-Galactose as a Natural Product: Isolation from a Marine Octocoral of the First a-L-galactosyl saponin. 2004. Tetrahedron Letters 45: 7833.
• Marrero, J., Rodríguez, A.D., Baran, P., Raptis, R.G., Sánchez, J.A., Ortega-Barría, E. and Capson, T.L. Bielschowskysin, a Gorgonian-Derived Biologically Active Diterpene with an Unprecedented Carbon Skeleton. 2004. Organic Letters 6(10): 1661-1664.
• Corbett, Y., Herrera, L., González, J., Cubilla, L., Capson, T.L., Coley, P.D., Kursar, T.A., Romero, L. and Ortega-Barría, E. A Novel DNA-Based Microfluorimetric Method to Evaluate Antimalarial Drug Activity. 2004. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 70(2): 119–124.
• Torres-Mendoza, D., Ureña, L.D., González, J., Ortega-Barría, E., Coley, P.D., Kursar, T.K., Capson, T.L., McPhail, K. and Cubilla-Rios, L. Novel cassane and cleistanthane diterpenes from Myrospermum frutescens: absolute stereochemistry of the cassane diterpene series. 2004. Journal of Natural Products 67(10): 1711-5.
• Hussein, A.A., Barberena, I. , Capson, T.L., Kursar, T., Coley, P.D., Solis, P.N. and Gupta, M.P. New cytotoxic naphthopyrane derivatives from Adenaria floribunda. 2004. Journal of Natural Products 67(3): 451-3.
• Rodríguez, I. , Shi, Y.P., García, O.J., Rodríguez, A.D., Mayer, A.M.S., Sánchez, J.A., Ortega-Barría, E. and González, J. New Pseudopterosin and seco-Pseudopterosin Diterpene Glycosides from Two Colombian Isolates of Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae and Their Diverse Biological Activities. 2004. Journal of Natural Products 67: 1672-1680.
• Wei, X., Rodríguez, A.D., Baran, P. Raptis, R.G., Sánchez, J.A., Ortega-Barría, E. and González, J. Antiplasmodial cembradiene diterpenoids from a Southwestern Caribbean gorgonian octocoral of the genus Eunicea. 2004. Tetrahedron  60: 11813–11819.

Publications - 2003

• Kursar, T.A. and Coley, P.D.  Convergence in defense syndromes of young leaves in tropical rainforests. 2003.  Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 31, 929-949.
• Torres Mendoza, D., Ureña, L.D., González, J., Ortega-Barría, E., Capson, T.L. and Cubilla Rios, L. Five New Cassane Diterpenes from Myrospermum frutescens with Activity against Trypanosoma cruzi.2003. Journal of Natural Products 66: 928-932.
• Williams, C., Espinosa, O.A., Montenegro , H., Cubilla, L., Capson, T.L., Ortega-Barría, E., Romero, L. Hydrosoluble formazan XTT: its application to natural products drug discovery for Leishmania.2003. Journal of Microbiological Methods 55: 813– 816.
• Ospina , C.A. , Rodríguez, A.D., Ortega-Barría, E. and Capson, T.L. Briarellins J-P and polyanthellin A: New Eunicellin-Based Diterpenes from the Gorgonian Coral Briareum polyanthes and their Antimalarial Activity.2003. Journal Natural Products 66: 357-363.
• Montenegro , H., Gutiérrez, M., Romero, L., Ortega-Barría, E., Capson, T. and Cubilla Ríos, L. Aporphine Alkaloids from Guateria spp. with Leishmanicidal Activity.2003. Planta Medica 69: 677-679.
• Rodríguez, N., Vásquez, Y., Hussein, A.A., Coley, P.D., Solis, P.N. and Gupta, M.P. Cytotoxic cucurbitacin constituents from Sloanea zuliaensis.2003. Journal of Natural Products 66(11):1515-6.
• Hussein, A.A., Gómez, B.,  Ramos, M., Heller, M., Coley, P.D., Solis, P.N. and Gupta, M.P. Constituents of Hiraea reclinata and their anti-HIV activity.2003. Revista Latinoamerica de Química 31(2): 74-77.
• Coley, P.D., Heller, M.V., Aizprúa, R., Araúz, B., Flores, N., Correa, M., Gupta, M., Solis, P.N., Ortega-Barría, E., Romero, L.I., Gómez, B., Ramos, M., Cubilla-Rios, L., Capson, T.L. and Kursar, T.A. Using ecological criteria to design plant collection strategies for drug discovery.2003. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1(8): 421-428.
• Hussein, A.A., Bozzi, B., Correa, M., Capson, T.L., Kursar, T.A., Coley, P.D., Solis, P.N. and Gupta, M.P. Bioactive Constituents from Three Vismia Species.2003. Journal of Natural Products 66(6): 858-860.

Publications - 1999

• Kursar, T.A., Capson T.L., Coley, P.D., Corley, D.G., Gupta, M.B., Harrison , L.A. , Ortega-Barría, E. and Windsor , D.M. Ecologically guided bioprospecting in Panama .1999. Journal of Pharmaceutical Biology 37(supplement): 114-126.

Publications - 1996

• Capson, T.L., Coley, P.D. and Kursar, T.A. A new paradigm for drug discovery in tropical rainforests.1996. Nature Biotechnology 14(10): 1200-1202.

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