BRADLEY MOORE
Professor
CTR FOR MARINE BIOTEC & BIOMED
Research Interests
- Marine Biomedicine and Biotechnology
- Microbial Genomics and Metabolomics
- Natural Product Drug Discovery
- Natural Toxins and Pollutants
- Synthetic Biology
Degrees
- B.S., University of Hawaii
- PhD, University of Washington
- Postdoc, University of Zurich
Recent Publications
9129767 IWNPIQDK 1 apa 5 date desc year Moore 265 https://bsmoore.scrippsprofiles.ucsd.edu/wp-content/plugins/zotpress/
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