Christian Zidorn

University Professor of Pharmaceutical Biology at Kiel University, Germany
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmacy

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Researcher ID: K-1536-2019
ID ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8956-9874

Professional (scientific) interests: Christian ZIDORN, head of the KIEL PHARMACOGNOSY Group, has more than 20 years of experience in secondary metabolites chemistry, chemosystematics, chemical ecology, and analytical chemistry of natural products. Our main fields of research are establishing analytical UHPLC-MS and GC-MS systems for bioactive natural products in plant extracts and essential oils, isolation and structure elucidation of bioactive metabolites from higher plants and marine organisms, and understanding the underlying mechanisms regulating the quantity of these compounds in different parts of the investigated organisms.

Research interests include phytochemistry, chemophenetics, botanical systematics, and chemical ecology

Selected Publications:

  1. Moghaddam, M., Zidorn, C. (2024). Chemophenetics of the subtribe Cercidinae (Fabaceae, Cercideae). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 116, 104890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bse.2024.104890

  2. Cacciola, N. A., De Cicco, P., Amico, R., Sepe, F., Li, Y., Grauso, L., Nanì, M. F., Scarpato, S., Zidorn, C., Mangoni, A., Borrelli, F. (2024). Zosterabisphenone B, a new diarylheptanoid heterodimer from the seagrass Zostera marina, induces apoptosis cell death in colon cancer cells and reduces tumour growth in mice. Phytotherapy Research, 38 (8), 4168–4176. https://doi.org/10.1002/ptr.8269

  3. Mahboubifar, M., Zidorn, C., Farag, M. A., Zayed, A., Jassbi, A. R. (2024). Chemometric‐based drug discovery approaches from natural origins using hyphenated chromatographic techniques. Phytochemical Analysis, 35 (5), 990–1016. https://doi.org/10.1002/pca.3382

  4. Çiçek, S. S., Mangoni, A., Hanschen, F. S., Agerbirk, N., Zidorn, C. (2024). Essentials in the acquisition, interpretation, and reporting of plant metabolite profiles. Phytochemistry, 220, 114004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2024.114004

  5. Moheimanian, N., Mirkhani, H., Edraki, N., Poustforoosh, A., Momeni, S., Khalighian, N., Zidorn, C., Sohrabipour, J., Jassbi, A. R. (2023). Bioassay-guided purification of α-glucosidase inhibitor fatty acids from Padina tetrastromatica. Journal of Applied Phycology, 36 (1), 359–370. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-023-03125-6

  6. Moghaddam, M., Ghobad-Nejhad, M., Stegemann, T., Çiçek, S. S., Zidorn, C., Javanmard, M. (2023). Nutritional Composition and Odor-Contributing Volatile Compounds of the Edible Mushroom Cantharellus alborufescens. Molecules, 28 (22), 7516. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28227516

  7. Danziger, L., Galarza Pérez, M., Çiçek, S. S., Zidorn, C. (2023). Fatty acids and polyacetylenes from Chaerophyllum temulum (Apiaceae, Scandiceae). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 110, 104688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bse.2023.104688