Dr. Smith Borakaeyabe Babiaka

Profile

Academic position	Post Doc
Research fields	Natural Product Chemistry,Analytical Chemistry
Keywords	Marine sponges, Marine natural products, Novel antimicrobial agents, Antimicrobial resistance, west coast of Africa
Honours and awards	2023: Best ACS Poster award to Smith B. Babiaka at the ACS Publications Symposium: Biological and Medicinal Chemistry, March 6-8, 2023, University of Bonn, Germany 2021: Geor Forster-Bayer Science Foundation Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers 2021: Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, for 24 months 2019: African-German Network of Excellence in Science (AGNES) Junior Researcher Grant to support my research and prepare a Georg Forster Research Fellowship 2018: I was awarded the President of the Republic of Cameroon Excellent Awards to graduate students in Cameroon State universities ((2010, 2012-2018). 2018: Minister of Higher Education of Cameroon (MINESUP) PhD mobility grant to support my PhD research at the University of Nairobi, Kenya 2017: European Union, ARISE-Intra ACP PhD sandwich scholarship in 2017 to Study at the School of Pharmacy, University of Nairobi, Kenya 2013: got funding from Lhasa, UK, for the construction of Southern Africa natural product Databases through the Chemical Bioactivity Information Centre, at the University of Buea, Cameroon to support my PhD research

Current contact address

Country	Germany
City	Tübingen
Institution	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Institute	Fakultät für Biologie, IMIT - Interfakultäres Institut für Mikrobiologie und Infektionsmedizin

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt	Fakultät für Biologie, IMIT - Interfakultäres Institut für Mikrobiologie und Infektionsmedizin, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen
Dr. Chambers C. Hughes	Fakultät für Biologie, IMIT - Interfakultäres Institut für Mikrobiologie und Infektionsmedizin, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen
Start of initial sponsorship	01/06/2022

Program(s)

2021	Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2023	Smith B.Babiaka, Doris E.Ekayen, Dieudonne L.Njimoh, and Kennedy O.Abuga: Bioactive Compounds and Biological Activities of Cyperus rotundus L. (Cyperaceae). © SpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG2023, 2023
2023	Smith B. Babiaka, Marita Wurm, Chambers C. Hughes, Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt Discovery of Novel Marine Natural Products from Marine Sponges with Antimicrobial Activities. Natural Product-Based Discovery of Novel Antimicrobial Leads from Marine Sponges. inproceedings, AvH networkinh Meeting, June 22-24, 2023, Stuggart, Germany, 2023.
2023	Smith B. Babiaka, Marita Wurm, Chambers C. Hughes, Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt Molecular Networking of Novel Antimicrobial Leads from Euspongia sp. and Spongia sp. Marine Sponges. In: https://symposium.acs.org/2023/biomed/poster-presenters/, Molecular Networking of Novel Antimicrobial Leads from Euspongia sp. and Spongia sp. Marine Sponges. Poster Presenters – ACS Publications Symposium, 2023.
2023	Smith B. Babiaka, Marita Wurm, Chambers C. Hughes, Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt Natural Product-Based Discovery of Novel Antimicrobial Leads from Marine Sponges. Cellular Mechanisms of Antibiotic Action and Production 2nd International Conference TRR 261 May 22-25, 2023, Bad Boll, Germany. Cellular Mechanisms of Antibiotic Action and Production 2nd International Conference TRR 261 May 22-25, 2023, Bad Boll, Germany, 2023.
2021	Smith B. Babiaka,, Conrad V. Simoben, Kennedy O. Abuga, James A. Mbah, Rajshekhar Karpoormath, Dennis Ongarora, Hannington Mugo, Elvis Monya, Fidelis Cho-Ngwa, Wolfgang Sippl, E. Joel Loveridge, ,and Fidele Ntie-Kang Alkaloids with Anti-Onchocercal Activity from Voacanga africana Stapf (Apocynaceae): Identification andMolecularModeling. In: Molecules 26, 2021, 70