Rob van Soest

Robertus Wilhelmus Maria (Rob) van Soest, born in 1946,[1] is a Dutch marine biologist. He works at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center and is also affiliated with the University of Amsterdam. He co-authored with John N. A. Hooper Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges,[2] a standard reference for sponge classification.[3][4][5]

Rob van Soest
Born5 May 1946 Edit this on Wikidata (age 77)
Employer

He was editor in chief of the World Porifera Database (WPD) from 2004 to 2021,[6] and is currently (March 2022) one of its taxonomic editors.[7]

He has contributed to the systematics, the phylogeny and the taxonomy of sponges,[8][9][10] to their chemistry[11] and biological properties (and the pharmacological use thereof)[12][13][14]

His zoological abbreviation is van Soest.

Taxa

A search on his name (March 2022) in the WoRMS database gives 691 taxa names authored by van Soest. See also taxa named by Rob van Soest.

Publications

He has authored (co-authored) over at least 170 peer reviewed scientific papers, over 60 of which concern the biochemistry of sponges.

References
  1. "IdRef: Soest, Rob W. M. van (1946-.... ; biologiste)". idref.fr (in French). Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  2. John N.A. Hooper; Rob W.M. van Soest (2002). Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges. New York City: Springer Science+Business Media. ISBN 0-306-47260-0. OL 15578131M. Wikidata Q63090983.
  3. Joseph Pawlik (21 March 2003). "Invertebrate Zoology: Sorting Sponges". Science. 299 (5614): 1846b-1847. doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.1082916. ISSN 0036-8075. Wikidata Q56268027.
  4. Lorraine Berry (February 2003). "Soaking up the limelight". Nature. 421 (6925): 791. doi:10.1038/421791A. ISSN 1476-4687. Wikidata Q56268026.
  5. Susan Chambers (2003). Systema porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges,edited by J.N.A. Hooper and R.W.M. van Soest. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, Dordrecht, 2002, 1756pp. pp. 461–462. doi:10.1002/AQC.593. ISBN 0-306-47260-0. ISSN 1052-7613. Wikidata Q56268028. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  6. "World Porifera Database". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  7. IMIS, VLIZ -. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - IMIS: Dr Rob van Soest". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  8. Julie Reveillaud; Thomas Remerie; Rob van Soest; et al. (9 April 2010). "Species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships between Atlanto-Mediterranean shallow-water and deep-sea coral associated Hexadella species (Porifera, Ianthellidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 56 (1): 104–114. doi:10.1016/J.YMPEV.2010.03.034. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 20382244. Wikidata Q49106926.
  9. Julie Reveillaud; Rob van Soest; Sofie Derycke; Bernard Picton; Annelien Rigaux; Ann Vanreusel (9 February 2011). "Phylogenetic relationships among NE Atlantic Plocamionida Topsent (1927) (Porifera, Poecilosclerida): under-estimated diversity in reef ecosystems". PLOS One. 6 (2): e16533. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...616533R. doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0016533. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3036665. PMID 21347368. Wikidata Q28477121.
  10. Christine Morrow; Paco Cárdenas; Nicole Boury-Esnault; et al. (11 May 2019). "Integrating morphological and molecular taxonomy with the revised concept of Stelligeridae (Porifera: Demospongiae)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 187 (1): 31–81. doi:10.1093/ZOOLINNEAN/ZLZ017. ISSN 1096-3642. Wikidata Q104454716.
  11. Anake Kijjoa; Júlia Bessa; Rawiwan Wattanadilok; et al. (2 August 2018). "Dibromotyrosine Derivatives, a Maleimide, Aplysamine-2 and Other Constituents of the Marine Sponge Pseudoceratina purpurea". Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B. 60 (8): 904–908. doi:10.1515/ZNB-2005-0815. ISSN 0932-0776. Wikidata Q105027244.
  12. Marianne Sadar; David E Williams; Nasrin R Mawji; et al. (4 October 2008). "Sintokamides A to E, chlorinated peptides from the sponge Dysidea sp. that inhibit transactivation of the N-terminus of the androgen receptor in prostate cancer cells". Organic Letters. 10 (21): 4947–4950. doi:10.1021/OL802021W. ISSN 1523-7060. PMID 18834139. Wikidata Q33373804.
  13. Roger G Linington; Marilyn Robertson; Annick Gauthier; B Brett Finlay; John B. MacMillan; Tadeusz F Molinski; Rob van Soest; Raymond J Andersen (1 February 2006). "Caminosides B-D, antimicrobial glycolipids isolated from the marine sponge Caminus sphaeroconia". Journal of Natural Products. 69 (2): 173–177. doi:10.1021/NP050192H. ISSN 0163-3864. PMID 16499312. Wikidata Q82653366.
  14. Florence Lefranc; Genoveffa Nuzzo; Nehal Aly Hamdy; et al. (26 August 2013). "In vitro pharmacological and toxicological effects of norterpene peroxides isolated from the Red Sea sponge Diacarnus erythraeanus on normal and cancer cells". Journal of Natural Products. 76 (9): 1541–1547. doi:10.1021/NP400107T. ISSN 0163-3864. PMID 23977995. Wikidata Q50487016.
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