Personal statement
Research within my lab (Natural Products Research Laboratory) is focused on the discovery of small molecules from natural sources with pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical applications. The natural sources investigated include plants and products from the beehive such as honey/ propolis originating from various geographical locations worldwide. My interests are centered on the discovery of natural molecules with antitubercular, anti-inflammatory, antibiofilm, and antivirulence activity.
I am a member of the Scientific Committee of the Francophone Apitherapy Association and of the European Science Foundation College of Expert Reviewers. I am a Scientific Advisor for the Natural Products and the Food Science & Nutrition programmes of the International Foundation for Science. I am a recipient of the Life Sciences Prize and the Parke-Davis Natural Products Chemistry Prize from the French Academy of Pharmacy.
I serve on the editorial board of Journal of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Phytochemistry Letters, Scientific Reports, Journal of Alternative Medicine & Complementary Therapies Plants, Records in Agriculture & Food Chemistry, and Evidence-based Complementary & Alternative Medicine. I am the Associate Editor of Archives of Natural Biological Research. I am the lead Guest Editor for two special issues in Plants, one special issue in JoVE, and two research topics in Frontiers in Pharmacology. I have served as the Honorary Treasurer of the Phytochemical Society of Europe (2014-2019).
I am the Coordinator of a Year 3 module on the Management of Infection and Infectious Diseases (MPharm programme) where I deliver lectures/workshops/labs on microorganisms, antibiotic drug discovery, and antimicrobial drug resistance. I am an external examiner for the MSc in Microbiology and the MRes in Global Infectious Diseases programmes at Birkbeck University of London.
From 2017-2021, I was a member of the University Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) committee. I also founded and chaired the SIPBS-WIDE (Wellbeing, Inclusion, Diversity & Equality) committee, responsible for the submission of an Athena SWAN application in 2020, which resulted in a Silver Award (First Silver Award in the Faculty of Science).
Teaching
Dr Seidel teaches on the MPharm programme.
Class coordinator for the Management of Infection and Infectious Diseases class (MP321)
Research Projects (MP507)
Management of Infection and Infectious Diseases class (MP321)
Being a Pharmacist 2 (MP320)
Herbal Medicines, Past, Present and Future (57102)
Research interests
- Purification and structure elucidation of bioactive natural products
- Ethnopharmacological investigation of natural remedies
- Screening of natural products for antimicrobial/anti-inflammatory activity
- In silico studies of natural products
Professional activities
- Host for an external visitor from the Nigeria Police Academy, Nigeria
- Host
- 2023
- Invited author of a review article on ‘Pesticides in European honeys’ in the French magazine Abeilles et Fleurs (Bees and Flowers)
- Contributor
- 2023
- Author of slides on ‘Plants and their uses’, ‘Thin Layer Chromatography’ and ‘Literature search & Poster design’ produced as part of the Royal Society-funded partnership project ‘What’s cool about mint?’
- Contributor
- 2023
- Phytochemical investigation of Erythrina livingstoniana and one pot synthesis of neofavones and flavones
- External Examiner
- 2023
- Qeios (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2023
- Participant in the ‘Engage with Strathclyde, Images of Research’ competition
- Participant
- 2023
More professional activities
Projects
- What’s cool about mint?
- Seidel, Veronique (Principal Investigator) Kielty, Therese (Principal Investigator)
- £2965 (Royal Society Partnership Award )
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2023
- Anti-UV and anti-acne properties of extracts and constituents from medicinal plants (Student - Natalia Blicharska)
- Seidel, Veronique (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2024
- Evaluating the antimicrobial and antibiofilm potential of heather honey produced by the Scottish Bee company
- Seidel, Veronique (Co-investigator) Efthimiou, Georgios (Principal Investigator)
- £4,935 (Scottish Funding Council (SFC)-European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Interface Award)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2018
- Phytochemical, biological, and molecular docking studies on Fraxinus excelsior, Stachys arabica, Pelargonium sidoides, and Pelargonium reniforme
- Seidel, Veronique (Principal Investigator)
- International tuition fees, stipend, and £26,000 bench fees sponsored by the Jordanian University of Science & Technology
- 01-Jan-2017 - 01-Jan-2021
- Terpenoid inhibition of DsbA: a periplasmic protein from the dysentery-causing bacterium, Shigella sonnei
- Seidel, Veronique (Principal Investigator)
- International tuition fees, stipend, and £27,000 bench fees sponsored by the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research
- 01-Jan-2015 - 30-Jan-2019
- Characterisation of bacterial-based antimicrobials from mangrove soil
- Seidel, Veronique (Principal Investigator) Wie, CC (Co-investigator) Seng, YYK (Co-investigator)
- £2,160 (International Medical University (IMU) Research Award)
- 01-Jan-2014 - 31-Jan-2023
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