Photo of rainbow over village, Fiji
This image was selected as a winner of the 2010 Fogarty Grantee Photo Contest.
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Photo title: Rainbow over village, Fiji
Photographer: Julia Kubanek, Georgia Institute of Technology
Description: Lavena Village on the island of Taveuni (Fiji) on the edge of the Waitabu Marine Protected Area. We have made marine invertebrate and algae collections for drug discoveries in this area, and were hosted by the village community when we worked there. Our antibacterial neurymenolides (published in Organic Letters in 2009) came from these collections.
Funding Fogarty program: International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups
Principal Investigator: Mark Hay, Georgia Institute of Technology