The Isolation and Characterization of Triterpene Saponins from Silphium and the Chemosystematic and Biological Significance of Saponins in the Asteraceae

This paper presents an overview of Dr. Mabry’s accomplishments in his career as a natural product chemist, first at the University of Zürich as a post-doctorate and since 1962 as a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Botany until the late 1990’s when the Biological Sciences programs at UT-Austin were completely reorganized; then until his retirement in 2006, he was a member of the Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology faculty. 7 This paper was originally published as: “Tom J. Mabry’s Natural Products Chemistry Program: 19602007 ” Lalita M. Calabria with Tom J. Mabry. 2007. Natural Product Communications 2, 959-968.