Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Dr Viviene Santiago

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
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Researcher biography

Dr Viviene Santiago is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Natural Toxins group within the Centre for Animal Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) and is based at the Health and Food Sciences Precinct (Coopers Plains). With a robust foundation in organic and analytical chemistry, her research primarily focuses on natural products chemistry from terrestrial, marine, and microbial sources.

Dr Santiago joined QAAFI as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2023. Her current research involves developing a delivery system for bioactive compounds aimed at reducing enteric methane emissions in cattle and exploring atypical sugars in novel foods such as stingless bee honey. Over the years, she has cultivated a keen interest in utilising liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) and molecular networking techniques to investigate chemical diversity from different sources such as natural toxins in certain plants and atypical sugars in stingless bee honey.

Dr Santiago earned her Ph.D. from The University of Queensland, where her dissertation focused on applying advanced molecular networking techniques, such as the Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking (GNPS), to explore the chemical diversity of Australian microbes. Her academic journey also includes a Master's and a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the University of the Philippines – Diliman. These academic experiences have equipped her with a comprehensive understanding of natural products chemistry, enabling her to make significant contributions to both academia and industry.

Publications

Journal Articles (5)
Conference Papers (6)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Yates, Hans S. A., Carter, James F., Fletcher, Mary T., Santiago, Viviene S., Thompson, Ondrea and Hungerford, Natasha L. (2025). Fraction collection of bioactive compounds from ion chromatography: No longer mission impossible. MethodsX, 14 103243, 103243. doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2025.103243
Mohamed, Osama G., Khalil, Zeinab G., Santiago, Viviene and Capon, Robert J. (2022). Metarhizides A–C and metarhizosides A–B: PKS-NRPS macrolides and aromatic glycosides from an Australian fish gut-derived fungus, Metarhizium sp. CMB-F624. Tetrahedron, 113 132759, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2022.132759
Madge, Harrison Y. R., Huang, Wenbin, Gilmartin, Lachlan, Rigau-Planella, Berta, Hussein, Waleed M., Khalil, Zeinab G., Koirala, Prashamsa, Santiago, Viviene S., Capon, Robert J., Toth, Istvan and Stephenson, Rachel J. (2022). Physical mixture of a cyclic lipopeptide vaccine induced high titres of opsonic IgG antibodies against group A streptococcus. Biomaterials Science, 10 (1), 281-293. doi: 10.1039/d1bm01333e
Santiago, Viviene S., Manzano, Geminne G., Yu, Clairecynth C., Aliño, Porfirio M. and Salvador-Reyes, Lilibeth A. (2019). Mariculture potential of renieramycin-producing Philippine blue sponge Xestospongia sp. (Porifera: Haplosclerida). Aquaculture, 502, 356-364. doi: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2018.12.059
Santiago, Viviene S., Alvero, Rita Grace and Villaseñor, Irene M. (2014). Aedes aegyptilarvicide from the ethanolic extract of Piper nigrum black peppercorns. Natural Product Research, 29 (5), 441-443. doi: 10.1080/14786419.2014.947490

Conference Papers

Yates, Hans S. A., Carter, James F., Fletcher, Mary T., Santiago, Viviene S., Thompson, Ondrea and Hungerford, Natasha L. (2025). The fraction collection of saccharides from stingless bee honey by ion chromatography mass spectrometry. 2025 International Symposium on Stingless Bees, Bicol, Philippines, 10-12 June 2025.
Yates, H.S.A., Carter, J.F., Hungerford, N.L., Santiago, V. and Fletcher, M.T. (2024). Sugar identification in different bee honeys by ICMS. 17th Asian Apiculture Association Conference, Freemantle, WA Australia, 12-14 June 2024.
Hungerford, Natasha L., Chaleat, Celine, Santiago, Viviene S., Ouwerkerk, Diane, Gilbert, Rosalind A., Meale, Sarah J., Parra, Mariano, Pratt, Steven, Lant, Paul, Fletcher, Mary T. and Laycock, Bronwyn (2024). Towards mitigation of methane emissions from extensively grazing cattle with 3-nitrooxypropanol. 2nd Australian Conference on Green & Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 8-12 December 2024.
Santiago, Viviene S., Fletcher, Mary T. and Hungerford, Natasha L. (2023). HPLC quantitation of the methane-reducing bioactive 3-nitrooxypropanol (3-NOP) in biological matrices. 7th Animal Science Poster Olympics, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 24 November 2023.
Santiago, Viviene S., Fletcher, Mary T. and Hungerford, Natasha L. (2023). HPLC quantitation of the methane-reducing bioactive 3-nitrooxypropanol (3-NOP) in biological matrices. Queensland Annual Chemistry Symposium, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 24 November 2023.
Santiago, Viviene and Villaseñor, Irene M. (2015). Isolation, purification, and structure identification of cytotoxic compound(s) from Piper nigrum black peppercorns. 2015 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, HI, United States, 15-20 December 2015.

Thesis

Santiago, Viviene Serapion (2023). Applying advanced molecular networking techniques to explore chemical diversity of Australian microbes. PhD Thesis, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/5d80d7b