NEWS

November 2009

-Matt Dowling is awarded a UCI Allergan Fellowship. Congratulations, Matt!

-Welcome to new graduate students Judy Suh and Samuel Tartakoff!

September 2009

-Matt Dowling’s paper on the use of ring-closing metathesis of allylsilanes to generate sesquiterpene natural products is accepted for publication in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations!

-New graduate student Jon Lam joins the group, bringing the number of Canadians in the group up to three!

August 2009

-Congratulations to Sarah for being selected as a finalist for the MJ Collins Award from CEM corporation!

July 2009

-Welcome to Sam Tartakoff, a new graduate student who is joining us for the summer!

June 2009

-John leaves the group for graduate studies at Boston University and Jacob leaves for graduate work at CalTech. Congratulations and good luck! You will be missed.

May 2009

-Sarah’s communication describing the pericyclic cascade reactions of Zincke aldehydes leading to polycyclic lactams is accepted for publication in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations!

-New group picture that includes Chris provided for your viewing pleasure.

April 2009

-Dave receives a graduate fellowship from NSERC (Canada). Congratulations, Dave!

-Karl and Grant’s communication on the structural elucidation, synthesis, and naming of the major chlorosulfolipid from Ochromonas danica is accepted for publication in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations!

March 2009

-Chris is selected as a recipient of a 2009 Amgen Young Investigator Award. Thank you, Amgen! And congratulations to all of the awardees.

February 2009

-Dave’s paper on the synthesis of the Strychnos alkaloid norfluorocurarine from Zincke aldehydes is published! Congratulations, Dave!

January 2009

-Karl’s News and Views article on Carreira’s chlorosulfolipid synthesis is published in Nature.

-Jacob and John’s paper on hydroxydichloride stereotriads is published in J. Org. Chem. Congratulations!

December 2008

-The group has earned an NSF–CAREER Award for our work on Zincke chemistry. Phew, things were getting tight.

-Dave is awarded the 2009 UCI Eli Lilly Fellowship — Congratulations, Dave!

November 2008

-New members Evan Horn, Scott Joseph, Ben Mendoza and Anne Szklarski join the group — welcome everyone!

-Jacob was awarded third prize in UT Southwestern Medical Center’s McKnight Award Competition. Congratulations, Jacob!

-The lab is awarded a Seed Grant from the UCI American Cancer Society–Institutional Research Grant.

September 2008

-Congratulations to Theo and Jong—their paper on the stannylation of Zincke aldehydes is in press for Organic Letters!

-Grant has been awarded a GAANN fellowship—congratulations!

August 2008

-Congratulations to Grant and Jacob for their paper on stereoselective chlorination chemistry!

July 2008

-Scott graduates with a Master’s degree, and moves back east to start at BMS. Congratulations, Scott! You’ll be missed.

June 2008

-Sarah is awarded a TRDRP Dissertation Fellowship—Congratulations, Sarah!

-Undergraduate Tim Blake joins the group as a Novartis Undergraduate Research Fellowship awardee. Welcome Tim!

-Tram Nguyen from Golden West College joins the group for the summer as part of UCI Chemistry Department’s NSF-funded Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Welcome Tram!

May 2008

-Congratulations to Sarah and Joel for their paper on the thermal rearrangement chemistry of Zincke aldehydes!

March 2008

-Our website gets a makeover thanks to iWeb. It’s too easy!

January 2008
-Vanderlab welcomes Matt Kier to the lab.
-Jacob receives a Jean Dreyfus Boissevain award. Yeah Jake!
-Pictures and bios have been added for the newest members of the Vanderlab. Check it out!

November 2007
-Kim receives UROP award for her current research. Gooooo Kim!
-Post doctoral researcher Jong Rhee has accepted a job at Kosan Biosciences in San Francisco. Good luck Jong! You will be missed.
-Vanderlab welcomes post-grad John Nguyen to the lab.
-Vanderlab welcomes Drew Dorshorst as the newest grad student to join the group.

July 2007
Undergraduate Kim Caponera joins the group as an Allergan Undergraduate Research Fellowship awardee. Welcome Kim!

June 2007
New UCI graduate student Drew Dorshorst from UW Madison joins the group for a summer rotation. Welcome, Drew!

April 2007
Jacob receives prestigious Pfizer Undergraduate Research Award, which will support his summer research. Congratulations, Jacob!

February 2007
Website overhaul--Our group has grown--grad students Dave Martin, Theo Michels, Sarah Steinhardt, and Karl Bedke have joined the group. Also, undergraduate researcher Jacob Kanady has also joined the group. Photos finally posted.

November 20, 2006
A new page for prospective graduate students and postdocs has been made.

November 1, 2006
Our first paper is now available online at the ACIE early view section. Link
The Vanderwal lab welcomes postdoctoral researcher Fiona Lin and undergraduate researcher Evan Johnson to the group. Profiles to follow soon.
New meeting schedule posted.

September 28th, 2006
New meeting schedule posted and some pages changed.

August 15, 2006
Our first paper has been accepted by Angewandte Chemie! Congratulations Aaron!