2015 News

December 2015

  • Jenn gives her tenure talk at UCI.
  • Sean, Anya, and Zi join the Prescher lab. Welcome!
  • Our manuscript on targeting Toxoplasma gondii with bioorthogonal probes is published. Check it out!

November 2015

  • Dave K successfully defends his thesis. He is heading off to Yale for postdoctoral work in the Ellman lab. Congratulations, Dr. Kamber!

October 2015

  • Will is awarded NSF IGERT Competitive Innovation Funds for his collaborative work with the Hui lab Nicely done!

September 2015

  • Dave K lands a Dissertation Fellowship. Congratulations!
  • Jenn receives a Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry. Thank you to Novartis for supporting our work!

August 2015

  • Group summer trip to San Diego!
  • Our commentary on orthogonal bioorthogonal reactions is published. Check it out!
  • Rachel successfully defends her thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Steinhardt! (Ph.D. # 5 from the group)!
  • Dave K wins the Bader Award for Graduate Student Innovation from Sigma Aldrich. Way to go!
  • Kevin, Monique, and Marian present their work at the SoCal Undergraduate Research Symposium.
  • Cynthia Chio joins the lab for a summer rotation. Welcome!

July 2015

  • Our manuscript on bioorthogonal cyclopropenone reactivity is published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
  • Summer BBQ at Laguna Beach with our friends from the Leconte lab!
  • Will is awarded a research fellowship from Allergan. Nicely done!

June 2015

  • Dave P and Dave M successfully defend their theses. Dave P will be joining the Gartner lab at UCSF, while Dave M will be starting a postdoc at Stanford. Congratulations, Drs. Patterson and McCutcheon (Ph.D. #’s 3 and 4 from the group)!
  • Our manuscript on bioorthogonal triazine reactivity is published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Thank you to our collaborators in the Houk and Mehl labs!
  • Our manuscript on imaging cell contacts with caged probes is published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
  • The lab says ‘goodbye’ to several founding members. Best wishes, everyone! (Watch out, Bay Area!)
  • Dr. Hui-Wen Shih accepts a position at Gilead. Congratulations!

May 2015

  • Jenn receives a Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award. Thank you to the Dreyfus Foundation for supporting our work!
  • Lidia successfully defends her thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Nazarvoa (Ph.D. #2 from the group)! She is off to Illumina next!
  • Dave R wins the Depart of Chemistry’s Michael E. Gebel Award. Congratulations!

April 2015

  • Sam Reshel joins the lab for a spring quarter rotation. Welcome!
  • Michael Fazio joins the lab for a spring quarter rotation. Welcome!
  • Joanna is selected for the CA Community College Internship Program. Way to go!

March 2015

  • Lidia takes second-place honors at the AGS symposium on campus. Congrats!
  • Dave R and Bryan are awarded Honorable Mentions from the NSF Graduate Research Program.

February 2015

  • Jenn is named an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. Thank you to the Sloan Foundation for supporting our work!

January 2015

  • Sam Beasley joins the lab for a winter quarter rotation. Welcome!
  • Our manuscript on visualizing cell proximity with split reporters is published in ACS Chem. Biol.