Group News

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January/February 2009

• Scott presents a plenary lecture at the 1st Global Center of Excellence Symposium at Nagoya University, Japan
  
• Gina King joins the Denmark group as Coordinator of Research Programs
  

March/April 2009

• Chris Butler successfully defends his thesis and takes up a position at Pfizer in Groton, CT
• Scott is honored at the H.C. Brown Award Symposium at the ACS Meeting in Salt Lake City along with good friends Eric Jacobsen, Erick Carreira, Dave Collum and Mo Movassaghi
• Scott receives a plaque on behalf of Organic Reactions, Inc. for their 50-year sponsorship (along with Organic Syntheses, Inc.) of the Roger Adams Award.
• Chris Regens successfully defends his thesis and heads off to the Max Planck Institute in Mülheim, Germany for a postdoctoral stay with Alois Fürstner
• Scott delivers the Lemieux Lecture at the University of Ottawa, Canada

May/June 2009

• Nathan Werner is named as a Sigma Aldrich 2009 Graduate Student Awardee following previous winners Chris Butler and Russell Smith
  
• Scott receives a "Citation for Chemical Breakthroughs" on behalf of Organic Reactions, Inc. and the University of Illinois at the National Organic Symposium in Boulder, CO.
  
• Jack Liu successfully defends his thesis and heads off to UC-Berkeley for a postdoctoral stay with Dean Toste
  
• Bill Collins successfully defends his thesis and heads off to MIT for a postdoctoral stay with Tim Swager
  
• Andrew Hoover completes his stay in the Denmark group and heads to Harvard for graduate school in chemistry
  
• Dr. Riina Aav completes her stay in the Denmark group and returns to her position at the Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)
  
• Russell Smith presents a poster at the Heterocyclic Compounds Gordon Research Conference at Newport, RI under the auspices of his Sigma Aldrich Innovation Award
  

July/August 2009

• Dr. Nicola Bisek joins the Denmark group as a postdoctoral fellow of the DFG after receiving her Ph.D. from the Technical University of Dortmund and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology with Prof. Herbert Waldmann on the synthesis and conformational analysis of stevastelin C3 analogs
  
• Scott delivers a plenary lecture at the ICHC-22 in honor of his longtime friend Victor Snieckus
  
• Scott is selected to be in the inaugural class of American Chemical Society Fellows at a ceremony at the ACS meeting in Washington, D.C.
  
• Nathan Duncan-Gould wins an R.C. Fuson Travel Award which he took to present a poster at the Organic Reactions and Processes Gordon Research Conference in Smithfield, RI
  
• Dr. Zuhui Zhang completes his postdoctoral stay in the Denmark group and moves to the University of South Florida for a second postdoctoral stay with Jon Antilla
• Dr. Selena Milicevic completes her postdoctoral stay in the Denmark group and takes a position with Obiter Research, LLC as a Research Chemist