Dr. Brijesh Bhayana - Postdoctoral Associate

Started in Group: March 2007
Current Project: Cross coupling chemistry

Ph.D. - University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, PA
Research Advisor - Prof. Craig Wilcox - Synthesis of water-soluble torsion balance and studies in SPOS reaction kinetics

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Dr. Ruben Martin - Ministerio
de Educacion y Ciencia Postdoctoral Fellow

Started in Group: May 2005
Current Project: Metal-Catalyzed C-N Bond Formation

Ph.D.- University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Professor Riera and Professor Pericas- Enantioselective
Total Synthesis of Glycosidase Inhibitors

B.Sc.- University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Postdoctoral Research: Max-Planck Institut fur Kohlenforschung, Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany (January 2004 - April 2005)
Research Advisor: Professor Alois Furstner-
Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling and Cycloisomerizations of 1,6-Enynes.

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Dr. Yoshinori Nakamura - Postdoctoral Associate

Started in Group: October 2007
Current Project: Pd-Catalyzed C-N Bond Formation

Ph.D. - Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Prof. Kiyoshi Tomioka - Synthetic Studies on Highly Specific PDE5 Inhibitors.

M.A. - Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Research Advisor: Prof. Fumio Yoneda

B.A. - Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Research Advisor: Prof. Fumio Yoneda

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Dr. Xiaoqiang Shen - Postdoctoral Associate

Started in Group: September 2007
Current Project: C-C Bond Formation

Ph.D. - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Prof. Scott G. Nelson - Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Beta-Lactones and Application to the Total Synthesis of Pironetin

Academic Research Experience:
Prof. Kuiling Ding - Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Shanghai, China (August 1999 - June 2002)

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Dr. Matthew Stone - Postdoctoral Associate

Started in Group: April 2008
Current Project: Continuous Manufacturing

NSF International Postdoctoral Fellow - Prof. Harry Anderson - University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (June 2005 - July 2007)

Ph.D. - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Prof. Jeffery Moore - Synthesis and properties of m-phenylene ethynylene foldamers

B.Sc. - Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Research Advisor: Prof. Gregory Baker

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Dr. David S. Surry - The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Postdoctoral Fellow

Started in Group: January 2006
Current Project: Synthesis of New Ligands for Pd-Catalyzed C-N Coupling

Ph.D. - University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Dr. D. R. Spring - The Oxidation of Organocuprates

BA MA, MSci - University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Research Advisor: Prof. I. Fleming

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Dr. Alex Taylor - Postdoctoral Associate

Started in Group: September 2007
Current Project: Metal-Catalyzed C-C Bond Formation

Ph.D. - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Prof. Stuart L. Schreiber - Diversity-Oriented Synthesis and Chemical Genetics.

Fulbright Scholar - Universitaet Basel, Switzerland
Research Advisor: Prof. Bernd Giese

B.S. - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Research Advisor: Prof. Ned Porter

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Dr. Donald Watson - Postdoctoral Fellow

Started in Group: September 2006
Current Project: Cross Coupling Chemistry

Postdoc - Prof. Robert G. Bergman  - University of
California, Berkeley,  Berkeley, CA

Ph.D. - University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
Prof. Larry E. Overman - Understanding the Origins of  Diastereoselection in Intramolecular Heck Cyclizations

B.Sc. - University of California, San Diego, San Diego, Ca
Research Advisor: Prof. Emmanuel Theodorakis

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Dr. Nan Zheng - NIH Postdoctoral Trainee

Started in Group: February 2005
Current Project: Metal-Catalyzed C-N Bond Formation

Ph.D. - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Prof. William R. Roush
I. Total Synthesis of Concept Molecule (CM)
II. Synthetic Studies Towards a Total Synthesis of Pectenotoxin 2

B.Sc. (Polymer Chemistry) - University of Science and Technology of China,
Hefei, Annhui, P. R. China

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