Group News

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January 2006

• The Denmark Group Webpage Goes Live!
• Jeromy Cottell (PhD, 2004) accepts a position at Gilead (SF)
• Justin Montgomery (PhD, 2006) accepts a position at Pfizer Med Chem, Ann Arbor.
• Greg Beutner (PhD, 2004) accepts a position at Merck Process, Rahway.
• Scott receives the Yamada-Koga Prize for 2006 from the Japan Research Foundation for Optically Active Compounds.

March 2006

• Ramil Baiazitov, a recipient of the R. C. Fuson Travel Award, presented at the spring ACS meeting in Atlanta Georgia.

April 2006

• Mike Edwards (PD, 2004-06) takes a postdoctoral position at the University of York with Richard Taylor.
• John Baird receives the R. C. Fuson Travel Award and will present at the fall ACS meeting in San Francisco California.

May 2006

• Justin Montgomery defends his thesis and heads to Pfizer, Ann Arbor!
• Tommy Bui defends his thesis and will start his postdoc in the Barbas Lab at Scripps in June.
• Nathan Werner, a first year graduate student from Southern Utah University, joins the Denmark group.
• Jack Liu wins the Vanderveer Voorhees Award for the best Original Proposal, 2006. Jack joins previous group members, Greg Beutner, John Heemstra, and Justin Montgomery who have won this award.

June 2006

• Dr. Moballigh Ahmad, an expert in organometallic catalysis (Ph.D., Beller; postdoc, Barbas), joins the Denmark group.
• Son Nguyen, an expert in complex natural product synthesis, (Ph.D., Forsyth), joins the Denmark group.

July 2006

• Chris Butler is one of four recipients of the inaugural "Sigma-Aldrich 2006 Graduate Student Innovation Award." The other three recipients are students from Harvard, MIT, and Wisconsin.

September 2006

• John Baird, a recipient of the R. C. Fuson Travel Award, presented a talk titled, "Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Heteroaromatic Silanols with Aryl Halides" at the fall ACS meeting in San Francisco.

October 2006

• Scott enjoys the hospitality of the University of Tokyo to receive the Yamada-Koga Prize.
• Scott delivers the Merck-Frosst Lecture (his third) at the University of Calgary, Alberta.
• Bill Collins wins the Pines Travel Award. Bill will travel to his alma mater, the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, where he will present his current research.

November 2006

• Jack Liu and Chris Regens receive R. C. Fuson Travel Awards to present talks at the spring ACS Meeting in Chicago.
• Three new students join the Denmark Group: Matt Burk (B.S., Indiana University); Timothy Chang (B. Sc., University of Auckland, New Zealand); Larry Wolf (B.S., Drexel University)
• Chris Regens represented the Denmark Group at the Annual Pines/Merck Allerton Conference with a talk on "A Total Synthesis of Papulacandin D"
• Bill Collins and Russell Smith presented posters on their research work at the Annual Pines/Merck Allerton Conference
• Scott is a visiting professor for the Frontiers in Chemistry Series at Texas A&M University
• Xiarong Liu (PD, 2004-06) takes a research position at Mass General Hospital in Boston.

December 2006

• Dr. Joseck Muhuhi (Ph.D., Spaller) with expertise in synthetic and medicinal chemistry joins the Denmark Group.
• John Heemstra, Jr. successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis and joins Obiter Research while waiting to begin a postdoctoral position with Chris Walsh (Harvard Medical School)