Pradeep
Gutta, postdoc
before us: grad student at Cornell with Roald Hoffmann
in the group: October, 2003 to August, 2007
project(s): terpene biosynthesis, pericyclic reactions
Greg
Ho, undergrad
in the group: April, 2004 to July, 2007
project(s): carbocation cascades in biology
Greg's fantasy: click here
Brandon
Leen, undergrad
in the group: January, 2006 to July, 2007
project(s): biological cyclopropanation reactions
went off to: the business world
Patty
Nguyen, undergrad
in the group: September, 2005 to July, 2006
project(s): benanomicin conformations
went off to: pursue a Ph.D. in Chemistry at Penn State
Rachael
Nhan, grad
student, MS 2005
in the group: December, 2003 to December, 2005
project(s): epoxides and epoxonium ions
thesis title: Structural Trends of Epoxides and Other Heterocyclic Compounds: Application to Polyepoxide Polycyclization Mechanism Modeled After Hemibrevitoxin B - A Computational Approach
went off to: pursue chemistry on the east coast
Ying
Li, undergrad
in the group: July, 2004 to August, 200
5project(s): ping-pong rearrangements
went off to: pursue a Pharm.D
.
Mihaela
Bojin, postdoc
before us: grad student at Cornell with Roald Hoffmann
in the group: October, 2003 to June, 2005
project(s): nonclassical cations as C–H hydrogen bond donors
went off to: postdoc at NYU with Tamar Schlick; now a patent agent
Dustin
Nouri, grad
student, PhD 2007
in the group: December, 2003 to December, 2007
project(s): lipid biosynthesis and hiscotropic reactions
dissertation title: A Theoretical Mechanistic Study of [3] and [5] Ladderane Lipids, and the Origin of the Hiscotropic Rearrangement
went off to: teach chemistry at American River College; now at Allan Hancock Collegepersonal site: http://www.chemshop.info/
Melissa
Lin, undergrad
in the group: October, 2006 to December, 2007
project(s): biological pericyclic reactions
went off to: pharmacy school
Selina
Wang, grad
student, PhD 2008
in the group: December, 2003 to September, 2008
project(s): almost everything
dissertation title: Theoretical Studies on Synthetically Relevant Reactions in Organic Chemistry
went off to: revolutionize the world of food chemistry
personal site: http://selinawang.com
Sophie, honorary member
in the group: 2004 to 2008
project(s): chirality demonstration
Sophie's friends: click here
Dan
Willenbring, grad
student, PhD 2008
in the group: January, 2005 to September, 2008
project(s): oxonium ions, drug design
dissertation title: Computational Organic Chemistry: Improving Synthetic Reactions, Studying Biosynthetic Mechanisms, and Designing Drugs
went off to: postdoc at Pitt Medical School with Pei Tang
personal site: http://omitted.net/
Christine Cheng, undergrad
in the group: August, 2007 to September, 2008
project(s): carbocation rearrangements
went off to: the real world
Patrick Rogers, summer visitor
in the group: July, 2008 to September, 2008
project(s): carbocation rearrangements
went off to: study nucleic acid chemistry
Victor
Lui, undergrad
in the group: May, 2007 to June, 2009
project(s): synthetic organic chemistry
went off to: work in the biotech industry
Matt
Siebert, grad
student, PhD 2009
in the group: July, 2004 (undergrad); January, 2006 (grad) to December, 2009
project(s): a variety of molecular rearrangements
dissertation title: Potential Energy Surfaces and Their Peculiarities in Organic and Organometallic Chemistry
went off to: postdoc at Texas Tech with Bill Hase
personal site: http://www.matthewrsiebert.net
Handeep Kaur, grad
student
in the group: January, 2009 to January, 2010
project(s): heterocycle rearrangements
went off to: pursue synthetic chemistry
Morgan Kelley, undergrad
in the group: January, 2009 to June 2010
project(s): pericyclic reactions
went off to: other scientific endeavors
Chelsea Cates, undergrad
in the group: October, 2009 to August, 2010
project(s): aza-analogs of carbocations
went off to: get her hands dirty
Rebecca
Davis, grad
student, PhD 2011
in the group: January, 2007 to June, 2011
project(s): pericyclic reactions in synthesis
dissertation title: Mechanistic Studies on the Dyotropic Rearrangement and the Nazarov Cyclization
went off to: postdoc in Denmark with Karl-Anker Jorgensen
Vicky Sio, undergrad
in the group: April, 2009 to June, 2011, September 2011 to June 2012
project(s): unexpected organic reactions
went off to: create art!
Lois Hurr, undergrad
in the group: June, 2010 to June, 2011
project(s): docking of small molecules to proteins
went off to: pharmacy school
Liansuo Zu, postdoc
before us: postdoc at UCLA with Neil Garg
in the group: August, 2011 to February, 2012
project(s):synthesis of terpene-related molecules
went off to: be a Professor
Bonnie Wong, undergrad
in the group: September, 2009 to June 2012
project(s): biological pericyclic reactions
Kenneth Horng, undergrad
in the group: January, 2012 to June, 2012 (through Quarter Abroad Taiwan)
project(s): olive oil chemistry
went off to: pharmacy school
Osvaldo Gutierrez, graduate student, PhD 2012
in the group: January, 2010 to September, 2012
project(s): metal-promoted pericyclic reactions and everything else
dissertation title: Computational Studies on the Selectivity and Reactivity of Organic and Organometallic Reactions
went off to: Postdoc at Penn with Marisa Kozlowski
Diana Ly, undergrad
in the group: January, 2011 (through Quarter Abroad Taiwan) to June 2012
project(s): automated docking with RNA
Yvonne Zheng, undergrad
in the group: January, 2011 (through Quarter Abroad Taiwan) to July 2012
project(s): automated docking with RNA
Vincent Liu, undergrad
project(s): olive oil chemistry, electrocyclizations
in the group: January, 2012 (through Quarter Abroad Taiwan) to July 2012
Irene Liin, young scholar (co-supervised by Selina Wang)
in the group: June, 2012 to August 2012
project(s): olive pesticide design
Stephanie Mac, undergrad
in the group: January, 2011 (through Quarter Abroad Taiwan) to August, 2012
project(s): automated docking with RNA
Sanford Wong, undergrad
in the group: January, 2012 (through Quarter Abroad Taiwan) to August 2012
project(s): olive oil chemistry
Sharlene Chin, graduate student, MS 2013
in the group: January, 2011 to January 2013
project(s): terpene biosynthesis
thesis title: Mechanistic Studies of Dehydrogenative Diels-Alder Reactions and of the Biosynthesis of Terebinthene
went off to: learn proteomics
Don Wenz, visiting scientist (graduate student from the Read de Alaniz group at UCSB)
in the group: February, 2013
project(s): the Piancatelli rearrangement
went off to: finish his degree at UCSB
Michael
Lodewyk, postdoc (previously: PhD 2010)
in the group: January, 2006 (grad); July, 2010 (postdoc) to July 2013
project(s): terpene biosynthesis, organic reaction mechanisms, computational NMR, catalyst design
dissertation title: Theoretical and Experimental Mechanistic Studies on Sesquiterpene Biosynthesis, Oxyanion-Accelerated Pericyclic Reactions, and More
went off to: teach at Butte College and Chico State
Sean Liew, visiting scientist (graduate student from the Yudin group at U. Toronto)
in the group: July, 2013
project(s): peptide catalysis
went off to: finish his degree at U. Toronto
Emma Mack, summer REU student from U. Cincinnati
in the group: July, 2013 to August 2013
project(s): sulfur---lone pair interactions
went off to: finish her degree at U. Cincinnati
Walter Lam, undergrad
in the group: September, 2011 to June, 2013
project(s): automated docking with RNA
Jason Harrison, grad
student, PhD 2013
in the group: January, 2009 to September 2013
project(s): pericyclic and organometallic rearrangements, RNA design, accessibility
dissertation title: Theoretical and Experimental Mechanistic Studies onSesquiterpene Biosynthesis, Oxyanion-Accelerated Pericyclic Reactions, and More
went off to: teach at Sonoma State University and work at Intel
Gayle Dumm, visiting scientist (undergrad at Sacramento City College)
in the group: January, 2012 to October, 2013
project(s): sulfur as a lone pair acceptor
Changsheng Yao, visiting scientist (professor at Jiangsu Normal University)
in the group: November, 2012 to October, 2013
project(s): carbene catalysis
Jaren Soo, visiting scientist (grad student from the Braddock & Rzepa groups at Imperial College)
in the group: June, 2014 to August, 2014
project(s): allene bromination
Shirley Wong, undergrad
in the group: January, 2012 to December, 2014
project(s): computational NMR
Tiana Truong, undergrad
in the group: January, 2012 to December, 2014
project(s): computational NMR
Daniela Ortega Ulluo, visiting scientist (graduate student from the Toro-Labbe group at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
in the group: January, 2015 to March, 2015
project(s): reaction electronic flux for carbocation rearrangements
Ryan Pemberton, graduate student, PhD 2015
in the group: January, 2012 to May, 2015
project(s): dynamics in terpene biosynthesis
dissertation title: Computational Methods for Organic Mechanistic Discovery, Catalyst Design, and the Direct Dynamics of Terpene Biosynthesis
went off to: postdoc at UCSF
Troy Vaden, graduate student, MS 2015
in the group: January, 2014 to May, 2015
project(s): halonium ions, computational NMR
thesis title: Theoretical and Mechanistic Studies of Halonium Ions, Cyclic Peptide NMR, and Cyclic Peptide Catalysis
Lisa Sibley, graduate student, MS 2015
in the group: January, 2011 to May, 2015
project(s): peptide catalyst design
thesis title: Probing the Energetics of pi-pi Stacking Interaction in Aromatic Heterodimers and a Nucleophile Addition Reaction between an Acylated Imidazolium and Methanol
Krystina Ho, undergrad
in the group: September, 2012 to May, 2015
project(s): biological pericyclic reactions
Kate Gibson, undergrad
in the group: October, 2013 to June, 2015
project(s): computational NMR
Elizabeth Nguyen, undergrad
in the group: September, 2014 to June, 2015
project(s): automated docking
Brett Ambler, visiting scientist (graduate student at University of Kansas)
in the group: May, 2015 to June, 2015
project(s): Pd-promoted reactions
Phil Painter, graduate student, PhD 2015 (previously: undergraduate)
in the group: June, 2008 (undergrad); September, 2009 (grad) to June 2015
project(s): pharmaceutical chemistry, pericyclic reactions
dissertation title: Disruption of Protein-Protein Interfaces and Computational Mechanistic Studies
Jenna Zhang, visiting scientist (working under Selina Wang)
in the group: July, 2011 to ??? (never officially left!)
project(s): predicting 31P NMR chemical shifts
Sarah Cohen, honorary group member
in the group: June, 2009 to ??? (never officially left!)
project(s): methods for increasing accessibility of computational chemistry for blind chemists
Shih-Che (Louis) Lin, visiting scientist (from Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan)
in the group: January, 2015 to March 2015
project(s): stereoselective cycloadditions, reaction mechanisms
Jessica Farnham, undergrad
in the group: December, 2014 to June 2016
project(s): biological pericyclic reactions
Brandi Hudson, graduate student, PhD 2016
in the group: January, 2013 to June 2016
project(s): biosynthesis, sulfur-lone pair interactions, organometallics
dissertation title: Non-covalent Interactions and Complex Reaction Mechanisms of Organic Molecules
went off to: a postdoc a UCSF (Jamie Fraser)
Nicholas Jentsch, visiting scientist (from University of Southern Mississippi)
in the group: May, 2016 to July 2016
project(s): pericyclic reactions
Teresa Palazzo, graduate student (joint with Kurth), PhD 2016
in the group: January, 2012 to July 2016
project(s): heterocycle formation
dissertation title: Synthesis and Quantum Mechanics Working in Tandem: Heterocyclic Methodology and Applications
went off to: a postdoc in Denmark (Karl Anker Jorgensen)
Renan Borsoi Campos, visiting scientist (from Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil)
in the group: September, 2015 to August 2016
project(s): nucleophilic organocatalysis, bifurcations
went off to: finish his PhD in Brazil
Marta Castineira, visiting graduate student (from Universidad de Vigo)
in the group: September, 2016 to November 2016
project(s): carbocation dynamics, computational NMR, pericyclic reactions
Hoby Wedler, graduate student (previously: undergrad), PhD 2016
in the group: June, 2009 (undergrad); January, 2012 (grad) to December, 2016
project(s): predicting hydration propensities, terpenes
dissertation title: Nobody Can See Atoms: A Comprehensive Discussion of Computational Chemical Results and Making Chemistry Accessible to All
went off to: start his own business!
Nhu Nguyen, graduate student (previously: undergrad), PhD 2017
in the group: July, 2011 (undergrad); January, 2013 (grad) to June, 2017
project(s): docking, terpene biosynthesis, NMR, etc. etc.
dissertation title: Quantum Mechanical Calculations in Collaborations with Experimental Chemistry: the Theoretical Organic Chemistry Perspective
went off to: postdoc at Oxford
Hajime Sato, visiting scientist
project(s): terpene synthases
in the group: June, 2017-September, 2017; June, 2018-August, 2018
went off to: back to Japan
Sadie Dutton, undergrad (REU student from Middlebury College)
project(s): Au-promoted hydride transfers
in the group: June, 2017-September, 2017
Marina Sanita, visiting graduate student (from the Gagosz group at U Ottawa)
project(s): organic reaction mechanisms
in the group: October, 2017
Amauri Alves Souza, visiting graduate student (from Sao Paulo State University, Araraquara)
project(s): MS simulations
in the group: September, 2017-December, 2017
Zhengwei (Jerry) Yang, undergrad (Global Study student from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
project(s): polyene biosynthesis
in the group: September, 2017-December, 2017
Terrence O'Brien, graduate student (joint with Siegel), PhD 2018
project(s): biosynthesis, TerDockin
in the group: January, 2013-June, 2018
went off to: industry in the Bay Area
Stephanie Hare, graduate student, PhD 2018
project(s): dynamics
in the group: January, 2014-June, 2018
went off to: postdoc with Barry Carpenter
Arturo León Sandoval, undergrad
project(s): structures of oleuropein tautomer
sin the group: June, 2017-June, 2018
went off to: UConn for grad school
Bronwyn/Alaska Harrod, graduate student, PhD 2018
project(s): mechanisms, computational NMR
in the group: August, 2014-August, 2018
Uma Gaffney, visiting undergrad (from Smith)
project(s): catalysis
in the group: May, 2018-August, 2018
Esra Soysal, visiting undergrad (from Turkey)
project(s): natural product biosynthesis
in the group: June, 2018-August, 2018
Young
Hong, Assistant Project Scientist (previously: PhD 2008, postdoc)
current project(s): terpene biosynthesis, Au catalysis
in the group: September, 2005 (grad); June, 2009 (postdoc); July 2011 (Assistant Project Scientist)...sometime in 2019
dissertation title: Mechanistic Studies on Carbocation Cascades in the Biosynthesis of Terpene Natural Products
Hsiao-Han (Grace) Chuang, visiting graduate student (from Academia Sinica Taipei)
project(s): post-transition state bifurcations
in the group: May, 2018-May, 2019
Christina McCully, graduate student, PhD 2019
current project(s): sigmatropic shifts and other rearrangements
in the group: January, 2015-June, 2019
Carla Saunders, graduate student, PhD 2019
current project(s): NMR computations, rearrangement mechanisms
joined the group: September, 2016-August, 2019
Alex Staat, undergrad
project(s): structures of oleuropein tautomers, 31P NMR shifts
in the group: June, 2017-July, 2019
Emily Crull, visiting graduate student (from Southern Mississippi)
project(s): natural products NMR
in the group: June-August, 2019
Joshua Fong, visiting high school student (from Lynbrook High)
project(s): natural products NMR
in the group: May-August, 2019
Kevin Deng, visiting high school student (from Lynbrook High)
project(s): natural products NMR
in the group: May-August, 2019
Misa Sayama, visiting graduate student (from University of Tokyo)
project(s): drug metabolism, molecular dynamics
in the group: October-November, 2019
Nico Havenner, undergraduate student
project(s): radical reactions
in the group: October, 2019-March, 2020
Mengna (Nana) Bai, visiting graduate student (from Chongqing University)
project(s): carbocation rearrangements
in the group: October, 2018-May, 2020
Yang-yang Xing, visiting graduate student (from Shandong Normal University)
project(s): electrostatic drag
in the group: June, 2019-June, 2020
Shu-sen (Frederic) Chen, visiting graduate student (from University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei)
project(s): cation, radical and cation radical rearrangements
in the group: September, 2018-August 2020
Qing Sun, visiting graduate student (from Xiamen University)
project(s): electrostatioc drag
in the group: September, 2019-September, 2020
Anthony Ho, undergraduate student
project(s): natural product-forming reactions
in the group: October, 2019-summer 2020
Michelle Luo, undergraduate student
project(s): dynamics for textbook reactions
in the group: January, 2020... (no one knows if she really left, but she did go off to grad school)
Xinyue Liu, graduate student
project(s): avoiding deep minima
in the group: September, 2020-April, 2021 (went off to pursue computer science!)
Elaine Lu, undergraduate student
project(s): radical and pericyclic reactions
in the group: October, 2019-June, 2021
Amy Cheung, undergraduate student
project(s): radical reactions
in the group: October, 2019-summer, 2021 (while really working with Kurth & Olson, ha)
Innes Tsui, graduate student
project(s): bifurcations, fragmentations, theozymes
in the group: January, 2017-August, 2021
Amy Bellinghiere/Merrill, graduate student, PhD 2021
project(s): NMR prediction, mechanisms
in the group: June, 2018-August, 2021
Yaxian Liao, visiting undergrad (from University of Science and Technology of China)
project(s): borylene insertion reactions
in the group: May, 2020-August, 2021
Jessica Wu, visiting high school student
project(s): carbocations
in the group: May, 2021-August, 2021
Cole Dickson, undergraduate student
project(s): pericyclic reactions
in the group: April, 2021-August, 2021
Tiffy Zhang, graduate student (joint with Siegel), PhD 2021
project(s): terpene synthases, bifurcations, DDT
in the group: January, 201-December, 2021
Tyler Rho, undergraduate student
project(s): strange organic reactions
in the group: April, 2019-June 2021
Kacey Su, undergraduate student
project(s): organic reaction mechanisms
in the group: February, 2021-June, 2022
Supreeth Prasad, graduate student
project(s): organometallic reactions, weird aromatics
in the group: January, 2021-July, 2022
Nathan Finch, undergraduate student
project(s): biological Diels-Alder reactions
in the group: June, 2021-July, 2022
Croix Laconsay, graduate student, PhD 2022
project(s): carbenes, bifurcations, fragmentations
in the group: January, 2018-August, 2022
Teresa Ortega, graduate student
project(s): enzyme design
in the group: January, 2020-September, 2022
Yoshimitsu Hashimoto, visiting scientist (from Showa Pharmaceutical University)
project(s): organic reactivity
in the group: September, 2021-September, 2022
Shunyang Wang, graduate student (joint with Fiehn)
project(s): MS prediction, mechanisms
in the group: January, 2019-December, 2022
Philip Gingrich, graduate student
project(s): metabolism prediction
in the group: January, 2019-Februrary, 2023
Nipun Dour, high school student
project(s): molecular orbital visualization
in the group: September, 2022-June, 2023
Volga Kojasoy, graduate student
project(s): onions, dynamics, organometallics
in the group: January, 2019-September, 2023
Josiah Sanchez, postbac
project(s): organometallics
in the group: April, 2023-September, 2023
Zhitao Feng, graduate student
project(s): dynamics, carbocation chemistry, photochemistry
in the group: January, 2019-September, 2023
Chenfengtao Zheng, visiting undergaduate student (from Nankai University)
project(s): terpene dynamics, PTSBs
in the group: August, 2023-April, 2024
Sana Jindani, visiting graduate student (from CSIR-CSMCRI; Fulbright Fellow)
project(s): terpemes, stereoelectronic interactions and dynamics
in the group: August, 2023-April, 2024
Ashleigh Higgins, undergraduate student
project(s): terpenes
in the group: August, 2024-June, 2024
Bridgette Gibson, undergraduate student
project(s): terpenes
in the group: January, 2024-June, 2024
Koroush Saleminik, undergraduate student
project(s): terpenes
in the group: January, 2024-June, 2024
Ngoc Kim, undergraduate student
project(s): terpenes
in the group: January, 2024-June, 2024
Vivek Shah, undergraduate student
project(s): MO visualization
in the group: September, 2023-July, 2024
Chloe Barry, undergraduate student
project(s): terpenes
in the group: January, 2024-August, 2024
Wentao Guo, graduate student
project(s): CH activation and other weid dynamics
in the group: January, 2020-August, 2024
Yusef Ahmed, graduate student
project(s): limits of the Woodward-Hoffmann rules, tunneling dynamics
in the group: January, 2020-August, 2024
Kaori Ando, visiting scientist (from Gifu University)
in the group: January, 2024-September, 2024
project(s): organic mechanisms
Chloe Mees, undergraduate student
project(s): terpenes
in the group: April, 2024-September, 2024
