News

05/2025

This Spring lab members Otter Kokinda (Larry F. and Barbara S. Wright Endowment), Carson King (Outstanding Chemistry Senior and ACS Outstanding Student in Organic Chemistry), Travis Anderson (best Graduate Instructional Assistant) and Ryan Rutledge (Outstanding Doctoral Student) won Departmental Awards. Good Effort guys!

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04/2025

Undergraduates Carson King, Vincent Do and Robert Rubiano published a nice paper in BMCL

describing novel antibiotics. Nice effort!

 

02/2025

Carson King, Riaz Hossain and Dr. Sathish Puppala were co-Inventors on a

provisional patent application dealing with the discovery of novel compounds

active against fatal Staphylococcus aureus infections. Good job! Take it all the way!

 

02/2025

Carson King won the best poster award at the Texas State Innovation

Showcase. The title of the poster: “Derivatives of Fungal Metabolite

Sphaeropsidin A with Potent Anticancer Activity.” Congratulations!

 

10/2024

New MSc student Riaz Hossain joined the lab. Enjoy the science!

 

09/2024

New MSc student Travis Anderson joined the lab. Enjoy the science!

 

08/2024

Iram Majeed and Sachin Wagh published a paper in ChemMedChem. Congratulations!

 

07/2024

Robert Scott and Annie Hooper published a paper in Scientific Reports. Congratulations!

 

06/2024

Vlad Maslivetc and Arben Zejnelovski published a paper in BMCL. Congratulations!

 

04/2024

Arben Zejnelovski received his MSc. Congratulations!

 

01/2024

Andrew Johns published a paper in Angewandte Chemie. Congratulations!

 

12/2023

Ryan Rutledge received his MSc. Congratulations!

 

09/2023

Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Sathish Puppala joined the lab. Enjoy the science!

 

04/2023

Former student Annie Hooper defends her PhD thesis at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and gets a job with Abbvie. Congratulations!

 

05/2022

Iram Majeed received her MSc. Congratulations!

 

01/2022

Ryan Rutledge joined the lab as an MSc student. Have fun!

 

09/2021

Breana Laguera received her MSc and started a PhD program at Emory University

 

09/2021

Andrew Johns graduated and started a PhD program at Columbia University.

 

09/2021

Undergraduate students Cory Silguero and Chaewon Ko have joined the lab. Good luck and have fun!

 

06/2021

After many months of hard work, a review article: “Lessons in Organic Fluorescent Probe Discovery” is published in ChemBioChem.

Congratulations to Sachin and Vlad!

 

10/2020

Our work on “A fluorescent target-guided Paal–Knorr reaction” gets published in RSC Advances.

Congratulations to Sachin and Vlad.

 

 

5/2019

News article: Texas State chemist leads new study on brain cancer using plant fungi