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