August 2007 |
The Bode Group is moving to the University of Pennsylvania! Interested graduate students should apply directly to the Department of Chemstry at Penn. |
August 2007 |
Jeff is a 2008 ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar! |
August 2007 |
Jeff is awarded the Bristol-Myers-Squibb Unresticted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry! |
June 2007 |
The group welcomes summer undergrads Seiko Fuji (Smith College), Charles Grove (CSUÐFresno), Brendan Beahm (UCSB), and Vasken Keleshian (UCBS). |
April 2007 |
Dr. Takeo Fukuzumi (Ph.D., Nagoya Institute of Technology) joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow. |
March 2007 |
Jeff is elected an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow! |
March 2007 |
Pei-Chen and Juthanat's communication on enantioselective cyclopentene-forming annulations via benzoinÐoxy-Cope reactions is published in JACS! |
February 2007 |
Dr. Jian Wu (Ph.D., Wayne State Univeristy) and Dr. Michael Rommel (Ph.D., University of Marburg) join the group as our first postdoctoral scholars. Welcome! |
January 2007 |
Jeff is selected for the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (SSOCJ) Lectureship Award and will present an award address at the SSOCJ summer meeting! |
December 2006 |
Our new method of amide bond formation is selected as a Chemistry Highlight 2006 in C&EN News! |
November 2006 |
Congratulations to Nancy Carrillo and Justin Struble, who both advanced to candidacy! |
October 2006 |
Our enantioselective NHC-catalyzed oxodiene Diels-Alder reaction is featured as a news story in C&EN news! |
October 2006 |
Jeff Bode is a 2006-2011 David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellow! |
October 2006 |
Ming and Gerson's paper on enantioselective NHC-catalyzed oxodiene Diels-Alder reactions with less than 1 mol % organocatalyst is accepted in JACS! |
October 2006 |
Alex and Juthanat's paper on the synthesis and properties of shapeshifiting organic molecules is accepted in JACS! |
September 2006 |
Jeff Bode is listed as one of MIT Technology Review's Top Innovators Under 35. |
September 2006 |
Jeff Bode is one of three 2006-2008 Eli Lilly Grantees! |
September 2006 |
The entire Bode Group travels to the Fall 2006 ACS Meeting in San Francisio. Ming, Alex, Justin S., Stephanie, Justin R., and Nancy present their latest work. Pictures coming soon... |
August 2006 |
Nancy Carrillo is awarded an NIH Predoctoral Fellowship! |
June 2006 |
Jeff Bode is one of two awardees of the 2006 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award! For previous winners, click here. |
June 2006 |
Pei-Chen Chiang and Dan Burke join the group as first year graduate students! Gerson Uc-Basulto is an RISE summer undergraduate student from Fresno State. Shuhei Manabe, Jiyoung Yoon, and Shu-Ting Liu are UCSB summer undergraduate researchers. |
May 2006 |
Jeff Bode is as selected for a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar Award! |
May 2006 |
Ming's paper on catalytic enantioselective N-heterocyclic carbene catalyzed Diels-Alder reactions is published in
J. Am. Chem. Soc. |
April 2006 |
Jeff Bode is a 2006 Beckman Young Investigator! |
March 2006 |
Jeff Bode is chosen as the first Richard and Leslie Anderson Scholar! |
February 2006 |
Jeff Bode is selected as a 2006 Amgen Young Investigator!
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January 2006 |
Our novel amide-bond forming ligation is featured as the lead story in C&E News! |
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January 2006
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Nancy, Justin, and
Eric's paper on the iterative synthesis of b3-oligopeptides in water is
published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
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January 2006
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Our new method for
chemoselective amidation without reagents or by-products is published in Angew.
Chem.
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November 2005
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Our development of
novel reactions catalyzed by N-heterocyclic carbenes is highlighted in Angew.
Chem!
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Autumn 2005
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Lei Ju, Melissa
Flores, and Junthanat Keobambrung join the group as first year students.
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July 2005
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Stephanie's paper on
the catalytic redox esterification of enals is published in Organic
Letters.
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June 2005
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Lenore Hicks is a NIH
BRIDGES summer intern; Justin Russak joins the group as first-year graduate
student
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June 2005
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Undergraduate Summer
Fellowships! Evie Rosen wins a
CCS SURF Fellowship; Eric Davalos wins a Pfizer AIR-SURF Award; Kyle Baucom
wins a Roche Undergraduate Research Award.
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June 2005
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Ming He publishes the
NHC catalyzed synthesis of gamma-lactams from enals and N-sulfonylimines.
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May 2005
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Stephanie Sohn
advances to candidacy!
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Winter
2004–05
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Ryan Fox, Justin
Struble, and Nancy Carillo join the group as first year graduate students.
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December 2004
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Ming He advances to candidacy;
completes the synthesis of clausenamide.
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December 2004
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Construction (finally)
finishes on the new Bode Labs!
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November 2004
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Jeffrey Bode is
awarded a 2005–2009 NSF CAREER Award
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September 2004
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Stephanie Sohn and
Evie Rosen publish in J. Am. Chem. Soc. the N-heterocyclic carbene catalyzed
generation of homoenolates.
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June 2004
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Undergraduate Awards! Adam Villa
wins a Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship;
Chris Day wins a CCS SURF Award; Evie Rosen wins a Roche Undergraduate
Research Award.
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June 2004 |
Ken Chow publishes the first method for catalytic generation of activated carboxylates in JACS! |
Winter 2003–04 |
Stephanie Sohn, Ken Chow, Alex Lippert, and Ming He join the group as first year graduate students |
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August 2003
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Jeffrey Bode is awarded the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award.
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August 2003
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Bode Group founded at UCSB
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