Hot News

February 2008

 

Abby Hodges accepts a position as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Azusa Pacific University.

February 2008

 

James Petersson accepts a position as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. http://webdev.chem.upenn.edu/chem/research/faculty.php?id=50

January 2008

 

ß-peptide bundle structure chosen as one of the "most important advances in Chemistry during 2007" (wow). See the write-up: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/85/8552cover.html

November 2007

 

Danielle Guarracino receives a Travel Award from the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry to attend the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans. Check out her poster there!

November 2007

 

Doug Daniel's paper describing how to make miniaure proteins intrinsically cell permable highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News.

November 2007

 

Nathan, Rachel, and Dan's paper on how to use biarsenicals as a fluorescent monitor of protein conformation and assembly chosen as a highlight of the recent literature (Editor's Choice) by Science magazine. Read the commentary. Read Yale's press release.

October 2007

 

Congratulations to Doug Daniels & James Petersson - High resolution structure of a ß-peptide bundle. (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 1532-1533) now classified as a "HOT PAPER"! See http://pubs.acs.org/journals/jacsat/promo/most/hot_papers/sept07.html for details.

October 2007

 

Congratulations to Joshua Kritzer, Olen Stephens, Danielle Guarracino, and Sam Reznik! Their review article entitled "ß-peptides as inhibitors of protein-protein interactions" was the most cited paper published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry during 2003-2006!

April 2007

 

Danielle Guarracino's poem, The Abl-Src Sonnet, is published in Yale's Literary and Arts Magazine, Palimpsest. Read the poem.

February 2007

 

Doug, James, and Jade's ß-peptide bundle paper is highlighted as "News of the Week" in Chemical & Engineering News. Read the press release. Read the HHMI News Announcement. Read the write-up in Chemistry World! Check out the article on the NIH NIGMS web-site! Read the article at DrugResearcher.com. Read the article in MIT's Technology Review. Read the article in Biomedical Beat.

January 2007

 

Doug Daniels, James Petersson, and Jade Qiu report the first high resolution structure of a cooperatively folded ß-peptide assembly. Check out the structure.

October 2006

 

Read about the new NFCR Center for Anti-Cancer Drug Design and Discovery, which will be led jointly by Alanna and Bill Jorgensen.

March 2006

 

Nathan Luedtke accepts a position as an Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Zurich.

January 2006

 

Olen Stephens accepts a position as an Assistant Professor at Earlham College.

January 2006

 

James Petersson is awarded an NIH postdoctoral fellowship.

December 2005

 

Elizabeth de Martelly joins the group as an Editorial Assistant, Journal of the American Chemical Society. Welcome Elizabeth!

December 2005

 

Alanna named Associate Editor of JACS!

September 2005

 

Schepartz group moves into the top floor of the brand new Class of '54 Chemical Research Building!

June 2005

 

Alanna named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry!

June 2005

 

Schepartz lab expands with adding five new graduate students, two new postdoctorals, and 4 undergraduates in preparation for our move into the new Class of '54 Chemistry Research Building! Check out our group!

May 2005

 

Olen Stephens awarded an ACS Travel grant to present his research at the Fall 2005 ACS National Meeting.

April 2005

 

Doug Daniels awarded postdoctoral fellowships from both the American Cancer Society and the NIH to support his research in the group.

February 2005

 

Michelle Ferrara joins the lab as our new Senior Administrative Assistant.

September 2004

 

Jennifer Holtzman awarded another prestigious NSERC predoctoral fellowship to support her graduate work in the Schepartz lab.

March 2004

 

Jennifer Kohler (Ph.D. 2000) accepts position as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Stanford!

October 2003

 

Alanna named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in honor of her “creative developments in bioorganic chemistry”

October 2003

 

Alanna discusses the Marie Curie Nobel Centennial Celebration on Connecticut Public Television

September 2003

 

Alanna named to Executive Board of Yale University Center for Genomics and Proteomics

April 2003

 

Dr. Anja Gemperli awarded a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation

January 2003

 

Alanna joins the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the American Chemical Society

September 2002

 

Alanna named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor (press release)

September 2002

 

Jennifer Holtzman awarded prestigious NSERC pre-doctoral fellowship to support her graduate work in the Schepartz lab.

April 2002

 

Alanna one of 12 young women profiled in Chemical and Engineering News. (Article)

March 2002

 

Alanna wins the Agnes Fay Morgan Award

February 2002

 

Two Schepartz lab alumnae, Mary Kay H. Pflum and Arikha Moses, highlighted in Chemical and Engineering News

May 2001

 

Stacey Rutledge recipient of ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry Predoctoral Fellowship

April 2001

 

Joshua Kritzer recipient of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

April 2001

 

Scott Hart recipient of National Institute of Health Research Service Award

March 2001

 

Alanna Schepartz's essay from New Voices In Chemistry in Chemical and Engineering News