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February 11, 2026<\/strong>\u00a0 Our paper on long oligo synthesis, Chemical Science<\/em> 2025<\/strong>, 16<\/em>, 1966<\/a>, is selected by editors to be included in Chemical Science<\/em> 2025 most popular chemical biology and medicinal chemistry articles collection<\/a><\/p>\n

September 18, 2025<\/strong>\u00a0 Group added several new members, Ben Johnson (undergraduate researcher, mentors, M.S. Studen Mr. Kwame Amponsah, primary and Ph.D. students Ms. Fakhira Razzaq, secondary, and Mr. Mr. Manoj Perera, secondary<\/a>), Jaspreet Kaur (MS student, Ph.D. student\u00a0<\/a>Mr. Rohith Awasthy), Joden Robinson (accelerated MS student), and Sana Riaz (PhD student, mentor, Ph.D. student\u00a0Mr. Manoj Perera<\/a>)<\/p>\n

July 1, 2025<\/strong>\u00a0 Group alumna Dr. Komal Chillar (PhD, 2024) assumed a scientist position at Wave Life Sciences<\/a> in the Boston area<\/p>\n

June 1, 2025<\/strong>\u00a0 Research group recieves award<\/a> from NSF to develop technologies for long oligo synthesis<\/p>\n

May 25, 2025<\/strong>\u00a0 Dr. Shiyue Fang gave an invited presention on long oligo synthesis in the 2025 TIDES USA conference in San Diego on May 21, 2025<\/p>\n

May 24, 2025<\/strong>\u00a0 Research group welcomes Mr. Charles Chirombe to conduct research sponsored by HRI SURF in our lab in the summer. Charles is an undergradaute student in Wingate University in NC<\/p>\n

April 24, 2025<\/strong>\u00a0 Our work on long oligo synthesis<\/a> is featured in TIDES Global<\/a>, and Royal Society of Chemistry’s Chemistry World<\/a><\/p>\n

January 24, 2025<\/strong>\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Manoj Perera is awarded the Nicholas Matwiyoff and Carl Hogberg Graduate Fellowship<\/p>\n

November 14, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Alexander Apostle successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Alexander plans to carry out his postdoc research at Insubria University in Italy<\/p>\n

September 8, 2024\u00a0<\/strong> Group alumnus Dr. Bhaskar Halami (PhD, 2019) assumes a principal scientist position at Alloy Therapeutics<\/a>, Waltham, MA<\/p>\n

August 18, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0 Graduate student Ms. Samyuktha Thirukkovaluri joined our research group. Samyuktha obtained her MS in Sri Krishnadevaraya University and BS in Acharya Nagarjuna University in India. She was admitted to our PhD program in the Fall semester of 2024<\/p>\n

August 1, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Yipeng (Criss) Yin successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Criss has accepted a position in GenScript<\/a><\/p>\n

July 17, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Alexander Apostle is awarded Doctoral Finishing Fellowship<\/p>\n

June 15, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0 Group alumna Dr. Komal Chillar (PhD, 2024) accepted a scientist position from Prime Medicine<\/a><\/p>\n

May 23, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0 Group alumna Dr. Xi (Sissi) Lin (PhD, 2013) assumed the position of Deputy Director, R&D Strategy, Nucleic Acid Therapeutics Initiative (NATi), Singapore<\/p>\n

April 26, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0 Undergraudate student Mr. Nick Peterson joins our research group. Nick is a McNair Scholar<\/a>. He will mainly study in our collaborator Dr. Yinan Yuan’s lab to learn techniques useful for antiviral drug development. Graduate students Mr. Reed Arneson and Mr. Alexander Apostle are his mentor<\/p>\n

April 21, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0 Group alumni, primarily nucleic acid chemists, Dr. Wei Tang, Dr. Bin Cao, Dr. Xi (Sissi) Lin, and Dr. Jinsen Chen recently convened at nucleic acid conferences in China<\/p>\n

April 10, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0 MS student Mr. Parker Harstad successfully defended his research report<\/p>\n

March 14, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0 Graduate student Ms. Komal Chillar successfully defended her PhD dissertation<\/p>\n

March 12, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0 Graduate student Ms. Komal Chillar is awarded the Spring 2024 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship<\/p>\n

February 17, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0 PhD student Mr. Alexander Apostle is awarded the 2024 Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) Graduate Fellowship. MSGC’s mission is to create, develop, and promote programs that reflect NASA strategic interests<\/p>\n

January 3, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0 Graduate student Ms. Komal Chillar is awarded the Spring 2024 Health Research Institute Graduate Fellowship<\/p>\n

November 28, 2023<\/strong>\u00a0 MS (course-based) student Mr. Parker Harstad joined our research group. PhD student Mr. Manoj Perera is his mentor<\/p>\n

November 10, 2023<\/strong>\u00a0 PhD student Mr. Yipeng (Criss) Yin won Graduate School Spring 2023 Finishing Fellowship<\/p>\n

October 25, 2023\u00a0<\/strong> Undergraduate student Ms. Claire Noble joined our research group<\/p>\n

October 20, 2023\u00a0<\/strong> Group posted a preprint<\/a> describing long oligo (400-mer) synthesis. The key compound (polymerizable tagging phosphoramidite) needed for the synthesis is available with affordable price by contacting amidites@mtu.edu. Help to spread the word<\/p>\n

October 9, 2023\u00a0<\/strong> Group Alumnus Dr. Zachary Nelson (BS, 2018) successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Wayne State University<\/p>\n

September 8, 2023<\/strong>\u00a0 Undergraduate researchers Mr. Joden Robinson, Mr. Daniel Middleton and Mr. William Green joined our research group. PhD students Mr. Rohith Awasthy, Mr. Alexander Apostle and Mr. Manoj Perera are their mentors<\/p>\n

August 18, 2023<\/strong>\u00a0 Research group recieves award<\/a> from NIH to develope methods for the synthesis of sensitive epitranscriptomically modified RNAs and study their biological functions<\/p>\n

August 10, 2023<\/strong>\u00a0 Group Alumnus Mr. Logan Mikesell (BS and accelerated MS, 2021) published a paper in JOC<\/a><\/p>\n

July 10, 2023<\/strong>\u00a0 PhD student Ms. Komal Chillar won Graduate School Fall 2023 Finishing Fellowship<\/p>\n

May 3, 2023<\/strong>\u00a0 PhD student Mr. Alexander Apostle won Summer 2023 Health Research Institute (HRI) Graduate Research Fellowship<\/p>\n

April 19, 2023<\/strong>\u00a0 Undergraduate researcher Mr. David Hutchings won Chemistry Department Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Award<\/p>\n

April 19, 2023<\/strong>\u00a0 PhD student Mr. Yipeng (Criss) Yin won Robert and Kathleen Lane Graduate Research Award, and Ambassador Award<\/p>\n

April 19, 2023<\/strong>\u00a0 PhD student Mr. Alexander Apostle won Outstanding Upper-Division Chemistry Teaching Assistant Award, Outstanding Graduate Student Fellowship, and Ambassador Award<\/p>\n

April 19, 2023<\/strong>\u00a0 PhD student Ms. Komal Chillar won Fleming-Skochelak Fellowship, and Ambassador Award<\/p>\n

January 10, 2023<\/strong>\u00a0 MS graduate students (course-based) Ms. Oluwanifesimi (Nifesimi) Afolabi and Mr. Henry Lanquaye joined our research group. PhD student Mr. Alexander Apostle is their mentor<\/p>\n

January 1, 2023<\/strong>\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Rohith Awasthy joined our research group. Rohith obtained his MS degree in Panjab Univeristy and BS degree in Himachal Pradesh University in India. He was admitted to our PhD program in the fall semester of 2022<\/p>\n

October 5, 2022<\/strong>\u00a0 Group alumna Dr. Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama (PhD 2022) accepted a scientist position from MSD\/Merck & Co<\/a> (US)<\/p>\n

August 22, 2022<\/strong>\u00a0 Graduate student Ms. Fakhira Razzaq (BS, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan; MS, National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan) joined our research group<\/p>\n

August 22, 2022<\/strong>\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Manoj Perera (BS, University of Peradeniya; MS, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka) joined our research group<\/p>\n

May 10, 2022\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Undergraduate student Ms. Martina Jahfetson from Finlandia University started research in our research group. PhD student Mr. Yinpeng (Criss) Yin is her mentor<\/p>\n

April 20, 2022<\/strong>\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Lucas Prehoda is awarded the Chemistry Department Outstanding Senior Research Award<\/p>\n

April 20, 2022<\/strong>\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Alexander Apostle is awarded the 2021-2022 Robert and Kathleen Lane Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award, and 2021-2022 Ambassador Award<\/p>\n

April 20, 2022<\/strong>\u00a0 Graduate student Ms. Komal Chillar is awarded the 2021-2022 Robert and Kathleen Lane Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award, and 2021-2022 Ambassador Award<\/p>\n

April 5, 2022<\/strong>\u00a0 Graduate student Ms. Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Dhananjani has accepted a postdoc position in Dr. Marc Greenberg’s research group<\/a> at Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n

March 23, 2022<\/strong>\u00a0 Group alumna Dr. Xi (Sissi) Lin (PhD 2013) has been on a position in Cargene<\/a> in Singapore. Her team is developing siRNA drugs<\/p>\n

January 25, 2022<\/strong>\u00a0 Undergraduate researcher Mr. Allen Cureton joined our research group. PhD student Mr. Alexander Apostle is his mentor<\/p>\n

November 18, 2021\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Graduate student Mr. Alexander Apostle successfully defended his research proposal and entered research-only mode<\/p>\n

November 18, 2021\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Graduate student Ms. Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama is awarded the 2022 Spring Semester Graduate Finishing Fellowship<\/p>\n

November 9, 2021<\/strong>\u00a0 Undergraduate researcher Mr. Bryan Horning (Chemistry) joined our research group. PhD student Ms. Komal Chillar is his mentor<\/p>\n

November 8, 2021<\/strong>\u00a0 Group Alumnus Dr. Jinsen Chen takes the Senior Director of Nucleic Acid Chemistry position at Hitgen Inc<\/a><\/p>\n

September 3, 2021<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. David Hutchings joined our research group. PhD student Ms. Komal Chillar is his mentor<\/p>\n

August 10, 2021<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 PhD student Mr. Yinpeng (Criss) Yin successfully defended his ORP and entered research-only mode<\/p>\n

July 21, 2021<\/strong> \u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Logan Mikesell successfully defended his MS thesis. Logan will continue his graduate study in the PhD program of the Montana State University<\/p>\n

July 1, 2021\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong> Group alumnus Dr. Bhaskar Halami\u00a0(PhD 2019) assumes a senior scientist position in Sirnaomics Inc<\/a> (Maryland)<\/p>\n

June 28, 2021\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Undergraduate student Ms. Cassandra Troy from Finlandia University started research in our research group. PhD student Mr. Yinpeng (Criss) Yin is her mentor<\/p>\n

May 14, 2021\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Undergraduate student Ms. Olivera Powder (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) joined our research group. PhD students Mr. Alexander Apostle and Mr. Yipeng (Criss) Yin are her mentor<\/p>\n

April 22, 2021\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Graduate student Ms. Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama is awarded the 2021 Robert and Kathleen Lane Outstanding Graduate Research Award. Graduate student Ms. Komal Chillar and Undergraduate student Ms. Abby Schwartz win the Chemistry Department Ambassador Award. Graduate student Mr. Alexander Apostle wins Honorable Mention for Outstanding Lower-Division Chemistry Teaching Assistant<\/p>\n

February 1, 2021\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Undergraduate student Ms. Madeline Johnson (Chemical Engineering) joined our research group. PhD student Ms. Komal Chillar is her mentor<\/p>\n

February 1, 2021\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Group alumnus Mr. Brett Otto (BS MTU 2020) started working at Charles Reviver Laboratories<\/a> as a Research Associate<\/p>\n

January 14, 2021\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong> Group alumnus Dr. Durga Pokharel (PhD 2014) now works for PerkinElmer as the company Horizon Discovery<\/a> he used to work for becomes part of PerkinElmer<\/a><\/p>\n

November 14, 2020\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Graduate student Ms. Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama is awarded the 2021 Spring Semester Health Research Institute (HRI) Graduate Research Fellowship<\/p>\n

August 20, 2020\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Graduate student Ms. Komal Chillar successfully defended her ORP, and entered research-only mode<\/p>\n

August 15, 2020\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Undergraduate student Mr. Logan Mikesell transferred to our Chemistry Accelerated Master\u2019s (BS-MS) program<\/p>\n

July 23, 2020<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0Research group receives award<\/a> from NSF for the development of technologies for the synthesis of long oligodeoxynucleotides<\/p>\n

May 21, 2020<\/strong> \u00a0 Group alumnus Dr. Ashok Khanal (PhD, MTU, 2018) plans to assume a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas in August 2020. Ashok has been an Assistant Professor in Finlandia University while his wife is studying in Michigan Tech, who obtained her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology recently<\/p>\n

April 27, 2020<\/strong> \u00a0 Group alumnus Mr. Zachary Nelson (BS, MTU) successfully passed his PhD candidacy qualification examination in Wayne State University<\/p>\n

April 14, 2020<\/strong> \u00a0 Group alumnus Mr. John\u00a0M.\u00a0Hausman (BS, MTU) published a paper in Biochemistry. John is the first author. The paper<\/a> is entitled The Two Deubiquitinating Enzymes from Chlamydia trachomatis Have Distinct Ubiquitin Recognition Properties. John is currently a PhD candidate in Purdue University<\/p>\n

January 10, 2020<\/strong> \u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Alexander Apostle (BS, Michigan State University) joined our research group<\/p>\n

January 10, 2020<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Undergraduate student Mr. Logan Mikesell joined our research group. PhD student Ms. Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama is his mentor. Logan plans to obtain an MS degree<\/p>\n

October 28, 2019<\/strong> \u00a0 Group alumnus Mr. Nicholas Carlson (BS) has been on an engineering position in Honeywell UOP. On the position, he has the opportunity to enjoy visiting many beautiful places including Xi’an, Ningbo, Shanghai, Zhoushan Island, and Qingdao in China<\/p>\n

October 24, 2019<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0Undergraduate student Ms. Abby Schwartz\u00a0joined our research group. PhD student Ms. Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama is her mentor<\/p>\n

October 21, 2019<\/strong> \u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Bhaskar Halami’s paper entitled Linear Oligosulfoxides: Synthesis and Solubility Studies<\/a> is accepted for publication in Tetrahedron Letters. The authors are Bhaskar Halami, Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama, Komal Chillar, Zack Nelson, Lucas Prehoda, Yipeng Yin, Bao-Yuan Lu, Brett Otto, Liam Haggerty and Shiyue Fang. The work is partially supported by NIH<\/a><\/p>\n

September 19, 2019<\/strong> \u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Shahien (Shawn) Shahsavari’s paper entitled Sensitive Oligodeoxynucleotide Synthesis Using Dim and Dmoc as Protecting Groups<\/a> is accepted for publication in The Journal of Organic Chemistry. The authors are Shahien Shahsavari, Dhananjani Eriyagama, Jinsen Chen, Bhaskar Halami, Yipeng (Criss) Yin, Komal Chillar and Shiyue Fang. The work is supported by NIH<\/a><\/p>\n

September 19, 2019<\/strong> \u00a0 Group alumna Ms. Savannah Joslin (BS, 2019) has been an Assistant Scientist in Cayman Chemical<\/p>\n

September 10, 2019<\/strong> \u00a0 Graduate student Dr. Bhaskar Halami receives offer from PPD, LLC<\/a> (Wisconsin)<\/p>\n

August 14, 2019<\/strong> \u00a0 Group Alumnus Dr. Jinsen Chen has been a senior scientist in GenScript Inc<\/a><\/p>\n

July 30, 2019<\/strong> \u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Bhaskar Halami successfully defended his PhD dissertation<\/p>\n

July 8, 2019\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0Research group receives award from NSF<\/a> Partnerships for Innovation program for commercialization of affordable monodisperse polyethylene glycols and their derivatives<\/p>\n

May 27, 2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Shahien (Shawn) Shahsavari successfully defended his PhD dissertation. He has been offered a position by\u00a0Molecular Assemblies<\/a> (San Diego) – a company made to the 10 Start-Ups to Watch<\/a>\u00a0in ACS\u00a0Chemical & Engineering News<\/em>\u00a0in 2018<\/p>\n

May 17, 2019<\/strong> \u00a0 Group Alumnus Dr. Nathanael Green (BS, 2014) successfully defended his PhD dissertation at Baylor College of Medicine<\/a>. He has been accepted to the prestigious Law Center of University of Houston<\/a><\/p>\n

May 10, 2019<\/strong> \u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Shahien (Shawn) Shahsavari’s paper entitled Electrophilic Oligodeoxynucleotide Synthesis using dM-Dmoc for Amino Protection is accepted for publication in Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry<\/em>. The authors are Shahien Shahsavari, Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama, Bhaskar Halami, Vagarshak Begoyan, Marina Tanasova, Jinsen Chen and Shiyue Fang. The work is supported by NIH<\/a><\/p>\n

May 3, 2019<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0Undergraduate student Mr. Mark Franchi<\/a> joined our research group. PhD students Mr. Bhaskar Halami and Ms. Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama are his mentor<\/p>\n

May 2, 2019<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0Undergraduate student Mr. Brett Otto joined our research group. PhD students Mr. Bhaskar Halami and Ms. Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama are his mentor<\/p>\n

April 24, 2019\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Graduate students\u00a0Mr.\u00a0Bhaskar Halami and Ms.\u00a0Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama are awarded the 2019 David and Valeria Pruett Fellowship<\/p>\n

April 8, 2019\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 Group alumnus Dr. Durga Pokharel (PhD 2014) accepted a scientist position in Horizon Discovery<\/a> after his postdoc study in Dr. Michael Seidman\u2019s research group at NIH<\/p>\n

March 26, 2019\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr.\u00a0Bhaskar Halami is awarded the 2019 Summer Portage Health Foundation Graduate Assistantship<\/p>\n

March 24, 2019\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 Graduate student Mr.\u00a0Bhaskar Halami was awarded the Distinction of First Place – Poster Presentation in the American Chemical Society Upper Peninsula Student Research Symposium, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI, March 23, 2019<\/p>\n

February 15<\/b>,\u00a02019\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Graduate student Mr.\u00a0Shahien Shahsavari is awarded the Graduate School\u00a0Outstanding Scholarship Award<\/p>\n

January 8<\/b>,\u00a02019\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Graduate student Ms. Komal Chillar\u00a0joined our research group. Komal was admitted to our PhD program in August 2018. She obtained her BS from\u00a0University of Delhi and MS from Maharshi Dayanand University Rohtak in India<\/p>\n

January 8, 2019\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0Undergraduate student Mr. Owen Deming joined our research group. PhD students Mr. Bhaskar Halami and Ms. Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama are his mentor<\/p>\n

October 8<\/b>,\u00a02018\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Undergraduate student Mr. Zachary (Zack) Nelson (BS 2018, Mentor: PhD Student Mr. Bhaskar Halami) is accepted to the chemistry graduate program of Wayne State University<\/p>\n

September<\/b>\u00a05,\u00a02018\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Undergraduate students Mr. Liam Haggerty (Mentor: PhD student\u00a0Mr.\u00a0Bhaskar Halami) and Mr. Colton Monroe (Mentor: PhD student\u00a0Mr. Shahien Shahsavari) joined our research group<\/p>\n

September<\/b>\u00a01,\u00a02018\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Graduate student Ms. Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama’s paper on non-chromatographic DNA purification is accepted for publication in Organic Process Research and Development<\/em>. The authors are\u00a0Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama, Shahien Shahsavari, Bhaskar Halami, Bao-Yuan Lu, Fengping Wei,\u00a0and Shiyue Fang. The title is\u00a0Parallel, Large Scale and Long Synthetic Oligodeoxynucleotide Purification Using the Catching Full-length Sequence by Polymerization Technique.\u00a0The work is supported by NSF and\u00a0NIH<\/p>\n

July 25, 2018\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Graduate student Mr.\u00a0Bhaskar Halami’s paper on sensitive DNA analog synthesis is accepted for publication in ChemistrySelect<\/em>. The authors are\u00a0Bhaskar Halami, Shahien Shahsavari, Zack Nelson, Lucas Prehoda, Dhananjani Nisansala Adikari Mudiyanselage Eriyagama, and Shiyue Fang. Among them, Zack and Lucas are undergraduate researchers.\u00a0The work is supported by NIH and NSF<\/p>\n

July 4, 2018\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Graduate student Mr.\u00a0Yipeng (Criss) Yin is expected to\u00a0join our research group in August 2018. Criss obtained his BS from\u00a0our Chemistry Department at Michigan Technological University<\/p>\n

July\u00a03, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 Four\u00a0undergraduate researchers Chase McNamara, Mark Sylvester, Emily Bromley, Savannah Joslin, and their mentor graduate student Mr. Shahien Shahsavari’s paper entitled\u00a0Amine Protecting Groups Deprotectable under Nearly Neutral Oxidative Conditions is accepted for publication in\u00a0Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry<\/em>. The work is supported by NIH and NSF<\/p>\n

May 3, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 Undergraduate student\u00a0Mr.\u00a0James Gooding (Mentor, PhD student Mr. Shahien Shahsavari) graduated in May, 2018. He has been accepted to the National Institutes of Health’s Postbaccalaureate IRTA Program. He will start his study\u00a0in\u00a0Dr. Chudasama’s lab<\/a>\u00a0in June<\/p>\n

April 25, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 Graduate student\u00a0Mr. Shahien Shahsavari is awarded the 2018 Outstanding Graduate Student Leadership Award<\/p>\n

April 5, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 Graduate student Mr.\u00a0Ashok Khanal successfully defended his PhD dissertation<\/p>\n

March 25, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Three undergraduate researchers Mr. Travis Wigstrom, Mr. James Gooding and Mr. Chase McNamara, and their mentor graduate student Mr. Shahien Shahsavari’s paper entitled\u00a0dM-Dim for Carboxylic Acid Protection is accepted for publication in Tetrahedron Letters<\/em><\/a>. The work is supported by NIH and NSF<\/p>\n

March 3, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Undergraduate student\u00a0Mr.\u00a0Travis Wigstrom (Mentor, PhD student Mr. Shahien Shahsavari) plans to graduate in May, 2018. He has been accepted to the National Institutes of Health’s Postbaccalaureate IRTA Program<\/p>\n

March 3, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Undergraduate student Mr. Chase McNamara (Mentor, PhD student Mr. Shahien Shahsavari) plans to graduate in May, 2018. He has been accepted to the Dental School<\/a> of University of Michigan<\/p>\n

March 3, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Undergraduate students Mr. Justin Mitchell joined our research group. PhD student\u00a0Mr. Shahien Shahsavari is his mentor<\/p>\n

November 20, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 Group alumna Dr. Kyrie Pappas\u00a0(MTU 2010\u00a0BS)\u00a0is going to join Dr. Charles Sawyers<\/a> research group at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to conduct her postdoc research<\/p>\n

November\u00a01, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Research group receives award from NSF<\/a> I-Corps Team Program for commercialization of affordable monodisperse polyethylene glycols and their derivatives<\/p>\n

November\u00a01, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Graduate student Mr. Ashok Khanal\u00a0is awarded the\u00a02018 Spring Graduate School Finishing Fellowship<\/p>\n

November\u00a01, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Graduate student Mr. Ashok Khanal\u00a0is awarded the\u00a0Graduate School\u00a0Outstanding Scholarship Award<\/p>\n

October\u00a027, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr.\u00a0Satyen Dhamankar joined our research group.\u00a0PhD student Mr.\u00a0Ashok Khanal is his mentor<\/p>\n

October\u00a027, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Savannah Joslin\u00a0joined our research group.\u00a0PhD student Mr. Shahien Shahsavari is her mentor<\/p>\n

September 28, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Research group receives award from NIH<\/a> for developing chemistry to decorate DNA with sensitive functional groups and exploring their utility for biomedical research<\/p>\n

August\u00a023, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Ashok Khanal’s work on solid phase PEG synthesis is accepted for publication in Chemistry – A European Journal<\/em><\/a>. The work is supported by NIH and NSF<\/p>\n

August 22, 2017<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 The MRI Program at Chemistry Division of NSF<\/a> awards funding to Michigan Tech for acquiring an atomic force microscope. The instrument is crucial for the success of our projects involving measuring mechanical strength of single covalent bonds and single-molecule manipulations<\/p>\n

August\u00a022, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Ashok Khanal\u00a0is awarded the 2017 Fall Semester\u00a0Portage\u00a0Health\u00a0Foundation Graduate Assistantship<\/p>\n

July 1, 2017<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 Research group receives award from NSF<\/a> STTR Phase-I Program<\/p>\n

May\u00a017, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Anna-Catharina Wilhelm (BS, MTU,\u00a0December, 2016) is accepted to the graduate program of University of British Columbia. She will start her study in the Fall semester of 2017<\/p>\n

May\u00a011, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate researchers James Gooding and Travis Wigstrom\u00a0published a paper <\/a>with their mentor graduate student Shahien Shahsavari in Chemistry Select<\/i>.<\/i>\u00a0The authors are Shahien Shahsavari,\u00a0James Gooding,\u00a0Travis Wigstrom, and Shiyue Fang. The title of the paper\u00a0is Formation of Hindered Arylcarbamates using Alkyl Aryl\u00a0Carbonates under Highly Reactive Conditions<\/em>. The work is supported by NIH R15GM109288,<\/a> NSF CHE111192<\/a>, Portage Health Foundation, and MTU SURF<\/p>\n

April 19, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Ashok Khanal wins the\u00a02016-2017 Ray E. and Eleanor K. Cross Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry<\/p>\n

April 19, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Patrick Kidwell wins the 2016-2017 Outstanding Lower-Division Chemistry Teaching Assistant Award and the 2016-2017 Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry sponsored by the American Chemical Society\u2019s Division of Organic Chemistry<\/p>\n

March 15, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr.\u00a0James Gooding (Mentor, PhD student Mr. Shahien Shahsavari) is awarded the 2017 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (MTU SURF). His project is Formation of Hindered Aryl Carbamates under Highly Reactive Conditions<\/p>\n

March 15, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr.\u00a0Travis Wigstrom (Mentor, PhD student Mr. Shahien Shahsavari) is awarded the 2017 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (MTU SURF). His project is A Novel Carboxylic Acid Protecting Group Deprotectable Under Mild Neutral Conditions<\/p>\n

March 5, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Shahien Shahsavari (Shawn) is awarded the 2017 Summer Portage Health Foundation Graduate Assistantship<\/p>\n

March 3, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate students Mr. Zachary Smith joined our research group. PhD student Mr. Bhaskar Halami is his mentor<\/p>\n

January 9, 2017<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Ms. Adikari Mudiyanselage Dhananjani Nisansala Eriyagama join our research group.\u00a0 Dhananjani obtained her BS in University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n

January 9, 2017<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate students Mr. Lucas Prehoda joined our research group. PhD student Mr. Bhaskar Halami is his mentor<\/p>\n

January 9, 2017<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate students Mr. Chase McNamara, Ms. Emily Bromley, and Mr. Mark Sylvester joined our research group. PhD student Mr. Shahien Shahsavari is their mentor<\/p>\n

September 1, 2016<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Zachary Nelson joined our research group. PhD student Mr. Bhaskar Halami is his mentor<\/p>\n

September 1, 2016<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Christopher Sedenquist joined our research group. PhD student Mr. Shahien Shahsavari is his mentor<\/p>\n

July 22, 2016<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Postdoc, graduate and undergraduate researchers published a paper<\/a> in the area of nucleic acid chemistry in Organic Letters<\/i>. The authors are Xi Lin, Jinsen Chen, Shahien Shahsavari, Nathanael Green, Deepti Goyal and Shiyue Fang. The title is Synthesis of Oligodeoxynucleotides Containing Electrophilic Groups<\/i>. Xi Lin, Jinsen Chen and Shahien Shahsavari contributed equally. The work is supported by NIH R15GM109288<\/a><\/p>\n

July 20, 2016<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate researchers Travis Wigstrom, James Gooding, and Alexander Gauronskas published a paper in Tetrahedron Letters<\/i>. The authors are Shahien Shahsavari, Jinsen Chen, Travis Wigstrom, James Gooding, Alexander Gauronskas, and Shiyue Fang. The title is Tritylation of Alcohols under Mild Conditions without Using Silver Salts<\/i>. The work is supported by NIH R15GM109288<\/a><\/p>\n

April 14, 2016<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PhD candidate Mr. Ashok Khanal published his paper<\/a> in the area of single-molecule mechanochemistry entitled Evidence of Splitting 1,2,3-Triazole into an Alkyne and Azide by Low Mechanical Force in the Presence of Other Covalent Bonds <\/i>in the Chemistry\u2014A European Journal<\/i>. The authors are Ashok Khanal, Fei Long, Bin Cao, Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, and Shiyue Fang. Ashok and Fei made equal contributions to the work. Fei and Reza are our collaborators in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics of Michigan Tech. The work is supported by NSF 1225720<\/a><\/p>\n

April 14, 2016<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PhD student Mr. Ashok Khanal wins the 2015-2016 Outstanding Lower-Division Chemistry Teaching Assistant Award and the 2015-2016 Robert and Kathleen Lane Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award<\/p>\n

April 14, 2016<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Ashley Schuman wins the 2016 Outstanding Senior Award<\/p>\n

April 14, 2016<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Patrick Kidwell wins the 2016 Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry<\/p>\n

March 25, 2016<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Travis Wigstrom is awarded the 2016 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). His project is A Better Approach to Tritylation of Alcohols<\/p>\n

March 25, 2016<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Ashley Schuman is expected to graduate from Michigan Tech in May, 2016. She will attend the graduate school of Purdue University in Fall, 2016 to pursue a PhD<\/p>\n

January 1, 2016<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. James Gooding joined our research group. PhD student Mr. Shahien Shahsavari is his mentor<\/p>\n

December 1, 2015<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Patrick Kidwell joined our research group. PhD student Mr. Ashok Khanal is his mentor<\/p>\n

October 15, 2015<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Alexander Gauronskas joined our research group. Alex is a student in the Chemical Engineering Department of Michigan Tech. PhD student Mr. Shahien Shahsavari is his mentor<\/p>\n

May 1, 2015<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Travis Wigstrom joined our research group. PhD student Mr. Shahien Shahsavari is his mentor<\/p>\n

April 10, 2015<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Durga Pokharel accepted a postdoc position in Dr. Michael Seidman\u2019s research group at the Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, National Institute on Aging, NIH after a short postdoc in our research group<\/p>\n

April 10, 2015<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Nicholas Carlson joined our research group. Nicholas is a student in the Chemical Engineering Department of Michigan Tech. Postdoc Dr. Jinsen Chen is his mentor<\/p>\n

January 19, 2015<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Jinsen Chen joined our research group as a postdoc researcher. He obtained his PhD from Nanjing University, China<\/p>\n

January 1, 2015<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Bhaskar Halami joined our research group<\/p>\n

December 12, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Durga Pokharel successfully defended his PhD dissertation<\/p>\n

December 5, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Suntara (Boat) Fueangfung successfully defended his PhD dissertation<\/p>\n

November 12, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Suntara (Boat) Fueangfung won the Chemistry Division Superior Presenter Medal for his poster presentation at the 2014 Sigma Xi Annual Meeting & International Research Conference, Glendale, AZ, November 7-9, 2014. His presentation title is Purification of Synthetic Oligodeoxynucleotides via Catching by Polymerization (https:\/\/www.sigmaxi.org\/news\/article\/2014\/11\/10\/student-winners-announced-in-international-research-conference<\/a>)<\/p>\n

October 27, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Group alumnus Dr. Garrett Gibbons (MTU 2008 BS) obtained his PhD from Professor Zaneta Nikolovska-Coleska\u2019s research group in the Department of Pathology at University of Michigan. He is moving to Professors Virginia Lee and John Trojanowski\u2019s research group at the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR) at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine to carry out his postdoc study<\/p>\n

October 15, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Group alumna Dr. Xi (Sissi) Lin (MTU 2013 PhD) assumed a Postdoc Researcher position in Professor Teo Yin Nah\u2019s Research Group in Molecular Engineering Laboratory at A*Star in Singapore<\/p>\n

September 16, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Group alumnus Dr. Xiang Zhang (MTU 2011 PhD) completed his postdoc study in Professor Zhude Tu\u2019s laboratory in Washington University St. Louis. He recently assumed a position in the Imaging Probe Development Center of National Institutes of Health. In addition, based on his work in Washington University, Xiang made two oral presentations in the 2014 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) conference, and both won awards. They are the first place Young Professional Committee Award in basic research and the Berson-Yalow Award (http:\/\/www.snmmi.org\/Membership\/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=5850<\/a>)<\/p>\n

August 15, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Group alumna Dr. Wei Tang (MTU 2008 BS) obtained her PhD from Professor Richard Silverman\u2019s research group in Northwestern University and has assumed a Scientist position in CHEMIR in St. Louis<\/p>\n

July 15, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Ashley Schuman joined our research group. PhD student Mr. Ashok Khanal is her mentor<\/p>\n

May 1, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>Graduate student Mr. Durga Pokharel wins the 2014 Michigan Tech Bhakta Rath Research Award<\/p>\n

April 28, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>Undergraduate student Ms. Anna-Catharina Wilhelm wins the 2014 Sandretto Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship<\/p>\n

April 28, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>Graduate student Mr. Durga Pokharel wins the 2014 Chemistry Department Outstanding Graduate Student Award<\/p>\n

April 11, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Nathanael Green is expected to graduate from Michigan Tech in May, 2014. He plans attend the graduate school of Baylor College of Medicine in Fall, 2014 to pursue a PhD<\/p>\n

April 8, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Sean LeRolland-Wagner joined our research group<\/p>\n

March 30, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Suntara (Boat) Fueangfung won the First Place Award for his poster presentation at ACS Upper Peninsula Student Research Symposium held at Northern Michigan University on March 29, 2014. His presentation title is Purification of Synthetic Oligodeoxynucleotides via Catching by Polymerization<\/p>\n

March 30, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Ashok Khanal won the First Place Award for his poster presentation at ACS Upper Peninsula Student Research Symposium held at Northern Michigan University on March 29, 2014. His presentation title is Single-Molecule Probe Modification Using Copper-Catalyzed Click Chemistry<\/p>\n

March 14, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Nathanael Green is awarded the Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry by the American Chemical Society\u2019s Division of Organic Chemistry<\/p>\n

February 14, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our paper published in Organic Letters and entitled Purification of Synthetic Peptides Using a Catching Full-Length Sequence by Polymerization Approach (http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1021\/ol403426u<\/a>) is covered in Michigan Tech News http:\/\/www.mtu.edu\/news\/stories\/2014\/february\/story103114.html<\/a><\/p>\n

January 15, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Shahien Shahsavari joined our research group. Shahien obtained his BS from University of California-San Diego<\/p>\n

January 15, 2014<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Anna-Catharina Wilhelm joined our research group<\/p>\n

December 13, 2013<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Ms. Xi (Sissi) Lin successfully defended her PhD dissertation<\/p>\n

November 20, 2013<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Suntara Fueangfung is awarded the 2014 Spring Semester Graduate School Doctoral Finishing Fellowship<\/p>\n

September 5, 2013<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Lucia Li joined our research group. Lucia is a student in the Chemical Engineering Department of Michigan Tech<\/p>\n

May 23, 2013<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Matt Strong participated in our NSF-supported non-chromatographic peptide purification project in the summer of 2013. Matt is a student from Finlandia University. He is supported by funding from NSF<\/p>\n

May 22, 2013<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate Ms. Chinyelu Umeokolo participated in our projects in the nucleic acid chemistry area in the summer of 2013. Chinyelu is from Wayne County Community College. She is supported by MiCUP (Michigan College and University Partnership) program. The MiCUP program is a collaborative effort between three Michigan community colleges (Delta College, Grand Rapids Community College, and Wayne County Community College District) and Michigan Tech. Its goal includes encouraging students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields<\/p>\n

April 18, 2013<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Suntara Fueangfung is named the Chemistry Department 2012-2013 Outstanding Lower Division Chemistry Teaching Assistant<\/p>\n

April 18, 2013<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Nathanael Green is awarded the Chemistry Department Outstanding Senior Award and named the Chemistry Department 2012-2013 Departmental Scholar<\/p>\n

April 18, 2013<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Christopher Thomas is awarded the Chemistry Department 2012-2013 Outstanding Senior Research Award and the Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry<\/p>\n

March 22, 2013<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Group alumnus Dr. Muralidhara Thimmaiah (MTU 2008 PhD) will assume a Senior Lecturer position in Washington University in September 2013<\/p>\n

March 18, 2013<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Christopher Thomas is expected to graduate from Michigan Tech in May, 2013. He will attend the graduate school of University of Wisconsin-Madison in Fall, 2013 to pursue a PhD in its pharmaceutical science program<\/p>\n

March 1, 2013<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Nathanael Green is awarded the Michigan Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Research Fellowship<\/p>\n

July 23, 2012<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Bin Cao joined our research group as a postdoctoral researcher from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China<\/p>\n

April 23, 2012<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Ms. Xi (Sissi) Lin is awarded the 2012 Ray E. and Eleanor K. Cross Endowed Graduate Fellowship and the 2012 Chemistry Department Lower Division Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award<\/p>\n

April 23, 2012<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Nathanael Green is awarded the 2012 David J. and Valeria L. Pruett Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship<\/p>\n

April 23, 2012<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Kaitlin Codere-Lanouette will participate in our NSF-supported non-chromatographic peptide purification project in the coming summer. Kaitlin is a student from Finlandia University. She is supported by funding from NSF<\/p>\n

April 19, 2012<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Durga Pokharel successfully defended his Original Research Proposal. He has also finished the Cumulative Exams in this semester. As a result, he will enter the research-only mode in the coming summer<\/p>\n

April 3, 2012<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate students Mr. Nathanael Green and Mr. Christopher Thomas joined our research group. They will start their research in the summer and fall semesters of 2012, respectively<\/p>\n

February 12, 2012<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Group alumnus Dr. Xiang Zhang (PhD 2011) assumed a postdoctoral researcher position in School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis<\/p>\n

February 5, 2012<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Ms. Xi (Sissi) Lin is awarded the first place prize in Michigan Tech Graduate Research Colloquium Poster & Presentation Competition for her poster \u201cPt (II)-Catalyzed Isomerization of Oxo-Alkynes\u201d. The poster is authored by graduate students Xi Lin and Zezhou Wang, and associate professors Rudy L. Luck and Shiyue Fang; and is presented on February 2, 2012<\/p>\n

February 5, 2012<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Suntara (Boat) Fueangfung presented his poster entitled \u201cPurification of Synthetic Oligodeoxynucleotides via Catching by Polymerization\u201d at Michigan Tech Graduate Research Colloquium Poster & Presentation Competition on February 2, 2012. The authors of the poster are Suntara Fueangfung and Shiyue Fang<\/p>\n

February 5, 2012<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Mingcui Zhang joined our research group as a postdoctoral researcher from Anhui Normal University, China<\/p>\n

January 8, 2012<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Ashok Khanal joined our research group. Ashok obtained his BS and MS degrees from Tribhuwan University, Nepal<\/p>\n

November 24, 2011<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our Chemical Communications (2011, 47, 1345-1347) and Organic Letters (2010, 12, 3720-3723) papers on synthetic DNA purification are included in www.labome.org<\/a>. Click the following link http:\/\/www.labome.org\/\/expert\/usa\/michigan\/fang\/shiyue-fang-1638645.html<\/a><\/p>\n

April 28, 2011<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Matthew Schultz joined our research group. Matt is supported by the 2011 David J. and Valeria L. Pruett Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship<\/p>\n

April 25, 2011<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. John Hausman joined our research group<\/p>\n

April 23, 2011<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Travis Olds was selected as the Chemistry Department Scholar<\/p>\n

April 5, 2011<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Xiang Zhang successfully defended his PhD dissertation<\/p>\n

March 22, 2011<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Brigitte Koerner is admitted to the graduate program of School of Pharmacy in Concordia University in Mequon, WI<\/p>\n

October 12, 2010<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Kyrie Pappas published a paper with graduate student Mr. Xiang Zhang, and Associate Professor Shiyue Fang in Letters in Organic Chemistry. The title is \u201cSelective Acylation of Polyamines with Acid Anhydrides and Acid Chlorides in Water\u201d<\/p>\n

July 28, 2010<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our paper published in Organic Letters and entitled Scalable Synthetic Oligodeoxynucleotide Purification with Use of a Catching by Polymerization, Washing and Releasing Approach (http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/ol101316g<\/a>) is covered in Michigan Tech News http:\/\/www.mtu.edu\/news\/stories\/2010\/july\/story29758.html<\/a>; American Chemical Society, Chemical and Engineering News http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/cen\/news\/88\/i31\/8831news4.html<\/a> (printed version, August 2, 2010 issue); Faculty of 1000 Biology http:\/\/f1000biology.com\/article\/id\/4324976#cite<\/a>; National Science Foundation, Science360 News Services: http:\/\/news.science360.gov\/archives\/20100726<\/a>; and Omicron Technology Limited\u2014PhysOrg: http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news199086389.html<\/a><\/p>\n

July 22, 2010<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Xiang Zhang is awarded a finishing fellowship by the Biotechnology Research Center of Michigan Tech to support his research in the Fall semester of 2010<\/p>\n

May 1, 2010<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Travis Olds joined our research group<\/p>\n

April 19, 2010<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Kyrie Pappas won the first place award in the 9th<\/sup> annual MTU Undergraduate Research Expo, which took place on April 15, 2010. Graduate student Mr. Xiang Zhang was a co-author of the poster. He was responsible for teaching Kyrie lab skills for her project<\/p>\n

April 1, 2010<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Kyrie Pappas is expected to graduate from Michigan Tech in May, 2010. She will attend the graduate school of Columbia University in Fall, 2010 to pursue a PhD<\/p>\n

January 10, 2010<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Durga Pokharel joined our research group from Nepal<\/p>\n

August 24, 2009<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate students Kyrie Pappas and Wei Tang published a paper with graduate student Xiang Zhang and assistant professor Shiyue Fang in Tetrahedron Letters, 2009, 50, 5741-5743. The title is \u201cphenyl esters, preferred reagents for mono-acylation of polyamines in the presence of water\u201d<\/p>\n

May 5, 2009<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Brock Jackman joined our research group<\/p>\n

May 1, 2009<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Brigitte Koerner joined our research group<\/p>\n

April 8, 2009<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Kyrie Pappas is awarded the 2009 Michigan Tech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (MTU SURF) for her proposal “Selective Acylation of Polyamines at Ambient Temperature”<\/p>\n

December 26, 2008<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Garrett Gibbons co-authored a paper with graduate students Mr. Zezhou Wang and Ms. Xi Lin, and professors Rudy Luck and Shiyue Fang. It is entitled \u201cSynthesis of Cyclic Allyl Vinyl Ethers Using Pt(II)-Catalyzed Isomerization of Oxo-Alkynes\u201d and is accepted for publication in Tetrahedron<\/i>. Garrett was supported by 2006 and 2007 Michigan Tech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships<\/p>\n

November 1, 2008<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduate student Mr. Suntara Fueangfung (BS, Thammasat University, Thailand) joined our research group. Suntara will be supported by the Royal Thai Government Scholarship<\/p>\n

August 26, 2008<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Kyrie Pappas joined our research group<\/p>\n

August 5, 2008<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Wei Tang\u2019s paper \u201cMono-acylation of symmetric diamines in the presence of water\u201d with Dr. Shiyue Fang is accepted for publication in Tetrahedron Letters<\/i>. Wei\u2019s work was partially supported by 2007 Michigan Tech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (MTU SURF)<\/p>\n

April 6, 2008<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Ms. Wei Tang is expected to graduate from Michigan Tech in May, 2008. She will attend the graduate school of Northwestern University in Fall, 2008 to pursue a PhD<\/p>\n

April 6, 2008<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Undergraduate student Mr. Garrett Gibbons is expected to graduate from Michigan Tech in May, 2008. He will attend the graduate school of University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in Fall, 2008 to pursue a PhD<\/p>\n

March 5, 2008<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>Graduate student Mr. Muralidhara Thimmaiah successfully defended his PhD dissertation and started to work as a postdoctoral research associate in Professor Kerry McPhail\u2019s research group in Oregon State University on March 1, 2008<\/p>\n

February 25, 2008<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>Dr. Wenpeng Mai joined our research group as a postdoctoral researcher. Dr. Mai received his PhD from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007<\/p>\n

January 14, 2008<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>Undergraduate student Mr. Tyler Soenen joined our research group. Tyler is a student in the Chemical Engineering Department of Michigan Tech<\/p>\n

October 18, 2007<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>Graduate student Ms. Xi Lin joined our research group. Xi was admitted to our graduate program in Fall 2007. She obtained her BS from Southwest University in P. R. China<\/p>\n

October 18, 2007<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>Graduate student Mr. Muralidhara Thimmaiah is awarded the Fall 2007 Finishing Fellowship by the graduate school of Michigan Tech. We congratulate Murali for the achievement and thank the graduate school and its sponsors for the generous award<\/p>\n

October 7, 2007<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>Undergraduate student Ms. Melanija Obsenica joined our research group<\/p>\n

May 05, 2007<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>PhD candidate Muralidhara Thimmaiah won the 2007 Michigan Tech Chemistry Department Outstanding Graduate Student Award<\/p>\n

April 10, 2007<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b>Garrett Gibbons and Wei Tang won the 2007 Michigan Tech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (MTU SURF) to support their research on \u201cSoft Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization Reactions\u201d and \u201cMono-acylation of Symmetric Diamines\u201d, respectively<\/p>\n

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February 11, 2026\u00a0 Our paper on long oligo synthesis, Chemical Science 2025, 16, 1966, is selected by editors to be included in Chemical Science 2025 most popular chemical biology and medicinal chemistry articles collection September 18, 2025\u00a0 Group added several new members, Ben Johnson (undergraduate researcher, mentors, M.S. Studen Mr. Kwame Amponsah, primary and Ph.D.… Continue reading News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chem.sites.mtu.edu\/fang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chem.sites.mtu.edu\/fang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chem.sites.mtu.edu\/fang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chem.sites.mtu.edu\/fang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chem.sites.mtu.edu\/fang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":176,"href":"http:\/\/chem.sites.mtu.edu\/fang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"http:\/\/chem.sites.mtu.edu\/fang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chem.sites.mtu.edu\/fang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}