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Porco Group Awarded $1.6 million to Investigate Biomimetic Synthesis of Complex Natural Products

in Front Page, Grants & Funding, Porco, John

Professor John Porco and his group have received a 4-year, $1.6 million award (2010 to 2014) to develop and refine biomimetic syntheses using copper-mediated enantioselective oxidation processes; photochemical cycloaddition employing excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT); and asymmetric reactions of acylphloroglucinols. Professor Porco and colleagues are applying these methodologies to synthesize complex natural products, including […]

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Help create the Undergraduate Center for Discovery Chemistry

in Alumni, Front Page, Fundraising

The Center will provide the physical framework for a new curriculum dedicated to cultivating chemical intuition and encouraging independent investigation.  With this curriculum, we will be able to immerse students in the process of collaborative innovation and discovery.  To do so, we will need to provide them with advanced scientific instrumentation and integrated modern laboratory […]

Ellison Medical Foundation Sponsors Tom Tullius to Explore Role of Gene Oxidative Damage in Aging

in Faculty, Front Page, Grants & Funding, Tullius, Tom

Professor Tom Tullius has received a 2009 Senior Scholar Award in Aging” from the nonprofit Ellison Medical Foundation. The Foundation supports basic biomedical research on aging relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities. The Ellison award supports a new project in the Tullius lab on genome damage and aging, particularly the […]

Ramesh Jasti joins faculty

in Faculty, Front Page, Jasti, Ramesh

Dr. Jasti has joined our department as an assistant professor. Most recently he held a postdoctoral research associate position with Professor Carolyn Bertozzi (University of California, Berkeley), conducting his research at the Molecular Foundry (The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).  His research has been able to address a longstanding and challenging problem at the interface of […]

Karen Allen research reported in Nature

in Allen, Karen, Faculty, Front Page, Publications

Karen Allen research reported in Nature solves how the enzyme acetoacetate decarboxylase (AADase) works in cell environment Professor Karen Allen, an internationally renown crystallographer in the Department of Chemistry and her colleagues, BU graduate student Meng-Chiao Ho and post-doctoral associate Jean-Francois Menetret, and Hiro Tsuruta of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource of the National Accelerator […]