5/4/13 Matt Nguyen won second prize during the undergraduate poster session. Congratulations!

3/5/13 Prof. Santos presents an invited lecture at the 14th Annual Florida Heterocyclic and Synthetic Chemistry Conference.

2/6/13 Wenyu and Jessica's paper about discovering a novel binding mode toward HIV-1 RNA is accepted in Chemical Communications. Congratulations!

1/5/13 We welcome two new graduate students in the lab. Cheryl Peck comes from Longwood College and Beth Childress is a graduate of the College of William and Mary.

1/1/13 Two publications from the Santos group are highlighted in Chemistry Portal. Joe's silylation protocol and Brandon's borylation protocol.

8/27/12 Dr. Mithun Raje secures a postdoctoral position with Prof. Takashi Tsukamoto at Johns Hopkins. Good luck!

8/21/12 Prof. Santos presents at the Young Investigator Symposium at the ACS conference in Philadelphia.

8/21/12 Joe Calderone gives a talk about his beta silylation protocol at the ACS conference in Philadelphia.

7/31/12 Congratulations to Dr. Jason Crumpton. He will start as an assistant professor of chemistry at Lynchburg College. Well done!

7/17/12 Joe's paper on aqueous silylation is highlighted in Synfacts (2012, 8, 781). Congrats Joe!

7/10/12 Mithun's paper describing selective sphingosine kinase 2 inhibitor SLR080811's role in lowering S1P level in mice is published in Biochemical Journal. Great Job!

7/7/12 The Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery is official! Click here for more info.

7/1/12 Dr. Mithun Raje started as a postdoc in the Carlier group while Dr. Brandon Thorpe assumed principal scientist role at SphynKx Therapeutics. Good luck to both of you!

6/1/12 Best of luck to Dr. David Bryson who joins Prof. David Liu as a postdoc fellow at Harvard University.

5/30/12 We welcome James Gumkowski as a Fralin Summer Undergrad Research Fellow. He comes to us from Muhlenberg College.

5/20/12 Analyn Carreon, a visiting scholar from the Philippines, has arrived!

4/30/12 Congratulations to Julie Ta for winning 1st place in the undergraduate research poster session.

4/23/12 The reagent developed in our lab, PDIPA diboron, is now in the "electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eROS)". The article is contributed by Brandon Thorpe.

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Current Members

 

Prof. Webster

Santos

santosw@vt.edu

540-231-5742

Dr. Neeraj

Patwardhan

Post Doc

neerajp@vt.edu

(HPLC & Pumps)

Kenneth Knott

Graduating PhD

kknott@vt.ed

Wenyu Zhang

5th Year

wenyum43@vt.edu

(CD, pH meter,

Rad lab, &

Lyophilizer)

Xi Guo

4th Year

daisygx@vt.edu

(Innovative

Tech Solvent

System)

Amanda Nelson

3rd Year

anelso34@vt.edu

(GC-MS &

Chem Inventory)

Jessica Wynn

3rd Year

jewynn1@vt.edu

(Hokie Mart

Ordering &

Lab Safety Officer

& UV-Vis)

Molly Congdon

3rd Year

mcongdon@vt.edu

(E-Notebook)

Joe Calderone

2nd Year

jac88@vt.edu

(Combiflash)

Emily Morris

2nd Year

memily9@vt.edu

(Computer Guru &

Website)

Analyn Carreon

Visiting Scholar

acarreon@vt.edu

Beth Childress

1st Year

eschildr@vt.edu

(Facilities)

Cheryl Peck

1st Year

peckcl@vt.edu

(Waste)

Julie Ta

Undergraduate

Biochem Major

julieta@vt.edu

Matt Nguyen

Undergraduate

Biochem Major

mattn5@vt.edu

 

 

Group Meeting Schedule

Our group meetings are held in Hahn Hall North 402 (conference room) at 7 pm. All students interested with our group are encouraged to attend our meetings. Check with Prof. Santos for any last minute group meeting changes.

(g) indicates meetings with subgroups.

Date

Formal

Presentation

Journal

Club/Lecture

Problem Set

Apr 16th

Amanda

Cheryl

Beth

Apr 23rd

none

none

Xi

Apr 30th

Beth, Matt,

Julie

none

Cheryl

May 7th

none

none

Jess

May 14th

none

none

Molly

May 21st

Cheryl

Beth

Analyn

May 28th

Wenyu

Emily

Neeraj

June 4th

Xi

Amanda

Joe

June 11th

none

none

Emily

June 18th

none

none

Wenyu

June 25th

Emily

Wenyu

Amanda

July 2nd

Amanda

Xi

Beth

July 9th

Neeraj

Jess

Molly

July 16th

Molly

Neeraj

Cheryl

July 23rd

none

none

Jess

July 30th

Jess

Molly

Xi

Aug 6th

none

none

Joe

Aug 13th

none

none

Neeraj

Aug 20th

Joe

Cheryl

Emily

Aug 27th

Beth

Joe

Wenyu

 

To sign-up for the Santos' group instruments:

http://faces.ccrc.uga.edu
group: SANTOS_LAB
username: your vt login id

 

Former Members

Dr. Mithun Raje, PhD Chemistry 2012, Postdoc with Prof. Tsukamoto at Johns Hopkins

Dr. Brandon Thorpe, PhD Chemistry 2012, Principal Scientist, SphynKx Therapeutics

Dr. David Bryson, PhD Chemistry 2012, Post Doc with Prof. David Liu at Harvard University

Dr. Jason Crumpton, PhD Chemistry 2012, Assistant Professor at Lynchburg College

Dr. Ming Gao, Postdoc 2008-2012, Post Doc with Prof. Mobashery at Univeristy of Notre Dame

Jing Sun, MS Chemistry 2010, in China

Michael Perfetti, MS Chemistry 2009, Graduate Student at UNC, Chapel Hill

Dr. Philippe Bissel, Postdoc 2007-2008, lecturer at VT and Hollins College

 

James Gumkowski, Fralin Summer Undergrad Fellow, Mullenburg College

Valerie Rojas, Prep Scholar 2012, Graduate Student at Duke University

Leah Heis, BS Chemistry 2011 (James Lewis Howe Awardee), Graduate Student at UNC, Chapel Hill

Marietou Paye, Prep Scholar 2011, Graduate Student at Georgia Tech

Wes Morris, BS Chemistry 2009 (James Lewis Howe Awardee, HyperCube Scholar), Graduate Student at Cornel

Evan Gilius, BS Biochemistry 2009

Caitlyn Criss, BS Biochemistry 2008, West Virginia School of Ostheopathic Medicine

Allison Pagano, BS Biochemistry 2009, Medical School

Ryan Stephens, BS Biochemistry 2009 (Arthur G. Meakin Scholar), UNC Medical School

Daniel Shook, BS Chemistry 2007, United States Patent and Trademark Office