Huiqi Ni, a rising junior at University of Science at Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, arrives for her eight-week internship in the Engle Lab. Huiqi originally hails from Shanghai, and at USTC she works in the research laboratory of Prof. Xisheng Wang developing new cross-coupling reactions with fluorinated coupling partners.
Forrest Graham, a rising senior from Valhalla High School in El Cahon, CA, kicks off his summer research internship in the Engle Lab. Forrest is a participant in the Life Science Summer Institute, which gives talented San Diego area high school students the opportunity to perform research at TSRI and other nearby research institutes. When he’s not busy making new ligands to promote challenging catalytic reactions, Forrest can be found running up and down Torrey Pines Road, getting ready for cross country season.
After making it through his final quarter as a junior at UCSD, Vincent begins his summer internship in the Engle lab as part of the SURF program. Enthusiastic to explore transition metal catalysis, Vincent decided to begin his journey by synthesizing over 10 grams of starting material for screening new methodology.
The Engle lab celebrates two great years at Scripps with a custom ice cream cake showcasing some of the group’s chemistry. Thanks to everyone for their hard work getting the lab established during our first two years. Here’s to an exciting Year #3 ahead!
Huge congratulations to the Class of 2017! The Engle lab is incredibly proud of our recent college and high school graduates, who are moving on to incredible graduate and undergraduate programs around the world!
Undergrads/Visiting Undergrads
Mark Boulous (UCSD): TBD
Annabelle Cantu (CSULB): UCLA (Ph.D. in Chemistry)
Miranda Sroda (UCSD): UCSB (Ph.D. in Chemistry)
Joshua Turnbull (King’s College London): UC Berkeley (Ph.D. in Chemistry)
Zichen (Forrest) Wang (Nankai U): SIOC (Ph.D. in Chemistry)
High School Students
Daizy De La Torrey (Southwest High School): UC Berkeley
Jessica Xu (Maranatha Christian High School): MIT
Keary’s Former Mentees
Shao-Xiong (Lennon) Luo (Caltech): MIT (Ph.D. in Chemistry)
Maximilian Koy (Uni Stuttgart): WWU Münster (Ph.D. in Chemistry)
Engle lab alum Josh Turnbull is featured in an article on the King’s College London website, which discusses his summer studentship and upcoming plans for graduate school. Congrats on your successes Josh, and best of luck at Berkeley! Click here for a link to the article.
Congratulations to postdoc Miriam O’Duill on winning the competitive TSRI Society of Fellows Spring Travel Award to fund her recent talk at the ACS Spring National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
For the press release, click here. Way to go, Miriam!
For the second year running, TSRI hosted a group of students and educators from the North San Diego County Bridges to the Future Program, an NIH-sponsored collaborative program among CSU San Marcos, Palomar College, and MiraCosta College. The goal of the program is to prepare students from underrepresented ethnic and racial groups at community colleges for seamless transition to four-year colleges. Keary kicked off the half-day visit with an overview of research in the Engle lab. Students then participated in a series of lab tours and hands-on activities with the Ward, Lamia, Romesberg, Sharpless, and Engle labs.
In a manuscript appearing online today in Tetrahedron, John, Van, and Miranda report a new method to effect intermolecular N-alkylation of 2-pyridones using an alkene as the alkylating reagent. The reaction employs a directed nucleopalladation/protodepalladation strategy and functions with a range of 2-pyridones and related aza-heterocycles. Special congratulations to our undergraduate co-author, Miranda, who also just completed her undergraduate degree at UCSD! The manuscript is part of a special issue celebrating Prof. Ang Li’s 2017 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award. Click here for a link to the manuscript. Way to go, team!
(not pictured: Miranda)
Molecular Complexity through Catalysis 