SDSU organic Labsgiving 2023 was a huge success! Gavin Rustin was a great organizer, and the Byron Purse and group made it even more awesome (Byron went to Julian for a Pie).

While Beeta and Bahar's turkey was the clear winner, the Popeye's Turkey was quite good for a pre-cooked frozen turkey.

Great new program at SDSU. Latest group picture in matching SDSU Sciences PPE fresh from the vending machine

In some exciting, but also bittersweet news, the group will be relocating to the Stony Brook University Chemistry department over the summer. I am looking forward to the future, but will miss all of the amazing colleagues and friends at SDSU Chem-Biochem

Jim, a member of the Gustafson Group @ Stony Brook, cultivated a positive & inclusive environment in the organic chem labs. He would lead short meditation sections to get students in a good state of mind each lab period & was a sounding board for students to discuss their experiences at SDSU.

We are very happy to announce the promotion of three colleagues this year! Dr. Komperda Regis Komperda is now an Associate Prof with tenure, and Drs. Swairjo and Yan have been promoted to (full) Professor! Congratulations to all of you them on their exemplary work!

Check out our latest work in Nature Comm! Distinct structural features in IDH1 mutants drive their unique catalytic profiles and lead to differences in an allosteric pocket that may impact inhibitor resistance. A great collaboration with Huxford and Cooksy labs here at San Diego State University!

First-gen chemistry student awarded fellowship for cancer drug research How rising senior Alyssa Gomez is making her ‘STEM kid’ dreams reality while setting the stage for future generations in science Read More: bit.ly/3xWUsAh

Excited to share our new ChemRxiv preprint that describes CySP3-96 plate-based cysteine chemoproteomic method. Congrats to Flowreen Shikwana and team and thanks to Gustafson Group @ Stony Brook for the atropisomers! and #SergiLabSupplies Sergii Pochekailov for the low cost resin! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

We are very excited to share that our department is searching for a new organic chemistry professor! Candidates with a research emphasis on catalysis, new reaction development, and/or synthetic methodology preferred. More details at buff.ly/4dzJiRD

We are hiring another faculty! Supported by the SUNY Empire Innovation Program, we're looking for an Assistant/Associate Prof in biologically-oriented chemistry! Very exciting times at StonyBrookChem! apply.interfolio.com/151188

Crochet chemistry: Kristine Legaspi, a chemistry PhD student at San Diego State University, used crochet to introduce people to chemistry at her local Maker Faire. cen.acs.org/education/outr…

A reminder - while we do not have a official "hard" deadline, we recommend you submit your application to StonyBrookChem's PhD program by Jan 1! stonybrook.edu/commcms/chemis…

This week marked the Third SBU-BNL Photochemistry Supergroup, with a great poster session and 10 speakers from StonyBrookChem and MSCE, Brookhaven Lab, Queens College | The City University of New York, Hofstra University, and Adelphi University! Thanks to Stony Brook Research for supporting this event!

Call for Abstracts: An oral symposium on Synthetically Modified Nucleosides and Nucleic Acids on October 26, 2025 at the CALACS Western Regional Meeting in San Jose! Apply, share widely, and DM or email me with questions. wrm2025.org/index.php/prog…

Just got back from another excellent Heterocyclic Compounds GRC and am excited to have been elected Vice-Chair. I look forward to putting together an exciting program in 2027! Happy to hear any cool ideas for session topics.

Come join us at StonyBrookChem! We are looking for an Assoc/Full Prof in Materials or Polymer Chemistry, supported by the SUNY Empire Innovation Program. Deadline Oct 16. Reach out if you have any questions! apply.interfolio.com/173681 #facultychemjobs