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08.09.2023: Let's hear it for the HMO team on our newest publication out in ACS Central Science!
08.07.2023: The group is starting the fall semester 1 member larger! Welcome James, our newest postdoc!
06.13.2023: Whoop! Whoop! Alex's total synthesis paper is LIVE!
02.02.2023: Congrats to Steve on being appointed as the Stevenson Professor of Chemistry!
10.15.2022: Nainoa rounding out all of our second years crushing their prelims!
10.08.2022: Pop the champagne, Sabrina tied the knot!
09.15.2022: Boo ya!! Julie & Xavier passed their prelims!
09.01.2022: Big Ups to Jen, papers accepted in mBio and Nature Communications!
05.09.2022: Congrats to Lianyan on an outstanding defense! We wish you well at MIT!
04.01.2022: Congrats Alex on passing your qual!
03.15.2022: Congratulations to Rebecca and Johny on great defenses and securing post docs!
03.03.2022: Round of applause for Elizabeth on successfully passing her qual!
01.10.2022: The lab scored big this year! Welcome Xavier, Julie, & Nainoa!
01.01.2022: Steve was promoted to Full Professor!
12.25.2021: The group ends the year on a high note with Johny, Rebecca, and Sabrina all publishing great study's! Congrats everyone!
04.29.2021: The Board of Trust approved Steve's promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure!
04.12.2021: Congrats to Eric on an outstanding defense! We wish you the very best at Yale!
02.16.2021: Congrats to Steve on being named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation!
02.02.2021: Congrats to Schuyler on an outstanding defense! We wish you the very best at Stanford!
08.11.2020: Congrats to Steve on receiving the ACS Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry 2021 David Y. Gin New Investigator Award!
06.09.2020: Congrats to Schuyler as she continues her takeover of science, publishing an invited script in biochemical society transactions!
04.27.2020: Congrats to Steve on being selected as a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar!
02.21.2020: Schuyler has completed a hat trick! Her third manuscript of the year is available in Chem. Eur. J. and is online in the just accepted section! https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202000354
01.30.2020: The group is starting the year off with momentum. Congratulations to all teammates involved in recent pubs in mBio, OBC, Carb Res!
10.21.2019: The group has received a New Directions grant from the ACS to support our methodology efforts!
09.01.2019: The group has received a MIRA grant from the NIH to support our program.
8.26.2019: Congrats to Steve on the recognition! C&E News Talented 12
8.16.2019: Dr. Keith successfully defended his thesis! After over 4K reactions, his time in the lab is done! Good luck in the Boger lab at TSRI!
7.23.2019: Congrats to Jamin on the publication of his Total Synthesis in JACS! DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b06830
5.04.2019: Congrats to Steve on receiving an ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award!
4.04.2019: Congrats to Harrison and Nainoa! This summer, Harrison will be a Fleischer Summer Research Scholar! Nainoa will be a Summer Intern with the Leadership Alliance!
3.29.2019: Kellys Account of Chem. Res. Article (Open access DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00630) was the most downloaded paper of March 2019)!
3.14.2019: Dr. Craft successfully defended her thesis! After 5 years and 10 papers, her time in the lab has concluded! Good luck in the Myers lab at Harvard!
3.13.2019: Schuyler passed her qualifying exam! Congrats Schuyler!
3.12.2019: Kelly, Johny, and Lawrence's contribution to the antimicrobial resistance special issue of MedChemComm has been accepted for publication. DOI: 10.1039/C9MD00044E
2.14.2019: Kellys Account of Chem. Res. Article is online and is an ACS editors choice article. Open access! DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00630
2.05.2019: Special thanks to Kelly and Eric for their assistance on our successful NSF CAREER proposal! The funding was awarded from the National Science Foundation's Division Of Chemistry via the Chemistry of Life Processes Program. Funding through this mechanism will allow us to discover novel HMO targets and give back to the greater Nashville community! Great job!
1.18.2019: 2019 will see a special issue of J. Antibiotics honoring Prof. Danishefsky. Congrats to Kelly! Her research paper for the issue was accepted today!!! DOI: 10.1038/s41429-019-0151-6.
1.03.2019: Cleo Evans, Rebecca Moore, and Lianyan Xu join the lab! Welcome!
12.19.2018: The year ends on a high note! Congrats to Steve on receiving the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Just the second faculty member to win a Research and Teaching award in the same year!
11.27.2018: Johny passed his preliminary exam. Congrats Johny!
11.18.2018: Kelly's OBC paper has been added to the "HOT articles collection"! Spicy!
11.16.2018: Congrats to Steve on receiving the Ruth Lawrence Award in Human Milk Science, the Chancellors Award for Research, and a Deans Faculty Fellowship!
11.10.2018: First-year graduate students Bailey and Lianyan have joined us for the third and final rotation!
08.07.2023: The group is starting the fall semester 1 member larger! Welcome James, our newest postdoc!
06.13.2023: Whoop! Whoop! Alex's total synthesis paper is LIVE!
02.02.2023: Congrats to Steve on being appointed as the Stevenson Professor of Chemistry!
10.15.2022: Nainoa rounding out all of our second years crushing their prelims!
10.08.2022: Pop the champagne, Sabrina tied the knot!
09.15.2022: Boo ya!! Julie & Xavier passed their prelims!
09.01.2022: Big Ups to Jen, papers accepted in mBio and Nature Communications!
05.09.2022: Congrats to Lianyan on an outstanding defense! We wish you well at MIT!
04.01.2022: Congrats Alex on passing your qual!
03.15.2022: Congratulations to Rebecca and Johny on great defenses and securing post docs!
03.03.2022: Round of applause for Elizabeth on successfully passing her qual!
01.10.2022: The lab scored big this year! Welcome Xavier, Julie, & Nainoa!
01.01.2022: Steve was promoted to Full Professor!
12.25.2021: The group ends the year on a high note with Johny, Rebecca, and Sabrina all publishing great study's! Congrats everyone!
04.29.2021: The Board of Trust approved Steve's promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure!
04.12.2021: Congrats to Eric on an outstanding defense! We wish you the very best at Yale!
02.16.2021: Congrats to Steve on being named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation!
02.02.2021: Congrats to Schuyler on an outstanding defense! We wish you the very best at Stanford!
08.11.2020: Congrats to Steve on receiving the ACS Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry 2021 David Y. Gin New Investigator Award!
06.09.2020: Congrats to Schuyler as she continues her takeover of science, publishing an invited script in biochemical society transactions!
04.27.2020: Congrats to Steve on being selected as a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar!
02.21.2020: Schuyler has completed a hat trick! Her third manuscript of the year is available in Chem. Eur. J. and is online in the just accepted section! https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202000354
01.30.2020: The group is starting the year off with momentum. Congratulations to all teammates involved in recent pubs in mBio, OBC, Carb Res!
10.21.2019: The group has received a New Directions grant from the ACS to support our methodology efforts!
09.01.2019: The group has received a MIRA grant from the NIH to support our program.
8.26.2019: Congrats to Steve on the recognition! C&E News Talented 12
8.16.2019: Dr. Keith successfully defended his thesis! After over 4K reactions, his time in the lab is done! Good luck in the Boger lab at TSRI!
7.23.2019: Congrats to Jamin on the publication of his Total Synthesis in JACS! DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b06830
5.04.2019: Congrats to Steve on receiving an ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award!
4.04.2019: Congrats to Harrison and Nainoa! This summer, Harrison will be a Fleischer Summer Research Scholar! Nainoa will be a Summer Intern with the Leadership Alliance!
3.29.2019: Kellys Account of Chem. Res. Article (Open access DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00630) was the most downloaded paper of March 2019)!
3.14.2019: Dr. Craft successfully defended her thesis! After 5 years and 10 papers, her time in the lab has concluded! Good luck in the Myers lab at Harvard!
3.13.2019: Schuyler passed her qualifying exam! Congrats Schuyler!
3.12.2019: Kelly, Johny, and Lawrence's contribution to the antimicrobial resistance special issue of MedChemComm has been accepted for publication. DOI: 10.1039/C9MD00044E
2.14.2019: Kellys Account of Chem. Res. Article is online and is an ACS editors choice article. Open access! DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00630
2.05.2019: Special thanks to Kelly and Eric for their assistance on our successful NSF CAREER proposal! The funding was awarded from the National Science Foundation's Division Of Chemistry via the Chemistry of Life Processes Program. Funding through this mechanism will allow us to discover novel HMO targets and give back to the greater Nashville community! Great job!
1.18.2019: 2019 will see a special issue of J. Antibiotics honoring Prof. Danishefsky. Congrats to Kelly! Her research paper for the issue was accepted today!!! DOI: 10.1038/s41429-019-0151-6.
1.03.2019: Cleo Evans, Rebecca Moore, and Lianyan Xu join the lab! Welcome!
12.19.2018: The year ends on a high note! Congrats to Steve on receiving the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Just the second faculty member to win a Research and Teaching award in the same year!
11.27.2018: Johny passed his preliminary exam. Congrats Johny!
11.18.2018: Kelly's OBC paper has been added to the "HOT articles collection"! Spicy!
11.16.2018: Congrats to Steve on receiving the Ruth Lawrence Award in Human Milk Science, the Chancellors Award for Research, and a Deans Faculty Fellowship!
11.10.2018: First-year graduate students Bailey and Lianyan have joined us for the third and final rotation!
10.12.2018: Check out Kelly's latest research paper. SAR of fucosylated carbohydrates? You bet! Thanks to Harrison for helping count all of those CFUs and Glycome for the kind donation of HMOs. DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.8b00234
9.24.2018: First-year graduate students Rebecca Moore and Jacob Kalbfleisch join us for Fall Rotation!
9.11.2018: Kelly's study on sialylated HMOs has been accepted for publication in the 2018 New Talent Issue of Org. Biomol. Chem! DOI: 10.1039/C8OB02080A Thank you for your contribution Harrison! Thank you Glycome for the HMOs!
8.20.2018: First-year graduate student Cleo Evans joins us for Fall Rotation! Welcome Cleo!
8.08.2018: New 1st year graduate students have started! Welcome to Nashville!
8.02.2018: Kelly's research paper on HMO-Antibiotic combination therapies has been accepted for publication in ACS Chem. Bio. BOOM! DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.8b00661
4.13.2018: Dorothy defended her PhD thesis and is headed off to the NCI. Congratulations!
1.22.2018: Linda Cui successfully defended her thesis and received highest honors. Job well done!
1.22.2018: Our review article on psychoactive drugs and their academic, industrial, and clandestine syntheses was accepted for publication in ACS Chemical Neuroscience. Nice work Schuyler, Jenna, and Eric! DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.7b00528
1.16.2018: Congrats Jamin, Stefan, and Alex! Their work on the microwave-assisted conversion of anomeric nitrate-esters into trichloroacetimidates was published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments. DOI: 10.3791/56610
1.08.2018: Johny Nguyen joins the lab. Welcome!
12.02.2017: Kelly and Dorothy's paper has been accepted for publication! DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.7b00183
11.15.2017: Kelly’s viewpoint on the human milk glycome is in the ASAPs of ACS-ID. Nice work! DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.7b00209
09.17.2017: Congrats Dr. Guan! Our methodology to produce organoselenides and selenoglycosides is in the ASAPs of Organic Letters. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b02526
09.10.2017: Congrats to Jamin, Stefan, and Alex! Their visualized methodology has been accepted for publication and is in press.
08.15.2017: Jamin passed his qualifying exam! Congrats Jamin!
06.21.2017: Special thanks to Stephanie R. Reiman for the dope artwork!
06.01.2017: Dorothy’s paper was accepted for publication. She is now a card-carrying microbiologist! DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.7b00064
03.10.2017: Kelly passed her qualifying exam! Congrats Kelly!
02.21.2017: Jamin’s methodology was accepted for publication. Great job!
02.09.2017: Kelly’s LNT synthesis was accepted for publication. Congratulations!
12.20.2016: Schuyler Chambers and Jenna DeSousa have joined the lab. Welcome!
11.09.2016: Our review article on complex carbohydrates used in infant food products was accepted for publication in Carb. Res. Great scholarship from Dorothy and Kelly!
10.25.2016: Eric passed his preliminary exam. Congrats Eric!
03.07.2016: Eric Huseman joins the lab. Glad to have you on board!
02.23.2016: Dorothy passed her qualification exam. Congrats Dorothy!
03.27.2015: Undergraduate researcher Lianyan Xu received the Stephen Harris Cook Fellowship to continue her research efforts over the summer. Congrats!
03.07.2015: Caroline Braun, Kelly Craft, and Jamin Keith join the lab. Glad to have you on board!
9.24.2018: First-year graduate students Rebecca Moore and Jacob Kalbfleisch join us for Fall Rotation!
9.11.2018: Kelly's study on sialylated HMOs has been accepted for publication in the 2018 New Talent Issue of Org. Biomol. Chem! DOI: 10.1039/C8OB02080A Thank you for your contribution Harrison! Thank you Glycome for the HMOs!
8.20.2018: First-year graduate student Cleo Evans joins us for Fall Rotation! Welcome Cleo!
8.08.2018: New 1st year graduate students have started! Welcome to Nashville!
8.02.2018: Kelly's research paper on HMO-Antibiotic combination therapies has been accepted for publication in ACS Chem. Bio. BOOM! DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.8b00661
4.13.2018: Dorothy defended her PhD thesis and is headed off to the NCI. Congratulations!
1.22.2018: Linda Cui successfully defended her thesis and received highest honors. Job well done!
1.22.2018: Our review article on psychoactive drugs and their academic, industrial, and clandestine syntheses was accepted for publication in ACS Chemical Neuroscience. Nice work Schuyler, Jenna, and Eric! DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.7b00528
1.16.2018: Congrats Jamin, Stefan, and Alex! Their work on the microwave-assisted conversion of anomeric nitrate-esters into trichloroacetimidates was published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments. DOI: 10.3791/56610
1.08.2018: Johny Nguyen joins the lab. Welcome!
12.02.2017: Kelly and Dorothy's paper has been accepted for publication! DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.7b00183
11.15.2017: Kelly’s viewpoint on the human milk glycome is in the ASAPs of ACS-ID. Nice work! DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.7b00209
09.17.2017: Congrats Dr. Guan! Our methodology to produce organoselenides and selenoglycosides is in the ASAPs of Organic Letters. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b02526
09.10.2017: Congrats to Jamin, Stefan, and Alex! Their visualized methodology has been accepted for publication and is in press.
08.15.2017: Jamin passed his qualifying exam! Congrats Jamin!
06.21.2017: Special thanks to Stephanie R. Reiman for the dope artwork!
06.01.2017: Dorothy’s paper was accepted for publication. She is now a card-carrying microbiologist! DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.7b00064
03.10.2017: Kelly passed her qualifying exam! Congrats Kelly!
02.21.2017: Jamin’s methodology was accepted for publication. Great job!
02.09.2017: Kelly’s LNT synthesis was accepted for publication. Congratulations!
12.20.2016: Schuyler Chambers and Jenna DeSousa have joined the lab. Welcome!
11.09.2016: Our review article on complex carbohydrates used in infant food products was accepted for publication in Carb. Res. Great scholarship from Dorothy and Kelly!
10.25.2016: Eric passed his preliminary exam. Congrats Eric!
03.07.2016: Eric Huseman joins the lab. Glad to have you on board!
02.23.2016: Dorothy passed her qualification exam. Congrats Dorothy!
03.27.2015: Undergraduate researcher Lianyan Xu received the Stephen Harris Cook Fellowship to continue her research efforts over the summer. Congrats!
03.07.2015: Caroline Braun, Kelly Craft, and Jamin Keith join the lab. Glad to have you on board!
Steven D. TownsendOur research focuses on developing new tools to broaden our fundamental understanding of chemistry while addressing problems significant to human health. To achieve this objective, we divide our efforts between two broadly defined areas, bio- and glycoconjugates assembly and natural product total synthesis. Since our goal is to interface our synthetic efforts with issues of therapeutic application, we value interdisciplinary collaborations with biologists who aid in evaluation of the molecules we prepare. This approach, which is fostered by the Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, is a critical aspect of our program.
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A scientist has to work very hard to get to the point where they can be lucky.
– R.B. Woodward
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