CC Chemistry
Vi Tho Nguyen presents her research project to a group of students at Colorado College. Thanks to Dr. Grover for hosting, looking forward to sharing more data.
11/29/2023
LatinXChem 2023
Vincent Conrad presents his research progress at the #LXChemOrg2023 poster conference on X.
10/16/2023
RMRM 2023
Congrats to all group members that presented their research progress (Poster) at the Rocky Mountain Regional Conference in Laramie (WY): Tariq Al-Jarh, Alexander Ball, Vincent Conrad, Alexie Cushing, Emily Grimes, Vi Tho Nguyen, Haydee Ramirez, Brody Reynolds, and Evody Tshianyi
09/18/2023
Jean Dreyfus Interview
Check this interview by group members Emily Grimes, and Vi Tho Nguyen; to Prof. Garcia-Garibay
09/08/2023
Jean Dreyfus Lectureship
Congrats to all of the group members that participated in this event, in particular to committee members. Also, the poster presenters (Tariq Al-Jarah, Vincent Conrad, Emily Grimes, Vi Tho Nguyen, Haydee Ramirez, Brody Reynolds and Evody Tshianyi)
09/08/2023
Gordon Research Conference (NNO-2023)
Vi presents her research progress, as a poster presentation in Newport (RI). Great work on the -GUAC- sequence, the -GAGG- tetraloop and Z-RNA!
06/28/2023
Tariq presents his research progress, as a poster presentation in Newport (RI). Great work on the impact that 8-oxoG has, on the structure and selectivity of aptamers of RNA!
06/26/2023
Gordon Research Seminar (NNO-2023)
Vi and Tariq participate in this conference, and present their research progress as poster presentations, in Newport (RI). Great work on the -GUAC-sequence and Z-RNA formation; as well as on the structure/selectivity of aptamers that contain 8-oxoG!
Congrats to Tariq on being selected as a discussion leader (Chemical Biology and Engineering of Small Molecules)!
06/24/2023
Summer Research
Congrats to Emily on being awarded a fellowship to carry out research this summer, from The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. See flyer here.
05/15/2023
Graduation
Congrats to Haydee and Vi for this great accomplishment! Class of 2023.
Congrats to Alexander on succesfully completing requirements for his Master's degree!
05/15/2023
CU Denver Outstanding Student Award
Congrats to Haydee for being selected as this years outstanding biochemistry graduating student!
05/03/2023
ACS Organic Division Award
Congrats to Haydee for being recognized by the American Chemical Society for accomplishments in organic chemistry!
05/01/2023
RaCAS
Vi presents her research progress, as an oral presentation, at the RaCAS symposium. Great work on the -GAGG- tetraloop and Z-RNA!
04/28/2023
Seminars
Resendiz talks about aptamers containing 8-oxoG at UConn - Chemistry
03/22/2023
LatinXChem 2022
Participated in this conference, looking forward to next year!
11/28/2022
Jean Dreyfus Lectureship 2022
Secured lectureship funding, see full announcement!
11/08/2022
SACNAS 2022
Haydee presents her research progress on structure of RNA aptamers containing 8-oxoG
10/29/2022
Recent Publications
Congrats to Cheyenne, Ngan, and Maddie for their work on C2'-O-modified RNA and an interesting structural-supramolecular rearrangement. Work published on ACS Omega!
10/07/2022
EUReCA Symposium 2022
Nate presents his summer research project, on the synthesis of phosphoramidites containing C2'-O-modifications.
07/29/2022
Bioorganic GRC 2022
Resendiz presents Haydee's, Shawn's, and Ekta's work on oxidized aptamers at the Gordon Research Conference.
06/16/2022
Reaction Mechanisms Conference (RMC) 2022
Peter and Vashita present on their research progress on the regioselective chlorination of benzothiophene derivatives, and the synthesis development of nucleotide inhibitors of PNPase, respectively!
06/13/2022
Video Out
The official JoVE video is now available. Click to see Haydee, Shawn and Vashita's contribution, while learning about MALDI and the specific protocol.
06/10/2022
RNA Society Meeting 2022
Haydee and Vashita present on their research progress on structure of RNA aptamers containing 8-oxoG; and on inhibition of PNPase using nucleotide derivatives, respectively
06/01/2022
Going onto a new adventure!
Shawn is off to University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, ready to tackle new challenges in their PhD program.
05/25/2022
Recent Publications
Congrats to Shawn for his accepted protocol on JoVE, great work!
04/12/2022
Student Awards
Congrats to Shawn for being the recipient of the ACS Organic Division Undergraduate Award . See details here.
04/10/2022
Research & Teaching
The Camylle and Dreyfus Foundation will support our research and educational efforts, via the Teacher-Scholar Awards. Check the full list of awardees!
11/08/2021
Recent Publications
Congrats to Cheyenne, Shawn, and Namoos on their Frontiers paper. Check the Open Access article to learn about the reactivity between Xrn-1 and RNA containing 8-oxoG!
10/21/2021
IS3NA
Shawn presents his research progress at the 2021 virtual symposium. Synthesis of modified oligonucleotides of RNA containing modified guanosine and adenosine nucleobases.
08/25/2021
Farewell....Bright Future Ahead!
Cheyenne is starting a new adventure at Georgia Tech!
07/01/2021
Frontiers Editorial 2021
See the interesting contributions from the editorial below.
06/20/2021
RaCAS 2021
Cheyenne and Shawn presented their research progress at this CU Denver symposium.
04/30/2021
Seminars and Interviews
Prof. Lydia M. Contreras (UT Austin) visits our department and will present during a seminar on 04/20. Look for the feature podcast that our team members did (coming soon)!
04/26/2021
Prof. Paola Mera (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) visits our department and will present her research during a seminar on 03/19. Look for the feature podcast that our team members did!
03/16/2021
Recent Feature
Check this feature to better understand one area of our research program. Our aim is to keep making progress in this direction!
03/15/2021
RNA Seminars
Prof. Brent Znosko (Saint Louis University) visits our department and will present his research during a seminar on 03/12. Look for the feature podcast that our team members did!
03/05/2021
Prof. Zhongwei Li (Florida Atlantic University) visits our department and will present research during a seminar on 02/26.
02/26/2021
Recent Publications
Austin's and Kazuki's work is on the cover of the current issue, great work!
Congrats to Austin and Kazuki on their Biopolymers paper. Check the Open Access article to learn about base pair stability trends in duplexes of RNA!
RMRM 2020
Cheyenne presented her research progress at the Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting.
Podcast Interviews and Seminars
Check the podcast that our team members did with Prof. Norbert Polacek (Univ. of Bern). Prof. Polacek will give a seminar on Nov 20.
Check the podcast that our team members did with Prof. Victor Ryzhov (Northern Illinois Univ). Prof. Ryzhov will give a seminar on Oct 9.
Check the podcast that our team members did with Prof. Alfredo Angeles-Boza (UConn). Prof. Angeles-Boza will give a seminar on Sep. 18.
Preprint and Recent Publication
Our Biorxiv preprint has been accepted for publication in PLOS ONE. Congrats to everyone! Check final version here (08/28/20)!
The manuscript on reverse transcription of RNA containing 8-oxoG, 8-oxoI, or I has been posted. Great effort by Maddie, Austin, and Mara. Check this preprint on Biorxiv!
#ShutDownSTEM - #ShutDownAcademia - #Strike4BlackLives
Together we can make an impact on our communities and guide how we, and the next generations, want to live. This June 10th, we commit to cease all STEM and academic work. Instead the day should be for (https://www.shutdownstem.com/):
1) Black academics to process, recover, and heal
2) Non-Black academics to reflect and evaluate on racism in our community and commit to actionable items to eradicate racism from STEM and academia
A couple of reads for statements from the mayor science journals, and statement from the ACS in support of this movement: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/06/08/science.abd1896 , https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01678-x, https://elifesciences.org/articles/59636, https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en.html, https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/about/acs-statement-on-the-killing-of-george-floyd.html
RaCAS 2020
Cheyenne, Isabelle, and Kazuki present their research progress at the RaCAS virtual symposium.
Thesis Defense
Maddie succesfully defended her thesis. Great job and congratulations!
RNA Seminars
Prof. Sarah Woodson (Johns Hopkins University) visits our department and will present her research during a seminar on 02/21.
Awards
- Our group was awarded with a competitive grant that will allow us to explore more photochemistry and organic synthesis this Summer (2020). Check the link here!
Recent Publications
Congrats to Courtney and Austin on their ChemBioChem paper. Check the Open Access article to see how 8-oxoG can change the structure and selectivity of aptamers!
Awards
- Cheyenne is the recipient of the 2019-2020 Damrauer Fellowship. Congrats!
RNA Seminars
Prof. May Khanna (University of Arizona) visits our department and will present her research during a seminar on 12/06.
DSST: Conservatory Green High School Internship
Andrew presents his research in Denver
RNA Seminars
Prof. Eriks Rozners (Binghamton University) visits our department and will present his research during a seminar on 11/08.
Prof. Neena Grover (Colorado College) visits our department and will present her research during a seminar on 09/06.
Recent Publications
Congrats to Chelsea and Andrew on their JOC paper. Check the article on controlling diastereoselectivity of cyclobutyl rings here!
GRC - NNO 2019
Maddie presents her research progress in Newport, RI
Graduation 2019
Congratulations for this great accomplishment to Courtney, Chelsea, and Austin. Great job and good luck!
Awards
- Courtney is recognized as the most outstanding graduate student for the 2018-2019 cycle. Congrats!
- Austin is recognized as most outstanding organic chemistry student at CU Denver by the ACS division of organic chemistry!
- Austin obtains the 2019 Mike Milash Teaching Award. Congrats!
- Chase is awarded the 2019 Marti Barrett Scholarship. Congrats!
- Maddie obtains travel support from the College and University to present her research at the Gordon Research Conference (NNO-2019)
RNA Seminars
Prof. Phil Bevilacqua (Penn State) visits our department and will present his research during a seminar on 03/01.
RaCAS 2019
Namoos presents her research progress in Denver
Thesis Defense
Courtney succesfully defend her thesis. Great job and congratulations!
Recent Publications
Check this collaborative effort with the Noveron group from UTEP here!
RNA Seminars
Prof. Jen Heemstra (Emory) visits our department and will present her research during a seminar on 09/21.
Aptamers in Boulder 2018
Courtney presents her research progress in Boulder.
Recent Publications
Congrats to Yannick on his NJC paper. Check the article on detailed RNA structure/modeling here!
Awards
Anthony recognized as most outstanding senior organic chem student at CU Denvery by the ACS division of organic chemistry!
RACAS 2018
Austin presents his research progress in Denver.
Recent Publications
Congrats to Cassandra, Yannick, Anthony, and Courtney for their recent Biochemistry paper. Check the article here!
COADSS Activity (April-2018)
We hosted 50 students from Aurora Central High School and toured the chemistry labs. Thanks to K-12 Outreach for their participation. COADSS
March for Science - Denver 2018
Check speech here or on the SACNAS Youtube Channel!
Speak up and show your support for Science. Resendiz is set as one of many speakers, come join us! Also, see this Full Press release from SACNAS!
Teaching-Research Proceedings
Check our initial efforts to assess information literacy in chemistry classes. Presented by Denise Pan (Univ. of Washington) Link!
COADSS Activity (Nov-2017)
We hosted 140 students from Aurora Central High School and toured the chemistry labs and department. Thanks to K-12 Outreach and Bioengineering for their participation. Link!
We are hoping to see them again soon taking classes at CU Denver and pursue a career in STEM!
ABRCMS 2017
Jessica presents her research progress in Phoenix, AZ
RMRM-ACS 2017
Cassandra, Lamont, and Austin present their research progress in Loveland, CO
Lamont won an award for a top poster presentation. Congrats!
SACNAS 2017
Cassandra presents her research progress in Salt Lake City
COADSS Activity
Dr. Alexander Buitrago Santanilla (from GSK) is scheduled to visit our campus and interact with students!
Latest Publications:
Congrats to Andrew on his JoVE paper. Featuring Cassandra and Yannick from the group!
- Click on "Publications" tab for the full video or check the article here!
Highlights!
Yu and Krzysztof's paper highlighted on Biomedical Advances.
Damrauer Scholarship
Cassandra is the recipient of the 2016-2017 Robert Damrauer scholarship. Congrats!
RaCAS 2017
Cassandra, Yannick, and Andrew present their research progress in Denver (RaCAS symposium)
ACS 2017
Andrew presents his research progress in San Francisco (Spring Meeting)
SOT 2017
Cassandra and Marc present their research progress in Baltimore (Society of Toxicology Meeting)
COADSS Activities
Our seminar series kicks-off 2017 with Prof. Alejandro Bugarin from UT Arlington.
COADSS visits classes at Aurora Central High School to talk about college. December 2016.
Latest Publications:
Congrats to Yu, Krzysztof, and Steph on their mini-review on Chem Eur J!
Congrats to Yu, Krzysztof, T, and Katie on their NAR paper!
Check the OpenAccess article here!
Congrats to Joseph, Yannick, Justin, and Stas on their JOC paper!
Check the OpenAccess article here!
ACS 2016
Kzysztof presents his research progress in San Diego
COADSS 1st Activity
Prof. Marcia Levitus from ASU visited campus and interacted with students!
Masters Defense
Stephanie presented her MS project succesfully. Congrats!
Latest Publication
Rate of N-alkylation and mechanism described. Click below for Stephanie's summary: check the article here!
Congrats to T and Steph!
Departmental Award
Joseph obtains award to carry out research this summer. Congrats!
RaCAS 2015
Joseph and Justin presented on their research progress.
ACS Spring 2015
Yu and Ana presented on their research progress.
ADSE Symposium
Stephanie and Tewoderos presented their research progress.
Marti Barrett Scholarship
2014/2015 Barrett Scholarship recipient goes to Kristina Bueter.
Kudos to Katie!
Publication
Oxo-A & RNA - Structural Changes and Stability: Check the OpenAccess article here!
Synthesis, circular dichroism & thermodynamic parameters on hairpins, hetero- and homo-duplexes of RNA.
Congrats to Ana and Yu!
SACNAS 2014
On their LA trip, Tewoderos Ayele and Ana M. Chauca-Diaz presented posters on their progress.
Tewoderos won best poster award, Congrats!
ABRCMS 2014
Beatrice A. Guillermo presented her research progress in San Antonio.