Positions

Undergraduate

Positions are available for undergraduate students to join the group as part of the CHEM 380.3, CHEM 482.3, or CHEM 483.6 courses, or as summer students. Interested students are strongly encouraged to contact me for further details.

Graduate

Anyone interested in applying for grad studies in the group should use The Academic Road app at https://app.theacademicroad.com/apply/5FC473EB.

Postdoctoral

Anyone interested in applying for a postdoctoral position in the group should use The Academic Road app at https://app.theacademicroad.com/apply/5FC473EB.

News

  • February 2022 - Our Nature Synthesis paper is chosen as Synfacts of the Month.
  • February 2022 - Karn receives a prestigious NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. The first one in the group's history. Congratulations!
  • January 2022 - Karn's paper on the quantification of resonance energy using NBOdel is accepted in Eur. J. Org. Chem. For the first time in the group's history, a student is corresponding author on a research paper. In addition, it was chosen as a Very Important Paper. Congratulations!
  • December 2022 - Mehrdad and Rohith both successfully complete their comprehensive exam. Congratulations!
  • November 2022 - Michel gives a seminar at the University of Alberta.
  • November 2022 - Former group member Shaoyan Wang obtains the very prestigious President's Medal at the Fall Convocation. Congratulations!
  • October 2022 - Rohith is a recipient of the Dr. O. Kenneth Johannson Award for excellence as Teaching Assistant in Chemistry. Congratulations!
  • September 2022 - First group barbecue in a long time. Never the one to miss a good teaching opportunity, Michel shows everyone how to make Georgian khachapuri.
  • September 2022 - Bdhanya Ramaswami joins the group as a CHEM 483 student, co-supervised with Prof. Ian Burgess. Welcome to the group!
  • August 2022 - Steven's manuscript on the synthesis of thiazolium salts is accepted in Organic Letters. Congratulations!
  • August 2022 - Tianqi successfully defends her M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations!
  • August 2022 - Michel presents seminars at Paraza Pharma and Nuchem Sciences in Montréal.
  • June 2022 - Mehrdad, Rohith, and Michel attend the CSC conference in Calgary.
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  • May 2022 - Karn, Christa, Sydnie, and Brianna's paper on the synthesis of a dehydro[10]annulene is accepted in Nature Synthesis. Congratulations! This paper is the culmination of many years of effort on the part of two graduate and two undergraduate students. It has been quite an adventure that is finally rewarded! A free version of the published paper is accessible here.
  • May 2022 - Karn, Christa, Sydnie, and Brianna's paper on the synthesis of a dehydro[10]annulene is accepted in Nature Synthesis. Congratulations! This paper is the culmination of many years of effort on the part of two graduate and two undergraduate students. It has been quite an adventure that is finally rewarded!
  • May 2022 - Former graduate student Christa Blaquiere brings her high school chemistry class for a day in our department, visiting our beautiful campus and performing an experiment right out of her M.Sc. thesis.
  • May 2022 - Emjay Koller joins the group as a summer student. Welcome to the group!
  • March 2022 - Rohith and Mehrdad present their work at BSOC in beautiful Banff, Alberta.
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  • November 12, 2021 - Karnjit successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations and good luck in the Denmark group!
  • October 14, 2021 - Mehran successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations! Mehran is taking up a position at Nuchem in Montreal.
  • August 18, 2021 - Venkata Krishna successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations! He is taking up a position at the Saskatchewan Structural Sciences Centre.
  • January 2021 - Karn goes to Giessen (Germany) for a three-month stay in the lab of Peter Schreiner at Justus Liebig University, supported by a DAAD fellowship. Enjoy your stay!
  • January 2021 - Karn and Pouyan's paper on the total synthesis of (+)-hyacinthacine A1 in Org. Lett. Our second natural product syntehsis, it is a nice application of both the diastereoselective cross-benzoin reaction developed in our group and of Vassilikogiannakis' oxidative rearrangement of furans.
  • December 10, 2020 - Hemkalyan successfully completes his comprehensive examination on 6π-electrocyclization in total synthesis of natural products. Congratulations!
  • November 2020 - Mehran's paper on the enantioselective Stetter reaction using chiral cyclopropenylidenes is is accepted in Org. Lett. Highlighted on the the Organic Chemistry Portal.
  • September 2020 - Shaoyan Wang joins the group for his CHEM 483 project. Welcome to the group!
  • August 2020 - Rohith and Mehrdad pass their qualifying exams. Congratulations to both!
  • July 2020 - Hemkalyan, Tianqi, Rohith, and Mehrdad are allowed back in the lab. Everyone is back on campus full time except the supervisor.
  • June 2020 - Karn and Mehran are allowed back on campus and in the lab. Everyone else is jealous.
  • March 2020 - COVID-19 forces our lab to shut down. Everyone becomes a computational chemist.
  • January 2020 - Michel visits the Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay and the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.
  • October-December 2019 - Michel is visiting professor at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Giessen, Germany.
  • September 2019 - Our paper in collaboration with the Houk group is accepted in J. Org. Chem.
  • September 2019 - Rohith and Mehrdad join the group as Ph.D. students. Welcome to the group!
  • August-September 2019 - Michel gives a series of lectures in Scotland and Ireland.
  • July 2019 - Michel begins a sabbatical leave for 2019-2020.
  • July 2019 - Karn receives the Gerhard Herzberg Thesis Acceleration Award. Congratulations!
  • June 2019 - Steven is awarded the 2019 Taube Medal as the top graduate in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations!
          
  • June 4-6, 2019 - Michel co-organizes the symposium 'Advances in Catalysis and Synthesis' as part of CCCE 2019 in Québec, QC.
  • May 9, 2019 - Mehran successfully completes his comprehensive examination on the Hajos-Parrish ketone. Congratulations!
  • April 24, 2019 - Karn successfully completes his comprehensive examination on cyclostreptin. Congratulations!
  • March 8, 2019 - Venkata successfully completes his comprehensive examination on dehydrogenative coupling reactions. Congratulations!
  • January 2019 - Steven, Karn, Myron, and Michel's book chapter on the benzoin reaction is finally published!
  • October 2018 - Michel reads Linus Pauling's "The Nature of the Chemical Bond". Order in the universe has been restored. His faith in the valence bond model is now unshakeable.
  • September 24, 2018 - Venkata's manuscript is accepted in Organic Letters. Congratulations!
  • September 2018 - Tianqi Ji joins the group as a masters student. Welcome to the group!
  • July 12, 2018 - Solène's last day in the lab. We will miss you, as well as the food you have been bringing!
  • July 1, 2018 - Michel is promoted to full professor. Thanks to all students past and present for their help in achieving this career milestone!
  • June 15, 2018 - Steven successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
  • June 5, 2018 - Christa and Sydnie convocate and receive their M.Sc. and B.Sc., respectively. Congratulations!
             
  • May 27-31, 2018 - Michel, Mehran, and Karn attend CSC 2018 in Edmonton, Alberta. Great job guys!

             
  • May 2018 - Brianna Lukan joins the group as a summer student. Welcome to the group!
  • May 2018 - Sydnie completes her B.Sc. and starts working at the Saskatchewan Research Council. Make sure to come visit us once in a while.
  • April 2018 - Solène Pacquet arrives for a three-month stay as a visiting student from the Université de Versailles. Welcome to the group!
  • April 2018 - Hemkalyan successfully completes his Ph.D. Qualifying examination. Congratulations!
  • December 2017 - Major lab cleanup and inventory. We are now using the structure-searchable inventory system from findmolecule.com.
  • November 21, 2017 - Congratulations to Sydnie on receiving the Patricia Currie award, a recognition of her involvement in extra-curricular activities.
  • October 2017 - Pouyan flies back to Saskatoon for Fall convocation.
          
  • October 31, 2017 - Happy Halloween from the Gravel group! No pumpkin prize this year. :( 
        
  • October 27-30, 2017 - Mehran and Karn attend the Banff Symposium on Organic Chemistry.
           
  • October 2017 - Karn obtains the prestigious Harold Ross Saddington Memorial Award for 2017. Congratulations!
  • October 19, 2017 - Christa successfully defends her M.Sc. thesis titled 'Studies Towards the Synthesis of [10]-Annulenes'. Congratulations for this great accomplishment!
  • September 2017 - Hemkalyan Ballav joins the group as a doctoral student. Welcome to the group!
  • September 2017 - Sydnie starts her honours project in the group.
  • August 24, 2017 - Team Diene for that Triene  wins the 10th synthetic challenge. Congratulations!

          
  • August 15, 2017 - Pouyan successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis titled 'Synthesis of Amino Ketones Using   N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Catalyzed Transformations'. Congratulations for this great accomplishment! He is now off to Montreal to work at Paraza.

          
  • July 2017 - Former Ph.D. student Eduardo Sánchez-Larios gets a promotion to Laboratory Supervisor at Toronto Research Chemicals.
  • June 2017 - Former Ph.D. student Myron Wilde goes for a postdoc in Rennes in the laboratory of   Prof. William Erb.
  • May 27 - June 1, 2017 - Steven, Venkata Krishna, and Michel attend the CSC conference in Toronto.
  • May 4, 2017 - Karn receives an oral presentation award at the 2nd Saskatchewan Chemistry Graduate Students Symposium. Congratulations!

            "The molecule was this big, I swear!"
  • May 2017 - Sydnie Gengler joins the group as a summer student. Welcome to the group!
  • April 10, 2017 - Karn successfully completes his Ph.D. Qualifying examination. Congratulations!
  • January 2017 - Our e-EROS articles are finally available online here, here, and here. Well done Pouyan, Steven, and Myron!
  • November 2016 - Michel is the recipient of the Chemistry Students' Society's Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award for a second time.

          
  • November 2016 - Pouyan's communication is accepted in The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congratulations!
  • November 2016 - Pouyan and Steven's account is accepted in Synlett. Congratulations!
  • October 31, 2016 - The Gravel group once again earns second place in the Halloween pumpkin carving contest. Well done pokemons; now it's time to go back to the lab!      
  • October 2016 - Christa is the recipient of a Middleton Graduate Bursary. Congratulations!
  • September 2016 - Christa and Karn participate in the Western Canadian Medicinal Chemistry Workshop. Karn wins a poster award. Congratulations!

             
  • August 2016 - Michel's 2nd paper from his postdoctoral stint is published.
  • August 2016 - Geoff's summer work comes to an end. It was great having you around and good luck in your courses.
  • August 2016 - Pouyan's manuscript is finally accepted in Organic Letters. Congratulations for your perseverance!
  • August 18, 2016 - Team   Newbies  wins the 9th synthetic challenge in a close call. Congratulations! Team 'The Phenol Countdown' wins the best name portion of the event.

          
  • July 2016 - Steven's single-author review article on imidodiphosphoric acid catalysis is accepted in   Tetrahedron. Congratulations!
  • May 2016 - The group welcomes Geoff Sweatman as a summer student in a collaboration with   Prof. Azita Haddadi. Welcome to the group!
  • May 2016 - Former graduate student Li Wang takes up a position at Gilead Alberta. Congratulations!
  • May 2016 - Myron takes up a position at TC Scientific Inc.. Congratulations!
  • April 2016 - Karn is the recipient of a Saskatchewan Innovation & Opportunity Scholarship valued at $16,000. Congratulations!
  • April 5, 2016 - Myron successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis titled 'Preparation of Novel Carbenes and their Catalytic Application to the Cross-Benzoin, Aza-Benzoin and Stetter Reactions'. Congratulations for this great accomplishment!
                 
  • January 29, 2016 - Steven successfully completes his comprehensive examination on imidodiphosphoric acid catalysis. Congratulations!
  • December 15-20, 2015 - Steven and Michel attend the Pacifichem conference in Honolulu.
  • October 30 - November 2, 2015 - Pouyan, Steven, Venkata Krishna and Christa attend the Banff Symposium on Organic Chemistry.

          
  • September 8-11, 2015 - Michel participates in the symposium Dominocat-1 (on domino organocatalysis) in Aachen, Germany.
          
  • September 2015 - Welcome to our two new group members Mehran (Ph.D. program) and Karn (M.Sc. program).

             
  • August 27, 2015 - Team   'Bend It Like Lactam'  wins the 8th synthetic challenge. Congratulations!

          
  • July 30, 2015 - Matt, Christa, and Steven win the Department's annual JM Pepper golf tournament. Congratulations!

          
  • July 2015 - Steven's PGS D NSERC Scolarship was upgraded to a   CGS D. He will soon be earning more money than an assistant professor.
  • June 13-17, 2015 - Michel and Pouyan attend the   CSC conference  in Ottawa.

          
  • May 29, 2015 - Steven receives an oral presentation award at the 1st Graduate Student Symposium in our department. Congratulations!
  • April 2015 - Christa is the recipient of an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS M). Congratulations!
  • March 2015 - Steven is the recipient of an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS D). Congratulations!
  • February 25, 2015 - Steven's massive full paper in collaboration with Claude Legault is accepted in   The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congrats!
  • December 12, 2014 - Pouyan successfully completes his comprehensive examination on palladium walking reactions. Congratulations!
  • October 31, 2014 - The Gravel group wins the second prize in the department's annual Pumpkin Carving Contest. Well done.

             
  • September 26, 2014 - Riley wins the 1st prize for his poster during the annual Chemistry Research and Awards Day. Congratulations Riley!
  • September 26, 2014 - Myron's manuscript on BAC catalyzed aza-benzoin reactions is accepted in   Organic Letters. Congratulations Myron!
  • September 2014 - Steven is awarded the Gerhard Herzberg Doctoral Promotion Award for 2014-2015. The award is made to one student in the M.Sc. program in chemistry who chooses to promote to the Ph.D. program. Congrats!
  • September 2014 - Christa Blaquiere joins the group as a new graduate student. Welcome to the group Christa!
  • September 2014 - The   One Man Empire  team wins the 7 th  Synthetic Challenge. Congratulations!

          
  • August 2014 - Former PhD student Karen Thai accepts a job offer from   Paraza Pharma. She will join   Eduardo  who is already working there. Congratulations!
  • August 2014 - Our JACS paper was highlighted in   Synfacts.
  • June 1-5, 2014 - Michel and Myron attend the   CSC conference  in Vancouver.
  • May 2014 - Steven receives a Graduate Research Fellowship for 2014-2015. Congratulations!
  • May 8, 2014 - Steven, Myron, and Karen's manuscript is accepted in the   Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congratulations everybody!
  • April 2014 - Myron receives the Dr. C.C. Lee Bursary. Congratulations!
  • March 21, 2014 - Myron gives a departmental seminar to present his research over the last four years.
  • January 14, 2014 - The first PhD graduate from the group, Eduardo, accepts a job offer from   Paraza Pharma. Congratulations!
  • December 2013 - Fromer group member Li Wang accepts a job offer from   Phenomenome Discoveries. Congratulations!
  • November 25, 2013 - Myron receives the Gerhard Herzberg Thesis Acceleration Award. Congratulations!
  • October 31, 2013 - The lab's pumpkin obtains a third place in the annual pumpkin carving constest. Great job guys!

             
  • October 1, 2013 - Pouyan is awarded the Johannson Scholarship for his achievements as a teaching assistant. Congratulations!
  • September 2013 - Myron and Michel's communication is declared a "Hot Paper" by the editors of Angewandte Chemie.
  • September 12, 2013 - Myron and Michel's communication on bis(amino)cyclopropenylidenes is accepted in   Angewandte Chemie. Congratulations!
  • September 2013 - Venkata Krishna, Riley, and Xiaomeng join the group. Welcome to the group!
  • September 5, 2013 - Michel becomes a member of NSERC's   Scholarships and Fellowships Selection Committee for Chemistry.
  • August 2013 - The   Lord Of The Fumehoods  team wins the 6 th  Synthetic Challenge. Congratulations!

          
  • July 2013 - Michel and his family move back to Saskatoon after one year in Sherbrooke, QC. The year-long party in the lab is over.
  • June 23-27, 2013 - Myron and Steven attend the   National Organic Symposium  in Seattle.

          
  • May 26-30, 2013 - Michel and Pouyan attend the   CSC Meeting  in Quebec City.

          
  • May 14, 2013 - Michel gives a talk at Delmar Chemicals in Montreal.
  • May 7, 2013 - Michel gives a talk at the University of Ottawa.
  • April 26, 2013 - Li wins the prestigious   National Volunteer Award  from Let's Talk Science. Congratulations!

          
  • April 12, 2013 - Karen, Steven, François, and Michel's communication "Highly Chemo- and Enantioselective Cross-Benzoin Reaction of Aliphatic Aldehydes and α-Ketoesters" is accepted in   Organic Letters. Well done everyone!
  • February 21, 2013 - Myron and Michel's article on 2-(acetylamino)propanedioic acid is accepted in the   Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (e-EROS).
  • February 1, 2013 - Michel gives a talk at Concordia University.
  • February 2013 - Janice and Michel's chapter on the Stetter Reaction is accepted in   Comprehensive Organic Synthesis II.
  • January 2013 - Li starts in an education certificate program to teach the next generation of scientists. Good luck Li!
  • December 25, 2012 - The group gets into the spirit of the season by making a chemistry Christmas tree.

          
  • December 21, 2012 - Myron successfully completes his comprehensive examination on intramolecular cyclopropanations. Congratulations!
  • December 7, 2012 - Michel, Myron, Li, Pouyan, and Sida visit   TC Scientific  in Edmonton.
  • December 3, 2012 - Michel gives a talk at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
  • November 21, 2012 - Michel gives a talk at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
  • November 14, 2012 - Michel gives a talk at the Université de Sherbrooke.
  • October 31, 2012 - The Gravel Group is awarded the second prize in the pumpkin carving contest!

             
  • October 15, 2012 - Karen, Eduardo, and Michel's chapter is accepted for publication in   Comprehensive Enantioselective Organocatalysis.
  • September 28-30, 2012 - Myron and Steven each present a poster at the   Western Canadian Medicinal Chemistry Workshop.

             
  • September 28, 2012 - Steven wins the People's Choice Award for his poster at the Chemistry Research and Awards Day. Congratulations!
  • September 3, 2012 - Karen starts her postdoc at the University of Bristol in the lab of   Varinder K. Aggarwal.
  • August 24, 2012 - After two years in our group, Sida goes to the University of Alberta for his graduate studies. Good luck in Edmonton!
  • August 17, 2012 - Michel gives a talk at the University of New Brunswick.
  • August 13, 2012 - Going away party for Karen and Sida.

             
  • August 9-10, 2012 - Michel is an invited speaker at the   SOCCER conference  at Memorial University in Newfoundland.
  • July 9-10, 2012 - Michel gives talks at The University of Chicago and at Northwestern University.
  • July 1, 2012 - Michel begins a one-year sabbatical leave. He will be a visiting professor at the Université de Sherbrooke.
  • June 27, 2012 - Janice successfully defends her M.Sc. thesis titled 'The Stetter Reaction: Synthesis of Complex Spiro Bis-Indanes and Studies on Quaternary Centre Formation'. Congratulations for this great accomplishment!

          
  • June 22, 2012 - Karen successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis titled 'NHC-Catalyzed Transformations: Stetter, Benzoin, and Ring Expansion Reactions'. Congratulations for this great accomplishment!

          
  • June 7, 2012 - The   Bazinga!  team wins the 5 th  Synthetic Challenge. Congratulations!

          
  • June 5, 2012 - Steven and Sida convocate and receive their B.Sc. Congratulations!

             
  • May 26-30, 2012 - Michel attends the   CSC Conference  in Calgary.
  • May 23-26, 2012 - Michel co-organizes with   Jeremy Wulff  the 11 th  Organic and Bioorganic Workshop for Leading Young Canadian Chemists in Banff.

             
  • May 2012 - Steven receives a Spinks award and Sida receives a Nixon award to support their summer research. Congratulations!
  • April 20, 2012 - Pouyan and Li pass their Ph.D. qualifying examination. Congratulations!
  • April 2012 - Steven is awarded a Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Graduate Scholarship. Congratulations!
  • March 26, 2012 - Eduardo starts his postdoc at the Université de Montréal in the lab of   Stephen Hanessian.
  • March 7, 2012 - Sida and Eduardo's manuscript is accepted in   The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congratulations!
  • December 7, 2011 - Eduardo successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis titled 'Enantioselective and Domino Intermolecular Stetter Reactions'. !Felicidades Eduardo por tu logro!

          
  • November 10-13, 2011 - Karen and Myron attend the   Banff Symposium on Organic Chemistry.
             
  • October 28, 2011 - The Gravel Group is awarded the first prize in the pumpkin carving contest! Nice progression over the years guys!

                
  • September 29, 2011 - Annual Chemistry Research and Awards Event
    • Steven and Sida are awarded Armstrong Awards for their scholastic achievements.
    • Sida is awarded the People's Choice Award for his poster.
    • Michel is awarded the Chemistry Students Society's Teaching Award, shared with Prof. Ian Burgess.
    • Eduardo is awarded the Johannson Scholarship for his achievements as a teaching assistant.
    • Congratulations Everyone
           
  • September 22, 2011 - Myron is awarded the Gerhard Herzberg Doctoral Promotion Award for his performance in courses and progress in research. Congratulations Myron!
  • September 2011 - Following a two-year stint as assistant professor at Sichuan Normal University, Li Wang comes back for his PhD studies. Welcome back Li!
  • August 2011 - Pouyan joins the group as a graduate student. Welcome to the group!
  • August 17, 2011 - Team   Synthetic MegaMind  wins the Synthetic Challenge 2011.
  • August 4, 2011 - Eduardo and Karen's manuscript is accepted in   Organic Letters. Congratulations!
  • July 17-22, 2011 - Michel attends the   Gordon Conference on Organic Reactions and Processes  in Rhode Island.
  • June 5-9, 2011 - The two summer students (Sida and Steven) are left alone in Saskatoon!
  • June 5-9, 2011 - Myron attends the   National Organic Symposium  in Princeton.
  • June 5-9, 2011 - Michel, Eduardo, and Karen attend the   CSC Meeting  in Montreal.
  • May 2, 2011 - Steven joins the group as a summer student. Welcome to the group!
  • April 22, 2011 - Karen leaves for her three-month internship at   Boehringer Ingelheim  in Laval, QC. She forgot to hide her glassware before leaving!
  • April 18, 2011 - The Gravel and   Burgess  groups celebrate their supervisors' tenure by having a paintball massacre. The students did not miss their opportunity for revenge!
  • April 15, 2011 - Michel receives the 2010-2011 Division of Science Teaching Excellence Award from the College of Arts & Science. Thanks to everyone who wrote a supporting letter!
  • April 3, 2011 - Eduardo, Janice, and Crystal's invited full paper is accepted in   Synthesis  as part of a special issue on organocatalysis. Congratulations!
  • March 2009 - Congratulations to Margot for obtaining an NSERC CGS M !
  • March 18, 2011 - Michel is awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor. Thanks to all students past and present for their help!
  • February 3, 2011 -   Li's thesis  is now available online.
  • December 17, 2010 - Karen gives a talk at the   Pacifichem  conference in Hawaii. Who knew grad school involved lying on the beach!
  • December 8, 2010 - Karen successfully completes her comprehensive examination on the topic of stereoselective formation of quaternary centres. Congratulations!
  • November 12, 2010 - Eduardo, Janice, and Crystal's manuscript is accepted in   Organic Letters. Congratulations!
  • November 9, 2010 - Karen and Li's manuscript is accepted in   Organic Letters. Congratulations!
  • September 26, 2010 - Congratulations to Karen for her 1st prize-winning poster at the 2nd   Western Canadian Medicinal Chemistry Workshop.
  • September 2010 - Mike and Margot join the group for their CHEM 486 projects. Welcome to the group!
  • August 31, 2010 - The Gravel group survives a very rainy summer in what is normally   the sunniest province.
  • August 1-6, 2010 - Michel attends the   18th International Conference on Organic Synthesis  in Bergen, Norway.
  • June 15, 2010 - Team   LWF  wins the Synthetic Challenge 2010.
  • May 3, 2010 - Eric and Sida join the group as summer students.
  • April 13, 2010 - Karen's manuscript is accepted in   Tetrahedron: Asymmetry. Congratulations!
  • April 6, 2010 - Eduardo successfully completes his comprehensive examination on the topic of transition metal-catalyzed cyclopropanation. Congratulations!
  • March 2010 - Michel obtains a second NSERC Discovery Grant. We can keep going for another 5 years!
  • February 2010 - Michel is awarded a   CNC-IUPAC Award. Thanks to this award (and to his students!), he will be attending the 18th International Conference on Organic Synthesis in Bergen, Norway, in August 2010.
  • December 4, 2009 - Li successfully defends his M.Sc. thesis. Congratulations Master Li!
  • November 1, 2009 - Eduardo receives the third prize at the Banff Symposium on Organic Chemistry. Congratulations!
  • October 29-November 1, 2009 - Michel, Eduardo, Karen, and Janice attend the   Banff Symposium on Organic Chemistry.
  • September 2009 - Myron joins the group as a graduate student. Welcome to the group!
  • September 3, 2009 - Karen and Craig's manuscript is accepted in   Tetrahedron Letters. Congratulations!
  • August 25, 2009 - Team   Hogwarts  wins the Synthetic Challenge 2009.
  • August 21, 2009 - Eduardo's manuscript is accepted in   The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congratulations!
  • July 8, 2009 - Janice and Andrea's manuscript is accepted in   The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congratulations to both of you!
  • June 25, 2009 - Eduardo receives an   award  for his presentation at the CSC meeting. Congratulations Eduardo!
  • June 8, 2009 - We finally received our   CFI instruments! (See March 2008 news notice)
  • May 30-June 3, 2009 - Michel, Eduardo, Li, and Karen attend the   CSC meeting  in Hamilton.
  • May 25, 2009 - Karen is awarded the   Boehringer Ingelheim Industrial Cooperative Research Scholarship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Congratulations Karen for this prestigious scholarship!
  • May 13, 2009 -   Nicolas Gravel  is born. Congratulations Darcie!
  • April 2009 - Congratulations to Karen for passing her Ph.D. qualifying examination.
  • April 2009 - Congratulations to Janice for obtaining an NSERC CGS M ! She will be starting her M.Sc. in our group this September.
  • March 2009 - Congratulations to Janice for obtaining an NSERC USRA two years in a row!
  • March 2009 - Our Organic Letters paper was highlighted in   Synfacts.
  • January 2009 - Our first paper was accepted in   Organic Letters. Good work Li and Karen!
  • September 2008 - Congratulations to Li and Eduardo for their awards at the 1st   Western Canadian Medicinal Chemistry Workshop.
  • September 2008 - Craig and Crystal join the group as undergraduate students. Welcome to the group!
  • August 26, 2009 - Team   Alchemists  wins the Synthetic Challenge 2008.
  • May 2008 - Congratulations to Andrea for her award at the   Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference.
  • May 2008 - Janice joins the group as an undergraduate student. Welcome to the group!
  • March 2008 - Congratulations to Janice for obtaining an NSERC USRA.
  • March 2008 - We celebrate in anticipation of new equipment obtained through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
  • September 8, 2007 - Émilie Gravel is born. Congratulations Darcie!
  • September 2007 - Li and Karen join the group as graduate students. Andrea joins as an undergraduate students. Welcome to the group everyone!
  • May 2007 - Anne-Marie joins the group as a summer student. Welcome to the group!
  • April 2007 - Congratulations to Eduardo for passing his Ph.D. qualifying examination and TOEFL!
  • April 2007 - We celebrate our first NSERC Discovery Grant and   Research Tools & Instruments  Grant.
  • September 2006 - Eduardo joins the group as a graduate student. Li and Vanny join as undergraduate students. Welcome to the group everyone!
  • August 2006 - Michel and Darcie arrive in Saskatoon. Lab set-up begins.
  • June 2006 - Website is launched. Michel and Darcie are still in Chicago!