Research in the Franz group combines organic synthesis, catalysis, and chemical biology with applications for the synthesis of bioactive products, biofuels, and materials. [click here to read more]
December 2011
Our most recent spirooxindole paper is published in Angew. Chem. and more silanediol catalysis is published in Organic Letters! Check out the Publications page for more details.
Jordan Boothe recieves a 2012 Presidental Undergraduate Fellowship for his research - congratulations!
Check out the UC Davis Undergraduate Chemistry facebook page to see the YouTube videos that students made for CHE 8B and vote for your favorite in the extra credit competition. For more details, also see Annaliese's article in J. Chem. Educ. about "Organic Chemistry YouTube Writing Assignment for Large Lecture Classes."
October 2011
Elisa's paper is published in Organic Letters!
Andres Rosales receives a travel award from the ACS Sacramento Local Section to present his research from ACS Project SEED at the Spring 2012 ACS meeting in San Diego - congratulations!
September 2011
A busy summer of submitting and publishing papers! Check out the Publications page for 5 new papers, and more on the way!
Annaliese receives the 2012 WCC Rising Star Award, in the inagural class for this ACS award!
August 2011
Ngon, Taewoo and Elisa present their research at the Denver ACS National Meeting. Great Job!
Welcome to undergraduates Jordan Boothe and Brent Hiramoto who started research in our lab this summer!
July 2011
Welcome to high school scholars Kayla Ostiller with the UC Davis Young Scholars Program and Andres Rosales with ACS Project SEED, who are performing research in our lab this summer!
Catherine Pham recieves a 2011 Presidental Undergraduate Fellowship for her research - congratulations!
April 2011
Lisa receives an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, now our 2nd in the group! Well done!
Diana and Lisa present their research studying lipids at the Biotechnology Training Retreat in Napa, CA.
March 2011
Nadine receives the 2011 R. Bryan Miller Graduate Fellowship. Well done!
Undergraduates Sarah Tang and Trang Nguyen are studying and collaborating with researchers at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan as part of our new Quarter Abroad Program for Pharmaceutical Chemistry.
Welcome to Catherine Pham, Sabrina Zenad and Trang Nguyen, new
undergraduates joining the group!
January 2011
Happy New Year and welcome new graduate students Ben Shupe and Jacob MacDonald, and undergraduate Sarah Tang! Here's one of our new group photos with most of the crew:
December 2010
Joe and Gary's Org. Lett. paper is published online!
We move into our renovated lab space!
Abel Silva receives the 2010-2011 Bristol-Myers Squibb Minority Chemist Fellowship - congrats!
Annaliese travels with six other faculty to Taipei to visit Academia Sinica for the 2010 Bilateral Research Conference and the start of our new Quarter Abroad Program for Pharmaceutical Chemistry.
Summer 2010
Welcome to a few new faces: undergraduate Kami Sheikon, and also to Kate Gibson and Jack Taylor who join the lab as part of the UC Davis Young Scholars Program - Welcome! Congrats to Aziza for receiving one of the first M.S. degrees in the new UC Davis integrated B.S./M.S. Pharmacuetical Chemistry Program, and Andrew is off to medical school!
May 2010
Congrats to Joseph Badillo for receiving a prestigious NSF Graduate Resaerch Fellowship!
Casey Wong recieves a 2010 Presidental Undergraduate Fellowship for her research, and then also wins the 2010 NovaBay Pharmaceuticals Undergraduate Award in Medicinal Chemistry - Double Congrats!
Great job to our Casey, Abel and Gary presenting in the Larock Symposium, and a special congrats to Gary for winning 1st place for his enthusiastic presentation on "Stereoselective Synthesis of Biologically-Relevant Spirocyclic Oxindoles"
January 2010
Welcome new graduate students Lisa Anderson, Nicholas Ball-Jones, Elisa Gutierrez and Sean Wilson! We also welcome new undergraduates Casey Wong and Andrew Lu.
Congrats to Ngon Tran and Elisa Gutierrez for receiving GAANN Fellowships!
Our Angew. Chem. paper is online and in print!
November 2009
Nadine, Aziza and Toby's paper is accepted into Angew. Chem. - Congrats!
October 2009
Undergraduates Abel Silva and Gary Arevalo join the group - welcome!
September 2009
First Franz group Adventure day - kayaking Baldwin Beach and hiking Emerald Bay at Lake Tahoe.
Summer 2009
Sean Wilson and Jared Moore join the lab for a summer research rotation - Welcome!
Skye Kelty joins the lab as part of the UC Davis Young Scholars Program - Welcome!
Annaliese and Ngon attend the 4th Annual 3M Science and Engineering Faculty Day Symposium.
Group photo (May 2009)
January 2009
Annaliese receives the 3M Nontenured Faculty Award.
Welcome new first year graduate students Joe Badillo, Kaleb Jentzsch and Diana Wong!
November 2008
Exciting News - we receive a grant from Chevron Technology Ventures for Megan's Biofuel Project!
Congratulations to Nadine for receiving a WCC Eli Lilly Travel Award for the March 2009 ACS meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. Nadine will present her research for the catalytic enantioselective synthesis of oxindole products.
Summer 2008
Graduate student Megan Danielewicz and undergraduate David Lam join the group, and Kaleb Jantzsch joins us for a summer research rotation - Welcome! Our first Summer BBQ!
March 2008
Undergraduate Aziza Sahin joins the group - Welcome!
December 2007
Graduate Students Nadine Hanhan, Taewoo Min, and Ngon Tran join the group - Welcome!
September 2007
Undergraduates Toby Chang and Jennifer Etcheson join the group - Welcome!
Annaliese teaches a new special topics class (Chem 221E): Catalysis in Modern Organic Synthesis. [read description]
August 2007
The first round of renovations are complete and we move into our new lab space.
First reaction in the new lab - way to go Cori!
July 2007
Cori Bruce joins the group for a summer rotation - Welcome!
Annaliese joins the faculty at UC-Davis.
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