McAlpine Current Group and Alumni

Located at 206 Chemical Sciences Building, phone 619-594-1618
and at 311 Chemical Sciences Building, phone 619-594-5345

Conferences that students have attended- choose a link to see pictures of the meeting:

• National ACS meeting Boston MA, August 2007
• National ACS meeting Chicago IL, March 2007
• National ACS meeting San Francisco CA, September 2006
• 9^th China Peptide Conference, Shanghai, China, 2006
• National ACS meeting Atlanta GA, March 2006
• National ACS meeting Washington DC, August 2005
• Combichem Gordon Conference August 2005
• MIRT trip to Melbourne, Australia June 2005
• National ACS meeting San Diego,March 2005
• Combinatorial Chemistry Gordon Conference, Oxford, England, August 2004
• National ACS meeting Anaheim, March 2004
• Combichem Course and our trip to Melbourne, Australia, March 2004
• National ACS meeting New York, September 2003
• Peptide Users Group Meeting and our trip to Melbourne, Australia April 2003
• Movie from our Trip to Australia, April 2003
• National ACS meeting New Orleans, March 2003
• National ACS meeting Boston, August 2002
• MUCS symposium and our trip to Melbourne, Australia April 2002
• San Diego State University, Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2002
• National ACS meeting, Chicago, August 2001

Picture of Group in Spring 2008

Back Row: Rob S. Ryan, Melinda, Leslie, Robert, Prof M
Front row: Eddie, Rodrigo, Will, Stephanie, Rob V., Tim, Dia, Erin

Graduation 2005

Graduation 2006

Graduation 2007 + BBQ

Group updates for 2007/8

Congratulations to:

• Robert Vasko for receiving the Howell Fellowship (Jan 2008)
• William Disman for receiving the NIH undergraduate Computational Research Fellowship (Sept 2007)
• Yalda Mostofi for earning a job at Neurocrine Pharmaceuticals (June 2007)
• Rodrigo Rodriquez congratulations for getting into UPenn, Scripps, UCI chemistry graduate schools

Core Group of previous students (2001-2006)

Enrique Azevedo
(May 2003)
Organic Chemistry Graduate program UCI (2003-2006)
Chemistry software specialist

Megan Bolla
(May 2003)
Organic Chemistry PhD program UCI (2003-2008)
Post-doc Harvard University, Prof Dan Kahn

Joe Brown
(2007- MA degree)
Lecturer at Coast Guard facility, Connecticut

Julia Cajica
(Feb 2006)
Research Associate, local biotech company

Chris Carroll
(May 2005)
Organic Chemistry PhD program UCI (2005-current)

Kristina Cook
(May 2005)
Organic Chemistry PhD program NIH-Oxford
(6/1000 applicants accepted!) (2005- current)

Ricardo Corral
(May 2005)
Organic Chemistry PhD program UCSB(2005-2007)
Working in San Diego 2007-current

Ahmet Kekec
(Jan 2007-MS Degree)
Med Chem Research Associate, Merck and Co.

Stephanie Lapera
(May 2006)
SDSU organic chemistry graduate program (2006-current in McAlpine group)

Lisa Liotta
(April 2005-MS degree)
Med Chem Research Associate, Johnson and Johnson (2005-current)

Irene Medina
(May 2005)
Organic Chemistry PhD program UCSB/Organic Chemistry PhD program UPenn-
moved with advisor Prof Jeff Bode (2005-current)

Yalda Mostofi
(May 2007)
Neurocrine Pharmacueticals
while completing B.S. degree at SDSU
(May 2007- current)

Katerina Otrubova
(Dec 2007- M.S. Degree)
Organic Chemistry PhD program at Scripps

Emily Parry
(May 2006)
Peace Corp in Morocco, March 07
Deferred Organic Chemistry PhD program

Suchitra Ravula
(June 2007, M.S. Pending)
Research Associate Ligand Pharmaceuticals

Jennifer Robinson
(July 2004-MS degree)
Pharmacy School UCSF

Crystal Sanchez
(May 2007)
Pfizer Global R and D, La Jolla

Tommy Styers
(May 2007)
UCSD Pharmacy School