Current Members
Shin Moteki
Shin is from Kobe, Japan, and received a B.S. degree from Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa, and M.S. degree from University of South Dakota. He joined the JMT lab in June 2003. He has been involved in the development of a new type of asymmetric catalyst system (self-assembly ligand system) and its application toward various reactions including enantio-selective hydroboration reaction. (Experiences prior to JMT lab: Conductive Polymers, Bio-Inorganic and Molecular Biology)
Ross Andrews
Ross is from Omaha, Nebraska, and received a B.S. degree in chemistry from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He joined the JMT lab in 2004. (Experiences prior to JMT lab: Physical Organic)
Qing Zhang
Qing is from Tianjin, China. He received a B.S. in chemistry from University of Science and Technology and worked as a research assistant at State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University in China. He joined JMT lab in the summer of 2005 and has been working on the development of new asymmetric catalysts (Click ligands) and its application to the various asymmetric reactions. (Experiences prior to JMT lab: synthetic organic chemistry)
Xu Zhang
Xu is from Jilin, China. He received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Jilin University, China. He joined JMT lab in the summer of 2005 and has been working on asymmetric catalysis with metal catalyst; his project is the
exploration of application of metal catalyst/ligand systems in transfer hydrogenation. (Experiences prior to JMT lab: organic chemistry)
Sean Smith
Sean is from Algona, Iowa. He received a B.A. degree in Chemistry from Simpson College (Indianola, Iowa). Sean joined JMT lab in June 2006 and has been working on Asymmetric catalysis (directed catalyzed methodology). (Background experiences prior to JMT lab: synthetic organic chemistry)
Nathan Thacker
Nathan is from Trinity, Alabama, and attended the University of North Alabama where he received his BS in 2006 with a concentration in chemistry. Nathan joined Professor Takacs's group in June 2006 with research interests in asymmetric catalysis. Current research involves asymmetric hydrogenation. (Background experiences prior to JMT lab: Analytical and Environmental chemistry)
Judy Miska
Judy is from Euclid, Minnesota and obtained her B.S. Chemistry at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. She is currently working on Palladium Catalyzed Cyclizations of bisdienes. (Background experiences prior to JMT lab: synthetic organic chemistry, organic photochemistry)
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