July 2011, from left to right: Wei, Bashir, Tom, Patrick, Valerie, Colin, Nicolas, Melissa, Derek, Isabelle, Christian, Amy, Francis, Charlotte, Jean-Francois, André

Current Group Members

Graduate Students

Wei Gan , Postdoctoral Fellow(Nov 2010-)
Contact: weig1021@gmail.ca
Hometown: Luzhou, China
B.Sc. Chongqing, Sichuan, China
M.Sc. University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Ph.D. Queen’s

Summary of Research:
Aminocarbonylation
Shubin Zhao, Postdoctoral Fellow (September 2011-)
Contact: shubinzhao@hotmail.com
Hometown: Qingdao, Shandong, China
B. Sc. Qingdao University, Shandong, China
M. Sc. Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Ph.D. Queens University, Kingston, Ontario

Summary of research:
Organocatalysis

Isabelle Dion, Ph.D. candidate (January 2007-)
NSERC CGS M/PGS D (2007-)
Contact: idion041@uottawa.ca
Hometown: Sherbrooke, QC
B. Sc. Sherbrooke Nicknames - Iza, Izzy

Summary of research:
Total syntheses of alkaloids

Amanda Bongers, M.Sc. candidate (September 2011-)
NSERC CGS M (2011-2012)
Contact: bongers.amanda@gmail.com
Hometown: Cambridge, Ontario
B. Sc. University of Waterloo

Summary of research:
Applications of aminocarbonylation
/> Keira Garland, M.Sc. candidate (September 2011-)
Contact: kgarl035@uottawa.ca
Hometown: Almonte, Ontario
B. Sc. Carleton University

Summary of research:
hydrazone synthesis
Thomas Markiewicz, M. Sc. candidate (Dec 2009-)
Contact: tmark042@uottawa.ca
Hometown: Whitby, Ontario
B. Sc. Queen’s

Summary of Research: Novel Aminocarbonylation Reactivity of Iminoisocyanates
Francis Loiseau, Ph. D. candidate (August 2007-)
Contact: flois095@uottawa.ca
Hometown: Montreal, QC
B. Sc. McGill
Nickname: Frank, Frankford, Frankenstein

Summary of Research:
Intermolecular hydroamination sequences
Functionalization of terminal alkenes
Nicolas Guimond, Ph.D candidate (May 2008-)
Contact: nguim025@uottawa.ca
Hometown: Quebec, P.Quebec
B. Sc. Universite laval

Summary of Research: Mechanistic Studies & Novel Reactivity via Catalytic Tether
Christian Clavette, Ph.D. Candidate (May 2009-)
Contact: cclav076@uottawa.ca
Hometown: Edmunston, NB
B. Sc. Ottawa
Nickname: Chris, C-note

Summary of Research:
New Aminocarbonylation reactivity
Melissa Macdonald , Ph.D. candidate (July 2009-)
Contact: mmacdon5@uottawa.ca
Hometown: Woodstock, ON
B. Sc. University of Western Ontario
Nickname: Mel, Blondie

Summary of Research:
Organocatalytic intermolecular hydroamination
K. Matthew Whitmore , M. Sc. candidate (Sept 2009-)
Contact: kwhit049@uottawa.ca
Hometown: Toronto, ON
B. Sc. University of Toronto
Nickname: Kenmore

Summary of Research:
Amination Routes to Aromatic Nitrogen Heterocycles
Jean-Francois Vincent-Rocan ,M. Sc. candidate (May 2011-)
Contact: jvinc095@uottawa.ca
Hometown: Gatineau, Quebec
B. Sc. Ottawa

Summary of Research:
Comparison of hydroamination methods in the context of total syntheses
Colin Hesp , M. Sc. candidate (Sept 2011-)
Contact: colinhesp@gmail.com
Hometown: Pickering, ON
B. Sc. Guelph

Summary of Research:
Organocatalytic intermolecular hydroamination
/> Bashir Hussain, M. Sc. candidate (September 2011)
Contact: bhuss022@uottawa.ca
Hometown:
B.Sc. Ottawa

Summary of Research:
Novel Reactivity Using Organocatalytic Tether Formation

Undergraduate Students:

   
  Patrick Moon (URS Summer student 2010, 2011, UROP Student 2011)
Nickname: None yet
  Pierre Mouawad ( Honours student 2011-2012)
Nickname: None yet
  Charlotte Depatie Sicard (Summer Student - 2011)
Nickname: None yet
  Valerie Lemieux (Summer Student - 2011, Honours student 2011-2012)
Nickname: None yet

Group Alumni

 

Graduate Students

Derek Schipper, PH.D. student (2009-2011-Fagnou Group transfer)
B. Sc. (University of Prince Edward Island)
Postdoctoral position - NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow with T. M. Swager (MIT)

Ashley Dawn Hunt, M. Sc. student (2009-2011)
B. Sc. (Western Ontario)
Research Associate with John Pezacki(Contract)

Peter Ng , M. Sc. student (2008-2011)
B. Sc. (Toronto)
NRC, Ottawa

Hao Peng , M. Sc. student (2007 - 2010)
B. Sc. (Concordia)
Part-time Business Student at Concordia University

Jennifer Pfeiffer , M. Sc. student (2007-2010)
B. Sc. (McGill)
Environment Canada after working at TRC

Toni Rizk , M. Sc. student (2007 - 2009)
B. Sc. (Ottawa)
Graduate Student, Health Sciences, University of Ottawa

Jean-Grégoire Roveda, M. Sc. student (2007-2009)
B. Sc. (Ottawa)
Graduate Student, Health Sciences, University of Ottawa

Joseph Moran, Ph. D. student (2004-2009)
B. Sc. (Ottawa)
Current position: NSERC Post-doctoral fellow with M. J. Krische (UT Austin). Prior: Post-doctoral fellow, NRC, Canada (John Pezacki)

Joffré Bourgeois, M. Sc. (2005-2008)
B. Sc. (Ottawa)
Current position: Environment Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Pamela Cebrowski, M. Sc. (2006-2008)
B. Sc. (Ottawa)
Current position: Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Marie-Eve Lebrun, M. Sc. (2005-2007)
B. Sc. (Ottawa)
Current position: Health Canada (after working at Merck Frosst and Boehringer Ingelheim)

Undergraduate Students

Amy Toderian (2008 - 2011) - NSERC USRA Summer Student, Honours student
Éric Bilodeau (2008 - 2011) - NSERC USRA Summer Student, Honours student
Michael Raymond (2009-2011) NSERC USRA Summer (2009), Part-time student (2009), Honours student (2010-2011)
Jean-Francois Vincent-Rocan (2011) - Honours student
Alishya Burrell (2009 - 2010) - Honours student
Mark Dornan (2009 - 2010) - Honours student
Nicholas Wong (2009 - 2010) - Coop and Honours student
Jean-Philippe Wan-Fook Chuen (2008-2009) - Honours student
Christian Clavette (2008-2009) - Honours student
Lei Zhang (2008-2009) - Honours student
Catherine Séguin (2006 - 2008) - Honours Student (2008), NSERC USRA Summer Student (2006)
Emily Manthorp (2008) - NSERC USRA Summer Student
Maria Antonic (2007-2008) - NSERC USRA Summer + Honours Student
Anne-Catherine Bédard (2007-2008) - Summer + Coop Student
Elena Dimitrijevic (2007-2008) - NSERC USRA Summer + Honours Student
Anna Chkrebtii (2007) - COOP Student
Agnès Castella (2007) - Exchange Student (UIT Castres, France)
Christopher Whipp (2006-2007) - Honours + Summer Student
Lili Zhang (2006-2007) - Honours Student
Éric Beaulieu (2006) - Honours + Summer Student
Pamela Cebrowski (2006) - Honours + Summer Student
Maria Zlotorzynska (2005-2006) - NSERC USRA Summer + Honours Student
Peter Dornan (2005) - NSERC USRA Summer Student
Tanya Suen (2005) - Honours Student

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