A native of Hungary, Tamas received his BS in Chemistry from Colorado State University in 2003. During college, he worked on peptide chemistry at Global Peptide Services. After graduation, Tamas worked in process development at Amgen in Thousand Oaks, CA. Outside of chemistry, you can find Tamas chasing walleyes in Lake Mendota, learning to cook without a microwave oven or traveling with his wife.

Juana grew up in San Francisco, CA and received her BS in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. While at Berkeley she conducted undergraduate research probing the mechanistic aspects of heteroatom-substituted cyclopropanes with a cationic iridium species in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Bergman. In the moments when chemistry is not at the forefront of her agenda, Juana enjoys watching snowflakes fall while sipping on hot chocolate, listening to jokes that make people laugh, or curling up with a good book.

When criminals in this world appear,
And break the laws that they should fear,
And frighten all who see or hear,
The cry goes up both far and near for Underdog,
Underdog, Underdog, Underdog.
Speed of lightning, roar of thunder,
Fighting all who rob or plunder. Underdog, Underdog.

David Michaelis is currently doing oxidation chemistry in the Yoon group. Originally from Utah, David received his BS in chemistry from Brigham Young University in 2005. As an undergraduate, he worked with Dr. Paul Savage on the synthesis and characterization of fluorescent metal-ion chemosensors. During his time at BYU he also completed an internship with IBC Advanced Technologies, Inc. doing similar research. All of David's free time is spent with his wife Tanya and 1 year old daughter Callie. They enjoy reading together, hiking, gardening, and making animal noises (Callie especially).

Katie Partridge currently is exploring titanium catalyzed ring expansions of oxaziridines. She received her B.S in chemical engineering from Virginia Tech in 2004. As an undergraduate, Katie worked in the VanCott laboratory researching transgenic production of relaxin. She also worked for DuPont Textiles and Interiors as a co-op engineer at the Lycra manufacturing facility in Waynesboro, Virginia. Katie occasionally amuses herself in lab by making Charlie and David teach her Spanish. When in need of fresh air and sunshine, Katie enjoys sailing on the lovely Lake Mendota and road biking in the country surrounding Madison.

Kevin Williams received his BS in Chemistry from University of Texas at Austin in 2007. He did undergraduate research first with Prof. Ben Liu as a sophomore and then with Prof. Philip Magnus as a junior and senior. His senior project was on the synthesis of the aniline portion of Platensimycin.

Tehshik grew up in Blacksburg, VA. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Harvard University, where he performed undergraduate research with Prof. David Evans, and his master's degree from Caltech under the supervision of Prof. Erick Carreira. His Ph.D. thesis with Prof. David MacMillan, first at Berkeley and then at Caltech, focused on the development of chiral Lewis acids for enantioselective Claisen rearrangements. After finishing graduate school in 2002, he became an NIH postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Eric Jacobsen at Harvard, where his research involved the development of a hydrogen bond-donating catalyst for asymmetric nitro-Mannich reactions. Tehshik has been on the faculty at UW-Madison since July 2005.

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