News

November 2020 -Carlos successfully defended his MSc thesis and will graduate this semester. He will be taking a teaching position next year. Congratulations Carlos!

October 2020 - Rodolfo is invited to participate as a reviewer for NIH Synthetic and Biological Chemistry Study Section B.

April 2020 - Bradley successfully defended his MSc thesis and will graduate this semester! He is heading to St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Congratulations Bradley!

November 2019 - Our patent on peptide-beta lactone based proteasome inhibitors (WO2019213386A1) is published. Congratulations Doleshwar, and Liam!

November 2019 - Carlos and Bradley attended the ACS Southwest regional meeting in El Paso TX, and both gave talks on our group's current research. Way to go guys!

November 2019 - Rodolfo's collaborative work with Dr. Rubasinghege's group at NMT was just accepted. Read the paper here.

August 2019 - Doleshwar Niroula, a former member of our group is now a postdoc with Prof. Ramesh Giri at Penn State University. Congratulations Dr. Niroula, and thank you Prof. Giri for this fantastic opportunity for Doleshwar!

July 2019 - Adan Jesus Fajardo-Chong, a graduate student from Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico, joins our group as a visiting scholar. Welcome Adan!

June 2019 - Cameron Zielinski joins our group as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome Cameron!

May 2019 - Rodolfo gives a seminar at UNM-Chemistry!

March 2019 - Bradley Stevens, a student in the 5 yr BS/MS program in biology, joins our group. Welcome Bradley!

March 2019 -Rodolfo gives a seminar at NMSU-Chemistry!

February 2019 - Carlos Viera, an incoming graduate student joins our group. Welcome Carlos!

January 2019 - DS successfully defended his PhD dissertation, and now will be heading to Affinity Research Chemicals. Congratulations Dr. Niroula!

September 2018 - The Tello-Aburto group has been awarded a NIH-R15 grant!!

September 2018 Undergraduate Tim Chavez Joins the group to acquire research experience. - Welcome Tim!

July 2018 - The Tello-Aburto lab attended the INBRE conference in Albuquerque. DS, Susantha, Garrett and Sunny presented posters, Rodolfo gave a talk.

June 2018 - Steven Morton joins our group as a summer student. Steven is sponsored by the NM-AMP SCORE program. Welcome Steven!

June 2018 - Garrett Stroud and Sunny James-Atwater join our group as summer NISE students. Welcome Garrett and Sunny!!

May 2018 - Liam graduates with a Master's in Biology. He will be now a PhD student at St. Jude School of Biomedical Sciences. Congratulations Liam!!

April 2018 - Rodolfo is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!

November 2017 - Rodolfo gives an invited seminar at The University of Iowa

October 2017 - Rodolfo gives a talk in the "Rising Stars in Organic Chemistry" symposium, during the 73rd ACS Southwest Regional Meeting.

June 2017 - On the move! - NMT Chemistry department is moving to brand new facilities. Our lab will be located at Room 240, Chemistry Building. See pics here.

May 2017 - Our paper "A total synthesis of Hortonone C" is in the list of Tetrahedron's most downloadedfor the past 90 days!

April 2017- Liam is selected to participate in the 2nd Annual St. Jude Graduate School Biomedical Sciences National Symposium for Undergraduate Research. Congrats Liam!

April 2017 -Liam is selected for Tech's Student Research Symposium oral presentation. Congrats Liam!

March 2017 - Undergraduate Victoria Hypes joins our group to acquire research experience. Welcome Victoria!

March 2017 - The whole group travels to the INBRE symposium to present our research progress. Rodolfo gave a talk, and DS, Susantha and Liam presented posters.

December 2016 - DS' and Liam's paper is accepted for publication in Tetrahedron! Congratulations!

November 2016 - DS sucessfully defends his candidacy. Congratulations.!

November 2016 - Susantha Ganegamage, joins our group as an incoming graduate student. Welcome Susantha!

September 2015 - LIam's and DS's paper is published in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry! Congratulations!!

September 2015 - Undergraduate student Isaac Hostak joins our group. Welcome Isaac!

March 2015 - Alyssa and Rodolfo attended the ACS national meeting in Denver, CO, and present a poster of the group's research.

November 2014 - Rodolfo Presents the group's research at the ACS southwest regional meeting.

September 2014 - Undergraduate student Sergio Torres joins the group. Welcome Sergio!

September 2014 - Alyssa's paper is accepted for publication in Tetrahedron Letters! Congratulations Alyssa!

August 2014 - Hom Nath Rijal, joins the group as an incoming graduate student. Welcome Hom!

August 2014 - Doleshwar "DS" Niroula joins the group as an incoming graduate student. Welcome DS!

August 2014 - Undergraduate students Natashya Nettleton and Patrick "PJ" Trujillo joined the group as senior thesis students. Welcome!