A.I. Meyers Professor of Chemistry
Colorado State University
Chemistry Department
Fort Collins, CO 80523
Office Phone: (970) 491-5703
Lab Phone: (970) 491-2454
Fax: (970) 491-1801
Email: john.l.wood@colostate.edu
Born 1961;
B.A.- The University of Colorado, Boulder, 1985;
Ph.D. The University of Pennsylvania, 1991 with Professor Amos B. Smith;
American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 1991-1993 with Professor Stuart L. Schreiber;
Joined Yale Faculty, 1993;
Full Professor Yale Faculty, 1998-2006;
A.I. Meyers Professor of Chemistry Colorado State University, 2006-present.
Awards
Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award, 1993;
American Cancer Society, Junior FAculty Award, 1994;
NSF CAREER award, 1996;
Eli Lilly Young Faculty Award, 1996;
Glaxo-Wellcome Young Chemistry Scholar Award, 1996;
Bristol-Myers-Squibb Research Award, 1997;
Parke-Davis Distinguished Michigan Lecturer, 1997;
Novartis Chemistry Lectureship, 1997;
Pfizer Research Award, 1997;
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1997;
Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, 1998;
Bristol-Myers-Squibb Foundation Research Award, 1998;
Yamanouchi USA Faculty Award, 1998,99,2000;
Merck Faculty Award, 2000;
Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 2004.
Publications as Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellow
1. A. B. Smith, J. Barbosa, W. Wong, J. L. Wood, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 8316.
2. A. B. Smith, J. L. Wood, W. Wong, A. E. Gould, C. J. Rizzo, J. Barbosa, K. Komiyama, S. Omura, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 8308.
3. A. B. Smith, R. Akaishi, D. R. Jones, T. P. Keenan, M. C. Guzman, R. C. Holcomb, P. A. Sprengeler, J. L. Wood, R. Hirschmann, M. K. Holloway, Biopolymers, 1995, 37, 29.
4. A. B. Smith, J. Barbosa, W. Wong, J. L. Wood, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 10777.
5. A. B. Smith, M. C. Guzman, P. A. Sprengeler, T. P. Keenan, R. C. Holcomb, J. L. Wood, P. J. Carroll, R. Hirschmann, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1994, 116, 9947.
6. A. B. Smith, J. L. Wood, T. P. Keenan, N. Liverton, M. Visnick, J. Org. Chem. 1994, 59, 6652.
7. A. B. Smith, T. A. Rano, N. Chida, G. A. Sulikowski, J. L. Wood, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1993, 115 , 4947.
8. J. Taunton, J. L. Wood, S. L. Schreiber, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1993, 115, 10378.
9. A. B. Smith, T. P. Keenan, R. C. Holcomb, P. A. Sprengeler, M. C. Guzman, J. L. Wood, P. J. Carroll, R. Hirschmann, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 10672
10. A. B. Smith, J. L. Wood, C. J. Rizzo, G. T. Furst, P. J. Carroll, J. Donohue, S. Omura, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 8003.
11. J. L. Wood, A. B. Smith, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 10075.
12. A. B. Smith, T. A. Rano, N. Chida, G. A. Sulikowski, J. L. Wood, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114 , 8008.
13. J. L. Wood, P. J. Carroll, A. B. Smith, J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Comm. 1992, 1433.
14. J. L. Wood, J. A. Porco, J. Taunton, A. Y. Lee, J. Clardy, S. L. Schreiber, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 5898.
15. A. B. Smith, J. L. Wood, S. Omura, Tetrahedron Lett. 1991 , 32, 841.
16. A. B. Smith, J. L. Wood, A. E. Gould, S. Omura, K. Komiyama, Tetrahedron Lett. 1991, 32, 1627.
17. C. J. Rizzo, J. L. Wood, G. T. Furst, A. B. Smith, J. Nat. Prod. 1990, 53, 735.
18. J. L. Wood, D. R. Jones, R. Hirschmann, A. B. Smith, Tetrahedron Lett. 1990, 31, 6329.
19. A. B. Smith, J. L. Wood, W. C. Wong, A. E. Gould, C. J. Rizzo, S. Funayama, S. Omura, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1990, 112, 7425.
20. J. L. Wood, N. J. Liverton, M. Visnick, A. B. Smith, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1989, 111, 4530.