Welcome to the Schomaker Group!
The creativity and varied interests of the students in the Schomaker group have led us to explore a broad range of different projects! These research areas encompass methodology development, the total synthesis of natural and unnatural products with intriguing biological activities, medicinal chemistry, computational studies, design of both base and precious metal catalysts, mechanistic studies, and collaborations centered on hydroformylation, achieving catalyst control over C-H amination using silver catalysts and developing new reagents for bioorthogonal labeling. Representative projects are described on the Research page; our publications page contains links to papers for more detailed information.
Schomaker Group News

Goodbye to Ashley and Colin
To celebrate their time spent in the group, we all said goodbye to Colin and Ashley at Naples 15! We are sad to see two excellent researchers depart to begin their graduate school careers at …
July 28, 2025Congratulations to Amir!
Congratulations to Amir for being selected for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program (CBI) Traineeship. Amir will be training in two Biochem courses to …
July 28, 2025Congratulations to Eli!
Congratulations to Eli for winning a mentorship award from the 2025 ACS Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholars Recognition Program! ACS will recognize him via social media, at the Fall ACS meeting and in a future …
July 28, 2025Congratulations to Ethan and Slava!
Congratulations to Ethan and Slava, two excellent undergraduate researchers, on being recognized for their excellent work this past academic year. Congratulations! Ethan – Hilldale award, the highest award given to undergraduate researchers at UW Madison! …
July 28, 2025- More NEWS posts
