Noah Bartfield

Noah is from Orlando, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University as a Presidential Scholar and an Outstanding Senior Scholar with Dual Honors. As an undergraduate, he worked with Prof. James Frederich on hydromethylation of unactivated olefins and Prof. Mia Huang at Scripps Research on the chemical editing of proteoglycan architecture. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow with Prof. Seth Herzon at Yale University, where his work consists of the completed total synthesis of eight bioactive securamine and securine alkaloids spanning three skeletal motifs, access to related haloimidazole natural products, and downstream biological target identification.