ank you for visiting the web pages of the Karuso Research Group in the Department of Chemistry, Macquarie University.  We are located centrally in the lower North Shore of Sydney, NSW, Australia. The campus is set in bushland and the Chemistry Department is at the gateway to the Macquarie Research Park.  Built in 1997/8, the Chemistry Building is well equipped with modern labs and excellent research infrastructure.

• Congratualtions to Sudhir for an elegant total synthesis of the marine natural product ageladine A published in Org. Lett. and cited in Chemical & Engineering News: "This is a very nice, exceptionally short synthesis starting from two fundamental building blocks proposed to be involved in the biogenesis of this marine metabolite," Weinreb comments.
• Our paper (J. Agric. Food Chem., 2007) has been identified by the ACS as a hot paper" for 2007.
Prof. Karuso has been invited to the prestigeous 5th European Marine Natural Products Chemistry Conference (ECMNP).
• PhD Scholarships for international students are now available. Download application forms from here. Australian (and New Zealand) students can apply for APA, APAI or MQRES Scholarhips. International students can apply for MQRES Scholarships only.
• Vacation Scholarships ($1000 tax free) are available for students from other Australian Universities who have just completed an undergraduate degree but have not yet started Honours and would like to find out more about research opportunities in our research group. Please e-mail me for more details.