Silas began his academic career at Reed College (Portland, OR) in 1995. While there, he quickly recognized the importance of organic chemistry in a wide range of disciplines – from cell biology to nuclear chemistry. After earning his B.A. in 1999, Silas took a position at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) in San Diego, CA. There he worked to unravel various signal transduction pathways related to kinase and GTPase cell signaling. In 2001, he began his graduate studies in total synthesis at Columbia University (New York, NY) under the auspices of Professor Samuel J. Danishefsky. Upon the completion of his Ph.D. in 2006, he took a postdoctoral position in the laboratory of Professor Eric Jacobsen at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). In 2009, Silas began his independent appointment in the Chemistry Department at Indiana University.

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