I am honored to announce that I will join the University of Pennsylvania this summer as a PIK Professor.
Dirk H. Trauner
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Dirk H. Trauner
@DirkTrauner
Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, Natural Product Aficionado, Photopharmacologist, Fox Terrierist, and Unfulfilled Architect. #firstgen
- How are six membered rings drawn in the chemical community? Here is my strategy. Please reply with yours!
- It should be community standard to put your name first in your CV if there is a shared co-first authorship and equal contribution, regardless of the actual order in the paper.
- Happy Fourth of July! My first one as an American citizen.
- On August 1, 2000, I started my independent career at UC Berkeley. Amazing what 20 years of peer review and faculty dinners can do to you. But I would not trade this job for any other.
- I am teaching my favorite course again this semester: "Chemical Neuroscience - a Synthetic Approach". We are posting some materials online, check them out. traunergroup.org/teaching
- Check out our paper on Tetrodotoxin, a truly intoxicating molecule! Thanks to all involved in this project: @DavidBKonrad, @PeterRuehmann, Hiroyasu Ando, @BelindaHetzler, Nina Strassner, @houk1000 Bryan S. Matsuura. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
- Check out our course on "Synthetic Design". We will post the course notes as we go along. traunergroup.org/teaching
- Sadly, Rolf Huisgen passed on yesterday. He almost lived for a hundred years and embodied the Golden Age of Organic Synthesis. We cannot give him a proper funeral now but there will be a time when we will gather to celebrate his life and legacy.
- I have postdoctoral positions to fill thanks to generous NIH R61 and BRAIN initiative funding. Please apply if you are interested in working at the interface of synthesis and neuroscience or spread the word/retweet! @NYU_CNS @nyuchemistry
- How to smuggle a drug into cells: add a lipid ‘tail’ nature.com/articles/d4158…
- My first chemistry professor in Vienna, Erich Zbiral, shall not be forgotten. Everybody loves the Tanabe-Eschenmoser Fragmentation but the analogous Zbiral Fragmentation of epoxy vinyl azides is equally cool.
- First days at UPenn. It starts on a promising note with free ice cream. @PennSysPharmATT @Penn @PennChemistry
