Dirk H. Trauner
@DirkTrauner
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Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, Natural Product Aficionado, Photopharmacologist, Fox Terrierist, and Unfulfilled Architect. #firstgen
Philadelphia, PA
Joined December 2017
Thrilled to return to UC Berkeley for the Clayton Heathcock Lecture on November 4! @Clayton5235
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Did you know GSPs are natural swimmers? Theyāre born to dive into lifeās adventures šš¾.
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Excited to speak at Princeton Bioengineering this Thursday, October 9. https://t.co/OJuH53ajjE
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Just out: Our first paper on an exciting collaboration with the Brenner Laboratory using functionalized lipids to understand and optimize Lipid Nanoparticles:
nature.com
Nature Nanotechnology - Preventing endosomal damage sensing or using lipids that create reparable endosomal holes reduces inflammation caused by RNA-lipid nanoparticles while enabling high RNA...
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Introducing the bionic azobenzene cell, AKA "Photocell", capable of modulating the viscosity of its internal membrane systems with light. I am still amazed how many photolipids cells can gobble up and accommodate. A wonderful collaboration with Howard Riezman, Suihan Feng,
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Just out: Our collaboration with Eric Schelter & Randall Wilharm @SchelterGroup on parsing the fascinating photochemistry of lanthanides with azobenzene photoswitches. A deep dive into light and rare earths en route to more efficient separations. @VagelosEnergy @PennChemistry
Breaking a Lewis Acidity Trend for Rare Earths by Excited State Quenching | Journal of the American Chemical Society @DirkTrauner @Penn @PennChemistry
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My opening comments at #LINO25. Let's make sure others enjoy and understand the benefits of science. https://t.co/IVmVaScVm0
timeshighereducation.com
Frances Arnold says US science is āpaying the priceā for not explaining benefits of research funding for āfar too longā
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Join us today as Michael Zott and Daniel Zuschlag share their work with @DirkTrauner on the synthesis of isosteroidal alkaloids!! https://t.co/8gi0jW6UNK Key reference: @J_A_C_S 2025, 147, 3010-3016. https://t.co/9D9w1NltaN Thanks to @MBalletti2 for editing and hosting!
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Scale Codebases Fast: Multi-Agents, Parallel PRs, Blackbox Cloud
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Greetings from the GRC on Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors! Itās exciting to see how the field has grown and is moving toward everyday applicationsāthink photoswitchable tattoos!
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I love the Hoya carnosa in my office climbing on polytwistane.
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I had a great time at the University of Rochester as the Victor Chambers Lecturer! And I really enjoyed the amazing George Eastman House and Museum, built by a millionaire (nowadays billionaire) who was civic minded and kept a low profile.
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We have updated our "Chemical Neuroscience" course to include pentameric ligand-gated channels and the first GPCRs. https://t.co/T6rqPnOXMq
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It wasnāt that many decades ago that New Jersey was a very prosperous place. What changed? ALEC President and Chief Economist @Taxeconomist spoke with host @hughhewitt recently about the Garden Stateās tax burdens, energy costs, and economic outlook.
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Check out our approach toward disciformycin and gulmirecin, spearheaded by @PeterRuehmann. @nyuchemistry @PennChemistry
https://t.co/REnDeKDS9v
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Ready to take off as a synthetic chemist? Check out this tutorial review we wrote with Frank Glorius and Jasper Tyler! @GloriusGroup @GloriusFrank
Scholarly review written by @DirkTrauner and @GloriusGroup: Reaction development: a student's checklistšāļøš Published in Chem. Soc. Rev.: https://t.co/FnzvDvrV4b
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I am teaching my favorite course again this semester: "Chemical Neuroscience - a Synthetic Approach". We are posting some materials online, check them out. https://t.co/T6rqPnPvBY
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Yates also determined the structure of haplophytine. https://t.co/2GekPHdunB
acs.org
American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.
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Many people struggle to swallow large pills because they trigger the gag reflex, feel uncomfortable and cause throat tension.
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