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Dirk Trauner

@dirktrauner.bsky.social
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Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, Natural Product Aficionado, Photopharmacologist, Fox Terrierist, Book Lover, and Unfulfilled Architect. #firstgen

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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the broadly defined area of organic chemistry. I have the honor of chairing the search committee. apply.interfolio.com/192648
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Check out our preprint on “azostitching”, a one-pot synthesis of azobenzenes and azoheteroarenes from organoboron compounds and anilines. This modular method vastly expands the accessible chemical space of azo dyes and photoswitches. chemrxiv.org/doi/10.26434...
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy 250th, USA!
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
What a week end at Penn! First we were honored to host Roald Hoffmann and then we ran the Chemistry 5K. La Vita e Bella.
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Looking forward to hosting the Master of Symmetry.
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Excited to deliver the Overman Lecture next Wednesday at UC Irvine!
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Greetings from the Trauner Group Holiday Party!
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It was wonderful to return to UC Berkeley and deliver a lecture with Clayton Heathcock in the audience.
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Thrilled to return to UC Berkeley for the Clayton Heathcock Lecture on November 4!
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Excited to speak at Pitt Chemistry this Thursday!
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Getting ready for the 2025 Trauner Group Retreat!
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Greetings from the GRC on Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors! It’s exciting to see how the field has grown and is moving toward everyday applications—think photoswitchable tattoos!
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I love the Hoya carnosa in my office climbing on polytwistane.
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
We have updated our "Chemical Neuroscience" course to include pentameric ligand-gated channels and the first GPCRs. www.traunergroup.org/teaching
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Check out our approach toward disciformycin and gulmirecin, spearheaded by Peter Ruehmann @nyuchemistry. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I am teaching my favorite course again this semester: "Chemical Neuroscience - a Synthetic Approach". We are posting some materials online, check them out. www.traunergroup.org/teaching
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Dearomative Diels-Alder reactions are currently hot in total synthesis. They go back to Peter Yates (who trained my mentor Sam Danishefsky). And the Wessely reaction was also discovered in Vienna :)
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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.
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Introducing a new class of potent opioid analgesics that remain in the periphery (hence no respiratory depression) and can be locally activated with light (hence no constipation). Great collab with Seva Katritch, Cornelius Gati, and Josh Levitz. biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Image
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The next development in photopharmacology (and "photogastronomy"). Controlling the Menthol Receptor TRPM8 with light! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Extending the Organic Syntheses collection with Doug Taber‘s awesome series. I love browsing in these books when I have a free minute. orghighlights2015-2017.com
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Nothing is more important to a scientist than the ability to focus.
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Trauner Group Molecule Tree. A gift from my students.
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
She is going going for a world record in slouching.
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Birthday, Millie!
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
It’s cold and it’s raining and she refuses to go out. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Nothing beats a good collection of Synthetic Design books!
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Good
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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
There are fews things that make me happier than a nice single crystal X-ray structure. Keep sliding them under my door!
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