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Stanna Dorn, PhD

@stanna-dorn.bsky.social
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Asst Prof, Univeristy of Vermont | NIH K99/R00 Scholar, Caltech | 2022 PhD Brown Lab, IU | BS/BA Hope College | Organic chem 👩‍🔬 flautist 🎵 avid reader 📚

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Peter Carlton @petercarlton.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
What aspect of the program was most valuable? A highlight for our 2025 #CASFutureLeaders was the coaching lab from scitrain. Learn more about the program and apply by January 25. www.cas.org/about/future... youtu.be/L7x_5rKJfdk?...
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Unlock Your Potential: How CAS Future Leaders™ Coaching Transforms Careers
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Stanna Dorn, PhD @stanna-dorn.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Dreams really do come true 🎊 I'm extremely excited to be joining the University of Vermont this fall as a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Chemistry!
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Boron Chemistry @boron-chemistry.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Stereodivergent Synthesis of Three Contiguous Stereogenic Centers by Cu/Ir-Catalyzed Borylallylation ( @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (Suman Das, @stanna-dorn.bsky.social , M. Kevin Brown ).
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Stanna Dorn, PhD @stanna-dorn.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Out now in ACIE; super excited to see this across the finish line! doi.org/10.1002/anie...
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Stanna Dorn, PhD @stanna-dorn.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
It's that time of year!!! I love this program/love helping ppl apply; feel free to reach out with questions! I've enjoyed reflecting on when I was in the 2022 class--I was just about to start my postdoc and unsure how things would unfold. Now? I'm actively applying for faculty jobs! So surreal 😊
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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
UNCW's Dept of Chem and Biochem is looking for four (4!) new members this cycle including: Asst Professor Analytical Chem Asst Professor Physical Chem Lecturer - Bio- and general Chem Lecturer - General Chem Our dept is a great place to work and Wilmington's a blast! #ChemSky #ChemJobs Links ⬇️
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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We didn't want to pay $800 for a TLC plate cutter, so we built one of our own – here's how you can too.
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An Open-Source, Low-Cost Thin-Layer Chromatography Plate Cutter
Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) is widely used in teaching and research laboratories, but TLC plate cutters remain expensive, with most commercial models priced above $800 USD. This article presents a...
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Julia C. Reisenbauer @reisenbauerlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
It’s finally happening!🎉 The Reisenbauer Lab will open in February at ISTA (www.reisenbauerlab.com ). We’re starting to build our team and are looking for enthusiastic scientists to join us. I feel deeply grateful to my mentors, colleagues, and family for all their support. Excited for what’s next!
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Home | Reisenbauer Lab
The Reisenbauer Lab is a research group in biocatalysis and enzyme engineering at the IST Austria.
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Stanna Dorn, PhD @stanna-dorn.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
3 years since defending my thesis?!? Time sure flies!
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Bri Barbu @bribarbu.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I was part of the 2021 cohort! Although it as totally a remote experience at the time, I learned so much and made some really great friends in the program! If you have any inkling that you'd like to try science writing, definitely apply to this!!!
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Jim Van Deventer @vandeventerjim.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Today, as the shutdown of the US government draws closer, I'd just like to express my gratitude for the program officers, scientific review officers, and other employees of US granting agencies (1/2).
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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Do I know anyone who has applied for/been awarded a K18?
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MagnoliaBouton @magnoliabouton.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Listed are some of the many NIH research training programs that were terminated! Together, these programs supported thousands of trainees, whose careers are now in limbo. Such a great loss for discovery and innovation. We must protect our next generation of scientists! #HandsOffNIH #ProtectScience
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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These are real early career scientists, many of whom have had their careers and lives turned upside down by arbitrary and capricious grant terminations. They received their K99/R00 awards through a highly competitive program with no set-aside funds. I show a dare I-say mosaic below with ~1/4 of the MOSAIC scholars to depict what is at risk.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya and am sending him a hard copy by registered mail. 1/14
August 22, 2025

Dear Director Bhattacharya:

I write to you regarding your plans after the Supreme Court ruling yesterday. As you know, the Supreme Court did allow a stay on the required grant reinstatements based on a controversial jurisdictional issue but also found that the grant termination processes used were likely illegal.

I know you are deeply concerned about public trust in NIH. I hope that you understand that proceeding to fail to reinstate or to re-terminate grants that had been found to have been illegally terminated will not increase the public trust in NIH. This would also be substantially damaging to science.
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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The damage to science is irreparable. Scientists who are valuable are leaving now. This offered some hope, but now it’s clear reason has completely gone out the window. A sad day for science.
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Stanna Dorn, PhD @stanna-dorn.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
During my time at IU, we wondered whether we could engage electrophiles in our Cu coop. catal. to establish 3 contiguous stereocenters instead of 2. Not long before I left, I found that it was indeed possible--huge kudos to Suman for taking this from proof-of-concept to across the finish line!! 🎉
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Stanna Dorn, PhD @stanna-dorn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
when I tell you i've been waiting for this moment so long!!!! What an incredible human being and friend ❤️ great to see you Nick!!
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Jason G. Gillmore @jasongillmore.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hey @chemjobber.bsky.social: @hopecollege.bsky.social will be hiring an open-rank TT #chemistry prof this fall who can teach GenChem & Inorganic. Soft close / start of review 9/20. W/o print ads or C&EN Back2School issue, when should we advertise? Is early Aug still prime time? Or is sooner better?
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Stanna Dorn, PhD @stanna-dorn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Here we gooooooo Going to be an interesting job market but looking forward to getting out there! Keep an eye out... 👀 #chemsky
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 10/06/2025
“You can get a other job, but you cannot get another soul”.
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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I am THRILLED to officially announce that I have accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison starting January 2026! My lab will use expertise in polymer science, biomaterials, and ECM engineering study osteochondral disease! 🦡 🔬🧪🧫 🦴
Me holding a scarf that says biomedical engineering while wearing a UW-Madison branded winter hat and quarter zipA pin that says MAD-ison Scientist Me popping a bottle of champagne while wearing UW-Madison quarter-zip standing on a balcony in front of the Flatirons
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"Virtually all NIH-funded training programs aimed at attracting underrepresented groups to science are now gone. 'I’m concerned that these events are very likely to affect who decides to stay in science and we will lose important and necessary scientific talent'" www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
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adelaide tovar @adel-aide.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A group of scholars and I had a chance to share our experiences with the MOSAIC program being terminated 🧪 www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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As a diversity grant dies, young scientists fear it will haunt their careers
The Trump administration defunded the National Institute of Health's MOSAIC grant program, which launched the careers of scientists from diverse backgrounds.
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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"We try to help access these molecules not only in an efficient way but also in a creative way in order to expand chemical knowledge about how we put molecules together." —Stanna Dorn, a #postdoc in @reiswoman.bsky.social's lab ow.ly/MIqh50VHRHk #TotalSynthesis #OrganicChemistry #ASBMBMOSAIC
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Finding a symphony among complex molecules
MOSAIC scholar Stanna Dorn uses total synthesis to recreate rare bacterial natural products with potential therapeutic applications.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Bluetorial: Pathways to Independence: The K99-R00 award program NIH’s response to a 2005 National Academy report led to a new program based on its initial goal of reducing the age of investigators achieving research independence
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Allie Paton @aepaton.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I’m thrilled to share that I will be joining the Department of Chemistry at the University of Rochester as an Assistant Professor!
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Stanna Dorn, PhD @stanna-dorn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Ngl, it's rough. Thanks to everyone who has reached out expressing support/thinking about how to move forward--I greatly appreciate it ❤️ We'll keep moving onwards and upwards!
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Sarah Reisman @reiswoman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A postdoc in my lab with a MOSAIC K99 was notified today that the program was terminated, no new funds to be awarded after this year. To revoke the pathway to independence award is so demoralizing for an early career researcher. I thought this might be coming but it still sucks.
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Stanna Dorn, PhD @stanna-dorn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Absolutely devastated to get this email today as well. Throughout this process I've been reminded of just how special the #MOSAIC community is--from the faculty mentors to cohort coaches, to POs and fellow awardees. I wasn't part of this community long, but doing so left an indelible mark on me ❤️
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Peter Carlton @petercarlton.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Please join me in congratulating the 2025 #CASFutureLeaders! We look forward to welcoming these exceptional Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars to Columbus, Ohio, and Washington, DC, this August. www.cas.org/press-releas...
CAS Future Leaders, Congratulations Class of 2025 with Learn, Engage, Connect and the CAS logo.
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Kristen Gardner-Fasanya, PhD @kristenelise20.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
So excited and extremely grateful to have been selected for the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry this summer. Extremely thankful to @nationalacademies.org for the nomination and to everyone in my circle for the endless support. I cannot believe that this is my life 🤯 #LINO25
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Courtney Roberts @cortnieroberts.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Welcome to Bluesky @chemwmn.bsky.social!
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Jason G. Gillmore @jasongillmore.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Can't wait to host #RMC2026 at Hope College next June!
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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This divergent cross coupling paper in #JACS from @reiswoman.bsky.social Reisman lab @CalTech with the Sigman lab @ Utah with #Amgen is really neat Differential coupling products from anhydrides - nice #ChemCollabs work everyone
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Ni-Catalyzed Enantioselective Desymmetrization: Development of Divergent Acyl and Decarbonylative Cross-Coupling Reactions
Ni-catalyzed asymmetric reductive cross-coupling reactions provide rapid and modular access to enantioenriched building blocks from simple electrophile precursors. Reductive coupling reactions that ca...
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Sarah Reisman @reiswoman.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Thanks to those who’ve reached out the last few days. I am grateful that my family and home are safe. Many of my friends and colleagues have lost homes. If you want to help Caltech/JPL faculty/students/staff, a relief fund has been established: giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-sup...
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The Caltech and JPL Disaster Relief Fund
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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I’m so excited to share my group’s first pre-print! This is a collaboration with @johnswierk.bsky.social and @japanetier.bsky.social. Here’s your reminder that great science comes from PUIs, too 😊 doi.org/10.26434/che...
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A Low-Spin Manganese (II) Complex with an Emissive Charge-Transfer Excited State
Manganese is an attractive earth-abundant metal for chromophores because it has multiple oxidation states, making it well-suited for photochemical applications involving electron transfer reactivity. ...
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Stanna Dorn, PhD @stanna-dorn.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
As always, happy to share my experience in the program and tips for applying-- go check it out!
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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
Also in SCIENCE today, Sarah Reisman’s group and Jonas Peters’ group team up to show how acid and electrochemistry can make SmI2 catalytic chemsky 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Reductive samarium (electro)catalysis enabled by SmIII-alkoxide protonolysis
Samarium diiodide (SmI2) is a privileged, single-electron reductant deployed in diverse synthetic settings. However, generalizable methods for catalytic turnover remain elusive because of the well-kno...
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Stanna Dorn, PhD @stanna-dorn.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Talk to me long enough and I WILL start rambling about leadership and mentorship in academia 😅 Really excited to see this out and a huge shoutout to Jacky Deng for his direction in this project 👏🏻 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Stanna Dorn, PhD @stanna-dorn.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Extremely thrilled to give my first seminar at Caltech and share my PhD research--thanks to Catherine Romero and Alex Pavelic for their work in organizing the Inorganic-Organometallic seminar series here! (And thanks to Danielle Mantin for taking this pic 😊)
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