Dirk Trauner
@dirktrauner.bsky.social
Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, Natural Product Aficionado, Photopharmacologist, Fox Terrierist, Book Lover, and Unfulfilled Architect. #firstgen
It was wonderful to return to UC Berkeley and deliver a lecture with Clayton Heathcock in the audience.
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It was wonderful to return to UC Berkeley and deliver a lecture with Clayton Heathcock in the audience.
Thrilled to return to UC Berkeley for the Clayton Heathcock Lecture on November 4!
October 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thrilled to return to UC Berkeley for the Clayton Heathcock Lecture on November 4!
Excited to speak at Pitt Chemistry this Thursday!
October 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Excited to speak at Pitt Chemistry this Thursday!
Getting ready for the 2025 Trauner Group Retreat!
September 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Getting ready for the 2025 Trauner Group Retreat!
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!
June 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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!
I love the Hoya carnosa in my office climbing on polytwistane.
April 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I love the Hoya carnosa in my office climbing on polytwistane.
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.
April 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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.
We have updated our "Chemical Neuroscience" course to include pentameric ligand-gated channels and the first GPCRs. www.traunergroup.org/teaching
February 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
We have updated our "Chemical Neuroscience" course to include pentameric ligand-gated channels and the first GPCRs. www.traunergroup.org/teaching
Check out our approach toward disciformycin and gulmirecin, spearheaded by Peter Ruehmann @nyuchemistry.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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February 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Check out our approach toward disciformycin and gulmirecin, spearheaded by Peter Ruehmann @nyuchemistry.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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
"Chemical Neuroscience - a Synthetic Approach".
We are posting some materials online, check them out.
www.traunergroup.org/teaching
February 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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
"Chemical Neuroscience - a Synthetic Approach".
We are posting some materials online, check them out.
www.traunergroup.org/teaching
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 :)
January 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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 :)
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.
January 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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.
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.
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December 21, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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...
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biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The next development in photopharmacology (and "photogastronomy"). Controlling the Menthol Receptor TRPM8 with light!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
December 18, 2024 at 6:04 PM
The next development in photopharmacology (and "photogastronomy"). Controlling the Menthol Receptor TRPM8 with light!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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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December 17, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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
orghighlights2015-2017.com
Nothing is more important to a scientist than the ability to focus.
December 14, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Nothing is more important to a scientist than the ability to focus.
Trauner Group Molecule Tree. A gift from my students.
December 9, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Trauner Group Molecule Tree. A gift from my students.
She is going going for a world record in slouching.
November 30, 2024 at 1:26 AM
She is going going for a world record in slouching.
Happy Birthday, Millie!
November 28, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Happy Birthday, Millie!
It’s cold and it’s raining and she refuses to go out. Happy Thanksgiving!
November 28, 2024 at 2:25 PM
It’s cold and it’s raining and she refuses to go out. Happy Thanksgiving!
Nothing beats a good collection of Synthetic Design books!
November 27, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Nothing beats a good collection of Synthetic Design books!
There are fews things that make me happier than a nice single crystal X-ray structure. Keep sliding them under my door!
November 15, 2024 at 8:24 PM
There are fews things that make me happier than a nice single crystal X-ray structure. Keep sliding them under my door!