Yesterday I successfully defended my PhD Penn Chemistry. Eternally grateful for the people who made these last 5 years a little easier, many of whom tuned in both virtually and IRL. I dreamed of this day so many times, never knowing how full my heart would feel.

Check out the group's latest paper out of our collaboration with Molander Group ASAP J Org Chem/Org Lett. Congrats Mike and Mo! Penn Chemistry
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Thanks to all the fantastic current and former members of my lab whose efforts made this possible! Excited about where we are headed next.

Our latest work is officially up at ChemBioChem! Penn Chemistry

Today was my last lab day before I move to NYC. I’ll be back to defend my thesis but until then I’ll miss my friends in the Chenoweth Lab and in Penn Chemistry. I won’t miss the vagelos mice tho….

Check out the latest paper from the group! In collaboration with Huaiying Zhang, we developed an assay to study the 'linkerology' of chemical dimerizers and applied a new tool to control phase separation.

If you are interested in chemical biology, check out our new paper in collaboration with Chenoweth lab where we optimized the linker for our TMP-Halo system for fast dimerization and applied it to control phase separation in cells. …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.100…

Thrilled to share this work! We engineered a heme enzyme to activate diazirines, giving us access to donor-subsitituted carbenes in biocatalysis. Many thanks to Frances Arnold and our collaborators Emma Danelius and Tamir Gonen 🎗️.

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Congratulations to Sam, Emily Brackhahn, and Pengfei on their recent paper “Rules for Aza-Glycine Incorporation in Collagen Peptides” Chemical Science Also, we love Sam’s clever homage to The Price is Right in the outside cover art! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Big congratulations to Dan as he passed his dissertation defense and will be an alumnus from Penn Chemistry! Dr. Daniel Wu will be joining GSK US as an Investigator in Chem Bio. We’re all excited for you and your future endeavors! 👏🙌

Keep an eye out for some really cool probes made by our very own Christopher Johnny! 🧪🔥🔥🔥

Congrats Rachel and Joomyung Vicky Jun

.Angewandte Chemie the Chemistry field will remember how you handled this. You published a paper that literally had “diversity of workforce” labeled as a negative influence on our field. This is not a moment to respond with the equivalent of “oops, we need to fix some typos.”

Congrats to group alumnus Yang Hai Yang Hai - our 2016 paper describing the crystal structure of HDAC6 was highlighted as one of the Greatest Hits in the past five years of Nature Chemical Biology! See 'Best Partnership': nature.com/articles/s4158…

Have you read 'Rosetta custom score functions accurately predict ΔΔG of mutations at protein–protein interfaces using machine learning'?
It's the latest Comm from John J. Ferrie & E. James Petersson et al. Penn Chemistry
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