Dirk H. Trauner

@Tintin_Spain Where can you order?

EL COHETE DE TINTÍN DESPEGA EN MUNDO DEL LEGO tintinspain.blogspot.com/2026/03/el-coh…

Join us for my seminar at Temple University, hosted by my first Berkeley graduate student, Prof. Chris Beaudry!

Check our this preprint. Photopharmacology hits the human brain!

Check our this preprint. Photopharmacology hits the human brain!

Excited to deliver the Overman Lecture next Wednesday at UC Irvine!

Lastly, Nitika's paper on photoresponsive trimethoprim PROTACs is now out @NatureComms. Grateful for our collaboration with @DirkTrauner on this one! nature.com/articles/s4146…

What makes Organic Chemistry so awesome? That after ONE lecture on the rules you can design a molecule that is stable, could be made, but has never been made.

The Trauner Group wishes you Happy Holidays, Frohe Weihnachten, and a Healthy, Peaceful, Successful, Safe, and Rewarding New Year 2026!

Greetings from the Trauner Group Holiday Party!

@chem_okayama You are welcome. Good organic chemistry starts with correct arrow pushing. There is a great book on this: uky.edu/~rbgros1/textb…

@DirkTrauner Thank you so much for taking the time to explain the mechanism – this was incredibly helpful!!☺️☺️☺️

なんだこれ！😳 どうやって矢印書くんだろ？ 明日大学行ったらすぐ読もう Houk, K. N.先生とTrauner, D. H.先生の仕事なのね pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

@laraialab Ditto, Luca Laraia!!!

@DirkTrauner It was a pleasure to collaborate with you on this cool project!

Watch out for that photon, cholesterol! Check out our latest contribution to photolipids, in a great collaboration with Michael Zott and Luca Laria. @cholsterol @photoswitches

@UOHaleyLab The correct TS is shown in Fig. 4

@UOHaleyLab Thank, that's on me. We will correct that.

[6+4] Cycloadditions! Introducing our first dive into this fascinating subject in a very enjoyable collaboration with Ken Houk and his team. Congrats to Harrison and Tufan! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

As my memory is not as good anymore as it once was, I am excited to share this collaboration with Christina Alberini (NYU) with you: nature.com/articles/s4139…

@mbeisen It’s also worth remembering Jerry Donohue who told Watson about the relevant tautomers of purines and pyrimidines, making “Watson-Crick” base pairing possible.

The solving of the structure of DNA should be remembered as a the apotheosis of science as a collective endeavor. Many people contributed to it in an active and material way - with data, ideas and models - and yet take any individual out of the equation, and the discovery still would almost certainly have been made at roughly the same time. That it is instead immortalized as - depending on your perspective - the unique work of some small subset of those people is a testament to our general fetishization of individuals, and the narratives spun to try and elevate particular ones. Maybe now that the last of those individuals has died, we can focus less on apportioning credit for the discovery, and more on the elegance and impact of the natural process they uncovered.

@RichardDawkins What about Jerry Donohue who told Watson about the relevant tautomers of purines and pyrimidines, making “Watson-Crick” base pairing possible?

Matt Ridley dispels the myth that Jim Watson stole Rosalind Franklin’s famous “Photo 51”. Photo 51 was Ray Gosling’s. Watson didn’t steal it, Wilkins showed it to him. Franklin was badly wronged: her institute banned women from commonroom & deprived her of collegial discussion spectator.co.uk/article/who-re….

It was wonderful to return to UC Berkeley and deliver a lecture with Clayton Heathcock in the audience.