Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich @ETH_DCHAB in @morandilab • PhD in Organic Synthesis at Scripps Research @Shenvi_Lab
Zürich, Switzerland
Joined November 2018
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4 years, 27 failed routes, and 95 trips to the eucalyptus grove later
*disclaimer: numbers adjusted for inflation 🙃
Thankful to the whole team @Shenvi_Lab
Happy to share on ChemRxiv our stereoselective synthesis of (–)-eugenial C via MHAT/SH2 iron catalysis. tinyurl.com/578mp2d8
It took trial and error, rational design and even a little citizen science to locally source our starting material (thanks @SDNHM Plant Atlas!!).
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Happy #InternationalWomansDay from the ladies of the @morandilab 👩🔬💜🇨🇭✨
💁♀️ @CosimaBrudy @Mescerska @__simonalisa__ @PaschkeAK
📍@ETH @wins_ethzurich
An exciting end to my adventure @scrippsresearch !
Grateful to share my PhD story in the context of the groundbreaking work from the @Shenvi_Lab
Now onto the next adventure @ETH_DCHAB @morandilab ! Stay tuned
Fall fashions have arrived. Inner-sphere is out, outer-sphere is in.
A new @ACSPublications Accounts from @__simonalisa__ summarizes our group's development of first-row metal catalysis to enable fragment coupling en route to bioactive natural products. tinyurl.com/bde8pfs4
Hi everyone! My PhD defense will be taking place this Thursday, October 12th at 9am PST. If you're interested in tuning in, you can find the zoom link below: scripps.zoom.us/j/9722553862…
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Our efforts towards a flagship of steroidal alkaloids appearing today in @ChemRxiv !!!
Thanks to everyone involved @BaranLabReads and Leo Pharma and to
@MSCActions for making dreams come true!!!
CYCLOPAMINE! A total synthesis with LEO Pharma collaborators. Appearing today in @ChemRxiv : chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv…
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Happy Birthday to the original pioneer in supernatural products and fabulous colleague, Dale @BogerLab. This post is a day late, but his science is 20 years ahead of its time, so that makes us about even. Best wishes to a great colleague and friend.
So proud of my best friend for this wonderful story. He is a role model to me and to everyone @scrippsresearch for his compassion, curiosity, and scientific rigor. Looking forward to the next one @AlbertoFGC @YuKawamata
What if you could push the limits of electrochemistry without breaking your electrodes? #alternatingpolarity
Thanks @BaranLabReads @YuKawamata @KaidHarper and the @abbvie team for this inspiring collaboration
An incredible journey made possible by @MSCActions
#realtimechem
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Iron-catalyzed hydrobenzylation: stereoselective #synthesis of (–)-eugenial C by @__simonalisa__, Xu-cheng Gan, Alberto Castanedo, @SGreen_chem, Ryan A. Shenvi @Shenvi_Lab at @scrippsresearch in @ChemRxiv chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv…
Happy international women’s day to my ride or dies 👩🏼🔬💕
Girl power. 💪🫀🧠
Amazing science coming from this crew.
@ScrippsGradPrgm @scrippsresearch
#InternationalWomensDay
Thrilled to be a part of the Mad HATters. Check out our collaborative quarantine project! It’s always MHATea time in Wonderland 🎩😄
Proud to share our collaboratory @ChemicalScience Perspective with Holland Lab @YaleChem
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Peer into the mechanistic unknown with cage effects, bond energies, relative rates and more!
Hatters gonna HAT
#FirstChemSci @RoySocChem
@sohphs @__simonalisa__
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Quarantine project complete! Happy to see this published and had lots of fun writing about the great work that has been done in the salvinorin space!
Move over SpaceX🇺🇸, in this @RoySocChem NPR🇬🇧Special Issue, @SarJHill 🇨🇦 is navigating chemical space 🚀 to orbit salvinorin A 🪴, the potent hallucinogen 🙀 and selective kappa opioid receptor agonist. 💉
tinyurl.com/y5f6th62
Check out her cool GIF of encoding complexity.
I am appalled that @angew_chem would publish such a racist, sexist, and anti-diversity article. The scientific community needs to step up and shape the future of the field by stamping out intolerance toward the very diversity that helps our science flourish.
Congrats @yuzururururu on this massive feat -completing the 13+ year synthesis of this monster of a molecule! I have nothing but awe for you as a chemist. Thank you for your mentorship, friendship, and for obsessing over ice cream with me. Scripps wont be the same without you.
The final version of this work has now appeared in @J_A_C_S : bit.ly/2WZDRoW Read @yuzururururu 's post at Open-Flask for a behind-the-scenes account: openflask.blogspot.com/2020/…
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The recent @NatureMedicine paper by @K_G_Andersen and colleagues on the origins of the novel #coronavirus receives unbelievable attention online and in the news, speaking to its impact scripps.edu/news-and-events/… #2019nCov #COVID19 @altmetric
Thank you to Ryan Shenvi for his constant support and encouragement. It is his exceptional mentorship that makes research like this possible! Stay tuned.
Lab restrictions and shutdowns have reoriented the timelines of @scrippsresearch students and postdocs. So, we're going to spend a few tweets preemptively celebrating lab members and their respective projects, which may wrap up a few weeks later than expected….
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Calibr, the drug development arm of Scripps Research, teams up with @gatesfoundation and @LeuvenU to repurpose existing drugs from our library to screen against #COVID19 for possible #antivirals. Via @matthewherper @statnews statnews.com/2020/03/10/125m… #coronavirus #2019nCoV
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My first post AND my first #RSCPoster twitter conference. I hope you enjoy our work entitled: 'Carboxyboronate: A Versatile C1 Building Block' #RSCOrg #boron #heterocycles #C1buildingblock #MIDA #benchstable #condensation #suzukimiyaura #COsurrogate #UofT #Merck @andrei_yudin
