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Just your average summer afternoon with @PrincetonGrad student Neo in the Weichman Lab aligning a green continuous wave laser into an optical cavity.

What are you doing with your Wednesday?

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New paper out in Nature from the Todd Hyster Lab: “Pyridoxal photoenzymes for asymmetric radical–radical cross-couplings" with Novartis.

Congratulations on the great work Cole, Suhao, Yao, Saim, Claire, Greg, Simon, Todd:
https://t.co/jrg4L6duAf

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Congratulations Richard Kang of the Hammes-Schiffer Group on his @BeckmanFnd Postdoc Fellowship.

Kang aims to develop the next generation of nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) methods to simulate both electrons and protons quantum mechanically.

Story: https://t.co/4MrnRlHN4L

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We are pleased to be welcoming Peng Chen of @PKU1898 to @princetonchem tomorrow for a special seminar: “Live-cell Protein Chemistry in Health and Disease.”

Hosted by the Chris Chang Lab. Free and open to the campus community. Starts at 3 p.m.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"We fail much more than we ever succeed. We know that. We accept that. We're amazing at dealing with failure. That's what scientists do."

- chemistry laureate David MacMillan on the role of scientists and their contributions to our society.

In September, MacMillan will join fellow Nobel Prize laureates Brian Schmidt and Craig Mello for a discussion on how artificial intelligence will transform the future of science. At the Nobel Prize Dialogue in Seoul, the laureates together with other experts will explore what these changes mean for our ability to develop scientific solutions to the urgent challenges we face.

Register now to attend our event in Seoul in September: https://t.co/uj1RByYNpx

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Marty Semmelhack published a paper in @J_A_C_S more than 50 years ago that remains one of his favorites, partly because it reassured him that “… disappointing results could be overcome with new ideas.”

Enjoy our latest "Summer Series: Papers We Love": https://t.co/O08WpDjwKk

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The @TheWeichmanLab publishes its latest on gas-phase molecular polaritons in the Journal of Chemical Physics: “Electronic strong coupling of gas-phase molecular iodine.”

Congratulations Jane, Trevor, Neo, Madeline, Marissa: https://t.co/BeZevyh6VK

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Shout out to Brendan Sperling who presented his research at this weekend’s inaugural Advancing Chemistry through Empowered Scientists (A.C.E.S.) Conference @Columbia University. Well done, Brendan!

Brendan is jointly advised at @princetonchem by the Mo Lab and the Hecht Lab.

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Forecast for today: abundant sunshine, great research.

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The latest in our summer “Papers We Love” with Leslie Schoop @SchoopLab captures her lab’s creative mission “from a single material to a predictive principle” with a 2020 paper on square-net-based topological semimetals.

Enjoy the Q&A: https://t.co/dxOJvtF6lE

@princetonideas

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The Chris Chang Group collaboration “Copper import via CTR1 supports the β3-Adrenergic thermogenic program,” is now out in Molecular Metabolism @MolMetab.

With @UofMaryland and add’l colleagues: https://t.co/5eS5XyEgm5

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Congratulations Lilia Xie on her lab's first major external grant, this one from the ACS PRF program for her proposal: ���Quantum-Confined Magnetic Semiconductors Derived from Petroleum.”

Announcement here: https://t.co/1ptnUpB6li

@PrincetonPMS #ACS

[Ellen Zhong @ZhongingAlong]

Had a great time at ChemAI NYC! It was fun to write an entirely new talk and pontificate on the crazy state of AI for science these days 🤠

Check out our work led by @zyxiong123 on atomic diffusion models for structure determination of small molecules. #notcryoem

Paper: https://t.co/pOPPdcpG1v

Part of a super fun collaboration with natural product experts in the Mo lab @PrincetonChem!

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The Scholes Group’s Ben Xinzi Zhang *22 and Lewis Sigler lecturer appears in @Princeton’s Summer Reads story, with “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Kimmerer atop his list.

See what else is in faculties' summer lineup in this charming annual piece: https://t.co/6Vhcmhm1wm

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The Michelle Chang Lab unveils a powerful new route to metalloenzyme discovery, “Targeted Enzyme Discovery using Metal-Coordination Mining,” published in @Nature. Congratulations Yanni and Michelle!

Enjoy our feature on the lab’s @NIH-funded research: https://t.co/iahsDOVdaA

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Congratulations @MacMillan_Lab on: “High-Precision Intrinsic Interactome Elucidation of Chimeric Antigen Receptors via Photocatalytic Micromapping (μMap-CAR),” in @J_A_C_S.

Great work Sean, Roderick, Philip, Ciaran, Gabrielle, Beryl, Dave and @BMSNews: https://t.co/cAe1xLHoYm

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Our 1954 history (available thru @PULibrary) opened with this quote:

“Not alone and isolated but a part of a young and prideful University and a vigorous and growing Nation, the Department of Chemistry has played well its part.”

Enjoy the holiday, everyone. #America250

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Congratulations to the Michelle Chang Lab, publishing “Targeted enzyme discovery using metal-coordination mining” today in @Nature.

Great work from Yanni and Michelle. Full paper: https://t.co/nQts8DrOvn

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“Papers We Love,” continues with a 2024 @ChirikGroup favorite:

“Ligand Field Sensitive Spin Acceleration in the Iron-Catalyzed [2+2] Cycloaddition of Unactivated Alkenes and Dienes."

Enjoy Paul's Q&A here: https://t.co/6Y2zzGUJKL

@J_A_C_S

[Nature Metabolism @NatMetabolism]

Host metabolism can produce many indoles and phenols independently of the microbiome https://t.co/76qESTyw5y