Mile 0: “California here we come” -Phantom Planet instagram.com/p/Bvwl1idnQdIW…

Mile 1,111: Made it to the Windy City in the Land of Lincoln. After sampling some deep dish pizza, I got back to the hotel room just in time to see my soon-to-be boss, Frances Arnold, on The Big Bang Theory!

Here we go!

Mile 3,709: I made it! It was a great cross-country trip with plenty of stories from the road. Can’t wait to get started Caltech in May. But first, this New Englander has to get used to this “sun” business.

Alright, now that I’m a stranger in a strange land, I have to start getting oriented and figuring out the basics. Most importantly, how am I going to watch the Game of Thrones premier tomorrow night?

Congratulations to everyone who worked on this paper! Nick Porter Thank you @BalabushkaFury for helping with the inside cover artwork design! Chemical Science pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… “Aza-proline effectively mimics L-proline stereochemistry in triple helical collagen”

Thankful for the privilege to work on these fascinating drug targets with so many prospects while working in the ChristiansonLaboratory!

Dr. Jeremy D. Osko Manfred Jung Jacob Hooker The Wistar Institute JMedChem Also thanks to former grad student Nick Porter Nick Porter!

Out now in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Many thanks to Frances Arnold and our collaborators Emma Danelius and Tamir Gonen. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

So glad to finally get to share this! My heart skipped a beat when we saw the density for the carbene. Massive thanks to Emma Danelius and Tamir Gonen for such great work in solving this structure and to Frances Arnold for her support in evolving and pursuing these biocatalysts!