Tuesday at 11AM EST, register to hear my good friend Marcus talk about his use of flow chemistry to tackle important problems in polymer science!

Mad Gab: Chemistry Edition

Friendly reminder that when they said credentials for accessible parking, they mean a $500 annual permit not actually being disabled (even if that disability has been previously registered with the parking office) A thread. 1/6

Starting Mon (Aug 3), OM Bootcamp Scripps Research is going virtual! This year we are opening it up to undergrads (esp those at PUIs!) who may have missed out on summer research. DM for details if you’d like to take part.

Thanks for hosting me and Caroline to present on our work! It was an awesome time!

So it’s just all downhill from here, huh? 😅

Congrats! I had the pleasure of mentoring Yaman when he was an undergraduate at UNC. His enthusiasm for just about everything is rarely matched. He’s somewhat new to #ChemTwitter so be sure to give him a follow!

Really enjoyed hearing @AnneJMcNeil present some of her group’s work focused in sustainable polymer chemistry last week at UNC. Can’t wait to keep reading more about their perspective on this important problem.

I can safely tweet this now. I drew this fun one for a friend to gift to someone. A majestic chemistry greyhound. #chemtwitter

Anybody else feel like they’re on their own little personal episode of Nailed It! whenever comparing a crisp literature NMR spectrum of the pure product to whatever mess they happened to make?

I am so so so so proud of everything Paige has done and accomplished! She is a rockstar chemist, and it has been an amazing experience to work with her these past two years! Can’t wait to see all the great things she will continue to do!

Still can’t believe that on Thursday of last week, I successfully defended my thesis and became Dr. Travis Varner! A huge thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way! #PhDone

Shout out to my laptop for holding on by a thread and waiting until after my thesis defense (even if only by ~5 days) to decide to completely crash and burn

My new review paper has been published! This was a long quarantine effort and I'm very happy it's finally out there. If you want to learn more about the properties that affect degradative plasmid transfer, check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.100…