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We gathered today to celebrate the imminent departure of former grad student Sam Eaton, now Dr. Sam Eaton (second from right) – Sam will soon be moving to Penn State Chemistry for a postdoc with Joey Cotruvo!

The last trip of my sabbatical year – I am looking forward to giving a seminar at the University of Athens on Thursday. γειά σου!

Meet Carbo, the departmental cat at the University of Athens chemistry department. My host tells me that Carbo was born here and has been a fixture ever since!

Καλημέρα!

Prison of Socrates, at the base of the Acropolis. Reminds me of an old teaching evaluation from one of my students - “Christianson says he teaches by Socratic Dialogue. Now I know why the Athenians killed Socrates!”

Excited to be at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus to see ⁦Yo-Yo Ma⁩, ⁦Emanuel Ax⁩, and Leonidas Kavakos in concert, in the shadows of the Parthenon! Concert starts in 5 minutes…

After the Brahms! Fantastic performance by Ma, Ax, and Kavakos

Apparently, yesterday was #NationalDachshundDay...sorry I missed it, Bella!

Thankfully my son and all other passengers had deplaned at Heathrow before this happened yesterday evening. Don't know about his checked baggage, though...

Proud father! Nico's mathematical and computer science work Caltech is going strong and he is presenting at AI/ML/data analytics conferences far and wide this year. His current foci are energy science and business science. arxiv.org/abs/2405.09859

This bird has been at our dining room window for the past couple months! It starts tapping on the window every day around 5:30 am. I think it's a cardinal? I tried to scare him off with a stuffed animal in the window. Didn't work. Any suggestions are welcome...

Bird update: tap, tap, tap...former student and radiologist/neuroimaging scientist Michael T Duong MD PhD identified it as a Northern Cardinal. Postdoc Juana G. Stollmaier suggested bird stickers on the window (on order now). I tested some non-bird stickers but they seem to be attracting the bird!

Hopefully, the final bird update: it is 6:30 am and the silence is golden! The cardinal is not tapping on the windows this morning, for the first time in many weeks. Postdoc Juana G. Stollmaier suggested using bird stickers to ward off our uninvited guest. Brilliant idea, Juana!

Hot off the press – a brilliant collection of approaches for the study of #terpene synthases, edited by one of the leaders in the field, Rudolf Lab! A must-have volume for any scientist studying these fascinating enzymes. Elsevier Biomedchem Elsevier

Proud father! In a side project for his PhD Caltech, my son Nicolas contributed to this study yielding an algorithm just deployed by Amazon Prime Video. SODA: An adaptive bitrate controller for consistent high-quality video streaming amazon.science/publications/s…

Bella is showing off her new gift, a Rolls Royce dog collar and leash inscribed with her name – thank you Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Rolls-RoyceMotorCars for your kindness!

We had group meeting today on the Chesapeake Bay! A beautiful day with a gentle 7-8 knot breeze, perfect for sailing for the first-timers. Thank you to postdoc Juana G. Stollmaier for the photo.

Congrats to group alumna Paris Watson for this national recognition of her outstanding PhD studies Penn Chemistry Penn Arts & Sciences! 2024 Joanna Fowler Award Winners Announced bnl.gov/newsroom/news.… via Brookhaven Lab

Congrats to postdoc Juana Goulart Stollmaier Juana G. Stollmaier and group alum Dr Paris Watson for this fantastic work, just published in ACS Med Chem Lett ACS Publications Bio & Med Chem Content! HDAC10 catalyzes thioester hydrolysis to activate thiol-containing pharmacophores. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

It's #PostdocAppreciationWeek! Many thanks to Christianson Lab postdocs Eli Wenger, Juana Goulart Stollmaier Juana G. Stollmaier, and Swati Sharma for their hard work and accomplishments, as well as their mentorship to our graduate students.