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Proud father: daughter Karen's PhD research probing music-neuromotor connections got a shout-out from her advisor, Elizabeth Margulis Princeton University, in this fascinating program (10:13 and 30:06)! Music on our minds: how music affects our memories and emotions whyy.org/episodes/music…

Honored to be at the University of Tokyo as a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Many thanks to my host, Prof. Ikuro Abe, and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences for their warm welcome at my first lecture!

Proud father – Nicolas will soon be a Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellow! energypostdoc.stanford.edu/news/new-energ…

It is my good luck to be in Tokyo during cherry blossom season! Ueno Park on a slightly overcast Sunday afternoon.

Helmets outside the chemistry department labs at University of Tokyo. When there is an earthquake, the first thing you do is put a helmet on. Lab safety at its finest!

Many thanks to Prof. Hiroki Oguri and the chemistry department faculty at the University of Tokyo UTokyo School of Science for hosting my recent seminar visit. I was inspired to learn about the cutting-edge research in the department & I also enjoyed meeting many outstanding PhD students!

Honored to meet Prof Genji Kurisu, Director of PDB Japan PDBj_en rcsb pdb 💉🧬💻🔬💊🌱🧠🦠, & Profs Hironubu Hojo & Atsushi Nakagawa at The University of Osaka! Looking forward to giving lectures on our HDAC and terpene synthase work at the Institute for Protein Research 大阪大学蛋白質研究所 and SANKEN - Osaka University (Japan).

I am honored to receive the Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching from the School of Arts and Sciences Penn Arts & Sciences! Such good news to learn while lecturing at universities in Japan this week. sas.upenn.edu/news/2025-scho…

I enjoyed dinner with Prof Takayoshi Suzuki and colleagues (Profs Y Itoh, Y Yamashita, and Y Takada) following my seminar at SANKEN (SANKEN - Osaka University (Japan)), Osaka University. The Teppanyaki restaurant was outstanding!

Very proud of group member Kristin Osika, a biochem major in Penn Chemistry! Kristin's poster, Structure and Mechanism of a Bifunctional Terpene Cyclase-Phosphatase, was first-place winner in the biochem foundations category of the undergrad poster competition at the ASBMB mtg.

Many thanks to Prof. Toshiyuki Wakimoto for hosting my seminar today in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Hokkaido University Hokkaido University . Below is a post-seminar photo with Toshi and some of his faculty colleagues.

As a staunch ally of Penn Hillel, I am honored, and moved beyond words, to be invited to this year's Yom Hashoah Remembrance Ceremony, where I will light one of the six candles commemorating the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Never forget.

I was inspired to meet Holocaust survivor Dr. Michael Katz (Penn '49) and Penn senior Ethan Burian at today's #HolocaustRemembranceDay Ceremony at Penn Hillel. It was my great honor to light one of the six candles in memory of the 6 million Jews who perished. Never forget.

I received the Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching from Penn Arts & Sciences today! Many thanks to Christianson Group members as well as students from my lecture courses who submitted nominations.

Proud father! Congrats to Nicolas Christianson, who successfully defended his PhD thesis at Caltech in Computer and Mathematical Sciences. Dr. Christianson now heads north to begin his postdoctoral appointment as a Stanford Energy Fellow Stanford ENERGY.

I was honored to give the 2024/25 Structural Biology Lecture at the University of Warwick University of Warwick Warwick Chemistry today. Many thanks to Prof. Greg Challis and colleagues for their warm welcome at both of my lectures!

Saturday night at the Novello theater in London, what a fantastic show!

Excited to give this week’s seminar in the biochemistry department at Cambridge!

Many thanks to Ben Luisi and colleagues for hosting my seminar visit to the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University today! We enjoyed a post-seminar feast at Little Petra, a splendid Jordanian restaurant.

The chapel at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. The head of Oliver Cromwell is buried here at a location known only to the Master, the Vice Master, and the Bursar. I was a Visiting Fellow here 19 years ago!