Congratulations to Chris Chang, young Aidan and colleagues for this awesome paper on oxidation state-specific fluorescent copper sensors. Really cool how oxidation-specific chemistry can be used to reveal oncogene-driven redox changes!pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Nice to see Pezacki Lab and friends and colleagues highlighted in the Nature collection in honour of this years Nobel Prize in Chemistry! So exciting! Once again big congratulations to Profs Sharpless, Meldal and Bertozzi! nature.com/collections/dd…

Congratulations to Prof Howard Alper from our department ⁦uOttawa Chem & Biomolec Sci // Chimie & Sci Biomol⁩ ⁦uOttawa Science⁩ ⁦Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa⁩ for being appointed as “Companion of the Order of Canada”. Congratulations to Howard for this recognition, bestowed by Governor General Mary Simon!!

Happy to report that my department ⁦uOttawa Chem & Biomolec Sci // Chimie & Sci Biomol⁩ ⁦Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa⁩ this week decided to raise the minimum graduate student stipend to $23000 starting May, 2023 and to $24000 starting May 2024 through increased contributions from our professors in support of our students.

Sorry! I was given the wrong numbers for this tweet! uOttawa Chem & Biomolec Sci // Chimie & Sci Biomol Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa have raised the minimum stipend to $26000 starting May 2023, and agreed to raise it further to $27000 starting May 2024. Canadian funding agencies need to do their part! Please!

Congratulations to Noreen, Nadine and Didier from ⁦Pezacki Lab⁩ ⁦uOttawa Science⁩ ⁦Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa⁩ for their latest publication - An unnatural enzyme with endonuclease activity towards small non-coding RNAs! Great work! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congratulations to Nadine, Magen, Noreen, and Alyson! Great job! #SARSCoV2 #metabolism #microRNA #antiviralmechanisms

So, ever since Twitter changed to X I have been pretty inactive on social media. Am I the only one to be confused about the changes and the role of social media in my day-to-day? Anyway, I feel like sharing and have some catching up to do with some posts. Here we go!

Big thanks to ⁦Fulbright Canada⁩ ⁦Fulbright Scholars⁩ for the Fulbright Canada Research Chair! Big thanks to ⁦UCSB Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry⁩ for being an amazing host! UCSB Chemistry and Biochemistry is amazing! Great colleagues and collaborative atmosphere! I am very lucky!

Santa Barbara is one of the most beautiful places to live and work! So lucky to be spending time here with ⁦UCSB Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry⁩!

Big thanks to ⁦Ellen Sletten⁩ ⁦UCLA Chem & Biochem⁩ for the invite to visit this great department! ⁦UCLA Chem & Biochem⁩ is a powerhouse and a very exciting department to visit! What a great Chembio program with top students!Congrats on the new hires including Stuart Conway!

Really great to visit ⁦Jenn Prescher⁩ ⁦UCI Chemistry⁩! Thanks for a great day and a wonderful set of meetings with so many talented colleagues! So much fun to meet so many leaders in the field! Great to finally meet Greg Weiss and Matt Griffin! Thanks again JP!

Big thanks to ⁦Chris Chang⁩ ⁦College of Chemistry⁩ for the visit and opportunity to share some of our recent work ⁦Pezacki Lab⁩! Berkeley is so steeped in history and is one of the top chemistry departments in the world (#1?)! What a great place to do science!

⁦Scripps Research⁩ is one of my favourite places to visit and spend time! Special thanks to Ben Cravatt and Chris Parker for hosting my visit! A full day of exciting meetings with some of the world’s best scientists and innovators! TSRI is truly an exceptional place!

Santa Barbara is a very special place where you can see dolphins and sea lions at Stearns Wharf, see blue whales flip their tails, and even humpback whales breaching in playful displays of acrobatics! Very lucky to be here visiting ⁦UCSB Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry⁩! #fulbright CRC

Congratulations to Mariam, Jason, Shadi, and Masaya for the recent publication: 3‐Oxidopyridinium Ions Are Versatile Bioorthogonal Dipoles for Use in Cycloadditions with Cyclooctynes - Serhan - 2024 - Chemistry – A European Journal - Wiley Online Library …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

Congrats to Eryn, Parrish and Spencer for their contributions to our News and Views article on charting the ligandable proteome. Great work! #ABPP #Chemoproteomics #drugdiscovery nature.com/articles/s4155…

Congratulations to Professors Ambros and Ruvkun! All of my Cell Reg students Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa for the past decade and more know all about your groundbreaking work on the discovery of microRNAs. It’s nice to see your contributions recognized - 2024 Nobel Prize nobelprize.org/prizes/medicin…

Congratulations to Eryn, Spencer, Christina and Nadine for their paper on SARS-CoV-2 helicase and its connection to the important noncoding RNA, human microRNA miR-146a! Well done! Just published online: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Big thanks to the uOttawa Science Students Association (SSA) for inviting me to your formal at the Rogers Centre! Big shout out to Julia, Sarah and Maya for all that they do! Big surprise and great honour to be awarded the 2025 Prof of the Year! Many thanks to all my students!