Following my PhD PI's
@SoyLuisCampos
footsteps as
@cenmag
Talented 12! Super pumped to build community with the other awardees 🤩
Special thank you to
@EmilyPentzer
@BekkaKlausen
for the initial nominations and encouragement.
Our first work on Biobased, Degradable, and Conjugated Poly(Azomethine)s (<-- the title 😆) is out today
@J_A_C_S
.
@chemie_lea
and
@angelasmlin
are making strides towards polymerizing carotenoids 🥕🥕🥕.
Team Tran is heading to Toronto
@UofT
! I will be joining the Department of Chemistry
@ChemUofT
, cross-appointed in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Sciences, starting January 2021. Learn more about us at .
In high school, I didn't qualify to take the AP Chemistry course. 🙃 Now, I am in the curriculum materials developed by the National Math + Science Initiative
@NMSI
to ensure women are well represented in STEM. Thank you!
@IfThenSheCan
Know an undergraduate looking for an international research experience for summer 2022? If they are looking to join a supportive environment, interested in synthesis/robotics/characterization, and want to gain some science communication skills, please connect us!
For my polymer course
@chemuoft
, I am highlighting polymer scientists who have inspired me in my career.
I learned about Scientific Spotlights at the Scientific Teaching Institute
@Stanford
:
1/n
So many people are hiring. I know.
BUT! If you are interested in coming to 🇨🇦Toronto🇨🇦 to start as staff scientist as part of the
@acceleration_c
with a focus on 💙polymers💙, please email me!
I am especially interested in mentoring women and will provide all the help I can!
An invigorating weekend
@smithsonian
chatting to hundreds of visitors and volunteering at the FUTURES Girl Power Family Day. Representing sustainable polymer chemistry
@UofT
and got to meet my statue
@SmithsonianAIB
🤩!
@IfThenSheCan
So,
@McGillChemistry
is hiring this year in POLYMERS!
I don't know who it's going to be, but we're gonna be best friends. 🤓
@acspmse
future faculty scholars, please consider applying!
A MASSIVE thank you to
@InnovationCA
for funding us! 🤯 Literally CANNOT WAIT until our infrastructure (both chemistry + engineering) is in place to accelerate our research.
Special congrats (sigh of relief?) to all my fellow Canadian New PIs who also got funded!!
WOW-- all students awarded
@CRSNG_NSERC
fellowships! Congrats to
@angelasmlin
,
@chemie_lea
, and Jon on their CGS-D and
@abbey_clap
on her CGS-M. So proud of their leadership, outreach, teaching and research excellence.
And yes, it is still winter here.
Setting up our robotic synthesizer with undergrad
@katieezhu
in our temporary lab space. It’s humbling to be in
@NobelPrize
winner John Polanyi’s former space!
Learn more about Helen and other female engineers with downloadable posters, hands-on activities, and worksheets! Translations are available in Spanish and Somali.
The first of our
#PandemicPapers
is out today! This was a big training experience in literature review, technical writing, and scientific illustrations for the three graduate students who worked collaboratively.
I know this is old news for my friends in the US, but it was a huge relief to get vaccinated today. 😌Pure excitement in the lab as the students got booked and/or vaccinated too.
My undergrad/forever mentor Ron visits Toronto! A photo of us with the graduate students! After 12 years of free lunches and dinners, he finally lets me pay.
Seeing the students work together seamlessly on our new
@J_A_C_S
perspective makes this an extra cherished publication. I hope you enjoy the fruits of their labor and that this provides some insights on where our group is going!
We were awarded +$100k to produce a virtual interactive workshop for educators to implement design thinking strategies in STEM education! So excited to work with
@marcuswdrover
+
@christine_m_le
and all the students!
We are proud to support the
#virtuallearningstrategy
, accelerating the transition from pandemic emergency remote teaching to high-quality online learning of the future. Visit to learn more.
#VLS
Team Tran (early) end-of-year party on Dec. 1st! 🍣🥂
I ambitiously bought a huge dining table when I first moved to Toronto... it was the first time we actually needed it!
three-day 🛶 canoe camping with my new canadian chem PI friend
@ShiraJoudan
🥰 fall colours were unreal!
first time portaging a canoe and a pack over half my weight! i need to get a personal paddle like Shira now!
We have the first recycling GPC/HPLC in Canada (?), courtesy of
@InnovationCA
, from
@Columnex
! We got the automated JAI LaboACE LC-7080 model and it separates molecules BEAUTIFULLY! Really impressed and wish I had this as a postdoc/grad student.
Team Tran's first
@ChemRxiv
submissions now online:
Green and Sustainable Solvents for Solid-Phase Peptoid Synthesis
Thienoisoindigo-based recyclable conjugated polymers for organic electronics
Let us know what you think! 🤓
Our teams work on using DArP to prepare imine-based conjugated polymers is now online! Nathan led this effort and we celebrated it over lunch
@harthouseuoft
🤤
Today we welcome undergraduates Atang Peloewetse and Hana El-Haddad to the team! SO EXCITED... especially since they are just starting out
@UofT
!
Any tips for managing a growing group? 🤯
.
@azalea_chem
is part of the first cohort launching Team Tran... and she was recently awarded the Faculty of Arts & Science Top (FAST) Doctoral Fellowship, funding her for FOUR years! A huge congratulations! 🎉
My first ACS with a student
@chemie_lea
(Jean jacket twins)! She was too cool to hang out with me all the time, but we did hit up 4 HHs together! Also, ty to
@EmilyPentzer
@BekkaKlausen
for bringing the community together for your bdays! 🎂
Squeezed in a quick visit to the famous Bao BBQ and to see family, especially my dad at the temple. So fun to hear from former mentees
@chiongjerika
@yuzhengstanford
.
#CCCE2022
here I come! Any tips for a first timer? I heard there’s a Bruker party…
@laure_kayser
My trip to
@WWU_Muenster
was so delightful— thank you
@GloriusFrank
for the invitation!Learned about their efforts in intelligent matter, biked in the promenade, ate at the Mensa, and saw this wild stairway to heaven exhibit. Also, check out this rotovap set up! ❤️
Looking forward to serving on this board, contributing my perspective, and learning more about the publishing process.
Thank you for whoever nominated me!!
We just announced our 2022 Early Career Advisory Board, with members from across the chemical sciences, and with a broad global representation. Check out this editorial to find out which influential scientists of the future are on this year's board:
Polymer chemist looking for a new job? Found out this cool company
@twelve_co2
that my friend works at is hiring!
Pay: $144,000 - $180,000 USD
Location: Berkeley, CA
You can apply directly or email my friend: theo.gao
@twelve
.co
🥹 seeing
@vivianfeig
on the big stage gives me all the feels. So proud. Thank you to
@DeryaBaranB
@InalSahika
for giving us a platform to speak at KAUST. An absolutely beautiful venue!
Having fun putting together materials for my future outreach program: “POP!
@UofT
”. Everything will be made public to help start similar programs. Thanks
@IfThenSheCan
for the support!
Are you a chemist wanting to expand into automation and high throughput data analysis? Gain skills in polymer science? Improve science communication (including graphics)? Chat with me about your idea to apply as an
@acceleration_c
postdoc! We can host 1 applicant!
Interested in working with the best and brightest in accelerated
#molecular
and
#materials
discovery
@UofT
and around the world? Apply to be one of up to 5
#postdoc
fellows with the Acceleration Consortium! 👉
I’m not crying, you’re crying 🥹
Also here’s another goodie:
@chemie_lea
with her scientific grandfather
@SoyLuisCampos
! Hearing Luis talk to Azalea made me realize the huge role he had on my development as a PI 🤓
We've partnered with Lyda Hill Philanthropies to select 125 women innovators as AAAS IF/THEN® Ambassadors!
These
#WomenInSTEM
will share their stories and serve as high-profile role models for girls.
#IfThenSheCan
@IfThenSheCan
Finally home, and wow, what a wonderful trip. So honored to speak in this symposium (first time in front of my PhD advisor
@SoyLuisCampos
😅). Thank you to May, the chairs, and everyone who made it so so so seamless!
Kicking off the afternoon session of the
#ChemSciSymposium
is Helen Tran (
@helen_chem
) from
@UofT
Helen is going to talk all about sequence-controlled peptoid polymers
Thank you
@ACSCentSci
for selecting my image for the November cover! I had a lot of fun learning how to make these 3D images... I think I have a new hobby 🤔 A lot to learn.
@zhenanbao
#SciArt
See the full article here:
Advice to incoming new PIs? Finish your postdoc work ASAP.
Big thanks to co-first authors Shayla and
@chiongjerika
for wrapping this up!
@ChemMater
Modular Synthesis of Fully Degradable Imine-Based Semiconducting p-Type and n-Type Polymers
Feeling lucky to have
@abbey_clap
in our group! She’s this year’s recipient of the Governor General’s Silver Medal, awarded to the undergraduate student with the highest academic standing, and U of T’s Rose Sheinin Award, given to an outstanding woman student in science.
Being an assistant professor in Canada has been genuinely awesome... come be one
@UWaterloo
!
Join me,
@EllieChemistry
,
@CMaikawa
, and the new McGill polymer person (???)!
Applications due April 15:
Congratulations to
@YanXiaLab
, awardee of the inaugural 2022
@TosohBio
Award for Excellence in Polymer Science!! 🤩
Come watch his talk and other stellar talks in June 8-9. There is still time to register:
Bao reunions always make me full of joy, especially when I see
@vivianfeig
and
@chiongjerika
!
Thanks
@wu_yilei
for being the best Bao photographer. I can’t get over how committed you were when taking photos at the award talk!
🌸Today's potluck celebrated our undergraduates, Atang, Jasemine
@jphandj
, and Hana
@hanaaelhh
! 🌸
Atang will be doing a DAAD RISE summer internship; Jasmine will be heading to UBC for her PhD; Hana wins fellowships for summer research at UofT! So proud 🤩🥹
In these times of injustice, discrimination, and chaos... faculty, be EXPLICIT in your support of students interested in
#scicomm
, policy, and outreach. They are at the frontlines of defending and promoting science.
AAHHHHH! I am so PSYCHED for
@azalea_chem
to be in my first cohort of students
@chemuoft
! She’s already writing a perspective with me +
@angelasmlin
+ Jon 🤩 Can’t wait until I get to Toronto!
I am very excited to announce that I will be joining the Mechanical Engineering department at Stanford in 2024! My group will focus on designing new therapeutic devices with dynamic properties to make medical technologies more accessible, less invasive, and more effective.
10 minutes before my Twitch debut... my demo set up triggered the circuit breaker! 🤣
Thanks for hosting me yesterday, Anna
@CBSUnstoppable
@IfThenSheCan
!
Thank you GoldieBlox and Amy Poehler Smart Girls for featuring me on this whimsical show! Check out that DPP molecular model!
@goldieblox
@smrtgrls
@IfThenSheCan
Molecule Designer Helen Tran tells us about the future of plastics! Hint: biodegradable stickers! Helen Tran joins “Plastics”, the second episode of
#CampGoldieBlox
: Adventures at Eureka Point. Watch and learn!
@IfThenSheCan
@smrtgrls
Our
@Matter_CP
preview showcases one of our favorite papers in PNAS 2020 by Prof. Molly Stevens,
@CarolynBertozzi
, Dr. Ron Zuckermann, and Prof. Oleg Gang. We imagine the peptoids as molecular protectors of nanostructures! Check it out here:
I wanted to become involved with this because I felt there was a gap in community when I was younger. I hope PIs send their students to the first PoWER conference, where I bet students will form long-lasting networks.
This is the conference I look forward to the most for 2024!
Save the date for the inaugural Polymer Women Empowerment and Research conference, held July 11-12, 2024 at Northwestern! We already have a great lineup of speakers from academia, industry, and national labs, with more to come.