{"id":3847,"date":"2009-08-12T17:20:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T00:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2009\/08\/12\/dio-siegel-97-churns-out-molecules\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:46","slug":"dio-siegel-97-churns-out-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2009\/08\/dio-siegel-97-churns-out-molecules\/","title":{"rendered":"Dio Siegel &#8217;97 churns out &#8220;long horn&#8221; molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After completing a PhD in 2003 at Harvard with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chem.harvard.edu\/groups\/myers\/andrew_g_myers.htm\"><b>Prof. Andrew Myers<\/b><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/ja052151d\">&#8220;Synthesis of (-)-Tetracycline.&#8221; J. Am. Chem. Soc. <b>2005<\/b>, <i>127<\/i>, 8292-8293<\/a>) and a postdoc from 2003-07 with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/chemistry\/fac-bios\/danishefsky\/faculty.html\"><b>Prof. Samuel Danishefsky<\/b><\/a> at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (<a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/ja057418n\">&#8220;Total Synthesis of Garsubellin A.&#8221; J. Am. Chem. Soc. <b>2006<\/b>, <i>128<\/i>, 1048-1049<\/a>), <b>Dio <\/b>has settled down at the University of Texas-Austin&#8217;s chemistry department. In just two years he has collected a <a href=\"http:\/\/dsiegel.cm.utexas.edu\/\"><b>group<\/b><\/a> of hard-working students where they work on <a href=\"http:\/\/dsiegel.cm.utexas.edu\/siegel-group-research\"><b>projects<\/b><\/a> spanning development of new reactions, natural product synthesis, and molecular pharmacology. Dio has also attracted the roving eye of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sexyscience.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/profile-13-dionicio-siegel.html\"><b>Sexy Science blog<\/b><\/a> where he is profile #13. (PS his cousin points out in the blog&#8217;s comments section: Dio is married.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After completing a PhD in 2003 at Harvard with Prof. Andrew Myers (&#8220;Synthesis of (-)-Tetracycline.&#8221; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 8292-8293) and a postdoc from 2003-07 with Prof. Samuel Danishefsky at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (&#8220;Total Synthesis&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2009\/08\/dio-siegel-97-churns-out-molecules\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Dio Siegel &#8217;97 churns out &#8220;long horn&#8221; molecules<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4346,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/4346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}