Prof. Dr. Dirk Trauner

Chemical Genetics and Chemical Biology

	Address	Prof. Dr. Dirk Trauner Department Chemie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Butenandtstr. 5-13, Haus F 81377 München Germany
	Office	+49 (0)89 2180-77714 (Fr. Traub)
	Phone	+49 (0)89 2180-77800
	Fax	+49 (0)89 2180-77972
	Room	F 4.086
	E-Mail	Dirk.Trauner@cup.uni-muenchen.de Heike.Traub@cup.uni-muenchen.de
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• Organic Synthesis
• Natural Product Chemistry
• Chemical Neuroscience

• Studied Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Vienna, Austria
• Studied Chemistry at the Free University of Berlin, Germany
• 1997 Ph.D. University of Vienna, Austria
• 1998-2000 Postdoctoral research fellow with Professor Samuel J. Danishefsky at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, USA
• 2000-2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• 2006-2008 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Since 2008 Professor of Organic Chemistry, LMU

• Bishop, L.M.; Barbarow, J. E.; Bergman, R.G.; Trauner, D., "Catalysis of 6p Electrocyclizations" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2008, 47, 8100-8103.
• Volgraf, M.; Lumb, J.-P., Brastianos, H.C.; Carr, G.; Chung, M.K.W.; Münzel, M.; Mauk, A.G.; Andersen, R.J.; Trauner, D., "Biomimetic Synthesis of the IDO Inhibitors Exiguamine A and B" Nature Chem. Biol. 2008, 4, 535-537.
• Volgraf, M.; Gorostiza, P.; Numano, R.; Kramer R.H.; Isacoff. E.; Trauner, D., "Allosteric Control of an Ionotropic Glutamate Receptor with an Optical-Switch" Nature Chem. Biol. 2006, 2, 47-52.