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April 27, 2018

Hui Peng is winner of the Spring 2019 Graduate Research Award from the Indiana University Graduate Program in Biochemistry.  The award is a cash award of $500.00.  Congratulations Hui!  Hui also received two subsequent travel awards, the Peglow award and the COAS Travel Award, both used to offset expenses to attend the Thiols GRC in Spain in July.  Congratulations!


April 15, 2018

Brenna presented her work at the 5th International Symposium on Microbial Sulfur Metabolism held in Vienna, Austria.


March 27, 2018

Brenna receives the Provost’s Travel Award for Women in Science to attend an upcoming conference in Vienna, Austria. Congratulations Brenna!


March 14, 2018

Professor Giedroc was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology for his contributions to our understanding of transition metal homeostasis, and more recently sulfide homeostasis, in microbial pathogens.  See the IU Newsroom post here!


February 1, 2018

It’s time to say good-bye to Prof. Kelly Chacón, as her mini-sabbatical in our group comes to a close. We wish you all the best in the Spring semester at Reed, and will catch up soon, hopefully at the Copper meeting in Italy in September.


January 1, 2018

Mathew Jordan, a first-year student in the Biochemistry Program and native of the Indianapolis area, joins the group!  Welcome Matthew!


November 21, 2017

Hendrik and Yifan’s paper that characterizes the physical properties of the Cu(I) sensor S. pneumoniae CopY is published online by Chemical Science.  Congratulations to Dr. Daiana Capdevila and this highly collaborative team who put this one together!


November 1, 2017


October 4, 2017

Kelly Chacón, an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Reed College in Portland, Oregon joins the group as visiting professor on sabbatical leave.  Welcome Kelly!!!


September 6, 2017

Hui’s paper on proteome S-sulfhydration in Staphylococcus aureus appears online in ACS Infectious Diseases.  Congratulations to Hui and members of the Trinidad (IU) and Skaar (Vanderbilt University) groups on their contributions to this work.