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July 21, 2023

Joey Rocchio was recognized by the Department of Chemistry as winner of a one-semester Kraft fellowship, which he will take in Fall 2023. The fellowship is awarded every year to a top student majoring in chemical biology in our Chemistry Ph.D. program.  Congratulations Joey!!


July 19, 2023

Max Osterberg, a rising fourth-year Chemistry Ph.D. student, was selected by the Department of Chemistry as winner of a one-semester Kraft fellowship, which he will take in Spring 2024. The fellowship is awarded every year to a top student majoring in chemical biology in our Chemistry Ph.D. program.  Congratulations Max!!


July 18, 2023

Joey Rocchio, a rising fourth year Chemistry Ph.D. student, was named winner of the Henry R. Mahler Memorial Award. The late Prof. Mahler helped to put biochemistry at IU on the map, and this unrestricted cash award can be used in any way by the award recipient.  Congratulations Joey!!


July 14, 2023

Joe Fakhoury has earned the Ph.D. in Chemistry with a specialization in chemical biology TODAY!  Joe is Prof. Giedroc’s 30th Ph.D. graduate!  Congratulations Joe for a job well done!  We wish you the best in what comes next!


July 5, 2023

Profs Giedroc and Eric Skaar at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been awarded a five-year grant from NIAID to study the structure and function of the vertebrate ZNG1 metallochaperone. Congratulations to Max, Matthew and Katie for pulling this together on our end!!  Stay tuned!


June 30, 2023

Our short invited review summarizing what we know about RSS in bacteria and the transcriptional repressors that sense these molecules is now published in Current Opinion of Chemical Biology.  Congratulation to Joe Fakhoury and our Argentine collaborators Daiana Capdevila and her student Giuliano Antelo on a very nice contribution to the field!


June 14, 2023

Emma participated in a 5-day workshop hosted by NMRFAM-University of Wisconsin faculty, held this year at the Carbohydrate Research Center at the University of Georgia in Athens.  Emma presented a poster of her collaborative work investigating a cool protein-protein interaction with another student in the group, Joey Rocchio.


May 1, 2023

Emma McRae has been awarded a two-year fellowship from our Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) training program in Quantitative and Chemical Biology (QCB).  Congratulations Emma!!


March 9, 2023

Katherine Legg, a second year student working on the ergothioneine transporter project, was selected as a 2023-2024 John and Wendy Kindig Fellow in the Biological and Chemical Sciences!  Congratulations to Katherine and a sincere thanks to the Kindigs for their support of this important fellowship program!


February 10, 2023

Joe is part of a collaborative team of investigators in the Japan and Argentina that has published their findings of the interdependence of a persulfide-sensing repressor and polysulfide metabolizing enzymes in Rhodobacter capsulatus. This work is online at PNAS Nexus, with corrected proofs to appear any day! Stay tuned! Congratulations to Joe, Daiana and Giuliano in Argentina for their contributions to this work.