April 23, 2024
Dr Britta Rued, a Microbiology Ph.D. student co-advised by Profs. Winkler and Giedroc, will start her independent faculty position in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University in August 2024. Britta is a former QCB trainee at IU and is a K99 awardee with Prof. Michael Federle’s group at UIC.
April 23, 2024
Max Osterberg has been awarded a $650 Paget Travel Grant by the Department of Chemistry to attend the 9th International Symposium on Metallomics to be held in London in June 2024. Congratulations Max!
March 5, 2024
Max’s paper describing the Zn(II) coordination chemistry, G-nucleotide-induced folding and extensive hydrogen-deuterium exchange-mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) of the bacterial COG0523 enzyme, Acinetobacter baumannii ZigA, is accepted today in Biophysical Journal. Happy birthday Max! Congratulations also to our collaborators Tim Stemmler (Wayne State) and Daniel Deredge (University of Maryland Baltimore).
March 5, 2024
Minyong Kim’s paper that describes the physical features of Acinetobacter baumannii zinc uptake repressor (Zur) appears in the March 5 issue of Biochemistry. Congratulations to Minyong and her collaborators Dr. Daiana Capdevila, Tim Stemmler and his student (C. Campbell) from Wayne State!
March 4, 2024
Dr Julius Campeciño joins the Giedroc group as a non-tenure track Assistant Research Scientist by way of his home country, the Philippines. Julius trained with Mike Maroney (UMass) and Eric Hegg (Michigan State) and brings his considerable expertise in bioinorganic chemistry to our group. A very warm welcome Julius!
December 31, 2023
Prof. Giedroc passes the reigns of the DBC to Jen Heemstra (Washington University in St. Louis) today, and transitions into the role of Immediate Past Chair! Thanks to all for making this a blast! Congratulations Jen!
October 19, 2023
Katherine Legg, a third year Chemistry (chemical biology) student and 2023-2024 John and Wendy Kindig Fellowship recipient, is officially a candidate for the Ph.D. in Chemistry. Congratulations Katherine!!
September 1, 2023
Dr. Katie Edmonds has received unanimous support by the Department of Chemistry for her promotion to the rank of Associate Research Scientist! Her dossier will now be evaluated by the upper administration, with the promotion to become finalized next summer. Katie has been with the Giedroc Laboratory for 10 years now, the last three as Assistant Research Scientist. This promotion is in recognition of her considerable recent contributions to our laboratory. Congratulations Katie!!
August 24, 2023
Congratulations to Emma and Katie for their late-breaking contribution to a plastocyanin infrared spectroscopy paper from the Thielges group that just appeared in Communications Chemistry!
August 9, 2023
The Capdevila, Giedroc and Dalia groups have published the first study on persulfide sensing and thiol persulfide profiling in the gut pathogen, Vibrio cholerae. A comprehensive sequence similarity network (SSN) analysis of arsenic repressor (ArsR) superfamily is also reported here, which will be very useful to others in the field. Congratulations to Daiana and members of her team (Cristian and Giuliano) for driving this work to completion.
