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.
August 2, 2023
We seek a postdoctoral research associate to join an engaging multidisciplinary team of students and staff working to understand the bacterial metabolic response to infected host-mediated restriction of essential transition metal ions! The successful candidate will conduct structural and mechanistic studies of the human COG0523 family zinc metallochaperone, ZNG1, alongside ongoing work on bacterial metallochaperones.
Interested candidates can apply here or simply submit a brief cover letter, full CV and the contact information for three letter writers to David P. Giedroc, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405-7102 USA (giedroc@indiana.edu). For best consideration, apply by 10/01/2023, with a start date of 12/01/2023 or thereabouts!
August 1, 2023
Joe is off to the next stage in his developing career! Good luck Joe, with all that comes next as a newly minted Chemistry Ph.D.! All the best!
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!
