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!
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!!
