February 10, 2023
Max Osterberg, a third-year student in the group, is now a candidate for the Ph.D. in Chemistry! Congratulations Max!!
News
January 1, 2023
Prof. Giedroc assumes the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Division of Biological Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. Welcome also to the rest of the leadership team, and thanks to Sheila David of UC Davis for setting things up!
December 8, 2022
Yifan’s paper describing the discovery and structural characterization of a highly specific transporter for the low molecular weight thiol/thione, ergothioneine, in the respiratory pathogen, Streptococcus pneumoniae, appears online today in Nature Communications! Congratulations to Yifan, Katie and Katherine!!
December 4, 2022
Emma McRae, a new Chemistry graduate student in chemical biology, joins the group. Emma completed her undergraduate degree in chemical biology at UC Berkeley, where she carried out undergraduate research with Michael Marletta. Welcome, Emma!
November 23, 2022
Dr. Yifan Zhang will begin a postdoctoral appointment on December 1 in Prof. Taosheng Chen’s group at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the Department of Chemical Biology & Therapeutics in the Comprehensive Cancer Center there. Good luck Yifan!
November 8, 2022
Matthew’s paper connecting transition metal starvation to flux through the queuosine-tRNA biosynthetic pathway in a bacterial pathogen is accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA! This paper describes fundamental insights on QueD2, a 6-CPH4-synthase and “low-zinc paralog” that becomes cell-abundant under conditions of calprotectin-mediated Zn/Fe restriction in Acinetobacter baumannii. Congratulations Matthew!
November 1, 2022
Matthew has left the Giedroc laboratory for postdoctoral appointment in John Turchi’s laboratory at the IU School of Medicine. Good luck Matthew!
September 30, 2022
Joey Rocchio, a third-year Chemistry student and Kindig Fellowship recipient, has passed his candidacy examinations with flying colors! Welcome to Ph.D. candidacy!
August 30, 2022
Matthew Jordan successfully defends his Ph.D. work in a beautifully presented public seminar and an outstanding defense of the project. Congratulations Dr. Jordan!
August 25, 2022
Our paper that describes aspects of the structural, proteomic and metabolic response to hydrogen sulfide stress in the gut bacterium Enterococcus faecalis appears online (open access) in Antioxidants. Congratulations to Brenna and collaborators José Brito and Federico Issoglio on the structure and dynamical analysis of Ef coenzyme A persulfide reductase! The “swinging pantothenate arm” re-appears!