News


May 3, 2022

Joe’s protocol paper that outlines a “how-to” guide to cysteine thiol profiling entitled “Protocol for using organic persulfides to measure the chemical reactivity of persulfide sensors” was accepted for publication in STAR Protocols.  Congratulations to both Joe and Dr. Daiana Capdevila for this nice contribution to the literature.


May 2, 2022

Yifan and Katie’s manuscript entitled “Discovery and structure of a widespread bacterial ABC transporter specific for ergothioneine” has been posted as a preprint on BioRxiv and is now under peer review.  Fingers crossed!  Congratulations also to co-authors Dr. Giovanni Gonzalez-Gutierrez and Katherine Legg!


March 23, 2022

Joey was named a winner of the Kindig fellowship which will provide stipend support in his third academic year here.  Joey’s project is focused on structural and dynamical studies of an usual COG0523 enzyme in Acinetobacter baumannii.  Congratulations Joey!!


January 1, 2022

Jamaal Perry, a first year chemistry student and ACS Bridge Program fellow from Hampton University in Virginia, joins the Giedroc laboratory.  Welcome Jamaal!!


January 1, 2022

Katherine Legg, a first-year chemical biology student in Chemistry, from Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, FL, joins the Giedroc laboratory.  Welcome Katherine!!


December 2, 2021

Joe’s paper on the structure and reactivity of streptococcal organic persulfide sensor is published today in Nucleic Acids Research.  This paper presents the first structure and chemical reactivity of a family of closely related bacterial CsoR-family persulfide sensors (CstRs).  Congratulations to Joe and our Argentinian collaborator, Dr. Daiana Capdevila, on a beautiful paper.


July 8, 2021

Brenna successfully defends her dissertation work, and will join the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, MD as a postdoctoral fellow.  Congratulations Brenna!


May 15, 2021

Max was named winner of a two-year fellowship from our QCB training program for his studies of GTPase-powered zinc metallochaperones!  Congratulations Max!!


May 5, 2021

See our tutorial published in Bio-protocol that outlines a strategy to conduct global S-sulfuration (persulfidation) profiling in bacteria.  Congratulations Brenna!


January 1, 2021

Max Osterburg, a first-year Chemistry student majoring in chemical biology, joins the group, following completion of his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from RPI in Troy, NY.  Welcome Max!