Giedroc Lab

Chemical and physical biology of infectious disease | bioinorganic chemistry | biophysical chemistry | bioanalytical chemistry | @iubchemistry

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Giedroc lab trip to the polls! @IUBChemistry #chemistswhovote

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Thanks to @IUQCB for a great retreat this year! Congratulations to our graduate student @ka_legg for winning best poster! And a very special thanks to Dr. Jeremy Baskin (@basktastic) and Dr. Karin Musier-Forsyth (@KarinMForsyth) for their fantastic keynote talks!

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The lab was happy to see an old friend, Dr. Zhen Ma, who was one of the group's original graduate students to make the move from Texas A&M to IU! After a post-doc with @JohnHelmann, Zhen moved to industry where he currently works at Merck studying Bacillus expression systems.

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The Gied-"Rock" grad students took a rock climbing class @hoosierheights for some summer break fun! #LabBonding #GiedrocLabRocks #ScienceRocks #ClimbingChemists 🧗

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Dr. Britta Rued, our former @IUBiology Ph.D. student, will start her independent faculty position at @ISUVetMed in August 2024. Britta was an @IUQCB trainee and is a K99 awardee with Prof. Michael Federle’s group at @UICPharm. https://t.co/77T97qR2sa

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Max Osterberg has been awarded a Paget Travel Grant by the Department of Chemistry to attend @ISM9London @KingsCollegeLon in June 2024.  Congratulations Max!

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Congratulations to Max Osterberg, Nayana Christudas Beena, Rohit Kumar, and Amardeep Kumar for being awarded a Paget Travel Grant! Great job! #iubchemistry

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Congratulations to our colleague and chemical biologist @jp_gerdt upon his recognition as a 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awardee.  Congratulations J. P.!

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Faculty News - J. P. Gerdt, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, has been named a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. We are very proud of J. P. and his outstanding commitment to excellence in research, teaching, and service in our Department. #iubchemistry

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Max’s paper describing the coordination chemistry, folding and extensive HDX-MS of the COG0523 enzyme, A. baumannii ZigA, was published in Biophysical Journal. Congratulations also to our collaborators Tim Stemmler (WSU) and Daniel Deredge (UMB)! https://t.co/yx3thdrLQu

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Dr. Julius Campeciño joins the group as an 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 expertise in bioinorganic chemistry to our group. A warm welcome Julius!

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Our previous graduate student, Minyong Kim, published in Biochemistry describing the physical features of A. baumannii Zur. Congratulations to Minyong and her collaborators @capdevilalab, Tim Stemmler and his student (C. Campbell) @wsuapplebaum! https://t.co/YLyuoUrU0S

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Our grad student Emma (@EmMcRae_Chem) is at #BPS2024! Stop by their poster tomorrow (2/13) from 1:45-3:45PM (Poster B75) to learn about metal retention and tRNA modifications in A. baumannii!

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Our grad students Christmas elf hunting for the lab! @IUBChemistry

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Lots of end of year fun for the Giedroc lab! @UNCPharmacy @IUBChemistry

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Katherine Legg (@edgeofkatherine), 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!! @IUBChemistry

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Thank you to @disney_lab, @MChangGroup, @jp_gerdt, @Science_Machine, @jenheemstra and William Roush for their wonderful talks! Great science all around @IUQCB

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A good weekend at the 12th Annual Watanbe Symposium in Chemical Biology! Graduate students Max, Joey and @EmMcRae_Chem all presented their work. Go Giedroc Group!

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Max Osterberg, a rising 4th Chemistry Ph.D. student, was selected as a winner of a one-semester Kratz 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!

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Congrats to our Assistant Research Scientist, Dr. Katie Edmonds (@betainverse) for her unanimous support by the Department of Chemistry for her promotion to the rank of Associate Research Scientist! This promotion is in recognition of her recent contributions the lab!

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Congratulations @CotruvoLab for the well-deserved recognition! Outstanding research by his lab! @ACS_DivBioChem

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Congratulations to @CotruvoLab of @psu_chemistry on receiving the 2024 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry from the #ACSDBC! His award-winning work focuses on f-block rare-Earth elements in biology, with applications from biosensing to recovering strategic metals from E-waste

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The lab revisited an old friend, the cupredoxin fold, in collaboration with the Thielges group. Congratulations to Emma (@EmMcRae_Chem) and Katie (@betainverse) for their late-breaking contribution to this plastocyanin infrared spectroscopy paper!
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