Quantitative and Chemical Biology
Join us today (April 29th) at the GCDB Trainee Seminar series at 3:30PM in Biology Building A100 for a talk by QCB Trainee Vicky Lopez from the Tracey Lab! Lets show our support and learn more about her research: “Testing the Role of Discoidin Domain Receptors in Nociception.”
Dr. Arden Baylink, from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State University and owner of Amethyst Antimicrobials, LLC, will be our featured speaker in the upcoming QCB & Microbiology Seminar Series. Join us for his seminar: “The Academic Biotech: Translating Basic Research into New Antibacterial Medicines in an Academic Setting” on Wednesday, April 30th […]
The second QCB Evening for the 2025 Spring semester will be on April 17th (Thursday) from 5:00-6:30PM in SI001. Our two speakers will be Morgan Nyman from the Dann Lab and Joey Rocchio from the Giedroc Lab. See our QCB evenings page for more information. Any student or post-doc is welcome to attend: RSVP here!
Friday, April 11, 2025: Click here for more details. This symposium is being held in conjunction with the Watanabe Symposium the next day. IU Chemistry will host undergraduate researchers and their mentors for an afternoon of activities. These include four invited presentations from faculty at three PUIs and our own Ben Burlingham (formerly of the University of […]
Despite all of the uncertainty at the NIH, we will again hold our annual QCB fellowship competition to be used to pay selected trainees effective July 1, 2025. We are projecting six slots from NIGMS (T32 GM131994) and three matching slots from the College of Arts and Sciences and University Graduate School. This will allow […]
Join us Friday (March 14th) at the Microbiology student seminar series, Microphiles, from 12:40-1:40 in Simon Hall 001 for a talk by QCB Trainee and Ambassador Averi McFarland from the Winkler Lab! Lets show our support and learn more about her research: “Linking Peptidoglycan Elongation to Metabolism in Streptococcus pneumoniae.”
Current QCB fellow Lauren Augusta (Fuqua lab) is a co-author on a new preprint available on bioRxiv, titled “Linear dicentric chromosomes in bacterial natural isolates reveal common constraints for replicon fusion.” The paper specifically focuses on Agrobacterium tumefaciens and the phenomenon of chromosome fusion. The team identified two naturally occurring Agrobacterium isolates with fused chromosomes, providing valuable […]
Join us tomorrow (Tuesday, February 25th) at the A800 Research Talks from 4-5PM in Chemistry Building CH033 for a talk by QCB Trainee Jane Joncha from the Jacobson Lab! Show your support and learn more about her research: “Transposon Mutagenesis to Generate Constitutive Fluorescent Labels for Microscopy of B. subtilis.”
The first QCB Evening for the 2025 Spring semester will be on March 6th (Thursday) from 5:00-6:30PM in SI001. Our two speakers will be Victoria Lopez from the Tracey Lab and Renee Kinne from the Hollenhorst Lab. See our QCB evenings page for more information. Any student from a Trainer lab is welcome to attend!
Liam Scott, a trainee in the Zlotnick lab, has co-authored an ACS Nano study, titled “Genetically Engineered Multichromophore Virus-Like Nanoparticles with Ultranarrow Distribution of Emission Intensity.“ The research, in collaboration with the Dragnea lab (another QCB trainee lab), demonstrates an approach to creating ultra-bright, uniform fluorescent nanoparticles using engineered viral capsid proteins. This work bridges virology, […]
