QCB News
First Annual QCB Training Program Retreat
June 24, 2022
We are delighted to announce that our QCB trainee cohort will be hosting our first annual program retreat to be held Friday-Saturday, Aug 12-13 in Dimension Mill in Bloomington. The schedule of events is nearly finalized; check here for updates!
2022 Trainee Announcement
June 7, 2022
We’d like to welcome our new QCB trainees for this year: Allan Gramillo, Caitlin Roof, Hunter Richman, and Austin Tedman.
Congratulations to all and we are so happy to have you!
2022 Ambassador Announcment
June 7, 2022
Congratulations to our new QCB ambassadors – Ria Kidner and Brigham Pope!
And thank you to our previous ambassadors, Jessie and Abigail, for all their hard work this past year.
Trainee Defenses
May 6, 2022
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Materials Seminar, 2:30 PM, CH033
Rachel Fadler, Exit Exam, Chemistry
“Rigidity and Flexibility in Cyanostar and Organophosphate Assemblies”
Hosted by Amar Flood
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Organic Seminar, 1:00 PM, CH033
Mallory Kern, Exit Exam, Chemistry
“Automated Solution-Phase Synthesis of Thioglycoside Analogues
and Efforts Toward Convergent Synthesis of Xyloglucan Fragments”
Hosted by Nikki Pohl
Fadler Publication
April 18, 2022
Rachel Fadler was first author on, Rigidity and Flexibility in Rotaxanes and Their Relatives; On Being Stubborn and Easy-Going, a paper published in Frontiers in Chemistry
Selivanovitch Publications
April 18, 2022
Ekaterina Selivanovitch was first author on, Substrate Partitioning into Protein Macromolecular Frameworks for Enhanced Catalytic Turnover, a paper published in ACS Nano
Ekaterina was also third author on, Controlled Modular Multivalent Presentation of the CD40 Ligand on P22 Virus-like Particles Leads to Tunable Amplification of CD40 Signaling, a paper published in ACS Applied Bio Materials.
Zubi Publications
March 23, 2022
Yasmine Zubi was first author on, Controlling the optical and catalytic properties of artificial metalloenzyme photocatalysts using chemogenetic engineering, a paper published in Chemical Science.
Yasmine was also fifth author on, Controlling Non-Native Cobalamin Reactivity and Catalysis in the Transcription Factor CarH, a paper published in ACS Catalysis.
Erdmann Publication
March 23, 2022
Emily Erdmann was first author on, Caenorhabditis elegans expressing a Vitellogenin::GFP fusion protein show reduced embryo content and brood size, a paper published in microPublication Biology.
2022 Retreat
March 23, 2022
First annual retreat!
Dates: August 11-12th (Friday into Saturday)
Location: Dimension Mill – Bloomington, IN
More information to come.
